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Photo of Larry Mears as a young man reading Compute! magazine in a home in 1982.

Aug 4, 2024

🖥️ 🖱️ 📈In 1988, Larry Mears created a revolutionary tool for displaying animations and graphics on normally text-only Atari ST BBSes. The problem was getting…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

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This screen shows a bold series of overlapping circles, causing moire patterns.

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Aug 2, 2024

It's here! Part 1 of my in-depth series on "Instant Graphics and Sound," a revolutionary but forgotten plain-text graphics protocol for Atari ST BBSes, which de…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

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Jul 7, 2024

Months after that photo was published, Turnbull would discover "Instant Graphics and Sound," and begin coding cool animated artwork. One of his early pieces, "P…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

#atarist #atari #igs #textmode #dev #bbs #bbsing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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This photo shows Steve Turnbull with three of his "Pharaoh" gliders. It was originally published in the Aug. 1989 issue of "Slope Soaring News."

Jul 7, 2024

As of today, I have four parts of my "Instant Graphics and Sound" series written so far (about 4,200 words). I've got two more parts to write.Can't wait to get …

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

#atarist #atari #igs #textmode #dev #bbs #bbsing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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Mastodon post by pointlesscode@mastodon.social

Jun 28, 2024

Step into the quirky realm of ASCII art! Experience pixels with a twist: https://github.com/pointless-code/ascii-art 🎨😄 #ASCIIart #docker #pointless #code #de…

Posted by pointlesscode@mastodon.social

#asciiart #docker #pointless #code #dev #programming

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May 23, 2023

Had to figure out how to parse the Atari ST's system fonts, but tonight I finally succeeded in adding text support to my web-based IGS art editor thingy.#pixela…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

#pixelart #art #bbsing #textmode #igs #graphics #retrocomputing #atarist #vintagecomputing #atari #dev

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