text-mode.org | Text graphics: ASCII, PETSCII and its distant relatives.

2018-06-14

1980s, 1986, character set, DOS, font.

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The 1986 retina screen: the WY-700 video card/screen gave the PC a 1280×800 resolution, and a text-mode of 160 columns by 50 lines. It had a built-in 16×16 font (download), and you could even use your own custom fonts. The high-res modes only supported greyscale, but who needs colours anyway?

Sources: John Elliot, thecomputerarchive.com, PC Mag.

2018-06-14

2010s, amiga, ascii, divine stylers, scene.

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Beat Bazar by Zaner.

2018-06-14

2010s, 2015, amiga, ascii, blocktronics, divine stylers, finland, scene.

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From H7′s Amiga ASCII collection Jungle Fever, 2015.

2018-06-14

c64, petscii, scene, tracker.

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Commodore 64 music software in PETSCII: Censor Ed (1990), Tunesmith (1998), Hermit 3-SID Tracker (2008), Magic Drums (1988), System 6581 (1990), The Tracker (1998).

2018-05-17

2010s, 2018, finland, font, glyph drawing, grid, grmmxi, tools.

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Glyphdrawing, a new online textmode editor that supports ttf-font import and independent font size and cell size. Made by grmmxi (images from his Instagram) and Ian Tuomi.

2018-05-16

1990s, DOS, textmode, tracker.

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