x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts 2.2_2 DragonFly

Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Categories: x11-fonts
Package size: 4005.8 KiB, 47821.4 KiB installed

Description

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack started out with the idea of paying tribute to ancient PCs and their bitmapped, pre-GUI typography (if you can call it that). It was inspired by similar efforts that cover other vintage machines: classic system fonts from the Amiga, C64, Apple II, Mac, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit/ST etc. are all celebrated. On the other hand, the IBM PC and its clones seem to get little love... except for that one VGA text mode font (which has been remade numerous times, to varying degrees of success).

This collection is here to remedy that, and to bring you pixel-perfect remakes of various type styles from text-mode era PCs - in modern, multi-platform, Unicode-compatible TrueType form (plus straight bitmap versions).

Although the goal is to make it a complete resource, the main focus is on hardware/firmware character sets: the kind that's located in a ROM chip on the system board or graphics card, which is what you'd see by default when working in text (or graphics) mode. Software-loadable fonts are also within the scope of this collection (if associated with a particular machine or display system), so some of these have also made it in.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2.2, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts

2.2_2 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts

2.2_2 newest

none known

[email protected]

MidnightBSD

x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts

1.0

no data

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts

2.2_2 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts

2.2_2 newest

no data

[email protected]

Install

Binary package:

pkg install oldschool-pc-fonts

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["x11-fonts/oldschool-pc-fonts"]
  me --> d0["x11-fonts/fontconfig"]
  me --> d1["x11-fonts/mkfontscale"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

If you upgrade from 1.0, be warned that many fonts had changed names,
e.g. 'PxPlus IBM VGA' can now be 'PxPlus IBM VGA 9x16' or 'PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16'.

===>   NOTICE:

The oldschool-pc-fonts port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing