Talk:Roofus

Codes for Roofus's Text

Out of curiosity, I'd like to know what codes were used for Roofus's text when he calls the player a "wise ass". Notable Ultima has some mojibake for that word, suggesting that it was assumed to all be 7-bit ASCII and for the most part is was, but Origin used a special code for those letters, but the '&' and '#' that are there are ASCII.--The Ultra-Mind (talk) 14:30, 6 November 2021 (MDT)

I'm not sure, I understand correctly what you want to know, but from U6 and U7 I can tell, that uncomon characters such as "_" or "#" were (ab)used to display other signs like Ankh and the lot. Origin just redraw the initial characters in their FONTS files. Alas, I'd suspect they did the same with '&' (or rather '@') and '#' to display the word in question. As to why is a bit beyond me....getting pass QA is the first thing I can think of ;-) --SirJohn (talk) 01:16, 12 November 2021 (MST)

41 72 74 20 74 68 6F 75 20 61 0A 77 69 73 65 20 26 23 23 21 3F

With 26 23 23 specifically being for &##. -- Fenyx4 21:56, 16 November 2021 (MST)