From: Ben Harris MODE 7
display on the BBC
- Microcomputer. It generates characters from a 5 Ã 9 pixel
- matrix, smoothing diagonal lines to produce an interlaced 10 Ã
- 18 matrix for each character. Bedstead extends that algorithm to
- continuity, converting a 5 Ã 9 pixel grid into an outline with
+ produced the MODEÂ 7
display on the BBC
+ Microcomputer. It generates characters from a 5Â ÃÂ 9 pixel
+ matrix, smoothing diagonal lines to produce an interlaced 10Â ÃÂ 18
+ matrix for each character. Bedstead extends that algorithm to
+ continuity, converting a 5Â ÃÂ 9 pixel grid into an outline with
smooth diagonals.
Bedstead includes all the character designs from the SAA5050 and its various sister chips, including Cyrillic and Hebrew alphabets. It also has a large number of custom-designed glyphs, - all of them of course based on the same 5 Ã 9 pixel grid.
+ all of them of course based on the same 5Â ÃÂ 9 pixel grid.
-
+
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@I believe that the original SAA5050 bitmap font is essentially in the public domain in the United Kingdom as a result of Section 55 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 + >Section 55 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as applied by subparagraph 14(5) of Schedule 1. Iâm not a lawyer, though, + >subparagraph 14(5) of Schedule 1. Iâm not a lawyer, though, so this may well be wrong.
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@+ Bitmap versions at 10 and 20 pixels high. bedstead-10.bdf
,bedstead-20.bdf
â - Bitmap versions at 10 and 20 pixels high.+ â Bold bitmap version at 20Â pixels high. bedstead-bold-20.bdf
- â Bold bitmap version at 20 pixels high.bedstead-10-df.png
,bedstead-20-df.png
â 10-pixel and 20-pixel tilesets for use with