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basic fonts

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    23-Mar-86 21:26:46
Sb: basic fonts
Fm: philip rogers 73267,1466
To: Bill Hogsett 72767,1147

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Bill, The only way I can get the fonts to load into memory is to do so using the notepad. According to the amiga rom kernal manuel there should exist a opendiskfont routine in the diskfont library. Although a diskfont library does exist on the workbench disk I am having trouble converting it to a bitmap file. Another basicdemos program exists called converted which creates a bitmap file from a .fd file, but this is where I am stuck. (You need libraries in the bitmap form such as graphics.bmap and dos.bmap so basic can access them. Now all we need to do is get a diskfont.fd file, convert to diskfont.bmap, call the opendiskfont and load the fonts to memory…well maybe.) phil