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Come experience historic operating systems, programming languages and ASCII games 24/7
Quetzal programa en C - 14/8/2025, 12:05:24
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Always use PPE
PPE is the last stop between you, failed safety procedures, and injury SERIOUS INJURY
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This is all, of course, just to get this project to satisfy what I feel are the base requirements to call it a modern BBS that reproduces the retro dynamic with a few slight improvements (SSH, web access, UTF-8). Once that's been stamped and shipped, the *real* work begins.
This whole thing is ultimately to scratch my own itch of putting together a completely insane terminal server I will host that looks like some sort of live-updating, collaborative version of tmux on psychedelic drugs. Mouse control over terminal applications, #ANSI art everywhere exploding beyond the confines of 80x25, multiple panes for the main menu displaying node status, command options, an event log, and wildly animated prompts.
Staying up late at night compelled me to make an ANSI screen for a fake DOS game.
ANSI Escape Codes is a suite of online tools for inspecting, visualizing, and listing ANSI control codes and the way they render. Useful for BBSes, emulation, TUIs, and retrocomputing.
ansi.toolsANSI Escape CodesView and inspect ANSI escape sequences in the browser. See a visual rendering and a detailed breakdown of all control codes.
ANSI art bbs ad found inside of STNT11.ZIP - Stunts v1.1, as released by an unknown piracy group
Anyone can recommend forgotten books about designing and programming text user interfaces (TUI) for consoles/terminals, also known as screen design back in the 80s?
*Not* curses or using existing libraries, but more like relying directly on ANSI/VT100 control sequences. And *no*, I'm not asking for a list of escape sequences :)
The kind of material I'm thinking of is something close to the 1989 "Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples" by Judith R. Brown and Steve Cunningham. But focused on TUI exclusively. The more (pseudo-)code, the better.
Featured at #AtParty2025 (http://atparty-demoscene.net/): "Friend?", my winning entry in the Combined Graphics Compo!
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@cstross @leyrer Ringtones in filenames? I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn't stop to think if I should.
Sound on!
P.S: The delay added by ansi music would also allow animated gifs. With sound!
#SorryNotSorry #ANSI
After over a year since the last time I drew her (https://chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring/112498002466206754), Dr. Eniiyi Adebayo (she/her) returns with a selfie and a message that desperately needs to be heard. Wherever you are: you are not alone.
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Spring-cleaning at @Wintermute_BBS continues!
I've replaced the rather dull #ANSI menus I once designed in a hurry and without any creative idea (I never liked those) with some "new old stock".
See, there were several ANSI screens I had designed many years ago but for various reasons did not put into use even though I liked the way they turned out (mind you, I'm not a real ANSI artist)
So now I put some effort into making them fit with #MBSEBBS so that you people can enjoy them.
The screenshot of the message area menu is a just a little teaser, there are many more screens but I'm not going to spoil the fun ...
... and of course, I've preserved the iconic "red pin" ...
Visit: wintermutebbs.ddns.net:23 (use a terminal program!)
TIL: "aha", the ANSI to HTML Adapter.
https://github.com/theZiz/aha
(also in Debian)
Found it pretty helpful just now to get a word diff of the last commit on a text file from my local Git into a HTML email.
git log -p -n 1 --word-diff --color | aha | sed -E -e 's#<(/?)pre>#<\1p>#' -e 's#^$#</p><p>#' | wl-copy -t text/html
(Did some massaging so that instead of everything being in a <pre>, I kind of have some actual text paragraphs. Could use some more sophistication, but 
)
GitHubGitHub - theZiz/aha: Ansi HTML AdapterAnsi HTML Adapter. Contribute to theZiz/aha development by creating an account on GitHub.
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addendum: I've found something more or less useful to do with the aforementioned setup. I'm still trying to iron out a few things, but it's amazing what a little overclocking can do.
I'm quite impressed at how responsive #NetBSD on the #RapberryPi Model 1 B (without the "plus" but with 512MB RAM - it's a rather early board manufactured in 12/2011) is.
So I decided to run #MagickaBBS on it, simply because it was the only #BBS software that I was able to compile on NetBSD - most other #bulletinboardsystem #software will not compile on #NetBSD (evbarm platform) for one or another reason - what a shame.
Anyway: about five years ago, I've had quite a creative burst and designed several #ANSI screens (example: see below) that I've never put into use. But this seems to be the right time to finally change that.
Stay tuned or follow: #netbsdonoldpi (NetBSD on old Pi) - I'll try to provide further updates in case you are interested ...
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Fun fact.
You could embed a command sequence into ANSI art.
So by displayingthesequenceyoucouldformatC:-y
Fun times.
As a user of BBS's in the 90's, and a huge fan of ANSI art, I wanted to integrate some into the game. I commissioned the wonderful Beatscribe on Fiverr to create an animated intro for the game. Just mouse over the pic to see the animation #ansiart #ansi #gamedev #interactivefiction
GIF