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It would be hard to overstate the antipathy among many Atari ST users for the IBM PC and its clones. They saw the PC as an inferior, ugly machine. The IGS anima…

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Screenshot from an animation shows a pyramid.
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A pyramid piece by Steve Turnbull, called "XNET_LST.IG", is a trippy tour-de-force — the most amazing IGS animation ever created, in my opinion. Full of details…

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This collage shows 16 pieces of retrocomputing artwork made on the Atari ST.
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IT'S HERE! My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad…

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A black and white image of the face of the character Spock from Star Trek.
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Have you explored the #longreads story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Disco…

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Screenshot of an old home video showing Ralph Mariano seated at a desk with his Atari ST computer.

Breaking news: I've got a cool update to my IGS series!This morning, Tony Rau sent me a 2.5-minute video he recorded in 1987, showing Ralph Mariano, his Atari S…

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Screenshot of an advertisement for the game WarLords, with a castle.
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Beyond upgrading a bulletin board with clickable menus, IGS’ mouse-interaction features had enormous potential for #BBS games.https://breakintochat.com/blog/202…

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Screenshot of a BBS menu. The screen is filled with an 8x3 grid of pink rectangles on top of a blue background. Each rectangle contains a different clickable command.
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Since 1988, IGS had made it possible for sysops to spiff up BBS menus by drawing graphics, or at least changing fonts and colors.But in 1990, IGS added support …

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Employees work on computers at ICONZ, an internet service provider in New Zealand, in the mid-1990s.

In 1991, Jon Clarke and Stu Lees created a one-of-a-kind graphical user interface for their STaTus BBS in Auckland, New Zealand. Anyone who tried it would "see …

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Screenshot of an Atari ST-like desktop, with a mug shot of a man with glasses superimposed.

From full-blown graphical user interfaces, to strategy and dice games, the point-and-click features of "Instant Graphics and Sound" made some radically differen…

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Screenshot of a graphical advertisement for KenCom BBS, featuring a starship in space above a planet.
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Have you explored the story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Discover a niche…

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At least one of his pupils followed through. Tom D'Ambrosio, who made a bunch of well-known and whimsical ATASCII animations in the early 1990s, was eager to le…

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Steve Turnbull — eager to teach people to create art using "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST — devised a simple exercise to encourage people to prac…

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"CUBES.IG" is a great example of Steve Turnbull's IGS work.The animation begins with five cubes rotating in different directions, and a cascade of sound effects…

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Steve Turnbull poses with Kermit the Frog on the set of a television commercial shoot.
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How about some #RetroComputing #LongReads to relax with this weekend?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Discover the artist, the…

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As soon as he discovered IGS, Steve Turnbull began making art that went "far beyond colored boxes with text in them". https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/22/…

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Steve Turnbull poses with a flock of his Pharaoh gliders.
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Besides working as a scenic artist, and playing with Atari ST computers, Steve Turnbull also loved slope soaring -- designing and flying gliders.When he began d…

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A photo of Steve Turnbull with Kermit the Frog on the set of the U.S. Mint commercial shoot in 2001.

🌞 🎭 🎨 Steve Turnbull worked in showbiz and lived in sunny Laguna Beach, Calif. A visual thinker, he had become disenchanted with the text-only world of Atari…

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This is a two-page spread about "Instant Graphics and Sound" in the March 1990 edition of the UK "ST World" magazine.

“You are a genius, friend ... This is the best thing I’ve seen for comms yet. No one here has seen anything like it.”https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/09/i…

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Screenshot shows previews of three blog posts on the website "Break Into Chat".

Looking for some retrocomputing long reads to relax with this weekend? Check out the first three parts of my history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" on Break In…

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Their point-and-click editor made it much easier for people to try their hand at drawing IGS artwork. https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/09/instant-graphics…

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This screenshot shows an entire screen full of text code for drawing lines.

“We were not trying to make a big splash in the Atari community. We simply wanted our BBSes to look as good as, if not better than, the PC BBSes.”But they found…

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This screenshot shows a pie chart divided into three equal wedges labeled "Work," "Rest," and "Play". Under the chart it says "We all wish it were that way."

In the late 80s, most e-zines and online publications were just text — whether Phrack or FidoNews, or Atari ST mags like Z*Magazine or ST Report.But Larry Mears…

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This animated "calling card" was made to honor #IGS creator Larry Mears several years after he first released "Instant Graphics!" for the #AtariST.Over several …

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This photograph shows Larry Mears sitting in front of his Atari ST computer, with dual color and mono monitors, at his desk at home, sometime after 1986.

A self-described “working man without a degree,” Larry Mears was a shipping clerk for a bakery in Huntsville, Alabama, who often downplayed his own coding abili…

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