I made an AwesomeWM theme last month using these. I gave up on it, too hard on the eyes ;)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/LDSOade.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/LDSOade.png</a><p>(code at <a href="https://github.com/Elv13/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Elv13/</a> , but that particular theme isn't pushed yet as it require upstream patches still in the CI)
See also these articles, for <i>real</i> old-school fonts:<p><a href="https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts" rel="nofollow">https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...</a><p><a href="https://damieng.com/blog/2014/07/20/typography-in-bits-other-english-micros" rel="nofollow">https://damieng.com/blog/2014/07/20/typography-in-bits-other...</a><p>Me, I grew up on Acorn machines, so those are <i>my</i> classic nostalgia font. Although, on a modern LCD with square-edged pixels, they look like arse --- jaggy and overly bold. I wonder if there's a way to emulate fuzzy CRTs with Truetype...
This is super cool. I've been wanting to make retro video games with modern tools and for modern platforms (like the web and Android) for fun (in the genre of Oregon Trail, Infocom text games, King's Quest, etc.). Some of these are just right for that, and they're CC-licensed, so presumably good for use in Open Source games.<p>I find the old typefaces from the early 8 bit and 16 bit days really charming. They were working with such severe limitations. I remember designing my own font on my Amiga and using it on my desktop...I kinda wish I still had those files. But, they weren't nearly as legible as the fonts from the vendors.
What I'd really like to see is a font that has lots of sub- and super-scripts and other mathy symbols, like: ⎛⎜⎝⎞⎟⎠⎡⎢⎣⎤⎥⎦⎧⎩⎪⎫⎬⎭⎮ so that I can keep my class notes in text files.<p>So far the only font I found that supports a lot of that sort of thing is DejaVu Sans mono but even that is rather sparse- there's very few Greek letter super/subscripts say, and there's a limited selection of Latin superscripts. Block elements and box drawings wouldn't hurt either.
Note that he allows you to enter your own text to try out without actually downloading the fonts: <a href="http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/preview/" rel="nofollow">http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/preview/</a>
This is one great presentation. An accomplished fusion of form and contents. And, among all web pages with black background, this is the rare one that _doesn't_ peel your retina off while you're looking at it. My respects to the author.
I used the VGA8 font for xterms and such for years and years until I switched to Terminus. If someone designed a scalable font based on VGA8, that would be totally awesome.
My family's first computer was an Amstrad 1512. I think it must've been 1987 or thereabouts. I never got very dexterous with it (I have vague recollections of GEM) but some of the visual cues are very impressive.
By the way, Windows has its own terminal font: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_(typeface)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_(typeface)</a>
This project also have a good collection
<a href="https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term</a>
my first thought was that it would make an awesome style for the web conversion of helppc [<a href="http://stanislavs.org/helppc/" rel="nofollow">http://stanislavs.org/helppc/</a>]