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Mistodon: "Castle Kit" is one of three remapped #PETSCII fonts created by @littlebitspace . As its name suggests, its 8x8px blocks are intended for use illustrating scenes of monumental medieval architecture with specialised textmode semigraphics. This screen, demonstrating both its use and abuse, was included in the new, unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection.

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@ColinHaynes

From the looks of that, Unscii already has both of the glyph sets, and Markus Neeb's changes aren't adding any new glyphs (just putting some PET ones into the C64 set) so don't make a difference.

I'm already getting the text mode guttering by dint of the 7by7 font being rendered into 8by8 bitmaps. (-:

Of course after finding that #BBCMaster video again, YouTube thinks that I should see someone who was not even yet born in the 20th century going on about the woes of typing in PETSCII copied from computer magazine listings. (-:

It's not in fact an experience that I can relate to. I loaded/saved PET programs from/to tape, and never had a C64.

Come to think of it; you don't see many of the #retrocomputing crowd using #cassettes, do you?

Retrocomputers! You haven't had the complete experience until you've accidentally unplugged the headphone jack and listened to the code. No, it doesn't sound like modem handshaking.

MOTOR ON

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