Font Library 2

Six fonts for Pixel Print Plus, the TS2068 desktop publishing program (see #50522 Pixel Print PLUS!), from Mountaineer Software, with fonts by Bill Ferrebee. Each is a full 96-character set from space to ©, with capitals, lower case, digits and punctuation:

• HELVETICA: a plain sans-serif face
• TIMES: a serif face (missing from this copy; see below)
• BOXBLOCK: each character drawn inside its own box
• RITZ: a bold face with rounded, decorative capitals
• SINCLAIR: a squared-off version of the Sinclair character set
• GRANDPRIX: a light, wide face

The download has the tape as a single file named fontlib2.tap, which is in fact a TZX file. See also #55909 Font Library 1.

Program Analysis

Like Font Library 1, the tape opens with Char-Lib, a 452-byte CODE block loaded at 37139 that holds the names of the six fonts, followed by the fonts as 768-byte CODE blocks (96 characters of 8 bytes) saved at 40000, 41000 and so on up to 45000. Any of them can also be used outside Pixel Print by loading it and pointing the CHARS system variable (23606/23607) 256 bytes below its start.

Potential Issues

• The TIMES font is missing from this copy: where its header and data should be there is only a 4-byte fragment.
• BOXBLOCK’s data block is cut short at 441 of 768 bytes, so only the characters up to about V are present.
• The file is a TZX with a .tap name, so programs that expect a TAP file may refuse it.