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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A Commodore 64 music software, overlayed with loom punch cards used as spray stencils, then faxed. From the performance Fax & Frankering For Folket, Copenhagen, 2011. More images at faxforfolket. 

A Commodore 64 music software, overlayed with loom punch cards used as spray stencils, then faxed. From the performance Fax & Frankering For Folket, Copenhagen, 2011. More images at faxforfolket. 

#petscii      #tracker      #fax      #2010s     

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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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Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

#PETSCII      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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Obscure C64 textmode software from 83/84. Microtel 600 was for videotex (Viditel in the Netherlands) and telesoftware (software that you download through teletext). Com-In seems to be for radio communication (RTTY) and other things. The software at the top (PA3ASM) is some sort of assembler or machine code monitor?

Pics from here. Thanks to Akira for the suggestion.

#1980s      #petscii      #rtty      #videotex      #tool      #viditel     

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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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Commodore’s International Art Challenge 1984, ‘The Park’ by Richard Hadland, first prize in the Under 12 Still category. Image from the Magazine Commodore Computing International (vol 3, 1984).

Commodore’s International Art Challenge 1984, ‘The Park’ by Richard Hadland, first prize in the Under 12 Still category. Image from the Magazine Commodore Computing International (vol 3, 1984).

#PETSCII      #VIC20      #1980s      #magazine     

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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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This book is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) and the whole book revolves around this C64 BASIC program. It outputs / and \ randomly, to form a maze. Read the book online as a free PDF or buy it and support good ol’ Playpower. Picture copied from Creative Applications. Too lazy to photo the one lying here on the table.

This book is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) and the whole book revolves around this C64 BASIC program. It outputs / and \ randomly, to form a maze. Read the book online as a free PDF or buy it and support good ol’ Playpower.

Picture copied from Creative Applications. Too lazy to photo the one lying here on the table.

#petscii      #2010s      #print      #book      #code     
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You are 90% likely to enjoy this! By Raquel Meyers & Goto80. Featured in Det Grymma Svärdet 13/14.

#petscii      #animation     

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We’re making a fax performance right now at Transmediale in Berlin! Please join us by faxing to +49 30 39787 288. Your work will be teleported straight into our performance, like magic. Spread the word! More info/links here (sort of).

We’re making a fax performance right now at Transmediale in Berlin! Please join us by faxing to +49 30 39787 288. Your work will be teleported straight into our performance, like magic. Spread the word!

More info/links here (sort of).

#petscii      #fax      #typewriter     
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faxforfolket: MEMOBLAST, a group performance in a fax-based office by Raquel Meyers, Jacob Sikker Remin and Goto80.Today at Transmediale - Haus der Kulturen der Welt 17:00 to 22:00 – Café Global stagePlease fax at +49 30 39787 288.

faxforfolket:

MEMOBLAST, a group performance in a fax-based office by Raquel Meyers, Jacob Sikker Remin and Goto80.
Today at Transmediale - Haus der Kulturen der Welt
17:00 to 22:00 – Café Global stage

Please fax at +49 30 39787 288.

#fax      #PETSCII      #typewriter      #stamp