From the book Kykafrikaans by Willem Boshoff, 1980.
Tag Archives: 1980s
From the book Typerformance: Analogies, Drawings & Patterns With Letterforms From a Collection of Student Work, edited by Roger Ferriter 1983. Copied from Alex Tyson’s Tumblr.
Bill Geers teletext animations from 1989, straight outta the bible. Full playlist here. Made on the BBC Micro, which had a built-in teletext graphics mode.
More teletext animations.
Videoplace by Myron Krueger at the University of Connecticut’s Artificial Reality Lab, 1985. Only vaguely related to textmode, but…
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.
Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.
An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK launched in 1979. A bit like interactive teletext.
Chris Sievey – Camouflage, 1983. This video shows a ZX81-program that runs in sync with the song. Sieve programmed the software as well. It available on the B-side of the 7″ vinyl, as a harsh audiostream of data. This audio could be loaded as software on the ZX81. More info.
Btw – the ZX81 turned 31 years old yesterday!
HANDS UP! was an animation series in teletext (!) that teaches sign language. Main animator was Ian Irving. Uploaded to Youtube by Richard Shaw-Wright.
> Watch the playlist of all 10 episodes
> All episodes on archive.org
Post updated in 2024.
Rockstar by Wizard Games, 1986.