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Added info about the font file format used by Cinematique and revised the fonts-section a bit.
(Added info about different fonts used by the Cinematique engine (Pictures too).)
(Added info about the font file format used by Cinematique and revised the fonts-section a bit.)
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===Fonts===
===Fonts===


Fonts are loaded from file "texte.dat".
Fonts are loaded from file "TEXTE.DAT".


There are 4 known different versions.
====TEXTE.DAT file's format====
<pre>
    Byte  Meaning
    ------ ------------------------------------------------------------
    0-1  Entry size (16-bit big endian integer)
    2-3  Entry count (16-bit big endian integer)
    4-end Font data (4-bit bitplaned data in 16-bit big endian chunks)
    ------ ------------------------------------------------------------
</pre>


====78 characters version====
* Characters are 16x8 in size
* Entry size has been 8 in all observed data
* Entry count divided by entry size gives the number of characters in the font
* Take a look at [http://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scummvm/scummvm/trunk/engines/cine/gfx.cpp?revision=33976&view=markup#l_1669 gfxConvertSpriteToRaw] to see how the font data can be unpacked
 
====Known different font versions====
 
There are 4 known different font versions:
 
=====78 characters version=====
* Used by most PC, Amiga and Atari ST versions of Future Wars, but also by Operation Stealth's Amiga demo
* Used by most PC, Amiga and Atari ST versions of Future Wars, but also by Operation Stealth's Amiga demo
* [[Image:Cinematique-78_characters_font.png]]
* [[Image:Cinematique-78_characters_font.png]]


====85 characters version====
=====85 characters version=====
* Used by all observed versions of German Future Wars (Amiga and PC), possibly by Spanish Future Wars too
* Used by all observed versions of German Future Wars (Amiga and PC), possibly by Spanish Future Wars too
* [[Image:Cinematique-85_characters_font.png]]
* [[Image:Cinematique-85_characters_font.png]]


====90 characters version====
=====90 characters version=====
* Used by most PC, Amiga and Atari ST versions of Operation Stealth
* Used by most PC, Amiga and Atari ST versions of Operation Stealth
* [[Image:Cinematique-90_characters_font.png]]
* [[Image:Cinematique-90_characters_font.png]]


====93 characters version====
=====93 characters version=====
 
* Used by all observed versions of German Operation Stealth (Amiga and PC)
* Used by all observed versions of German Operation Stealth (Amiga and PC)
* [[Image:Cinematique-93_characters_font.png]]
* [[Image:Cinematique-93_characters_font.png]]
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