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Tag Archives: 1980s

2018-05-09

1980s, amstrad, character set, font.

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The Amstrad PC 1640 character set is similar to Code Page 437, but there are a few differences.

2018-05-07

1980s, character set, font, japan.

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The European font of the Sega SC-3000. Notice how curvy the full triangles and slashes are. Images from SMS Power and Saverio Russo.

2018-05-04

1980s, atascii, character set, font.

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The 8×16 system font of the Atari ST (1985), available here.

2018-04-30

1970s, 1980s, character set, font, TRS-80.

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The three TRS-80 models had no less than 22 different fonts in total (top image), available in Rebecca Bettencourt’s font pack Another Mans Treasure. Shown here are the international fonts from TRS-80 Model 4, and Rebecca’s additions in the last image.

2018-03-31

1980, 1980s, teletext, uk.

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Teletext page from 1980 recovered by the Teletext archeologist, @grim_fandango.

2018-03-28

1980s, 1984, character set.

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Tatung Einstein (1984) and its rather special character set. Also, don’t miss the active Geocities-style site tatungeinstein.co.uk. Photos from here and here.

2018-03-23

1980s, 1989, animation, ansi, DOS.

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Animated Madonna ANSI by MCL (aka Michael C. Ling), circa 1989. Found by Noel Gamba, posted on giphy. More MCL at sixteencolors.net.

2018-03-19

1980s, animation, game, japan, MZ 80, SharpSCII.

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カンニング大作戦, an early 80’s game for MZ-80 by Hudson. Full video here. More posts from this game here.

2018-03-10

1980s, 1983, character set, font, TRS-80.

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The font of the portable TRS-80 Model 100 (1983).

2018-02-26

1980s, 1983, terminal, textmode.

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WarGames (1983) uses what looks like a custom font to display thermonuclear text mode graphics. It was made on a CompuPro 8/16, although an IMSAI 8080 is used in the movie (apparently for sale for $25,000). Read more, see more.

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