Tag Archives: petscii

ludonaut:

procedural spaceships for my still untitled petscii shmup.

New York Public Library is experimenting with PETSCII to generate covers for books that don’t have one. Each letter in the title of the book is replaced by a corresponding PETSCII-character in one of its two character sets. So A become ▲ and F becomes  and so on.

More here.

PlayNET was an American online system for Commodore 64, launched in 1983. It used PETSCII and pixel graphics. It was bought by QuantumLink, who later turned into AOL. 

h/t: Tim Koch

PETSCII by Max Capacity, 2014.

The Yeti Sound Machine, a PETSCII-book by Raquel Meyers, 2014.

All American BBS – a software to run your own bulletin board. The American way! It’s still in use, for example at Borderline BBS. More info. via

Hot Pop, a PETSCII and teletext performance by Raquel Meyers in Jerusalem today. Photo by Alma Alloro.

The top image is a PETSCII piece by Acid Terrorist and below is Filth‘s ANSI-portrait of Keira Rathbone. Both released in 1980 by Blocktronics, 2014.

PETSCII snow animation by fakewaffles.

Back to Nature by Bob Carr, 1982. This is the C64-version of the game that he released for the PET in 1980.