Book cover for Pedro Xisto’s Particulars, 1984. Features a poem by the author performed on a computer by Erthos Albino de Souza, according to this. via garadinervi
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Paul Rickards uses the Silver Reed Colour Pengraph EB50 from 1984 as typewriter and plotter. It’s like vector graphics on a typewriter. Photos and video here.
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.
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
From the book ’Computer Space Adventures’ by Paul Somerson and Stephen Manes (1984). Via auntiepixelante.com.
From the book ’Computer Space Adventures’ by Paul Somerson and Stephen Manes (1984). Via auntiepixelante.com.
Carola Häggkvist, famous Swedish schlager-d00d, in text mode. Made by Yvonne Thorfve with custom-made text characters on a Texas TI/99 in 1984.
Source: stonan