Seeking effTTT (demo version)

Hi all,

Does anyone have a copy of !effTTT they could send please to the usual Drag N Drop email (dragdrop at dragdrop.co.uk).

N.B. demo version only needed.

(Long explanation of why: I used !effTTT until I discovered !ttf2f which now appears to be incompatible with the Pi3. (Unless anyone knows !ttf2f has been recompiled for later machines?) Then the Electronic Fonts Foundry became defunct with the death of its founder and by then I had long since moved on from the machine I had !effTTT on. The internet archive www.archive.org has a copy of the EFF website but not of the downloads.)

Thanks :)

Chris.

What problems does the Software have ‘SWP’ instruction?

What problems does the Software have ‘SWP’ instruction?

No idea what that is, but !ttf2f just stops working half way the conversion, without any error message. It doesn’t freeze the machine, but it neither produces a font.
I therefore convert fonts on the VRPC, but I would love to see a recompiled version that works on newer machines. !efTTT is not an option, as it doesn’t convert unicode fonts, as far as I know.

TTF2f is fine on the Titanium but not on the RPi4 as described above. There was a !Patch style patch, that does work, in the PatchSWP download that was available here but now has to be found via wayback.

does the Software have ‘SWP’ instruction?

No idea what that is

And here lies a potential problem in attracting new users. Can you imagine asking a question like that on a Windows or MacOS forum? ;-)

A valid question would be to ask why, if this is a known thing, does the OS not trap SWP and fake it on machines that no longer support it.

Yes, I know that the software concerned should be updated, but that is idealism. Reality is somewhat different. I still, even today, come across software that expects to run with alignment exceptions disabled. What the hell it thinks it is loading I don’t know as the processor doesn’t work like that any more…

A valid question would be to ask why, if this is a known thing, does the OS not trap SWP and fake it on machines that no longer support it.

Or point you at a patching utility that will safe copy the executable and fix the working executable to generate a working program?

There was a !Patch style patch, that does work,

Well, stone me… That’s an application that came with my 4té. Only now I understand where it can be used for. And it works indeed! No need to use emulators any more, or switch to !effTTT. Do you read this, Chris? (And Rick, now that I read the help file, I even know what a SWP instruction is, although it will surely be forgotten next week.)

John-Mark has released TTF2f 0.05 which has been rebuilt with a newer toolchain and more up-to-date libraries. It fixes the font conversion crash seen on newer hardware.