Dynamix Font Format v1
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Dynamix Font Format v1
| Format type | Font |
|---|---|
| Max glyph count | 64 |
| Minimum glyph size (pixels) | 8×1 (global) |
| Maximum glyph size (pixels) | 8×? (no real limit) (global) |
| Access mode | Indexed |
| Metadata? | None |
| Bitmap glyphs? | Yes |
| Vector glyphs? | No |
| Compressed glyphs? | No |
| Hidden data? | No |
| Games | Pete Rose Pennant Fever (2bpp and 4bpp versions)
Skyfox II (4bpp version)
Arctic Fox (4bpp version) |
The earliest font used in the Sierra/Dynamix games is an 8-pixel wide font without individual font sizes, which stores a symbol range of 0x20 to 0x7F, leaving off all characters before the space. It comes in two varieties; a 2-bpp one and a 4-bpp one, but all existing fonts of these types seem to use only the lowest and highest values (0 and respectively 3 and 15) to paint their data, effectively making them act like 1-bpp fonts. The format doesn't have any kind of file header, but can be analysed based on the predictable data size.
The file size of a font of this type will always be divisible by bpp * 0x60, and the result of this division will be the font height.
Tools
The following tools are able to work with files in this format.
| Name | Platform | View images in this format? | Convert/export to another file/format? | Import from another file/format? | Access hidden data? | Edit metadata? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood Font Editor | Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | Handles both types as 1-bpp font, and uses the "lowest and highest values only" rule to determine if a file with a correct size is indeed a Dynamix v1 font file. It classifies the 2-bpp and 4-bpp versions as respectively "v1a" and "v1b". |