I planned to make pseudo-graphics using a DOS font editor. I downloaded FONTEDIT.COM [1], the classic DOS font editor from PC Magazine in 1988. I could have used PSF [2], which is like NetPBM but for fonts. PSF can convert to and from plaintext, to edit in any text editor. But FONTEDIT.COM was good enough for this.
I kind of forgot just how constrained 8x16 pixels is for graphics. Even so, i modified the "wood" and "controlled fire" glyphs. FONTEDIT.COM saves each font as a standalone .COM file. I named mine WILDFONT.COM.
I made the following changes to WILDFIRE.AWK:
See WILDFIRE.ZIP [3] and screenshots [4]. Run WILDFIRE.BAT or wildfire.sh. WILDFIRE.BAT loads the new font and runs the game using AWK.EXE, a 16-bit build of the One True AWK.
p.s.
wildfire.bat depends on NANSI.SYS or something like it.
wildfire.sh, when run with gawk, needs an environment variable: LC_CTYPE=C
[4] DOS screenshots with new font
