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dizzy III - fantasy world dizzy font

description:

recreation of the pixel font from codemasters' dizzy III - fantasy world dizzy (1989) on the commodore 64, amstrad cpc, and zx spectrum.

the same font is used in all subsequent dizzy adventure games - dizzy 3 and a half - into magicland (1991), dizzy IV - magicland dizzy (1991), dizzy V - spellbound dizzy (1991), and dizzy - prince of the yolkfolk (1992).

note that dizzy V - spellbound dizzy (1991) uses the 66 style left quotation marks (U+201C) at the start of any speech, while in all other games the double high-reversed-9 quotation mark (U+201F) is used.

dizzy II - treasure island dizzy (1988) already used an early version of this font, but with fewer special characters. one major difference is the single quote/apostrophe character - compared to all later games, which use a 9 style apostrophe, dizzy II used a straight diagonal small one. this has been included in this recreation, mapped to right single quotation mark (U+2019).

also note that the egg character - used to indicate lives in game - is mapped to black circle (U+25CF).

only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Updated 06/2023: added the apostrophe from dizzy II, added the 66 style left quotation mark, and confirmed that this same font is used for the rest of the series, and on all other 8-bit platforms.

tags:
pixel font
completed:
16/06/2017
modified:
05/06/2023

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