by herodoturtle on 2/4/21, 3:22 AM
This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure.
It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?).
Just the other day I was reminiscing with a fellow programmer on freenode about mode13th shenanigans and the all-nighters that ensued.
This HN post put a smile on my face. Cheers from South Africa!
by ianhanschen on 2/3/21, 9:36 PM
After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any of these works.
by meling on 2/4/21, 7:55 AM
Cool that people still keep such stuff!
I was part of the demoscene way back in the late 80s-early 90s, and I just clicked randomly on some of these fonts and one of them looked familiar. However I couldn’t tell if it was one that my friend (in our demo group that I’ve long since lost touch with) had made or if I saw it in someone else’s demo... this was not a time where we concerned ourselves with archiving our work for future generations to watch. And it would be impossible to find out since my parents kept asking me whether or not to keep my old Amiga that was sitting unused for years ... and I ignored their questions and eventually they threw it away... I’m just glad Bitcoin hadn’t been invented yet — haha.
by hrak on 2/4/21, 7:52 AM
by LaundroMat on 2/3/21, 11:10 PM
Looking at these fonts actually made me smell a running Amiga 1200. No, really.
by fuball63 on 2/4/21, 2:00 AM
I was surprised to see the middle finger gesture a common symbol in the fonts, why is that? I’m assuming it has something to do with demoscene culture?
by mleonhard on 2/4/21, 2:03 AM
by fractalf on 2/3/21, 11:11 PM
Great stuff, brings back good geeky memories of all nighters :)
by tarball on 2/6/21, 6:18 PM
by arketyp on 2/4/21, 7:17 AM
Someone needs to put a GAN on this.
by intricatedetail on 2/4/21, 8:34 AM
Oh man I always dreamed to have access to something like this. You made my day! Thank you
by einpoklum on 2/3/21, 10:11 PM
It would be nice if you could create a webpage with a bit of JS with controls for choosing the font parameters, and the right font coming up on the browser window, perhaps with a nice zoom factor.
by dpedu on 2/4/21, 2:35 AM
Converted them - what other formats exist for this sort of thing?
by aidenn0 on 2/4/21, 4:50 AM
Are these PNGs paletted? A lot of these fonts really shine when you cycle through ranges of colors in the pallets.
by atum47 on 2/4/21, 2:02 AM
Thank you. Such a beautiful work.
by Lapsa on 2/4/21, 12:25 PM
that xenon2... oh my...
by xtracto on 2/4/21, 12:36 AM
"my"
by rockclimber on 2/4/21, 10:57 AM
Nice! Are these shaders or on CPU or manually designed? What I'm building is a combination of webfonts from my old font website I made 11 years ago
https://fontsforweb.com and Shadertoy. Basically shaders for fonts.
http://fonted.ioCurrent implementation might look very basic(vertex shader is just a mask for Shadertoy-stolen pixel shaders) but I have work in progress for font-specific vertex shaders that will allow for manipulating font shape curves.