Tag Archives: 1980s

From the book The forms of colour: the interaction of visual elements by Karl Gerstner, 1986. via design-is-fine.

Class by Brian Hastings, 1986. ATASCII animation on Atari 800 that won the Atari ‘Toons contest in the ANTIC magazine. They call it cursor art.

More videos and info at Break Into Chat.

Back to Nature by Bob Carr, 1982. This is the C64-version of the game that he released for the PET in 1980.

Elektronika MK-85 and its character set. It was the first Soviet calculator with BASIC, and almost an exact copy of the Casio FX-700P.

Carola Häggkvist, a famous Swedish schlager-lady, made in textmode with custom characters on a Texas TI/99 by Yvonne Thorfve, 1984.

Source: Allt om hemdatorer, Issue 1, 1984

Rain Dance, a demo for Commodore PET made by Bob Carr, 1980. Good stuff!

The Galaksija computer and the graphics part of its character set. Designed by Voja Antonic in Yugoslavia, 1983. Screenshots from games and an adaptation of the classic Dancing Demon animation.

Also check µGalaksija, a single-chip remake of the Galaksija.


Sinclair ZX81 character set and font, via.

Casio FX-700P Programmable Calculator (1982) Character set.

Sinclair ZX80 character set, including nonprintable characters (shown as questionmarks) and BASIC keywords.