The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Macrocom Method is a text mode trick for PC to use 16-colour hi-res graphics in CGA. The principle was to use only the top two pixel rows of each text character, and remove the rest. Image by VileR.
Macrocom was a company that first showed this trick in 1984 with the game ICON. Read more here. h/t: Rowan Lipkovits
Televideo 925 terminal, ca 1982.
PETSCII movie by Matt Williams, 1988. Watch the original 5-minute movie about a mysterious pizza shortage here.
Clip from an Atari ATASCII animation with sound from 1987. Likely first published on a BBS. It’s called Rambone and was made by Kung Fu Master. Recovered and filmed by Ryan Goolevitch. h/t Marcin Wichary.
Torbjörn Johansson has worked with teletext news for almost 40 years at SVT Text. It is still used by 21% of Swedes – every day.
Taken from an interesting article about Torbjörn here.