Request: adding the PET/VIC20 font

[ted210]

The PET/VIC20 font is similar to the C64 font, but characters are 1 pixel wide and I think it looks great, particularly on a sharp modern display

I tried building a game in Ozmoo using the "chargen-901460-03.bin" file, but it's larger than the required font and didn't work properly (upper case characters were wrongly mapped and lower case characters appeared as upper case). I then cheated by asking chatgpt to to change the format of the file to match the PXLfont-rf.fnt and surprisingly that worked:

Would it be possible to do any of the following:

• support the "chargen-901460-03.bin" directly
• include a working PET/VIC20 font in the repo
• add support for uploading font files in Ozmoo online

[fredrikr]

This font looks nice. However, a font with lines that are a single pixel in width don't work well at all on the C64 or a Plus/4 connected to a TV, which is a very common setup.

It worked on Vic 20, because it only showed 22 characters per line. It worked on PET, because it had a dedicated monitor. When Commodore made the C64, they knew they had to make the font use 2-pixel wide lines, or it would look terrible on TV-sets.

We have seen too many examples of authors building disk images for C64, not understanding the implications of their font selection or colour selection (a lot of colour combinations get messed up, in some case rendering the text absolutely unreadable, on a TV as well).