Tags / Feed
#vintagecomputing
Subscribe85 public artworks tagged #vintagecomputing, from Bluesky, Mastodon, and Tumblr.
Happy 40th Birthday, Apple IIgs! #AppleII #AppleIIgs #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #vintagecomputing #computing #computinghistory #vintag…
Posted by blakespot.bsky.social
If you care about #retrocomputing, and you use Google search, please add Break Into Chat as a "preferred source"! Just click here:https://www.google.com/prefere…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
In 2006, I made a screen capture of this nifty ANSI title screen from the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite." Seven years later, I realized this was a CUSTOM ti…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
“Reading the Board: The Atari BBS Written in BASIC”This month dives deep into the actual code behind Atari BBS systems like AMIS, FoReM, Carina, and NiteLite — …
Posted by Atari_BBS@mastodon.social
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
Still, political ANSI art was more of an exception in the early 1990s. PD artists were more likely to be inspired by pop culture or the theme of a particular BB…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business. Subscribers could dow…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
PyCGMS PETSCII Terminal: A Python Telnet BBS Client with Real C64 Style#PyCGMS #PETSCII #Commodore64 #C64 #BBS #Telnet #RetroComputing #Python #Demoscene #Vinta…
Posted by theoasisbbs@techhub.social
Do you remember BBSes or ANSI art? Interested in comics or obscure bits of history?Please check out my profile of ANSI artist Eerie, a talented teenager in Queb…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
PART 3 HAS DROPPED!In 1994, a teenager in Quebec wanted to make his mark in the underground scene. One of many things he tried: creating a profane, stoned, gray…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🤔 ❓Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …What was “ANSI art”? What was a “bulletin board”? Were there ANSI comics? Heck, how do you even …
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
One book claimed "Inspector Dangerfuck" by ANSI artist Eerie was "the first known comic on the internet." But who was Eerie? What was "Inspector Dangerfuck?" Wa…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🤷♂️ "Very little is readily available"🤷♀️ "I couldn't find much"🤷♂️ "Information is scarce and unreliable at best"For nearly 20 years, writers have been a…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's som…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
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
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
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
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
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
I entered the #ATASCII compo for the first time this year. I came in 2nd-to-last, but I was happy with my drawing: X the Owl from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."…
Posted by kirkman.bsky.social
"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
Fire up SyncTerm and try connecting to "Guardian of Forever BBS"! guardian.synchro.netI've got a mix of old and new games, plus ANSI animations and experiments.…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
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