text-mode.org | Text graphics: ASCII, PETSCII and its distant relatives.

2024-12-05

2020s, 2022, animation, demoscene, PET, petscii, Russia.

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Back to the PET by Shiru, 2022. A textmode demo for the Commodore PET computer from 1977.

2024-12-05

2020s, 2024, germany, teletext, χχχ.

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I was looking for teletext in some 250 TV-channels in a Romanian hotel and I found Italian, Romanian and German teletext. The most well-made graphics was the German xxx-stuff…

2024-12-05

2020s, 2024, romania, teletext.

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Visited Romania recently, so here’s documentation that TV Romania and Antena are still broadcasting teletext, unfortunately without much good graphics.

2024-12-05

2020s, bbs, teletext, uk.

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BeeBS is a bulletin board system (BBS) that supports teletext graphics. More correctly, it supports the BBC Micro’s mode 7 graphics mode, which is very similar to the British WST teletext standard. It used to be the only BBS running on a BBC Micro, but it runs on modern hardware nowadays.

2024-12-05

2020s, 2024, netherlands, street art.

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By Micha de Bie, 2024.

2024-12-04

2020s, 2024, argentina.

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Works by Enigmatriz, 2024.

2024-11-29

2020s, 2024, canada, print.

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By Mathieu Labrecque, 2024.

2024-11-29

ascii, print, usa.

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By Sonya Rapoport. Unknown year, but looks like something from the 1980’s Shoe Field exhibition that we’ve posted about before.

2024-11-29

1700s, print, Typography, usa.

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After complaints about Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”. via publicdomainreview

2024-11-25

1980s, 1981, antiope, belgium, teletext.

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The PERCEVAL teletext service at RTBF Liège, Belgium, June 1981. This was part of a trial of the French Antiope standard (used for Minitel), but Belgium later chose the more common WST standard. Full video here.