&gt; <i>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.</i><p>Gawd I&#x27;m older every day... Those glyphs are obviously the ones burned into every VGA card&#x27;s ROM chip from at least the 286 era through the pentium II era.<p>You know, these: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zehfernando.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;revisiting-vga-fonts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zehfernando.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;revisiting-vga-fonts&#x2F;</a>