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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by clort on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:14AM (#15515476)
I seem to recall that there were characters made up of all the options of quarter squares, so you could have a pixellated display of 64x48 at least

edit: seems like HN doesn't support these characters but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

I made a 'zooming through a tunnel' program in assembler once, using them

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by zimpenfish on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:02AM (#15516309)
You are, indeed, correct - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81_character_set

Although in the context of developing on small screens, they're not very helpful.

(And if you redefined the character set on the fly, you could make things like Forty-Niner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTWMIQVznM )

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