A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
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Our text-mode demo Dansa In is showing today at the UCLA Game Art Festival in Los Angeles. 44 kilobytes is enough to tell a good story, aiit?  A story with pirates, sloths and sex told completely in text graphics. A blocky and brutal visual aesthetic synchronized with explosives, drunken funk and computer screams. All made in 44 kilobytes, to be executed by a Commodore 64 and its colourful ASCII-alternative called PETSCII. Visuals by Raquel Meyers, audio by Goto80 and coding by Johan Kotlinski. More here. Original C64-executable available here.

Our text-mode demo Dansa In is showing today at the UCLA Game Art Festival in Los Angeles. 44 kilobytes is enough to tell a good story, aiit? 

A story with pirates, sloths and sex told completely in text graphics. A blocky and brutal visual aesthetic synchronized with explosives, drunken funk and computer screams. All made in 44 kilobytes, to be executed by a Commodore 64 and its colourful ASCII-alternative called PETSCII. Visuals by Raquel Meyers, audio by Goto80 and coding by Johan Kotlinski.

More here. Original C64-executable available here.

#petscii      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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The Dutch electro-artist Legowelt announced a C64-game competition a while ago, and made the soundtrack for the winning game. The game (Loch Ness, pictured above) was never finished, but the soundtrack is available here. Made with the C64’s SID-chip. Always good to see PETSCII out in the wild like that!

The Dutch electro-artist Legowelt announced a C64-game competition a while ago, and made the soundtrack for the winning game. The game (Loch Ness, pictured above) was never finished, but the soundtrack is available here. Made with the C64’s SID-chip.

Always good to see PETSCII out in the wild like that!

#c64      #petscii      #game     

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From bfp.c64.org, a C-64 demoparty in Helsingborg (Sweden) in August. Petscii made by Frantic.

From bfp.c64.org, a C-64 demoparty in Helsingborg (Sweden) in August. Petscii made by Frantic.

#2000s      #c64      #petscii     

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Pixel graphics by Ilkke in his particular textoid style. Designed for the C64-game Not Even Human (cartridge, 2011).

#c64      #2010s     

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Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

#PETSCII      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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Cellular Automata for the C64 by Ian Adam & Transactor Magazine (1987).

A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off (in contrast to a coupled map lattice). Via wikipedia.
#cellular automata      #c64      #grid      #tessellation      #1980s     

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Commodore 64 disk directories:
Wildfire [1997] by Coma, Krestology 100% [1996] by Crest, Arcanum [2000] by Xenon, Revolved [2013] by TRIAD,  +H2K [2000] by Plush, and Deus Ex Machina [2000] by Crest, Oxyron

#petscii      #d64      #c64      #file directory      #2000s      #2010s      #1990s     

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Skane by Dino [2004]

Skane by Dino [2004]

#PETSCII      #c64      #demoscene      #2000s     

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Sprites = Cross-stitch?Commodore Computing International magazine cover (1983).

Sprites = Cross-stitch?
Commodore Computing International magazine cover (1983).

#grid      #c64      #magazine      #sprite      #cross stitch      #1980s     

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‘The key’ by Uka (2013)

‘The key’ by Uka (2013)

#petscii      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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Tonight at Transmediale - world’s first teletext performance? MIND THE VOLCANO! - a text-based TV-performance by Raquel Meyers and Goto80. Live improvised music, BASIC programming, char-by-char animations and remote control VJing. It’s like a movie book.

More info

#teletext      #c64      #basic      #petscii      #transmediale     

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Raquel Meyers.

Raquel Meyers.

#petscii      #c64     

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Live teletext visuals with Commodore64 BASIC for the performance ‘Mind the volcano!’
by Goto80 & Raquel Meyers for Transmediale 013

#teletext      #c64      #basic      #PETSCII     

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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.

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

#petscii      #c64      #1980s     

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FIB 1979 [2006] by Dino

FIB 1979 [2006] by Dino

#c64      #petscii      #χχχ      #2000s