Tag Archives: PET

Star Wars PETSCII by Daniel Browning in People’s Computers #1, 1978. We’ve previously posted the front cover, but this is from the article inside. Browning explains how to plan the image on paper, and then use his PET-software GRAPHIX-I or GRAPHIX-II.

Back to the PET by Shiru, 2022. A textmode demo for the Commodore PET computer from 1977.

PETSCII by PunksDistorted, 2024. Uses the PET-font, not C64.

The results are in for the First International Computer Drawn Dragon Contest, 1979! These are all PETSCII-graphics made on the Commodore PET. The winner, Tom Weller from Berkeley, California, typed these graphics by hand as PRINT statements in BASIC. The other contributions were made by Steve and Tom Wuttke, 9 and 12 years old.

From Recreational Computing Vol 8, Issue 43, November 1979.

Frog! by Bob Carr, 1980. PETSCII-game running on the PET computer.

Dromeda (aka Andromeda) by Bob Carr, 1980. PETSCII-animation running on the PET computer.

CBM 8032 AV by Robert Henke (Monolake) with Anna Tskhovrebov. An audiovisual performance by five computers from 1980, that premiered last month. More CBM/PET-stuff can be found here. Photos by Mihály Podobni & renders by Alma Steinberg.

The 10PRINT program running on a Commodore PET, posted by Trammel Hudson, @qrs. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10

Abre los ojos – an audiovisual treat by oobc running in PETSCII textmode on a Commodore PET model from 1980. Video here.

Virtual reality in PETSCII on a PET, with stereoscopic goggles built from two iPhones. Made by Michael Hill, based on his PETpix from 2012.

via hackaday