No Issue - How to donate a font?

[bushy555]

Hi

(Unsure how to contact you directly coz Im too dumb to work the github gui. So apologies on this)

Just wanting to know how I can donate the font to Laser200 / Laser310 / VZ200 / VZ300 8-bit computer font?
Read your article on hack-a-day website on 5th Feb.

Cheers,
Dave

[robhagemans]

Hi Dave, you can clone the repository to your local system and create a pull request - this way I can merge and you'll show
up as a contributor on github. Alternatively you can send them to me or attach to a post here and I can add them, but git won't add your name to the commit. Either way works for me...

[bushy555]

Hi

I'm too dumb to work out Pull requests. In fact Im so dumb that I can't even get into any my four dropbox accounts to share this. I gave up. Zipped and is here to download : https://easyupload.io/1y7cgs

Included : Binary extraction (768 bytes), Font files (3072 bytes),
Font size : 7x12 (from memory)

Computer : VZ200 and VZ300. Also known as Laser210 and Laser310.
Company : Video Technology Hong Kong
Manufacturing era: 1983-1985.
CPU: Z80A @ 3.5Mhz
Video chip: Motorola 6847.

[robhagemans]

Hi, thanks again - the archive seems to contain these files:

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob   626 Jan  3  2021 screnLow.asm
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  2637 Jan  3  2021 VZgame.asm
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 13568 Jan  3  2021 vzhappy.asm
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  4172 Jan  3  2021 VZHAPPY.OBJ
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  7222 Jan  3  2021 vzScreen.asm
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  2124 Jan  3  2021 VZSCREEN.OBJ

I don't actually see anything that looks like a font, the .OBJ files contain two bitmaps of a somewhat crudely drawn face but that is all. I'm assuming the .asm files encode these though I haven't decoded them. Please let me know what you're expecting to find....

[bushy555]

Hi

Oops. Im a twit. Please ignore that file. "Don't mind me - Im a goose!"
I somehow, very successfully, managed to upload the wrong zip file. Apologies for my dumbness.

Second attempt : https://easyupload.io/dv8w5w
I downloaded it to ensure that it had the correct files, which it does.

[robhagemans]

Thanks! I now have these files:

    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 3.0K Nov 12  2019 'VZ200_Character_Set_(1983)_v1.bin'
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  768 Sep 12  2004  VZ200_chr.bin
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 3.0K Oct  8 21:14  VZ200_default.fnt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  16K Oct  8 21:14  VZ200_default_font.aseprite
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  768 Sep 12  2004  VZ200_mess_ntscround_chr.bin
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  768 Sep 12  2004  VZ200_mess_ntscsquare_chr.bin
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob  768 Apr 17  2022  VZ200_outline.fnt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 3.0K Oct  9 12:18  VZ200_spaceinvader.fnt

The .bin and .fnt files are all 12-pixel high raw binary files so they're easy to extract. I was wondering, do you have any background to where the different fonts come from? E.g. different versions of the VZ200? I imagine the Space Invader font belongs to the game of that name, but there seem to be various different 'default' fonts as well

[SlashNetUA]

Hi!

I've tried to use git at first time to add some files, but I failed :,(

I've run next commands:

gh auth login
gh repo clone robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts
git add elan_enterprise/*
git commit -m "Added Elan Enterprise official and user fonts"
git add videoton_tvc/*
git commit -m "Added Videoton TVC official fonts"

All ok
but when I run "git push" I have error:
remote: Permission to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts.git denied to SlashNetUA.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Where could I make a mistake?

[robhagemans]

All ok but when I run "git push" I have error: remote: Permission to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts.git denied to SlashNetUA. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Where could I make a mistake?

Looks like you're trying to push directly to this repo - which you can't as it is my personal repo and you don't have write access.

You need to create a pull request; easiest is probably to fork the repo through Github, you can then push to your own fork and create a pull request through the Github interface.

It may also be possible directly through the command line, please check Github documentation.

[MarkJeronimus]

I like this "thread". It's a nice method for people to submit fonts without having to go through monobit and git pull requests.

Just leaving this here: https://we.tl/t-u683YUmxwt (93 8x16 VGA fonts of various code pages)

[robhagemans]

If you want to make a contribution, the best thing to do is make a pull request - otherwise you'll depend on my or someone else's having the time to extract the file, so it may take quite long as I have quite a large number of unextracted files.

[robhagemans]

@bushy555 - an update on the VZ200. From what I read this used an MC6847 character generator which was also used in the TRS-80 CoCo (even though the VZ200 was otherwise more like the TRS-80 Model 1).

Indeed as far as I can see the character set in VZ200_Character_Set_(1983)_v1.bin is identical to mc6847t1.yaff included there. I've recently cleaned that folder up as the MAME character ROMs turned out to be not authentic (this has since been fixed).

So I don't think we need to include this separately .