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geekmaster · 04-01-2012, 01:26 PM

By the way, I now have text output using a "dd" to "blit" characters onto the eink screen from a small PNG picture that contains all the ascii characters. It is more than twice as fast as watching uncompressed text come in from a BBS using a 300bps acoustic modem.

And with my smallest tiny font, I get 114 lines of 150 characters, all quite readable if you are near-sighed AND you wear magnifying glasses. I do not know what to call this yet, but I remember the idomatic expression "If you don't stop doing that, you'll go blind!", and may have the same effect, so I need a humorous name for what that warning was originally intended for.

It only works on 8bpp displays now (k4 and touch), but it will not be too difficult to port to the k3 if I make sure all characters are multiples of 2px wide (including the whitespace between them). Tiny fonts are a lot faster than larger ones, so I was thinking of using it ONLY to display characters missing from eips. That way all the NORMAL characters would be fast, and only the "special" characters would be slow. I suppose I should post a demo of my tiny texter script... Yes?

I know -- because watching the tiny text print at "teletype speed" (but 3x faster), I will call it "titty - tiny teletype"... Is that too offensive?

04-01-2012, 01:26 PM	#17
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	By the way, I now have text output using a "dd" to "blit" characters onto the eink screen from a small PNG picture that contains all the ascii characters. It is more than twice as fast as watching uncompressed text come in from a BBS using a 300bps acoustic modem. And with my smallest tiny font, I get 114 lines of 150 characters, all quite readable if you are near-sighed AND you wear magnifying glasses. I do not know what to call this yet, but I remember the idomatic expression "If you don't stop doing that, you'll go blind!", and may have the same effect, so I need a humorous name for what that warning was originally intended for. It only works on 8bpp displays now (k4 and touch), but it will not be too difficult to port to the k3 if I make sure all characters are multiples of 2px wide (including the whitespace between them). Tiny fonts are a lot faster than larger ones, so I was thinking of using it ONLY to display characters missing from eips. That way all the NORMAL characters would be fast, and only the "special" characters would be slow. I suppose I should post a demo of my tiny texter script... Yes? I know -- because watching the tiny text print at "teletype speed" (but 3x faster), I will call it "titty - tiny teletype"... Is that too offensive? Last edited by geekmaster; 04-01-2012 at 08:27 PM.