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rabbitengineering.com
Still waiting for the PETSCII build
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
masswerk.at
PET Invaders – Release!

As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!

Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders
Teaser poster for "PET Invaders".
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
masswerk.at
Thinking of a physical media kit (for download & self-recording)…

Also, I've now a PETSCII-to-SVG renderer!
Mockup for a audio cassette inlay (J–card) for "PET Invaders".
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
jellicajake.bsky.social
copilot write a silly song in goattracker with an odd groove and then draw 4 women's faces in teletext and one of them is princess diana, the princess of our hearts, and then convert them to petscii badly and then get them to move about a bit and then combine them into a c64 fake demo
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
mistfunk.bsky.social
Mistigram: this ##PETSCII portrait of ##HPLovecraft's preeminent Great Old One, ##Cthulhu (who in his house at R'lyeh waits dreaming) was drawn by bnjmnbrgmn aka Bema. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago.
The sea a riot of waves and the night sky alive with cosmic rays, an ancient winged cyclopean green octopus-headed god from another world lumbers past a coastal community
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
mistfunk.bsky.social
Mistigram: this ##PETSCII illustration by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of ##chess, all doomed to ##checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago
A skull sits on a chess board, casting behind it the shadow of a crowned head.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
mistfunk.bsky.social
Mistigram: this illustration of ##Charon paddling across the river ##Styx was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and won 5th place in the ##PETSCII compo at @flashparty.ar two years ago. It was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago last month.
A hooded skeleton paddles a small vessel through a river of the damned.
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
masswerk.at
Finally: "PET Invaders" - Public Beta!
My personal take on Space Invaders for the Commodre PET.

Link to online-emulation:
masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pe...

Beta testers and feedback welcome!

#commodore #petscii #mos6502
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
retrocomps.bsky.social
Adventure 3: Haunted Mansion (PET, 1980) (Source.)
A Green PETSCII image of a three-story house, with a tree out front, a fence around back, and a porch. The top right reads "ADVENTURE -BY JOHN O'HARE"; the bottom reads "HIT ANY KEY TO BEGIN"
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
mistfunk.bsky.social
Mistigram: with a novel approach, this ##PETSCII (yet another) ##skull is formed entirely of diagonal strokes from commas, apostrophes, slashes & shaded blocks. This piece, drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released three years ago.
The top piece of a human skull sits on a surface, entirely composed of diagonal lines
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
warg64.bsky.social
Nice PETSCII art!!
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
mistfunk.bsky.social
Mistigram: the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection is upon us, and here's a sampling of the creepy visual art in #textmode and vintage computer graphics formats contained in it, including works in #ANSIart, #ASCIIart, #teletext, #PETSCII and more!
A 3x3 grid of square thumbnail images show magical beings, a haunted house, a boney hand and a jack o lantern
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
theoasisbbs.bsky.social
Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview
#Commodore64 #C64Gaming #PETSCII #RetroGames #HomebrewC64 #EscapeFromPETSCIICastle

theoasisbbs.com/escape-from-...
Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview - The Oasis BBS
Watch Jimo9757’s new PETSCII Castle preview for the Commodore 64, featuring ray casting, blocky foes, and 12 minutes of gameplay.
theoasisbbs.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
gamedevdaily.bsky.social
Escape from PETSCII Castle - A WIP Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev
Escape from PETSCII Castle - A WIP Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo
Escape from PETSCII Castle - A Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo
www.indieretronews.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
indieretronews.bsky.social
Indie Retro News: Escape from PETSCII Castle - A WIP Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/esca... #retrogaming #gaming #c64 #games
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
speedrunbot.bsky.social
New #1 run in Attack of the Petscii Robots - 01 - Research Lab - Any% - Normal
By Endstar in 2m 49s
Run link: http://www.speedrun.com/Attack_of_the_Petscii_Robots_/run/zp5l358y

#attackofthepetsciirobots#worldrecord#wr
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
masswerk.at
Updated "The Abominable iPhone Zombies", the original PETSCII Horror Doom Scroller for the Commodore PET (any 40-cols PET, 8K min RAM).

(Now featuring reliable keyboard detection. Also prepared for sound, which, eventually…)

Download and online emulation link:
masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#ip...
Title screen of the game "The Abominable iPhone Zombies". A green phosphor screen rendering styled text in PETSCII block graphics characters.
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
masswerk.at
Why am i looking this up in the first place? It was actually a typo! 😀

On my quest to identify keyboard types on the PET reliably, it turned out that there is just a single byte with value $41 (PETSCII "A") in any PET editor ROM, as a distinctive part of the keyboard decoding table.
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
masswerk.at
Trying to find out what PETSCII #133 ($85) may be on the Commodore PET, Google AI Overview provided the following "helpful" "information" (see image).

Fun fact: "cursor down" is PETSCII #17 ($11).
PETSCII #133 is "F1" on the later 8-bits, like the VIC, C64, C128, C16, etc.
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
fnookbunny.bsky.social
Nah man. I was a huge fan of the old C64 PETSCII graphics
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
fnookbunny.bsky.social
Gawd I miss those old PETSCII graphics
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
littlebitspace.bsky.social
Under The Spell | 3rd place #petscii at Flashparty 2025

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #classicalart #women #nude #naked #night #moon #magic
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
masswerk.at
When PETSCII isn't PETSCII

Just tested the PET Invaders with the C64 character ROM (in emulation). Well…

[1] green: 40 columns PET
[2] white #1: C64 character ROM, as-is
[3] white #2: C64 character ROM, title adjusted for line weights

There's only one true #PETSCII!
"PET Invaders" title screen on Commodore PET. "PET Invaders" title screen, C64 character ROM. "PET Invaders" title screen, C64 character ROM, title adjusted for line weights – and out of proportions. (Also, the Invader looks a bit sick and should be rather discreminated by color than by typography.)
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
masswerk.at
"PET Invaders" progress report:
Game play seems to be finished, now "just" the sound is left to do…

#petscii #commodore #mos6502
October 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
www.zoeblade.com
'80s style webpages are fine too...
Progression with a silly C64-themed version. The text is light blue on a dark blue background, with a thick light blue border around it. Hyperlinks are purple. The typeface is the PETSCII font.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM