previously i was using a 7x7 font that worked, but it looks really ugly, looks bolded, and doesn’t really have a good lower-case variant. of course I could try to make one but I’m a god awful designer.

instead i stole this 5x7 character set from online specifically meant for bitmapped fonts on low resolution displays. 5x7 means that it won’t quite align perfectly, we do have a 53.6x25 display now (since its 6x8 with padding) but i just ignored the excess pixels and went along anyway. this looks much better, and I really do plan to use 640x480 since 320x200 is only usable for dos games and such.

i spent most of this 1h38m just putting in the character set into the character array, which I must say is quite relaxing.