23rd March 2021
Well, we processed all the fonts that we could find - converting all the ones that were done for the II plus and a few more. We have something like 58 font files, although only half are individual fonts as we created both enhanced (MouseText) and un-enhanced (no MouseText) versions of each. So now we need to come up with a decent initial selection of fonts, and would value any feedback that we can get.
We're still looking at how we will handle NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt) switches and the like, and depending on the path there I may have to lose a ROM-Link pin which would give a selection of 16 fonts (same as the II plus - prototype ROMXe and ROMXc had one more ROM-Link pin vs ROMX).
For the IIc and international //e however, we could make use of the keyboard switch (or an add-on switch for non-international machines) to select a second bank of fonts - another 16.
This is our initial proposed list for the first bank of 16 fonts (many of the ones converted from the II plus can be viewed here) :
- US Enhanced
- US Un-Enhanced
- Clinton Turner V1 Enhanced
- ReActiveMicro Enhanced
- Dan Paymar Enhanced
- Blippo Black Enhanced
- Byte Enhanced
- Colossal Enhanced
- Count Enhanced
- Flow Enhanced
- Gothic Enhanced
- Outline Enhanced
- Pigfont Enhanced
- Pinocchio Enhanced
- Slant Enhanced
- Stop Enhanced
Most are Enhanced (with MouseText copied from the stock US Enhanced ROM) as we figure this would be most useful on the IIe and //c. The reason we have US enhanced and US un-enhanced in the first bank is so that you can link an un-enhanced video ROM to a un-enhanced system ROM without having to flip a keyboard switch.
So, potentially with a keyboard switch we could then switch in maybe the un-enhanced version of each font, or entirely different ones such as some of the euro versions etc.
We'd love to get your feedback on this - shoot us an email with your thoughts : jdmicro@jdmicro.com.