Post 9vFVFMaHkLPaCHL7Uu by devurandom@cybre.space
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 (DIR) Post #9vEjULWBBWZzS94796 by polychrome@cybre.space
       2018-09-24T08:02:59Z
       
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       Progress screenshots of an unfinished project from a bit over a year ago: RIPScrip renderer in JavaScript.RIPScrip was a quirky BBS protocol for transmitting color vector graphics over text that surged briefly in the early to mid 90's. Thanks to the slow modem connections of the day you could actually see the art slowly building itself. This was sometimes used to by artists to create little weird animations.Ended up dropping the project when I couldn't find sources for the vector fonts used in RIPScrip.
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFLbfNivFAGyi0m by devurandom@cybre.space
       2018-09-24T08:10:29Z
       
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       @polychrome the fonts, at least the larger ones, look like those old hershey fonts.
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFM2FmsBoUjPwS8 by polychrome@cybre.space
       2018-09-24T08:21:36Z
       
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       @devurandom The RIPScrip v1.54 document (RIPSCRIP.DOC) defines the vector fonts as: Triplex, Small, Sans Serif, Gothic [Old English], Script, Simplex, Triplex Script, Complex, European and Bold Font.Haven't considered the Hershey Fonts, I'll have to take a look! :blobowo: If you find any extra leads on those, I'd be happy to hear about them ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFMaHkLPaCHL7Uu by devurandom@cybre.space
       2018-09-24T08:24:39Z
       
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       @polychrome that's literally the names/styles of different hershey fonts.
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFNNulp6ugCYkr2 by polychrome@cybre.space
       2018-09-24T08:26:08Z
       
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       @devurandom Okay I'm totally excited now :blobowo: But first, breakfast toast :breadnom:
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFNtSsWLcG3Jx20 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-05-20T13:21:46Z
       
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       @polychrome @devurandom It looks like the part of the RIPScrip spec listing the fonts matches up _exactly_ to BGI's text-drawing API, which was widely available in Borland Turbo C++ / Pascal https://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/cs1300/doc/bgi/settextstyle.html
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFOcUB8MOVgNuCm by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-05-20T13:26:11Z
       
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       @polychrome @devurandom I have lots of nostalgia for those typefaces - I made my podcast's logo using a Turbo Pascal program because of their prevalence in early shareware - but I had no idea of their origins, so thank you for giving the Hershey fonts a name for me!
       
 (DIR) Post #9vFVFOr1J5zDElBVrM by polychrome@cybre.space
       2020-05-20T20:29:12Z
       
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       @SpindleyQ @devurandom well this looks interesting... http://libxbgi.sourceforge.net/#samples