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From an MZ-80 game by Hudson. Full video here.

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WarGames (1983) uses what looks like a custom font to display thermonuclear text mode graphics. It was made on a CompuPro 8/16,...

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The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.

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PETSCII movie by Matt Williams, 1988. Watch the original 5-minute movie about a mysterious pizza shortage here.

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Clip from an Atari ATASCII animation with sound from 1987. Likely first published on a BBS. It’s called Rambone and was made by...

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From Commodore’s christmas demo from 1982, that combines PETSCII and pixel graphics.

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From Granny’s Garden, a C64-game from 1987.

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Two articles on PETSCII graphics for PlayNET, the American online service that later became AOL. A man pushing a sign, and a shamrock. OUTSTANDING! Also - seems…

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CloneWorld BBS, 1988. This is the welcome screen for the late Mike Cohen's Cloneworld BBS in Matawan NJ. It was heavily...

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PlayNET - a mid-1980's online service for the C64. Most images from playnet.us.

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Back to Nature (1982) Commodore videogame, via.

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BBS-graphics by Le Geek, 1989. C64 PETSCII.

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A Star Trek episode created on a Commodore 64 using the machine’s built-in character graphics by James Gaither in 1986. The...

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ZEPLIS (PiO 1985年7月号掲載) for MZ-700

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Allow us to lead a quick trip down memory lane. Destination: late 80s, early 90s 'net.

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Kaleidoscope (1988-2007) a CBM Keyboard Graphics, PETASCII, CGFX Editor by Bryce L. Tomlinson for C64.

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Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (1982), via Lori Emerson. With a computer programme to enable some of the pictures to be...

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The intro screen to the BBS-game Robowar. Uses Atari's own ascii-standard ATASCII. via

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Printed log-in screens from Phantasmal Alchemy, an Atari BBS in the mid 1980s. Made in Atari's own ascii-standard ATASCII. ...

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Obscure C64 textmode software from 83/84. Microtel 600 was for videotex (Viditel in the Netherlands) and telesoftware (software...

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Commodore’s christmas greets from 1982. GIF made by Prosthetic Knowledge for his brilliant post on Commodore xmas demos on Rhizome.

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