SPRITE FONT PRINTING!
This cart -- all it does -- is provide a sprite font and routines to print to the screen.
All the routines print either a colorized font, or a colorized font on a color background (if provided). If the first color is black, it prints in black, assuming the background to be transparent (say, if you were printing on a white background).
The three print functions do the following:
- SPRINT. Prints on 8x8 boundaries
- SPRINTC. Prints centered in X, but on a Y at pixel resolution.
- SPRINTXY. Prints at an X,Y at pixel resolution
The two SPRITE FONTS match the Pico-8 font, including the glyphs. (It doesn't contain Kana characters).
FONT 1
The first is a smallcaps font like the one in Pico-8. It also has small numbers, and includes six extra characters including Spades and Clubs (the Glyphs have a Heart and Diamond already.)
FONT 2
The second font contains actual lowercase letters. With the last six sprites, it includes simple rounded window tiles you can see surrounding the screen. Usually you would want 8 (so the edges can be unique and to-the-edge for nice layering) and a fill tile, but I had six sprites to work with.
THAT'S IT
Feel free to use these fonts and routines in any cart you want. Just credit ThatTomHall in a cart comment or cart description. Enjoy!
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