The folks at Southern Amis BBS have declared today "Baud Day" (3/12/24), and that's a celebration I can get behind!
You can join the festivities by visiting a modern-day #BBS, and you don't even
need a #modem! Just telnet with a #terminal like SyncTerm.
My BBS is called "Guardian of Forever." I created it many years ago for my daughters, and later opened it to the public. Lots of fun ANSI experiments, etc.
guardian.synchro.net
#BaudDay #digipres #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #bbsing
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.
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 !
☎️ 🖥️
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.
I want to push boundaries. That’s what the original Star Wars films did. Industrial Light & Magic revolutionized special effects with novel new techniques for motion control and amazing model work. When I work on ANSI projects now, I try to think about ways to do things in ANSI that weren’t possible in the 1990s […]
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/
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
@sembiance I believe the code for my various artpack-released ANSI animations is available on GitHub. https://github.com/Kirkman?tab=repositories
I don't consider my IGS stuff completely finished yet, but I will try to post those as files eventually. I'd love to see them released in an artpack somehow, but yeah, that'd probably need a good renderer for modern systems, which doesn't exist right now.
@sembiance Yeah, the Star Trek one is here: https://github.com/Kirkman/st-transporter
Millennium Falcon is here: https://github.com/Kirkman/sw-milfalcon
Star Wars opening crawl is here: https://github.com/Kirkman/sw-crawl
The mermaid is here: https://github.com/Kirkman/mermaid-parallax-ansi
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