It would be fairly simple to just publish some scripts that extract the font from your system. The 8x8 font is at F000:FA6Eh, and I think you can call interrupts to find the location of the others (it changes depending on the system). Then just dump that to a file and process those to whatever font format you want.

I remember having a TSR that would let you change the DOS font to a few different options, it always looked cool and impressed my friends. I think it did a few other weird things like cycle the keyboard LEDs (caps, scroll, num lock) in patterns.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.pascal.bor...

According to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ bitmap fonts are not copyrightable in the US, where the site is hosted.

I'm curious about this. Can anyone elaborate on this?

I mean, the fonts on this site are >30 years old, so:

- would it really be 'illegal' to share these files

- would the copyright holders (say, IBM) have any reason to take a site like this down?

Depends on your country I'd say. In mine not all.