> One thing you may have noticed is that I am using standard ASCII characters in my implementation, whereas in the movie they are clearly using some kind of ext

> One thing you may have noticed is that I am using standard ASCII characters in my implementation, whereas in the movie they are clearly using some kind of extended ASCII character set. Gawd I'm older every day... Those glyphs are obviously the ones burned into every VGA card's ROM chip from at least the 286 era through the pentium II era. You know, these: http://zehfernando.com/2015/revisiting-vga-fonts/ http://zehfernando.com/2015/revisiting-vga-fonts/