80-column text for the Ben NanoNote

Magnus Bergman magnusbe at algonet.se
Sun Jun 27 13:44:24 EDT 2010


On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:45:11 +1200
neil at dist.ro wrote:

> 
> Sorry I don't know if this is old news or not but this is a demo of
> 80-column text on the Ben NanoNote:
> 
>   http://amadeus.dist.ro/more80/
> 
> It's a demo of two things:
> 
>  + A 4x8 pixel font yielding 80-column text
>  + A font designed specifically for the NanoNote's offset pixels
> 
> How can I use this font for the console on the NanoNote?

The first thing I did then I got my Nanonote was to write a terminal
emulator (independent from the one in the kernel) with a 4x6 pixel
font. But I wasn't very pleased with the result. This un-fuzzy font
probably looks much better. But how is this un-fuzziness calculated
(for I assume it isn't hand pixeled)? If I knew that I could improve my
terminal emulator to be more useful (since I want to use other color
combinations than white on black). But until then I could probably make
a monochrome version that could be usable for some tasks.




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