A beer animation for the VT100 terminal. Unknown author and date. More VT100 here and here.
Famous paintings in coloured HTML ASCII by Allen Mullen, probably from the first half of the 1990’s. Originals by Da Vinci, Dali, Michaelangelo, Monet, Brueghel, Raphael, Van Gogh and Vermeer.
More info and graphics here.
Parity Cascade. Typewriter work by Paul Prudence, 2024.
MAXHEAD2, a Max Headroom ANSI animation with speech synthesis from 1986. Executable available here. Unknown author.
via the excellent ulan-bator.tumblr.com.
Booking a train with the German BTX videotex service in 1994. I believe the whole screen is text-mode, using all the tricks of BTX (custom characters, multi-colour characters, etc). Video by Anna Christina Naß, via pagetable where more videos are available.
Chaos Movie by BIT8, 2020. This is actually text-mode, although a very enhanced one. It uses the German videotex standard BTX that has several character sets/fonts and allows 94 customized characters (in multiple colours) and various effects, useful for animation. The CEPT videotex standard was modelled on BTX.
The animation runs on a Commodore 64 using an official BTX-peripheral, which is basically a little computer in itself.
Cee u next Tuesday by Aesthetic of Blocktronics, 2022.
Happy 45th birthday to the oldest teletext service, SVT Text in Sweden. BBC was first, but they stopped doing teletext in 2012. According to recent polls, SVT Text is used daily by 15% of the Swedish population.
By Absent Spinsister, 1997-1998. More at sixteencolors.