ENSCREEN font?

[elvisish]

Which font did ENSCREEN use? I think it might have been Code page 437 back in the DOS days but Chocolate DOOM (and other vanilla-based source ports) would presumably use their own implementation for it?

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by elvisish

[Ghoul Fool]

I believe the font is called "Terminal".

A very close second is 8x12 Raster Font used in a Windows DOS box as seen here:

A longer, better explanation can be found here and here.

 

[ax34]

This?

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

[Gez]

I haven't looked at the innards of Chocolate Doom in a long while, but in ZDoom (and in SLADE 3) this is done by having a literal bitmap with the font characters in it.

https://wiki.osdev.org/VGA_Fonts

The name of the file is vga-rom-font.16 and SLADE will display it as a long column, a 8x4096 monochrome graphic where each character takes a row. You can find a more humanly-legible grid presentation here.

 

Point is, this or a similar resource is probably embedded somewhere, either in the port's resource wad or directly in its executable, and can be used to composite the final ANSI screen in a hardware-independent way.