Commodore 64 demonstration of a nuclear power plant, written by Derek Lee.
Tag Archives: 1980s
Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1987. More details on Wikipedia.
More typewriter animations
After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit by Shaunt Basmajian, 1989. He was stabbed while driving a taxi, and according to this Wikipedia page he died the year after from complications. But the page states that he was stabbed in 1986…
From the book Kykafrikaans by Willem Boshoff, 1980.
From the book Typerformance: Analogies, Drawings & Patterns With Letterforms From a Collection of Student Work, edited by Roger Ferriter 1983. Copied from Alex Tyson’s Tumblr.
Bill Geers teletext animations from 1989, straight outta the bible. Full playlist here. Made on the BBC Micro, which had a built-in teletext graphics mode.
More teletext animations.
Videoplace by Myron Krueger at the University of Connecticut’s Artificial Reality Lab, 1985. Only vaguely related to textmode, but…
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.
Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.
An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK launched in 1979. A bit like interactive teletext.