[_the_inflator]

Another secret solved of the C64 mystery. Nice job.

My first association fired up the many letter makers that existed at the time.

Future Project build some great makers. They were common around 1986-87.

They featured a whole bunch of character fonts along with highly popular sounds from Rob Hubbard on their disk, usually 10 to 15.

I used the fonts and muziks as as starting point for my first endeavors into C64 assembly programming.

[masswerk]

I played around with one that, I think, was a type-in from Compute! Gazette. Since this was also the time of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, I remember devising a medieval handwriting font (so quite the opposite, but fun!)…