Byte codes for pixel maps for Ascii characters?

Question

Anyone who ever had to draw text in a graphics application for pre-windows operating systems (i.e. Dos) will know what I'm asking for.

Each ASCII character can be represented by an 8x8 pixel matrix. Each matrix can be represented by an 8 byte code (each byte used as a bit mask for each line of the matrix, 1 bit representing a white pixel, each 0 a black pixel).

Does anyone know where I can find the byte codes for the basic ASCII characters?

Thanks,
BW

Answer 1

There are some good ones here; maybe not 8x8, but still easy parse

Answer 2

http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cone3d/gfxsdl/tut4-2.gif

you could parse/process this bitmap and get the byte matrixes (matrices?) from this

Answer 3

It depends on the font. Search Google for 8x8 pixel fonts and you'll find a lot of different ones.

Converting from an image to a byte code table is trivial. Loop through each image 8x8 block at at time, reading the pixels and setting the bytes.

Answer 4

Would this do?

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.