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Max Capacity PETSCII skull.

TYPE IN / workshop & exhibition 1st-9th November 2014
(LOVELACE – POETICAL SCIENCE + C4 projects)
Works by:
Rosemary Lee, Raquel Meyers, Marie Forchhammer, Emilie Oksholt, Thea Sikker Remin & Ioana Grozav.
More information here!

VIA by Neurotypical (2009), a real-time video streaming teletext demo running on a BBC micro. Thnks Simon Rawles!

PETSCII animations by Haydi Roket, who we’ve posted about earlier.

PETSCII-version of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures cover art. Made by @vectorpoem in his own program EDSCII (aka Playscii), which supports ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII, ATASCII and more.

Instant ASCII Camera by Vuk Ćosić, 1999. via mfortki

Also check Atari’s Compugraph (1976) and other conversions.

The intro to Clannad After Story, converted into shift-JIS ASCII by Etheral1234. The conversion took 8 hours. It seems to use a structure-based algorithm.

Video saved here, just in case.

New York Public Library is experimenting with PETSCII to generate covers for books that don’t have one. Each letter in the title of the book is replaced by a corresponding PETSCII-character in one of its two character sets. So A become ▲ and F becomes  and so on.

More here.

PETSCII by Max Capacity, 2014.

ASCII Space by reaktorplayer, 2012. Abstract and eerie.