Tag Archives: 1986

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No milk today, Channel Four Oracle teletext, 26th February 1986. It’s OK, I’ll have lager instead. :P

Captured by Jason Robertson, http://twitter.com/grim_fandango

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Today, 30 years ago.

Music ads for Grace Jones and The Pogues on Oracle teletext 1986/87, via Teletext Art.

Kisa Kawkami, AA Files, 1986. via geo-metrie

\/\The conscience of a Hacker/\/ by The Mentor 1986 with My Little Pony graphics “written shortly after my arrest”.

Crack intro screen before a US Gold Atari game from 1985. Supplied by SiXX/G*P.

Two articles on PETSCII graphics for PlayNET, the American online service that later became AOL. A man pushing a sign, and a shamrock. OUTSTANDING! Also – seems like smilies were pretty established at that time.. 

From the Behind the Screens magazine, 1986 and 1987.

Text-mode animation for Atari 8-bits. It uses a custom made character set so I suppose it’s not ATASCII. Or is it? Cursor art!

more here

Pretty great fight animation in ATASCII. By Peter A. Ritchie, 1986.

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All American BBS – a software to run your own bulletin board. The American way! It’s still in use, for example at Borderline BBS.

More info. Images from here.

ATASCII animation by Alan Kirk, 1986. Also uses custom characters.

More info & ATASCII-videos at Break Into Chat.