Special font needed!

[InCreator]

Does ANYONE know from where or how can I get almost (what almost? historical!) traditional font used in many-many games for speech, such as "Chewy:ESC from F5", "KGB a.k.a Konspiracy" and many other games, especially ones by LucasArts (Indiana Jones was one of them, if I'm not mistaken and games released under Virgin Interactive).

Hardcore adventure gamers should be already guessed for now which one I'm talking about - at least someone could.

I don't know its name (if it has any name) but its bold, outlined and big. And it looks very much like BIOS font in screen mode 13h, 320x200 8-bit... BASIC and Pascal programmers maybe get their hint from here...

Well, I'ts hard to ask for something you cannot really describe.  

And other thing: Is there any good tools/programs available for making fonts by my own (for AGS, of course) except that superbuggy SCI-studio?

[justG]

The Font Creator Program 4 (shareware, $50)
FontLab 4.6 (commercial, $549)
TypeTool 2 (commercial, $99)
Fontographer 3.5 (commercial, $349)

Resources
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How to create fonts

Hope that helps get you started.

[BOYD1981]

the font you're thinking of is fixedsys, i think, it's the one used by DOS and DOS progs such as EDIT, not many windows apps let you use it though, well paint apps, i know PSP doesn't let you use it, but mspaint does...
if you want to make the font for AGS then get SCI Studio, can't remember the url but it should be easy to find through google, or in one of the other threads about fonts in the tech forums...
hope that helps.

[Miez]

These websites might have something like it:

http://www.fontmagic.com/
http://www.fontfreak.com/
http://www.fontsnthings.com/

Nice bookmarks to have, anyway - you can never have too much fonts!

[InCreator]

Yeah, thank you. Fixedsys looks VERY much like the one I need, but as I said, It's bold and bolded fixedsys isn't quite the same. Anyone get what I really want? I need it for my game!

[BOYD1981]

try http://www.acidfonts.com although i'm not actually sure that's the url, it has thousands of free fonts for download, i managed to exceed the maximum ammount of fonts you can have installed, which is something like 1500, because of that site, so it's a good idea to get a font manager

[InCreator]

Gee, thanks. Now my spare time is filled with finding my favorite font among these thousands... , anyway, I'm not sure that it's allowed, but I'm planning to post a screenshot here from some game -- to show what I'm really looking for....

http://www.hot.ee/increator/LAhasit.jpg

...done. Now that's the one and the best, in my opinion...

[Trapezoid]

Doesn't LucasFan have that font for download, with the outline?

[InCreator]

I don't know. Does he? I searched thru Zak2 page but found nothing. Is there LucasFan's homepage up somewhere? And IS the font up or were you just guessing? I believe there is, because Zak2 was translated into many languages so he needed to make multiple foreign characters... or have them made and so he distributed the font. But I have no idea where it could be. Links?

[Scummbuddy]

dude, just go to my website and download the one i made with SCI Studio

http://www.freewebs.com/lucasstyle/downloads.htm

[InCreator]

Thanks! I'll promise I'm going to give ya' some credit when releasing my game.