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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Litterae Finis

Textmode demoscene winner of TDMC 2012 put together by Trauma - very impressive stylistically rendering 3D objects in ASCII.

Download it at Pouet

#ascii      #demoscene      #2010s      #TDMC      #conversion     

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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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Crappy GIF-animations from a cam-version of a new demo for the 8-bit MSX computer: Amurisus by Lieves!Tuore. Check the original video here.

#demoscene      #msx      #animation      #2010s     

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Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

Fågel by AcidT*rroreast [2013]

#PETSCII      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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Skane by Dino [2004]

Skane by Dino [2004]

#PETSCII      #c64      #demoscene      #2000s     

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‘The key’ by Uka (2013)

‘The key’ by Uka (2013)

#petscii      #c64      #demoscene      #2010s     

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Litterae Finis - Trauma (2013). Text mode production from the demoscene. Looks more ASCII than textmode demos usually do. Winner of TMDC15.

#demoscene      #2010s      #animation      #ascii     

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‘Ex-flies’ by Greippi/limbo, 2008.
Amiga PETSCII demo, via.

#petscii      #amiga      #demoscene      #animation      #2000s     

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Look, it’s a demoscene thing!

#demoscene      #textmode      #animation     

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The ASCII competition at the demoscene event Evoke, 2009. Music by Goto-Ötzi, king of Yetis.

#amiga      #ascii      #demoscene      #elite      #2000s     

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Amiga 500-demo from 1997, by Juice. 5 minutes of video-converted-to-ASCII and music, in 880 kilobytes. 

#amiga      #demoscene      #ascii      #1990s     

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Unfused, a demo for Atari XL/XE by Bober and Dhor (2008). You might also like their demo Unplugged, which is quite similar. Atascii!

#animation      #atascii      #demoscene      #elite      #2000s     

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JSL is a Dutch demoscener who’s made plenty of PETSCII porno animations in C-64 BASIC. His teenage style is strangely refreshing. Sometimes. More of his work at girls.c64.org.

JSL is a Dutch demoscener who’s made plenty of PETSCII porno animations in C-64 BASIC. His teenage style is strangely refreshing. Sometimes. More of his work at girls.c64.org.

#animation      #demoscene      #petscii      #χχχ      #2000s     

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In a loop, 2006. C64-demo in 1 kilobyte made by 4-mat - who was also one of the first to make Amiga chipmod music around 1990. Uses a custom charset instead of the built-in petscii font.

#animation      #c64      #demoscene      #textmode      #2000s     

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Goa Brudbilder by Mathman and Goto80, 2007. It switches ultra-fast between four PETSCII-screens, which is perceived by us as new shapes and colours. This emulator capture has a slower and glitchier frame rate than on original C-64. It looks almost better! :) Get the original file here.

#animation      #demoscene      #petscii      #χχχ      #2000s