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Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:

> The Bitstream Cyberbit is a ~12 MB truetype font freely available, BTW. It
> contains most Unicode characters (though it's very ugly! :( ).

Plus, a 12MB download to play a game on a system whose games used to be 90kB
seems...I don't know...a bit unsettling...

But, then, I kind of like to live in the past when it comes to technical matters
like this--squeezing stuff into a few less kilobytes is my kind of fun, sad to
say...


