OS4.1 intellifont, and other things from 3.x

I've been scanning through smoe of the 4.1 files

1) I'm not seeing _bullet or _bullet_outline in 4.1. Are fonts like CGTimes really TrueType in 4.1 and hence are not intellifont...

TVPaint was looking for _bullet_outline and I couldn't change it to _TrueType

2) Also noticed HDBackup.help...looks like this was leftover from 3.x -- no hdbackup tool but there is bru...has anybody gotten bru to work on the SAM?

3) What does SP_Engine do in System dir and also the Profiles dir?

@my_pc_is_amiga

1) looking at the .otag files, they are just mappings to the DejaVu TrueType fonts.

In 4.0 you needed to copy _bullet from a 3.x install into fonts: to allow the use of old bullet outline fonts (yes, and _bullet_outlines of course). I suspect that is still the case.

Chris

@Chris

Ah, I see...

6.Workbench:Fonts> type CGTimes.otag hex
0000: 80001001 00000136 80009002 000000C0 .......6.......?
0010: 8000A024 000000C4 8000A026 000000E4 ..?$...?..?&...?
0020: 80009003 000000ED 8000A009 000000F6 .......?..?....?
0030: 80001010 00000002 80001011 00640075 .............d.u
0040: 80002012 00000AC8 80002013 00000000 .. ....?.. .....
0050: 80001014 00000001 80001015 00000078 ...............x
0060: 80001016 00000000 80001017 00000090 ................
0070: 80002019 00000000 80009020 000000FE .. ........ ...?
0080: 80002021 00000000 8000A022 00000116 .. !......?"....
0090: 80001100 00000004 80001103 00000000 ................
00A0: 80001104 00000001 80001105 00000000 ................
00B0: 80001106 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
00C0: 66743200 464F4E54 533A5F74 72756574 ft2.FONTS:_truet
00D0: 7970652F 44656A61 56755365 7269662E ype/DejaVuSerif.
00E0: 74746600 74727565 74797065 00434720 ttf.truetype.CG
00F0: 54696D65 73004347 54696D65 7300000B Times.CGTimes...
0100: 0008000A 000C000E 00100014 00180020 ...............
0110: 0030003C 0048E000 02FF5000 71FB0000 .0.<.H?..?P.q?..
0120: 00200000 00004000 02DF1000 30000000 . ....@..?..0...

@my_pc_is_amiga

I have it in mine but I think it is copied from an older hard drive. When I install Amiga OS I add comments to all the files saying "Amiga OS4.x" etc. and this doesn't have that so it will be copied from elsewhere. So yes, you can still use outline fonts if you copy over the files.

The original three Intellifonts which came with earlier releases of AmigaOS, were licensed from Agfa. I would guess that this license has not been renegotiated for OS4, so the otag files were just made to point to suitable TrueType/FreeType replacements. But as mentioned by others, there should be no problems using "real" Intellifonts if you absolutely must (except for the lower quality), by copying over the needed files.

As far as I know, nothing changed in this between 4.0 and 4.1.

Best regards,

Niels

@my_pc_is_amiga

2) I was trying to see if I could use bru with my dvd+rw....but looks like the dvd+rw is shown as read-only. Not sure why that is -- both DOS (info) and Workbench information shows it is write-protected. AmiDVD is okay and is able to write to it...

So I can't format it with the 4.1 tools either...this wasn't a "brand new" disk.