Re: Converting Ansi art to Html pages?

> I'm currently in the process of writing an ANSi to HTML convertor....  so
> email me if you want a copy when I get a working(ish) version written..

ANSI straight to HTML won't work..
I tried it a while back.
The problem is that no fonts are the same as the DOS charset, except for
'Terminal', which is windows specific - and even Terminal, when used on the
web, does not match the DOS charset. The only way to do it would be to write
it to an image.
To create an exact duplicate of the DOS charset in the image, it would have
to be 720 pixels wide (that is the pixel width of an 80 column screen).

If you DO do this, I would suggest loading the 8x12 font from the BIOS (NOT
the default 8x16 font of 25-line mode, or the 8x8 font of 43/50 mode) - it
looks VERY nice compared to the others, and will make the image a little
shorter.
You will also have to take care to write it as a VGA moniter displays it:
although the characters are only 8 pixels wide, VGA adapters display them
with 9 pixels - allowing a nice blank space between characters. For
characters #179 to #223, the 8th column is duplicated and written into the
9th. (these are the characters that make up all the various lines and blocks
in the DOS charset)

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