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SkyrimRecreation of the previous one as a #teletext screen#nokia #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart …
Posted by littlebitspace
SkyrimSubmitted to Nokia Art Jam 2 earlier this year. Thanks @polyducks for hosting it!#nokia #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digi…
Posted by littlebitspace
Castle 1.0I had forgotten this silly #c64 font I made a while back. Who would've guessed it works for typography?#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #commodore64 #comput…
Posted by littlebitspace, mistfunk
How about some #RetroComputing #LongReads to relax with this weekend?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Discover the artist, the…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Besides working as a scenic artist, and playing with Atari ST computers, Steve Turnbull also loved slope soaring -- designing and flying gliders.When he began d…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🌞 🎭 🎨 Steve Turnbull worked in showbiz and lived in sunny Laguna Beach, Calif. A visual thinker, he had become disenchanted with the text-only world of Atari…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
“You are a genius, friend ... This is the best thing I’ve seen for comms yet. No one here has seen anything like it.”https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/09/i…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Looking for some retrocomputing long reads to relax with this weekend? Check out the first three parts of my history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" on Break In…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
“We were not trying to make a big splash in the Atari community. We simply wanted our BBSes to look as good as, if not better than, the PC BBSes.”But they found…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
In the late 80s, most e-zines and online publications were just text — whether Phrack or FidoNews, or Atari ST mags like Z*Magazine or ST Report.But Larry Mears…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
A self-described “working man without a degree,” Larry Mears was a shipping clerk for a bakery in Huntsville, Alabama, who often downplayed his own coding abili…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🖥️ 🖱️ 📈In 1988, Larry Mears created a revolutionary tool for displaying animations and graphics on normally text-only Atari ST BBSes. The problem was getting…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
It's here! Part 1 of my in-depth series on "Instant Graphics and Sound," a revolutionary but forgotten plain-text graphics protocol for Atari ST BBSes, which de…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Vitruvian Man#teletextart #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart #8bit #1bitart #1bit #monochromatic #mo…
Posted by littlebitspace
DivineOS#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart…
Posted by littlebitspace, mistfunk
Interplanetary#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #t…
Posted by mistfunk, littlebitspace