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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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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 …
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Ahh, retrocomputing memories shared on #IRC this morning. #IRC #internet #InternetRelayChat #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #screenshot #terminal #t…
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This week I'm giving away copies of Howard Scott Warshaw's book "Once Upon Atari" to randomly-chosen registered users on Break Into Chat!If you've enjoyed my wo…
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I've had a lot of fun these past 11 years on "Break Into Chat," writing about #computer #history, interviewing the authors of BBS door games, saving lost #softw…
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I hope tonight Santa is able to avoid getting entangled in the U.S.S. Enterprise's transporter beam. 🎅 🖖 https://vimeo.com/247052599Here for your viewing plea…
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People's Computers whiz-kidz public access to computers#droids #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #asciiart
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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…
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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…
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