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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 …

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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

🖥️ 🖱️ 📈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

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

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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

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

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

Tonight I completed a proof-of-concept for a "Wrath of Khan"-inspired animated IGS main menu for my BBS, "Guardian of Forever." 🖖 If you're wondering what IGS …

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Watercolor painting of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
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It's been a "Wrath of Khan"-themed International Josh Day. My wife Yoli made me a lovely watercolor painting of the Enterprise in the Mutara Nebula. And I got a…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Today is "International Josh Day," the holiday where people across the globe commemorate my birth.🎂 Later today, I am very likely to watch "Star Trek: The Wrat…

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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…

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Kirk and Spock look at the Guardian of Forever.

At last, I think I'm finished! 🏁 This is the final static version of my new Guardian of Forever #BBS login screen, served using the #Atari ST's "IGS" text grap…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Yesterday I cooked up a color-cycling / palette-shifting effect to animate the Enterprise warping. Love it! 🎨 It's my latest experiment in serving IGS graphics…

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Kirk and Spock examine the Guardian of Forever

Getting there slowly but surely. Better ground/horizon, finished characters. Now need a bit of foreground and background scenery and I'm nearly done.#pixelart #…

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Kirk and Spock
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Holy smokes, I think I finished Kirk and Spock. It's hard to overstate how much I dreaded trying to draw them, but I think I'm happy with how they came out!Now …

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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