Re: It's (sort of) the Lisa system font in TrueType (also, new hardware for ALyX)

On 04/03/2015 11:10 PM, Brian Connors wrote:
> It doesn't seem as if anyone has ever done a TrueType version of the
> Lisa system font, so... I did. More or less. I couldn't find a full
> specimen sheet of the font, so I kind of winged it in a lot of places,
> but this first version covers the Latin-1 character set. I expect to
> use it in ALyX as well. The first link is the public download link at
> FontStruct, while the second is a bit more of a complete distribution
> including an SFD version for FontForge and a font specimen in PNG format.
>
> http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1134409
> https://github.com/csyde/alyxproject/tree/master/Lexington-Gothic
>
Excellent!

> Speaking of which... the project had stalled because of a lack of
> processing power in the Raspberry Pi B+, and I had seriously
> considered ditching it for a BeagleBone Black. However, the Raspberry
> Pi 2 B received a significant speed bump (900MHz vs 700, quad
> Cortex-core) and while the Lisaem mouse emulation still drags, it's
> actually usable now. I now have what I suppose could be called a
> prototype with the RPi 2 connected to a 720p TV, with the board
> drawing power from the TV's USB port.
Yeah, sadly LisaEm is single threaded, but the additional cores will help the OS do its own thing with the other cores.

Best of luck!

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