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Top-down dungeon crawler where everything is made of ASCII characters, with a swarm of giant white mice (r character) attacking the player who has backed into a passageway connected to the room the mice are in

Angband has this thing where it will randomly generate an endless swarm of some enemy (in this case Giant White Mice) to attack you. I found that a really good …

Posted by Phracker2Art@mstdn.social

Bluesky post by andyvaisey.bsky.social
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2 posts

Out Run PETSCII on the #C64 incoming soon! Final testing in progress! @commodoreofficial.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social #Commodore64 #Commodore #8bit #retroga…

Posted by andyvaisey.bsky.social

Mastodon post by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Commodore 64 Color Memory: A BASIC Screen Trick#Commodore64 #C64BASIC #RetroComputing #PETSCII #VIC2 #8bitProgramming #RetroGaming #C64Ultimatehttps://theoasisb…

Posted by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Zork 1 CPM Version - Amstrad CPC emulator

You got the Sword!Calm down your fingers. 🤣 Zork 1 CPM Version - Amstrad CPC emulator Caprice32.#zork #zork1#adventure #adventuregames #textgame #text #story #…

Posted by woodooprod@c.im

BBS remains one of the best places for exciting discussions..

What do you think about it?#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #BBS #bulletinboards #ansi #textmode #smallweb

Posted by woodooprod@c.im

Playing the BBS version of the Infocom game Zork 1: The Great Underground on the End of The Line BBS.

The last time I played Zork, I made sure to note down all the screen text. Questions/answers, possible branching paths, names of intermediate saves, etc. A rath…

Posted by woodooprod@c.im

Bluesky post by axb.bsky.social
4 posts

#shark #sharkteeth #jaws #ansi #ascii #8bit #8bitpainter #ansiart #asciiart #pixelart #pixel #pixels #videogame #videogames #nintendo #atari #sega #dreamcast #n…

Posted by mistfunk

Mastodon post by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Street Sports Pogo Brings PETSCII Bounce Competition to the C64#StreetSportsPogo #Commodore64 #C64 #PixelPunx #PETSCII #RetroGaming #C64Gaming https://theoasisb…

Posted by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Mastodon post by kirkman@digipres.club

When most people think about the classic BBS door game Barren Realms Elite, they probably remember the drippy logo from John Dailey's 1999 release.But, in fact,…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Mastodon post by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Escape From PETSCII Planet - Level Designer Gets a Full Jimbo Demo#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #PETSCII #Homebrew #IndieDev #EscapeFromPETSCII…

Posted by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Mastodon post by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

Escape from PETSCII Planet Level 4 Shows Jimbo’s C64 FPS Progress#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #Homebrew #IndieGame #FirstPersonShooter #Jimbo #PETSCIIhttps://…

Posted by theoasisbbs@techhub.social

This screenshot shows the blackjack game "Wildcardz!" There are two hands of cards shown, one for the player and one for the dealer.

Tonight I succeeded in bringing a 33-year-old vaporware BBS game back to life!After Steve Turnbull sent me the C source code to his unfinished IGS blackjack gam…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Mastodon post by vingtroiseize@mastodon.world
2 posts

PetPet v1.02 - PetPet is a PETSCII editor for Commodore 64 computersPosted by Mingos🔗 https://github.com/fieserWolF/petpet#Commodore #PET #PETSCII #Commodore64…

Posted by vingtroiseize@mastodon.world

Mastodon post by kirkman@digipres.club
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My favorite example of a front-end for a BBS game is Thieves' Guild for the Atari ST.The "Thieves' Guild Emulator" added amazing pixel art, voice samples, and s…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Screenshot of TWTerm, a helper program for player TradeWars 2002.

TradeWars 2002 was so enormously popular that it spawned an entire cottage industry of third-party helper programs. One of those helpers, TWTerm, automated repe…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

A screenshot shows the SVGA interface of GTERM, the front-end client for the game "Land of Devastation." Graphics in the upper left show a character about to pass through the walls of a base and enter the outside world.

Meanwhile, GTERM brought an SVGA-resolution interface to Land of Devastation. I wish less of the real estate had been devoted to displaying inventory, and more …

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

ANSI title screen for Operation Overkill

OOIITERM didn't add any pixel graphics, but it did enhance the experience of playing Operation Overkill II with faster ANSI menus, and cool SoundBlaster effects…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

A screenshot from the front-end client for The Pit shows an arena with two small figures.
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One of the better-known examples is "Pit Terminal," which added EGA graphics to classic combat game "The Pit." (Surprisingly, though, the pixel art of the comba…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

Mastodon post by VingRhymes@mastodon.social

Fatty.#ansi #ansiart #ansiartist #textmodeart #textmodeartist #textmode #unicodeart #unicode #utf8art #utf8 #durdraw #darkdraw #retrogaming #retrogames

Posted by VingRhymes@mastodon.social

A photo of an HP monitor showing the title screen of the DOS version of Attack of the Petscii Robots.
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This makes me so happy #dos #freedos #msdos #dosgaming #retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #petscii #petsciirobots #the8bitguy #darktable #darkta…

Posted by WallyHcknslckr@pixelfed.social

MUE Rush
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Been hard at work making door games for Cloudburst Connection (BBS themed adventure RPG). These "games within the game" come in two flavors:In story mode, the s…

Posted by Megaboz@oldbytes.space

Mastodon post by TheVintNerd@mastodon.online

"The new phone book's here!" No, sorry Steve. But, this is the kind of spontaneous publicity this rad retro T-shirt needs! 😎#TerminallyOnline #DrawingsByNicole…

Posted by TheVintNerd@mastodon.online

A row of vintage systems accessible remotely
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We’re adding more remote systems accessible from anywhere via ssh / browser at https://icm.museumCome experience historic operating systems, programming languag…

Posted by icm@mastodon.sdf.org

ANSI draw screenshot
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Since ANSI screens and menus are such a big part of the BBS experience, I wanted to include drawing functionality in Cloudburst Connection (BBS themed adventure…

Posted by Megaboz@oldbytes.space