I don't have an OS X machine available, so I can't try it out, but I was interested in the "classic bitmap fonts" so I downloaded it to poke around. Unfortunately, all the "classic bitmap fonts" have been given carefully non-trademark-infringing names, so it's hard for me to identify them. Here's what I've managed so far:<p>286: From the original IBM PC<p>Admiral: From the Commodore 64<p>CO2: ???<p>Lucky Heaven: Based on various fonts used in 80s arcade games, but named for Nintendo<p>Metaphorics: ???<p>Pomme: From the Apple II (if you were lucky enough to have one that supported 80-column output)<p>Viti: From the DEC VT100 video terminal<p>I'm somewhat interested in CRT emulation (other examples I know include [1] and [2]) so I also tried to examine the fragment shaders used, but it seems they're encrypted or bytecoded or something. Oh well.<p>ALSO: the included fonts only have the basic ASCII character set; I'd be interested to hear if things like the VT100 alternate character set are also supported.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html</a>
[2]: <a href="http://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=147" rel="nofollow">http://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=147</a>
Ha ha, awesome, but I'm not going to go through the rigamarole of inputting my credit card details (or spend $20, for that matter) to buy it.<p>I wonder why this app is not on the App Store? I have a hard time believing that this app wouldn't sell 100 to 50,000 times as many copies at $2 on the App Store than it would outside the store (at any price).<p>Of course, with the capricious nature of Apple app stores, you never know what the actual reason is...
Did anybody else get oddly broken graphics when they tried this out? I see a some large red triangles on the borders that fade out and I never see any characters.