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@gmc For my #amstradcpc I had the #epson lx-86 #dotmatrix printer with 9 needles.
Had much fun with trying out many of the ESC-p codes
```
print chr$(27) + "W"
```
to turn double width printing on or off.

Praeception Rainbowcore

Another microtexture artwork from the same template as the last one.

#Geometric #GeometricArt #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Microtexture #DotMatrix #Abstract #AbstractArt #Digital #DigitalArt #DigitalAbstract #Art #Artwork #GIMP #AvantGarde #Retro #RetroFuturism #RetroAesthetic #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkAesthetic #Rainbow #Rainbowcore #Grid #Pattern #Pixels #PixelArt #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

Praeception Mono

Microtexture-based artwork I made a while back. I drew a 4x4 pixel dot template by hand and then tiled before applying it to the base image to get that microtexture.

#Geometric #GeometricArt #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Microtexture #DotMatrix #Abstract #AbstractArt #Digital #DigitalArt #DigitalAbstract #Art #Artwork #GIMP #AvantGarde #Retro #RetroFuturism #RetroAesthetic #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkAesthetic #Grid #Pattern #Pixels #PixelArt #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

Same image printed on a Panasonic 24pin #dotmatrix (via CUPS and a #raspberrypi3

Maybe we need a #shittyprinterchallenge ;)
#shittycamerachallenge

(it does look a bit better on paper vs the scan. A little bit!)

#retrocomputing

While I did order a new oooold stock ink ribbon cartridge for my printer, I decided to try the WD-40 trick to revive an old ribbon.

Verdict: it mostly works!

#dotMatrix #WD40 #retroComputing #epson

H4xx0r5p4c3

Just something I made in GIMP. An edit of a databending of an edit of a photo.

#Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Psychedelic #Psychedelia #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #TrippyArt #Colorful #DotMatrix #Retro #Retrocomputing #RetroAesthetic #Landscape #Scape #Scenery #GIMP #Photo #Photography #Photomanipulation #Manipulation #Pixel #PixelArt #Pixels #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon #AvantGarde #AvantGardeArtist #Databending #ArtHacking #Corrupted #Error #Errors

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Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

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Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

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Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

Having a complete hoot getting an old but surprisingly functional #OKI #MicroLine3320 #DotMatrix #Printer working with my #Atari800. It prints single lines beautifully, but it doesn't line feed on reaching the #ATASCII line ending 0x9B.

Looks like I need to configure the printer to understand the non-standard Atari linefeed. Let's see if that's possible!

#RetroComputing #RetroPrinting #atari8bit

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