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By PunksDistorted. Looks like PETSCII, ATASCII, SharpSCII and MS DOS fonts.

ATASCII Tube – a collection of Atari ASCII animations viewable in the browser, with adjustable speed (bps). Made by Josh Renaud. Showed is a clip from Lawrence of Albania by Tom D’Ambrosio.

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

The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.

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.

A short Atari animation about murdering people who like Amiga. More here.

An Atari 2080ST in ASCII by Valkyrie in the 1990′s. 

(The 2080ST actually existed in Yugoslavia and had a really big floppy eject button.)

Crack intro screen before a US Gold Atari game from 1985. Supplied by SiXX/G*P.

Sammy the Sea Serpent for Atari 8-bit, 1981. Excellent text-mode story telling for kids, with minor interaction. Runs both data and audio from the cassette at the same time, according to atarimuseum.

h/t: drx

Text-mode animation for Atari 8-bits. It uses a custom made character set so I suppose it’s not ATASCII. Or is it? Cursor art!

more here