SuperFont meets the modern age!!!
Graphics were pretty tough in the 8bit Atari days. It took a lot of work to get things rolling, a lot of plot and drawTo and Player-Missile graphics. That is until I discovered the method programmers were using to re-define character sets and create graphics using extra characters in the fontset. The only way to do this effectively was to use a program that reordered the bytes for you, saved out that data and loaded it back in. One such program that would load and save fonts was called Superfont. This program allowed the user to edit characters of the font in the checker board area and then save out the font to be loaded into a program later. These programs came from BBSs(dial-up online bulletin board systems, pre-internet) and in magazines like I have mentioned previously in my Gamasutra Blog, Compute!. Needless to say, I spent mountain growing amounts of time making my own fonts and experimenting with fonts and creating my own. Duri...