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2018-03-10

1980s, 1983, character set, font, TRS-80.

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The font of the portable TRS-80 Model 100 (1983).

2018-03-01

2010s, 2018, animation, character set, font, game, usa.

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Terminal Rain, a textmode game with a custom font, developed by Jackson Lango. (Twitter)

2018-02-28

1990s, font.

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A floppy disk with a font that only contained the symbol that would replace Prince’s name in 1993. Ironically it still says Prince on the floppy disk. The font is still useful to download, because Ƭ̵̬̊.. Source.

2018-02-02

character set, font.

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Four fonts: AT&T 3B2, a Compaq Portable III, a LED scrolling sign, and a Waters 600E pump controller. Extracted by fuckyeahfortran , via.

2018-01-31

1980s, character set, font, resolution, videotex.

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Videotex character sets 1983, 1987, 1993. Seems like these would have required hi-res or vector fonts?

2018-01-24

1980s, atascii, character set, font.

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The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.

2018-01-18

1980s, 1984, font, grid.

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The Macrocom Method is a text mode trick for PC to use 16-colour hi-res graphics in CGA. The principle was to use only the top two pixel rows of each text character, and remove the rest. Image by VileR.

Macrocom was a company that first showed this trick in 1984 with the game ICON. Read more here. h/t: Rowan Lipkovits

2018-01-07

2010s, 2016, conversion, finland, font, resolution.

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Viznut’s image-to-text conversion, using unscii-8 with 256 colours. Unscii is a set of Unicode-compatible fonts based on fonts from 80′s platforms and games. Download here.

2017-12-07

1980s, 1987, font, segment display.

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