Hi All

I use Syncterm under Xubuntu Linux. I installed also the fonts from int10h.org (Also know as The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack).
But it doesnt show my the block chars and line chars correctly.

Everyting works fine with Syncterm under Windows.
Also when I run syncterm (Windows Version) with Wine everyting works.

I'm thankfull for any hints.

Best regards,
Rocksteady

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to All on Tue Mar 15 2016 07:55 pm

Hi All

I use Syncterm under Xubuntu Linux. I installed also the fonts from int10h.org (Also know as The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack).
But it doesnt show my the block chars and line chars correctly.

Everyting works fine with Syncterm under Windows.
Also when I run syncterm (Windows Version) with Wine everyting works.

I'm thankfull for any hints.

Are you running it in X mode or in curses mode? Try playing with the different '-i' options (e.g. -ix, -ic) to control the output mode.

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Digital Man to Rocksteady on Tue Mar 15 2016 04:38 pm

Hi Digital Man

Are you running it in X mode or in curses mode? Try playing with the different '-i' options (e.g. -ix, -ic) to control the output mode.

Many thanks for you answer. I running in curses mode. I will give a try
with the different options that you gave me.

Many thanks and best regards,

Rocksteady

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to Digital Man on Wed Mar 16 2016 09:03 am

Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Digital Man to Rocksteady on Tue Mar 15 2016 04:38 pm

Hi Digital Man

Are you running it in X mode or in curses mode? Try playing with the different '-i' options (e.g. -ix, -ic) to control the output mode.

Many thanks for you answer. I running in curses mode. I will give a try
with the different options that you gave me.

In curses mode, you are subject to your termcap settings. What is your TERM environment variable value? Deuce can help more with this (if/when he sees this message).

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Digital Man to Rocksteady on Wed Mar 16 2016 02:12 pm

Hi Digital Man

In curses mode, you are subject to your termcap settings. What is your TERM environment variable value? Deuce can help more with this (if/when he sees this message).

I copy the termcap settings from Synchronet BBS (wiki.synchro.net/install:nix). TERM variable is xterm. I can also swap to ansi-bbs without
success. Will try other settings as well.
For now I'm happy with SyncTERM running with WINE.

Many thanks and best regards,
Rocksteady

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to Digital Man on Thu Mar 17 2016 18:21:55

Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Digital Man to Rocksteady on Wed Mar 16 2016 02:12 pm

Hi Digital Man

In curses mode, you are subject to your termcap settings. What is your TE environment variable value? Deuce can help more with this (if/when he see this message).

I copy the termcap settings from Synchronet BBS (wiki.synchro.net/install:ni TERM variable is xterm. I can also swap to ansi-bbs without
success. Will try other settings as well.
For now I'm happy with SyncTERM running with WINE.

Many thanks and best regards,
Rocksteady

I've compiled and installed syncTERM on my Ubuntu 16.04 last night. Works perfectly fine with ASCII graphics. No juggling with environment variables, system fonts/settings or wine. Just downloaded latest sources, installed libncurses-dev and invoked `make;make install`.

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: twix to Rocksteady on Fri Mar 18 2016 08:33 am

Hi Twix

Thank you for your answer.

I've compiled and installed syncTERM on my Ubuntu 16.04 last night. Works perfectly fine with ASCII graphics. No juggling with environment variables, system fonts/settings or wine. Just downloaded latest sources, installed libncurses-dev and invoked `make;make install`.

I use xubuntu (16.04 Beta). As you can see my ASCII/ANSI output is really crumbled : http://i.imgur.com/V0Du1BU.png

I will try to compile it under ubuntu. Xubuntu use xfce maybe there is
the problem.

Best regards,
Rocksteady

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Rocksteady wrote to All <=-

Hi All

I use Syncterm under Xubuntu Linux. I installed also the fonts from int10h.org (Also know as The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack).
But it doesnt show my the block chars and line chars correctly.

I don't know SyncTERM well enough to talk about its fonts, but I did
do quite a bit of testing on fonts trying to find the ones that have
both CP437 (the BBS ones) and also the VT100 special graphics
characters.

The best font overall by far is univga: http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/ . ReactOS did us
all a huge favor by converting it to TTF here: https://rtoss.googlecode.com/svn/UniVGA16/VGAMedium.ttf

The next best is terminus (xfonts-terminus in Ubuntu).

Hope that helps.

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Kevinl to Rocksteady on Fri Mar 18 2016 10:11 pm

Hi Kevinl

http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/ . ReactOS did us
all a huge favor by converting it to TTF here: https://rtoss.googlecode.com/svn/UniVGA16/VGAMedium.ttf

Many thanks for the hint. Looks a little better now.

Best regards,
Rocksteady

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to Kevinl on Sat Mar 19 2016 22:02:00

https://rtoss.googlecode.com/svn/UniVGA16/VGAMedium.ttf

Looks quite nice but I think it looks a bit fuzzy in 12pt.
and only starts looking good at 14pt. With antialiasing
enabled, at other sizes it's a bit deformed or blurry/fuzzy.

I did some tests on Ubuntu 15.10 and with antialiasing
disabled it looks good on 14pt, and for some reason on
27pt. Anti-aliasing settings were modified using Unity
Tweak Tool in case somebody wants to replicate it.

At my $0.02, I found a good source for DOS-era computer fonts.
All vectorised or otherwise possible to use on modern PCs
at http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ . I especially
like the Kaypro, IBM, Amstrad, Tandy, Phoenix, WYSE
and ISO DOS font designs, even though I never had a single
one of these devices, haha :).

Also seconded on Terminus, a really great font. First thing
I install when I am working with Linux command line buffer
for any reasonable amount of time. I think it looks much
better than the built-in Linux framebuffer font and has
greater clarity when reading - and so much easier on the
eyes.


-Piotr

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to All on Tue Mar 15 2016 07:55 pm

I use Syncterm under Xubuntu Linux. I installed also the fonts from int10h.org (Also know as The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack).
But it doesnt show my the block chars and line chars correctly.

Sounds like you don't have the X11 headers or the SDL headers installed. The -dev package for at least one of those needs to be installed when building SyncTERM.

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Deuce to Rocksteady on Fri Mar 25 2016 12:09 am

Hi Deuce

Sounds like you don't have the X11 headers or the SDL headers installed.
The -dev package for at least one of those needs to be installed when building SyncTERM.

I installed these dev-libraries and compile Syncterm again. Still the same.
I guess it has something to do with xubuntu. Will test syncterm with
other distros and see if the problem still exist.

Many thanks for your Help!

Rocksteady

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Re: Terminal Font under Linux
By: Rocksteady to Deuce on Fri Mar 25 2016 09:40 am

Hi all,

I guess it has something to do with xubuntu. Will test syncterm with
other distros and see if the problem still exist.

Ok, I've found a solution. In SyncTERM go to the Program Settings then
you change "Video Output Mode" to Curses on cp437 Device
Change you xubuntu console (xfce4-terminal) encoding to IBM862
and everythings works well (native without wine).

Hope that helps,
Ben aka Rocksteady

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