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Some teletext/videotex standards offer more than alphanumerical characters. Like the Canadian Telidon, which used vector graphics. These are Telidon images, made by Jacques Palumbo in 1986.
Meanwhile in Japan, videotex was more complex: it was alphaphotographic. That is a combination of text and hi-res photos. It supposedly worked like a fax machine for the TV. See Captain.
Menu for a collection of cracking tools for C64, 1985. Kattens reviderade cracking disk. Download.
ASCII boxes by Richard Kirk.
Fist of Trade, C64 PETSCII-demo by Hack n’ Trade, 2014. Made by Mathman, Goto80 and AcidT*. Watch the full demo here.
Peruvian Cats stitched by ladycyberdemon23. SAL designed by Michelle Garrette of BendyStitchyDesigns.
Sports! Music! Cars!
Bulls! Money! Coffee!
Photographed from the Spanish Antena 3. The TV inserted hebrew characters itself, for some reason. 2012.
By Mònica Losada using Excel and an online cross-stitch pattern generator. From her Instagram.
ArmSCII: Armenian ASCII, formally defined in 1997.
Squarepusher has Vic-20 PETSCII graphics for his new/old release. h/t: Ray Manta
Battle Tech Story. DOS-game from 1997.
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.)
How to play Tetris on most Canon calculators, from a video by brusspup. You can also play Defender.
L’Atlas, a French (street) artist. Seems heavily inspired by arabic text, compasses and labyrinths. A fine choice!
More L’Atlas
More kufic style
PETSCII by Raquel Meyers, 2011.
Vestale sous contraintes (exercice ludique en courrier 10) by Yves Trit, Originally from 1992-93. Nudity – watch out!
Originally a perl program including compressed frames and 3 or 4 lines of code to decompress and play the animation, lost this file but found back an output!
Stoned is the name of a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. When an infected computer started, there was a one in eight probability that the screen would declare:
Your PC is now Stoned!