This is a font that I created to fill a need of my own, and since it turned out so well, I thought I'd circulate it for anyone else who might need/want it.
In the course of my job, I sometimes make handouts, or memos, or short booklets explaining how to use various aspects of PC's. (Of course, on my desk, I have a Mac IIsi, while at home sits a IIci, but since I'm in charge of all the PCs at my company, I sometimes have to descend to that level and try to puzzle out the vagaries of DOS.) Anyway, once in a while I want to set apart a section of these handouts so that it looks like the screen, or a printout from a DOS application.
Since Courier doesn't look like a DOS printout, nor does it contain the IBM extended character set, I thought I'd create a font that did. And here it is. On the screen at 12 pt. it looks like a slightly more stylish version of Monaco, but when it prints out, it looks just like a printout from a dot-matrix printer. At larger sizes (36+) you'll start to see the individual dots on screen if you have ATM.
For you cross-platform types out there, this font maps exactly to the DOS ASCII characters, so when you pull up a DOS file on your Mac and some of the charaters are wrong, switch to this font, and you'll see the right characters. Plus, you'll be able to make those "neat" borders that DOS apps use in "splash" screens and the like.
My first font was called Pipeline. It's available on AOL under that same name. It looks like letters formed from pipe pieces, upper case being iron fittings, and lower case being copper fittings. Do you believe that over 500 people have downloaded that font from America Online alone, and only one person sent me the measley $5 I was asking for??? If you happen to be that one person, thank you very much! The reason you haven't seen the check show up on your bank statement is that I've got it framed as the first $5 that I ever made with the stuff I do on my Mac at home.
I'm distributing this font as freeware, despite the fact that it took me longer to finish this one than my first. (What if you DON'T want the Symbol characters in your font????) In lieu of lucre, I just want to hear from anyone who uses this font and, subsequently, finds it useful. Drop me a letter or an E-mail. I'd love to hear what you think.
This version is for distribution only on the Arizona Macintosh User Group's "BBS in a Box" CD-ROM. Any other source has this copy without my permission. If you got this from another source and didn't pay for this, don't worry. If you did pay for this, let me know.
You can contact me in a number of ways, and they are as follows:
U.S. Postal Service:
John Anderson
59 Pearl St. #2
Somerville, MA 02145
or
Internet:
Beowulfx@world.std.com
or
America Online:
Beowulfxx
or
CompuServe / ZiffNet Mac:
71442,131
Do not distribute this font without this accompanying text file. I reserve all rights to this font and will not allow commecial distribution without previous written permission.
