On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Clay Halliwell wrote:
> IMHO, variable-width font rendering on 2600 = more trouble than it's worth.
> Dozens of old Atari games have demonstrated that people are perfectly
> capable of reading well-designed 4-bit fonts. Going with 2 left-right
> flickering 48-pixel sprites, at 4 bits per character, would give you a
> generous 24 characters per line. More legible than the flicker-interlace
> mess of the Stellar Track routine too.
I was working on this at one time.. posted source & binary for a 20
(5-digit score) column text demo. As-is, it take quite a bit of time to
set up each row of text, so there's about a 25-30 scanline gap between
the 2 rows of text, but this could be improved (this was the proof-of-
concept, I never could think of a game to use it in).
Relevant archive link:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/200109/msg00240.html
B.
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