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

2018-03-03

1800s, advertising, ascii, poetry, print, usa.

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Ads in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1873-1874 found by Paul Soulellis. ASCII advertising was quite popular at the time, and these are almost like concrete poetry advertising?

2018-03-02

2010s, 2018, ascii.

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Handmade ASCII art by Tristan Brittaine,

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.

2018-02-27

2010s, 2014, amiga, ascii, germany, print, sweden.

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ASCII cover by Erik Jäähalli (Dino) for his split cassette with Flacid: Analog space music 4 aliens.

2018-02-26

1980s, 1983, terminal, textmode.

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WarGames (1983) uses what looks like a custom font to display thermonuclear text mode graphics. It was made on a CompuPro 8/16, although an IMSAI 8080 is used in the movie (apparently for sale for $25,000). Read more, see more.

2018-02-25

1800s, 1880s, 1888, print, usa.

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