[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM] #9606: Kickstart 1.3 Topaz font for Amiga Sierra AGI Games

Martin Kiewitz trac at scummvm.org
Mon Oct 10 20:43:16 CEST 2016


#9606: Kickstart 1.3 Topaz font for Amiga Sierra AGI Games
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  Reporter:  skiphipdata  |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  Engine: AGI
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  amiga agi sierra font
      Game:               |
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Comment (by m-kiewitz):

 We are using an effectively recreated Topaz font, that is also used by the
 engine "Parallaction". We can't ship the original Topaz font with ScummVM,
 because that could be a copyright violation.

 BUT you are actually already free to use any font you like.

 For Amiga games, ScummVM will look for a file called "agi-font-amiga.bin".

 For AtariST games, ScummVM will look for "agi-font-atarist.bin".
 If that fails, it will look for a Atari ST ROM font called "agi-font-
 atarist-system.fnt" (needs to get dumped out of the operating system ROM).

 For DOS games, ScummVM will look for "agi-font-dos.bin".

 For Apple IIgs games, ScummVM will try to use the supplied Sierra font.

 You can put those files into your extra directory. Or into the specific
 game directory.

 You can even actually change the rendering to another platform and then
 even use for example the Apple IIgs Sierra font for a DOS AGI game.

 All of those user supplied font files have to be 8x8 bitmap font files (so
 2048 bytes).

 It's also possible to use the hi-res Hercules Sierra font (which was
 supplied with AGI DOS games) with for example Amiga AGI games. That font
 is called "HGC_FONT". Although mind you, afaik Manhunt 2 got shipped with
 a broken Hercules font file.

 In any case - you will just have to get yourself the corresponding font
 into a 2048 byte font file. We can't distribute those.

 Because of this, I'm closing this request.

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