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. (-:
Worked up my courage to work on the 8050 again tonight. The video shows a pretty stable, albeit slightly slow drive mech. The center ring should be perfectly stable. It is drifting ever so slightly clockwise. However my potentiometer is already maxed out. This is probably the old motor giving everything. :)
I can lower the resistor feeding into the pot a bit. That should give more current to the motor.
#retrocomputing #commodore #commodorePET #commodore8050 #floppydrive
I use the PET font for normal and the BBC font for boldface on a framebuffer-realized user-space virtual terminal, and they work quite well. The BBC Micro font has thicker stroke widths than the PET one, so fulfils the rôle of boldface nicely.
Square home computer fonts were made for this, of course.
I noticed yesterday from a Hacker News post that I hadn't checked in changes that I made to my fork of @viznut's #Unscii back in 2023. So I spent some hours sorting through them and checking them in.
All so that you can enjoy 16by16 script-upscaled and hand-rounded versions of the 8by8 BBC Micro and Commodore PET bitmap fonts. (-:
https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-bbcg16.txt
https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-pet16.txt
Here's a collection of Commodore appearances. "Blue Beetle" is a bit of a Commodore-feat with Commodore 64s, a PET and a rare appearance of a Commodore Plus/4. Also there is a VIC-20 in "Der Schatz der weißen Falken", and a Amiga 500 in "Sevimli Hirsiz".
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2025-04-26%2016:31
Der Cursor blinkt, mein 
auch. Vintage Liebe Deluxe mit dem PET-Emulator.
Danke Norbert Landsteiner von Masswerk.
Seguimos compartiendo algunos hitos de los años anteriores. En los inicios, antes de tener una sala propia, el laboratorio de arqueología computacional regresó a la vida una #CommodorePet 2001N de 32 KiB (1978), rescatada del Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba en el año 2017. Se presentó en sociedad en #Famaf. Año 2023. #Commodore Leer más: https://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/la-facultad/institucional/secretar%C3%ADas/prosecretar%C3%ADa-de-comunicaci%C3%B3n-y-divulgaci%C3%B3n-cient%C3%ADfica/la-pet-de-commodore-en-famaf/
It's Wednesday and you want to watch an hour long repair video for a vintage Commodore dual disk drive:
https://youtu.be/mv0meYeoXwY?si=WLC1_jRVu1YUuUMH
A Tricky Commodore PET Repair and a Lesson About Assumptions https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/a-tricky-commodore-pet-repair-and-a-lesson-about-assumptions/ #ReverseEngineering #Retrocomputing #computerrepair #CommodorePET #RepairHacks
A Tricky Commodore PET Repair and a Lesson About Assumptions - The PET opened, showing the motherboard. (Credit: Ken Shirriff)
An unavoidable par... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/a-tricky-commodore-pet-repair-and-a-lesson-about-assumptions/ #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #computerrepair #commodorepet #repairhacks
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips
Let's show some Love for the legendary Commodore PET!
Piers Rocks is an underrated channel. He now wrote a diagnostic ROM for CBM disk drives:
Mein PET hat gerade den nächsten Termin eingetippt: 3./4. Mai 2025 VCFe in München
#VCFe2025 #vintagecomputing #CommodorePET #6502Forever #mos6502 #vcfe24 #VCFe #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #muenchen
Vintage Computer Festival Europa
You want to know how to code a game for the Commodore PET, one of the first personal computers from 1977?
Let's Code Commodore PET 0x02: Snakes on a PET
https://youtu.be/UxZhvHx9nsY
#letscode #commodore #commodorePET
Neato: my Snake game now also runs on 8K PETs. You can trim down printf so that it doesn't support float or long types, which we don't need. This frees up a lot of code, so the .prg is now 3.1K in size!
https://codeberg.org/root42/letscode-cbm-pet-snake/commit/dbaa169b7dc6b8ddf0e4a66efaaa81ed0919f665
New video: Let's Code Commodore PET 0x02: Snakes on a PET
In this episode we code a simple game for the PET. It is the classic snake game, where you control a snake that picks up food and grows longer. We learn how to read from the keyboard, and how to limit the speed of the game, as the PET is slow, but not THAT slow.
New video for Patrons:
Let's Code Commodore PET 0x02: Snakes on a PET
For all tiers, even free one, so join up!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-code-pet-on-124642896?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
#letscode #commodore #commodorePET #retrocomputing
