Tag Archives: demoscene

There weren’t many active PETSCII-artists in the 00’s but the prolific Dutch demoscener JSL more than made up for it. He released tons of animated movies, often programmed in C64 BASIC. Although his naive and sometimes obscene style is not for everyone, his work deserves documentation nevertheless.

His first animated PETSCII came in 2002 with First Demo, Visitors 1-3 and RTR Loves Pussy. In 2003 he made Ninja 2 and Resident Evil.

Put down by harsh feedback, he took a break in 2004 only to return in full force in 2005.

Resident Evil 2, 2005.

Band of Brothers, 2005

The same year he also put out Anaconda, the Basic JSL pack and Some JSL stuff (including his own tool). This was followed by Indiana Jones (2006), Basic JSL II (2007), Porn Pack 1-3 (2007-2008), the over-the-top GODS (2009), Jokes (2010) and Basic JSL III (2010).

He returned in 2013 with More Petsci Stuff and was surprised by the response. “How come ppl download this 90x times, is there something special about Petsci graphics..?” This was the year when PETSCII was becoming popular in the C64 demoscene again. He released a few more things that year – More Petscii 2-4, Faces Petscii, Evil Dead and Xmas Petscii Demo. After that, it seems like the only PETSCII-stuff he released was in Christmas Mixed Pack 2017. I could have missed something though, because he has something like 900 releases?!

Other JSL posts

BB – a demo for Unix and DOS made by four Czech teenagers in 1997: Jan Hubicka, Kamil Toman, Mojmir Svoboda and Filip Kupsa. They made a notorious library for ASCII-conversion, AA-lib, which was later used for example in Hasciicam and VLC (see Wikipedia). They also made Aview that lets you browse the web in ASCII, ASCII-3D-2000 that creates stereogram ASCII, and more. It’s a similar spirit to the ASCII Art Ensemble.

From here.

262 (aka Technodemo) by Limbo, 1993. They made more Amiga demos with PETSCII.

Clips from a Robocop-demo by Kakos Nonos for the Soviet 8-bit computer Апогей БК-01. All other computers must die.

Made from this video (apx 20 min in).

Abre los ojos – an audiovisual treat by oobc running in PETSCII textmode on a Commodore PET model from 1980. Video here.

‘So, what are you telling me?’ ‪#‎PETSCII‬ released at ‪#‎Gubbdata‬ 2015 by AcidT* / http://ift.tt/1DWtTBK

Friendships, by krue for Pixeljam 2014 textmode.

via weaveinallends

Gif snippet of Petscii Intro by Atlantis & F4CG, 2014. h/t: 4mat

VIA by Neurotypical (2009), a real-time video streaming teletext demo running on a BBC micro. Thnks Simon Rawles!

Programs that look good. Some of them are calligrams. From the Temple of Code By Nikon (aka Lord Nikon), 2013/14.