Showed this ANSI tile map to my son, who noticed something extra when the sprite is moving. “That’s the cursor,” I said. “This is all text.”

“That’s text?” he asked incredulously.

I highlighted the entire screen. “Yep.”

“Can you copy and paste that into an email and send it to me?”

#BaudDay #ANSI #BBS #retrocomputing #gamedev #textmode #ansiart

One last bit of #BaudDay celebration — I blogged about some of the advances I made on my experimental #ANSI tile map on my #BBS.

It scrolls smoothly, one character/line at a time. And the ANSI sprites also walk smoothly from tile to tile.

My work on this experiment has come in five-year intervals, but I'm pretty happy with it. Someday I hope to make this into a proper BBS game in memory of my daughter, Jadzia.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/03/12/revisiting-my-ansi-tile-map/

#retrocomputing #gamedev #textmode #ansiart

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Why visit my #BBS, guardian.synchro.net, on #BaudDay?

Well, you can fool around with some pretty cool ANSI experiments I've made over the years.

From a parallax-scrolling [Millennium Falcon animation](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2017/05/25/new-parallax-ansimation-millennium-falcon-dodging-asteroids/), to a couple versions of [RPG tile maps](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/05/26/ansi-tile-map/), to ANSI-fied movie clips, there's some neat stuff.

Or, if you're on an Atari ST with IGS v2.19, I also have a pretty fantastic logon sequence, unlike anything else out there.

3/12/24 isn't over yet, so don't miss out on #BaudDay!

All you need to connect to a BBS is a good terminal program.

SyncTerm is one the best for calling BBSes. It supports lots of #retrocomputer character sets like ATASCII, PETSCII, and ANSI.

https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

I have also heard many good things about https://muffinterm.app/ and https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_term

Once you have a terminal, try connecting to my #BBS, guardian.synchro.net !

#vintagecomputing #oldschool #ansiart #fun