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8x8 monochrome bitmap font for rendering
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A collection of header files containing a 8x8 bitmap font.

font8x8.h contains all available characters
font8x8_basic.h contains unicode points U+0000 - U+007F
font8x8_latin.h contains unicode points U+0000 - U+00FF

Author: Daniel Hepper <[email protected]>
License: Public Domain

Renderer
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To visualize the font, a simple renderer is included in render.c

    $ gcc render.c -o render
    $ ./render 65
      XX    
     XXXX   
    XX  XX  
    XX  XX  
    XXXXXX  
    XX  XX  
    XX  XX

Credits
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These header files are directly derived from an assembler file fetched from:
http://dimensionalrift.homelinux.net/combuster/mos3/?p=viewsource&file=/modules/gfx/font8_8.asm

Original header:

; Summary: font8_8.asm
; 8x8 monochrome bitmap fonts for rendering
;
; Author:
;     Marcel Sondaar
;     International Business Machines (public domain VGA fonts)
;
; License:
;     Public Domain
;