Tag Archives: resolution

AMCROC by Christwoballs, 2021. AMSCII in 20×25 textmode for the Amstrad CPC. Competed in Amstrad ASCII Compo 2021.

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CGA and MDA, Part 2
As I briefly touched upon in my previous writeup on CGA vs. MDA, CGA’s 80×25 text mode is significantly coarser than MDA’s. CGA’s 80 column text mode is rendered at 640×200 with 8×8 characters (stretched vertically to approximately 640×400), while MDA’s 80 column text mode is rendered at 720×350 with larger 9×14 characters. MDA was capable of giving text attributes such as being bolded, italicized or underlined.

Seen here are the two side-to-side on the same display, a Compaq Portable’s screen.



Good Night, Sir Floyd by Irokos, 2020. 500 columns and 300 lines of Amiga ASCII with a few ANSI-characters. Full resolution image available here.

ANSI by Misfit & The Creep Fever, 2018. 225 characters wide. Original image from 16colors, found via their Instagram.

Videotex character sets 1983, 1987, 1993. Seems like these would have required hi-res or vector fonts?

ASCII by Matt Matthew of Blocktronics, 2017.

Viznut’s image-to-text conversion, using unscii-8 with 256 colours. Unscii is a set of Unicode-compatible fonts based on fonts from 80′s platforms and games. Download here.

Made by DataDoor with custom PETSCII-font.

How many circles does it take to show a koala? Koalastothemax.com is an interactive web-thing by Vadim Ogievetsky.