DOSPix is a fairly simple program that takes files that are made in Notepad or the DOSPix Image Editor and turns them into a simple picture. No explanation is really needed so here are the downloads.

Download DOSPix & ImgE
Screenshot (DOSPix)
Screenshot (DOSPix ImgE)

Credits:
Me - DOSPix, Console DLL, Parts of ImgE
Fede-Lasse - ImgE Display and Engine

Any screenshots?

Working on it.

Done.

Cool program

Cool but uh.. what could you use this for?

I don't know, I said that in the first post

Thanks, Caniac.

Well, there must be a use... there must!

Umm, it could...umm......uhh...It has a limited range of colors, it can't be used to make good sprites.

I could add an INI file containing the color data instead of having it set, this will not affect the console window, just the preview.

I've made this nice painting in DosPix.


.DPX File:

Haha, that's epic. I like the palm tree

By the way, I mentioned in the text file that you can change the size of the text in the console window from 8x12 to 8x8, it should look better.

Hmm, i would need to change the text size for all command windows on my computer then?

No, you can't. I tried but it just keeps resetting back to default. Just write down the default if you worry

Looks cool dude!

You finally made the painting editor for it.
And i see you used my drawing in the screenies. ^^

Thanks Luke. Hehe, Fede-Lasse and I made it, but Lasse was a n00b and messed up the grids.

Update
Fede-Lasse made a ton of mistakes on the image editor and I had to fix them, missing stuff all over the place, it cut off a chunk of the image! All are hopefully fixed.

New example by MEH.

Just tried it, and its a pretty awesome program. Awaiting the new engine for creating games with it

CWGM (Console Window Game Maker) ^^

That would be a program, I am now creating a system that is similar to thins but with more graphics functions.

Stop making me look like a fool <.<

I didn't 100% know how the things worked in the console window. I only made the editor, and there were no errors, only size issues *rawrface*

Hehe, I offered you the code for DOSPix but you chose to do it yourself. I think you know your for loops better then that

Arrays are very complicated you know D:

Uhhhhh... there's nothing in the zip folder...

EDIT: Nevermind, the first time it just didn't download all the contents for some reason.

I can guess that you use Internet Explorer.

Anybody have any comments or suggestions?

Anything?

Pretty cool

Thank you

Ha ha, nice...
I'm not much of a pixel artist, but I had fun.

Suggestions:

• More tools in the editor (flood fill, rectangle, circle, etc)
• A compression algorithm (not really needed, but I was looking at a file in notepad and thought, why not replace "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj" with j20?)
• Export as standard EXE or COM files. I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard.... Maybe I'll try to brew up an example for you guys DONE!
• Animated pix! I mean, how cool would it be to have a movie being played in a console window!

Like I said, I'll look into the possibility of exporting as EXE or COM files. I'll have to examine the format more. I already know how to write text, but I'll look for coloured text.

I have built a working example, and will momentarily be PMing GMREC1111.

Instead of using byte code (which I was originally going to do), I decided to write a C++ application. This reads the data from the end of the file and outputs the coloured text.

By the way, can you please fix the image editor!? It can never draw a single box, and always draws 2 in a random direction!

~Halo Shg

As a large update, I have built a "compiler" for DPX files Pretty much what it does is takes a standard DPX file outputted from DOSPix and creates an executable file so you can show you friends. The files are quite small (5.3kb when compiled) but the actual compiler was made in GM, so the filesizse is 980 kilobytes. The full source to both the compiler and C++ application is included.


DOSPix Compiler

And yes I know it really isn't compiled

~ Halo Shg

Nice, you can compile your images to executables now.
And thanks for including my picture in the compiler.

I've also made a sunset painting, not as good as my previous one, but i'll post it anyways.
The source is included.
Download here

No problem. The only real reason it was included was because the version it was made with screwed up the formatting (adding newline characters). That's why the "fixed" is appended to the name. I hope you don't mind If I include you sunset in the compiler... I'm uploading a new one (I spelled your name wrong in the first )

I'll edit my previous post with the download information.
No edit nessesary. Just download using the same links.

UPDATE: I managed to shrink the EXE down by at least another kilobyte. It is now 2.5kb (Soon to be less). The update is not currently available yet, but soon to be (When I get away from this dialup!)

hey i know how you made this you used also used a block from unicode out the character map as a pixel thats what i think

Umm, not exactly. I used a space from ASCII (Unicode isn't supported in DOS windows).

Can it core an apple?

this is really cool!

I opened this up in notepad, with Word wrap, and replaced the letters with block unicode!

It looks really cool as greyscale text

edit: For some reason I can't show it here on GMC