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2018-05-09

1980s, amstrad, character sets, fonts.

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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 sets, fonts, japan, sega.

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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.

2018-05-06

2010s, 2018, Australia, character sets, conversion, ray manta.

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By Ray Manta, @datad00r, using his own Circlex charset, now available in Retrospecs.

2018-05-04

1980s, atari st, character sets, fonts.

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

2018-05-01

2010s, 2018, Australia, character sets, conversion, fonts, ray manta.

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Datafall by Ray Manta, made with his custom charset in Retrospecs.

2018-04-28

1700s, character sets, fonts, japan.

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Jindai moji, supposedly used in Japan in the 17th century, via @tkasasagi.

2018-04-22

2010s, 2017, character sets, encoding, unicode.

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This recent Unicode-proposal about 8-bit character sets is a great initiative, although it only includes platforms that were popular in USA and UK. For now. ;) The uncredited PETSCII Darth Vader is by Ailadi, btw.

2018-04-15

character sets, fonts, japan, MZ-700, SharpSCII.

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Sharp MZ-700 character sets (Japanese first, European second), from sharpmz.org. See sharpscii graphics here.

2018-03-28

1980s, 1984, character sets, einstein.

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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.

2018-03-22

2010s, 2018, animation, Australia, character sets, conversion, fonts, ray manta.

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Made by Ray Manta with the Retrospecs iOS app.

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