The current release version of the Allegro library is v4.03.

This version does not support font loading from PCX files, however it appears
likely that version 4.2 will.  It is therefore possible that the "fonts.dat"
system may become obselete in future versions of Meteor 2.

In the mean time fonts.dat can be edited with the Allegro grabber utility.  Each
font object in the datafile is taken from a PCX file which is in turn created using
the TTF2PCX utility.