Unrelated to the fonts, but I <i>really</i> love that CSS they're using to emulate the ANSI interfaces of my youth. Perhaps it's just a product of my age, but I find it a lot more usable then a lot of similar website interfaces.
This led me on a short Google trip to find the Sun Openboot font:<p>Finding this:
<a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307356/what-is-the-identification-of-the-font-being-used-for-the-solaris-console-in-tex" rel="nofollow">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307356/what-is-the-...</a><p>And this is the TTF of that font: <a href="https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/OSX/gallant12x22.ttf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/OSX/gallant...</a>
Link to the detailed font index: <a href="https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/" rel="nofollow">https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/</a>
2020 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001964" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001964</a><p>2018 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098262" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098262</a><p>2017 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695319" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695319</a><p>2016 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021430" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021430</a><p>It's a fine thing to submit but the cutoff for dupes is about a year: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html</a>.<p>Edit: scratch that, we'll make an exception since it's the first new release in several years. See discussion in subthread below.
I'm using it for my latest bootsta/386¹. It's really the best version of these fonts out there. It's exceptionally accurate. I've gotten accuracy that just simply wasn't possible for the last 2 versions of bootstra. The fonts are really quite something<p>[1] you've <i>probably</i> already seen it, it's this one <a href="https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386</a>
It never ceases to amaze me that the IBM PC got these fonts when IBM big iron terminals had a much nicer, modern geometric sans serif font. They just needed to use the 5100 font or terminal fonts they were already using.
For linux users, you can open the .FON files with fontforge, then go to file menu -> generate to create a .bdf file (I prefer to use bitmap over ttf to avoid any artifacts).
Did anybody else get a strong emotional reaction to these? I connect them to my BBS years. Reminded me of chat sessions on Terminate, ZMODEM downloads that take just too long to finish (only to discover at least one corrupt zip file part after all that wait!). Mild PTSD memories of my mom chasing me with a telephone bill... :-)
A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.