ASCII code explorer

Designed to be the freakin' best ASCII table viewer for DOS platform, LOL!!!

ASC.EXE screenshot

It accesses the console font bitmaps directly from the BIOS and amplifies them 16 times (bitmaps in a hex form are shown, also). User can navigate the character map using his/her mouse or the cursor keys.  For every character, it's ASCII code in decimal, hexadecimal & binary formats is displayed. One can also build strings of ASCII characters, just like in Windows' "Character Map". Foreground/background colors for the character, magnified character & character string are also editable through the GUI (there are 16 colors available for background, instead of default 8 Smiling. It's pretty useless today, but helped me a lot to develop my elder programs. By the way, this ASCII explorer was written using QBasic 4.5...


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ASCII explorer + QBasic source (ASC.ZIP)84.92 KB

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stas » April 20, 2006 » 01:52

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New characters in MS DOS Latin 1 code page

Vulgar fraction three quarters shows ¾.
Capital A with acute shows Á.
Capital A with circumflex shows Â.
Capital A with grave shows À.
Capital E with diaeresis shows Ë.
Capital E with acute shows É.
Capital E with grave shows È.
Vulgar fraction one half shows ½.
Superscript three shows ³.
Superscript one shows ¹.
Icelandic thorn shows Þ and þ.
Vulgar fraction one quarter shows ¼.
Capital O with stroke shows Ø.
Capital Ae shows Æ.
Capital Oe and small Oe shows Œ and œ.

tae (not verified) » December 14, 2008 » 18:30

One can also build strings

One can also build strings of ASCII characters, just like in Windows' "Character Map". Foreground/background colors for the character, magnified character & character string are also excellent.. very imperishable

james kerry (not verified) » March 1, 2011 » 09:16

nCvRmDMbdkbEae

Alakazaam-information found, porbelm solved, thanks!

Viney (not verified) » July 29, 2011 » 05:21

bXMKxyQeTvDxfp

Suprebly illuminating data here, thanks!

Mircea (not verified) » July 30, 2011 » 11:55

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