Tag Archives: 1984

Carola Häggkvist, a famous Swedish schlager-lady, made in textmode with custom characters on a Texas TI/99 by Yvonne Thorfve, 1984.

Source: Allt om hemdatorer, Issue 1, 1984

From SCORE 4 by Karl Kempton & Loris Essary, 1984.

More Kempton @ text-mode.

Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.

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.