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2012-08-13

2010s, 2012, c64, petscii, raquel meyers, sweden.

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Stills from ACID* fritidshus (2012) by Raquel Meyers. Pure PETSCII power!

2012-08-07

1980s, 1983, c64, game, petscii, usa, χχχ.

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Stroker by Bob Carr, 1983. A C64 wanking game in PETSCII. Carr is one of the earliest PETSCII-artists, since he used the PET in the 1970’s.

(via @despens)

2012-07-15

2010s, 2012, book, c64, code, petscii, print, usa.

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prostheticknowledge:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Book Cover), 2012.

The first book cover (I have seen) to use PETSCII (Commodore ASCII) characters as a pattern.

It is part of a compilation of writing from software artists (via Amazon)

2012-07-08

2010s, c64, petscii, raquel meyers, scene.

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h-rs- (2012) by raquel meyers

2012-05-28

1980s, 1984, advertising, c64, magazine, videotex.

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Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.

2012-05-18

1990s, 1991, basic, c64, petscii, sweden.

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Video for Nina Will Strip by Frak, 1991. Made by Fredrik Lindberg in C64 BASIC. Frak’s label BÖRFT is doing their 25-year-anniversary tonight in Malmö – see u there! And btw, Frak did another PETSCII-video in 2010. In case it disappears from Youtube:

2012-05-02

2010s, 2011, animation, c64, petscii, raquel meyers, sweden.

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Fuck My Account (2011) A jam session with Raquel Meyers and Goto80. C64 with live audio effects, VHS, video mixer, etc.

2012-04-29

1980s, animation, c64, petscii.

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Commodore 64 demonstration of a nuclear power plant, written by Derek Lee.

2012-04-24

2000s, 2006, animation, c64, demoscene, petscii, scene, uk.

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In a loop released by Ate Bit, 2006. C64-demo in 1 kilobyte made by 4-mat, who has coded more PETSCII visuals such as DUBCRT.

Post updated in 2024.

2012-03-31

1980s, 1984, c64, petscii, uk.

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Great clip from 1984 where Rolf Harris demonstrates C64 text mode graphics with great enthusiasm to Toni Arthur. “You can choose any colour you want!”

Looks like the software uses a slightly customized petscii font. He also announces a text mode compo, for single images and animations.

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