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Tag Archives: 1984

2014-04-15

1980s, 1984, custom charset, font, magazine, sweden.

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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

2014-02-17

1980s, 1984, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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From SCORE 4 by Karl Kempton & Loris Essary, 1984.

More Kempton @ text-mode.

2013-08-22

1980s, 1984, magazine, NAPLPS, videotex, viewtron.

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VIEWTRON: An ASCII / NAPLPS Hybrid. Video / ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIAS (Byte. Issue: Jul, 1984)

2012-06-05

1980s, 1984, prestel, uk, videotex.

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Prestel, 1984. Here you can view the graphics as text.

2012-05-28

1980s, 1984, advertising, c64, magazine, videotex.

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Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.

2012-03-31

1980s, 1984, c64, petscii, uk.

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Great clip from 1984 where Rolf Harris demonstrates C64 text mode graphics with great enthusiasm to Toni Arthur. “You can choose any colour you want!”

Looks like the software uses a slightly customized petscii font. He also announces a text mode compo, for single images and animations.

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