Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson2h ago

I can haz #ANSIart on #bbs ?
 

https://retro.social/@ajroach42/116346680121248540

Andrew (Television Executive) (@[email protected])

Upsides: - I could probably set up Swords of Freeport as a door game. - Doing something needlessly overblown and technologically fragile is very thematically authentic for me. - ANSI art - my modern BBS concept (I'm still tinkering with it, even though I promised to release code months ago and haven't) has a QWK mail implementation already. (This isn't really an upside, so much as an excuse to leave QWK support in the lora BBS, instead of dropping it.)

Retro Social
The Green Herring11h ago

Featured at Revision 2026 (@revisionparty): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!

(If you are only seeing the UFO, click to see the full picture!)

#ANSIArt #SciFiArt #RevisionParty #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FurryArt #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Demoscene #Demoparty

MeaTLoTioN17h ago

If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONiGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20260404

#DontPanic #thEgrAvYtrAIn #TextMode
#RetroComputing #BBS #ChipTunes #TrackerMusic #ANSIArt #ASCIIArt

dON'T pANiC - iT'S gRAVY tRAiN tIME! (2026-04-04)

Odysee
MeaTLoTioN1d ago

If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" THIS SATURDAY at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20260404

#DontPanic #thEgrAvYtrAIn #TextMode
#RetroComputing #BBS #ChipTunes #TrackerMusic #ANSIArt #ASCIIArt

dON'T pANiC - iT'S gRAVY tRAiN tIME! (2026-04-04)

Odysee
The Green Herring2d ago

Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!

https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-zzt

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #IndieGame #AutismAcceptanceDay #ZZT #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art #MastoArt #FediArt

Josh Renaud6d ago

πŸ’Ύ 🐭 πŸ’¬

A #retrocomputing #longreads recommendation for your Sunday:

In 1992, a year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems.

His "telecomics," as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics, and a window into an interesting moment in American politics.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

#textmode #ansiart #pixelart #mastoart #uspolitics

Don Lokke and "Mack the Mouse": ANSI art and webcomics, Part 5 - Break Into Chat

Don Lokke Jr. drew hundreds of political "telecomics" in the early 1990s in the ANSI art format as part of a business selling syndicated content to sysops.

Break Into Chat
Hacker News6d ago

The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

#HackerNews #ANSIart #telecomics #1992election #digitalart #nostalgia

Don Lokke and "Mack the Mouse": ANSI art and webcomics, Part 5 - Break Into Chat

Don Lokke Jr. drew hundreds of political "telecomics" in the early 1990s in the ANSI art format as part of a business selling syndicated content to sysops.

Break Into Chat
MeaTLoTioNMar 28

If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONIGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20260328

#DontPanic #thEgrAvYtrAIn #TextMode
#RetroComputing #BBS #ChipTunes #TrackerMusic #ANSIArt #ASCIIArt

dON'T pANiC - iT'S gRAVY tRAiN tIME! (2026-03-28)

Odysee
Show threadJosh RenaudMar 28

Still, political ANSI art was more of an exception in the early 1990s. PD artists were more likely to be inspired by pop culture or the theme of a particular BBS.

When the 1992 presidential election came around, not many PD ANSI artists depicted candidates or key moments.

St. Louis-based Dave Hartmann was one of the few. Here are a couple fun screens he drew.

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https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

#ansiart #bbs #textmode #art #pixelart #politics #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Josh RenaudMar 28

In 1990-91, America was involved in a very different conflict along the Persian Gulf. Polls showed Americans strongly supported the war effort.

On BBSes, this led to a profusion of patriotic, sometimes humorous, war-themed ANSI art. Aaron Kuhn collected some in 2014:
https://philly2600.net/posts/sixteen-colors-of-liberation/

Here are a few more examples of PD ANSI pieces that time Aaron didn't collect in that post.

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https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

#ansiart #textmode #bbs #war #art #history #pixelart