CP437 Club

# the creed

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║  there is no glyph like ░▒▓█         ║
║  there is no palette like 0..15      ║
║  there is no pixel like 9x16         ║
║  there is no operating system  .     ║
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If your terminal is wider than 80 columns, close some of it. If your font has an "o" that looks like a zero, burn it.

# admission

Send a 24×80 self-portrait rendered in CP437 to admit [at] cp437.club. Must use at minimum ░, ▒, ▓, █ and four different box-drawing characters. No emoji. Ever.

# the fifteen colours

00 black    04 red      08 dgrey   12 lred
01 blue     05 magenta  09 lblue   13 lmag
02 green    06 brown    10 lgreen  14 yellow
03 cyan     07 lgrey    11 lcyan   15 white

Sixteen if you count the blink bit, which you should not. The blink bit is a cheat. Real artists use the palette.

# bulletin

Meeting every third Friday at 20:00 Eastern on the Woodblock-BBS chat relay. Agenda: continued denial of Unicode, ritual shaming of anti-aliased fonts, show-and-tell. Non-members may observe silently for one meeting before applying.