Screen font from original Space Invaders?
April 30, 2013 6:59 AM
I'm looking for a font that's based on or looks like the screen font used in the original Taito/Midway Space Invaders from 1978. (Unused witty title for this question: 'Diaresis puny earthlings!')
With the exception of the I not being the same width as all the other letters, the letter forms in the font linked by pipeski look the same as space invaders.
If you are computer inclined, you can obtain all the recognizable letters from a space invaders rom image. They are in the "invaders.e" rom starting at byte 1536; the 41 characters represented are A-Z, 0-9, and the punctuation <>*= and space. If you have a Unix computer then the following commandline will actually turn the "invaders.e" rom file into an 8x2048 pixel black and white image readable in The Gimp and probably in other fine image editors:
posted by jepler at 3:39 PM on April 30, 2013
If you are computer inclined, you can obtain all the recognizable letters from a space invaders rom image. They are in the "invaders.e" rom starting at byte 1536; the 41 characters represented are A-Z, 0-9, and the punctuation <>*= and space. If you have a Unix computer then the following commandline will actually turn the "invaders.e" rom file into an 8x2048 pixel black and white image readable in The Gimp and probably in other fine image editors:
(echo "P4 8 2048"; cat invaders.e) > e.pgmif you look through it you'll spot other images as well as bits that look like static and probably represent game code or maybe sound effects.
posted by jepler at 3:39 PM on April 30, 2013
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posted by pipeski at 7:17 AM on April 30, 2013