Step40: Bitmap Font

28 Sep, 1989 | Demo

Bitmap Fonts

As you’ve already understood, on Amiga the fonts were drawn by hand in a bitmap. Vector font did not exist and we usually did not used proportionnal font. So generally, fonts were drawn on a grid. For example 8×8 pixels, or 16×16 or 32×32. The size was a multiple of 16 to allow blitter copy.

Some productions used proportionnal fonts and exotic sizes.

The best one

Here is (from my point of view), one of the best font drawn on Amiga: From artist « Rack« . 1991 (Hungary).

The font have been used in a demo called « Ray of Hope 2 » by the group « Majic 12 ».

Here is the demo:

Fonts samples

I got one archive with some font. Here is the link: AmigaFonts.zip (2MB, 328 Fonts).

Here are some examples: (Old fashion style)

You can find much more fonts on Carsten Cumbrowski page: HERE

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.