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Programmers of BBS door games faced a LOT of constraints in the 1990s, from slow modems to extremely limited sound and graphics.How did they work around those limitations?One way they pushed beyond the limits of BBS tech was by creating custom terminal programs ... front-end clients.In 2020, I wrote a case study looking at several of these computer curioisities.https://breakintochat.com/blog/2020/09/09/a-different-way-to-play-front-ends/(1/6)#bbs #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #gamedev #gamehistory #computerhistory