Bitmap Font class

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Here’s a class for rendering bitmap fonts in Codea and a couple of nostalgic fonts.

http://npryce-codea.posterous.com/bitmapfont

The fun thing about this class is that fonts don’t need to be static. The render themselves through a callback which can draw the pixels or spawn particles or whatever… It can make for some cool effects.

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Very nice. I’m thinking I should add this to my missile command variant — it’s much more 8-bit.

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link no longer works

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@clyde This is from December of 2011. It’s almost 4 years old. Old links don’t always work.

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Hey if you want a good faster font renderer, I’ve made a really high-performance one: http://codea.io/talk/discussion/6519/raster-font-renderer#latest
EDIT: it’s a bit out of date, so I should update it.