I need a Windows-compatible, square pixel font

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Adam Rezich picture Adam Rezich · May 5, 2009 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I'm looking for a square pixel font, preferably 8x8 pixels per character. I would like it to look something like this:

ibm-style font http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/images/0/0e/CGA8x8thick.png

I need more or less every character shown here, especially the box drawing ones. The very few Windows fonts I've found after about an hour of searching don't have very few (if any) extended characters.

I'm currently writing a pseudo-roguelike, and I've always preferred square fonts in roguelikes. I can use other methods if I must, but it would make my life a million times easier if a font like this existed.

Again, it needs to be Windows-compatible. It's fine if I need to convert some X11 format into a Windows-compatible one, but I need a link to the tools to do so.

Or, perhaps, somebody knows of a program to easily turn bitmaps into fonts? Because the included image is actually exactly what I want: it looks exactly like older IBM CGA/EGA systems.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

john_e picture john_e · May 19, 2009

http://dskcenter.free.fr/Download/DskCenter_fonts.zip

The PC_CGA font looks like what you want.

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