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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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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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🌞 🎭 🎨 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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“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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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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“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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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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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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🖥️ 🖱️ 📈In 1988, Larry Mears created a revolutionary tool for displaying animations and graphics on normally text-only Atari ST BBSes. The problem was getting…
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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…
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The "other" game is also still a thing, but it might now be developing in a slightly different direction than originally planned, as I'd like the codebase to co…
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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 charact…
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