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Take a retro dive into the Atari Southern Amis #bbs Historical 3D Maze online game! Navigate twisting corridors, avoid dead ends, and race the clock — all runni…

Posted by Atari_BBS@mastodon.social

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Adafruit_dvhstx/examples/02texttest/02texttest.ino at main · adafruit/Adafruit_dvhstx

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A BBS screenshot on Telnet BBS Guide website compared to the site rendered through MuffinTerm app on macOS

What terminal are they using for some of these screenshots over at Telnet BBS Guide? (BBS as rendered with MuffinTerm inset for comparison.)#BBS #BBSing #telnet…

Posted by blakespot@oldbytes.space

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Pixel art shows the characters Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock from "Star Trek."
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🎉 💾 🎨 Celebrate the new year with a fun new artpack: IGNITE 01!This pack celebrates "Instant Graphics and Sound," a unique Atari ST-specific corner of BBS hi…

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Mistigris & Break Into Chat present ... IGNITE An artpack celebrating "IGS" for the Atari ST.

IGNITE 01 IS HERE!Squeaking in before New Year's -- at least in *part* of North America -- it's the world's first all-IGS artpack from Break Into Chat and Misti…

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"The Oddball, Nostalgia-Inducing Christmas Tech Art Of The 1980s And 1990s"https://www.fastcompany.com/3054395/the-oddball-nostalgic-christmas-tech-art-of-the-1…

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A pixel art version of the cartoon character "Calvin" from "Calvin and Hobbes" looks angry. Dialogue next to him reads "When are you going to finish my animation?!"

I'm working on it, Calvin! Geez!(Still hoping to release my all-IGS artpack on New Year's ... Don't know what IGS is? Read more here: https://breakintochat.com/…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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Toshiba T5200 displaying ASCII art of a turkey running with a football

Happy #PortableWeek everyone, from my Toshiba T5200 #luggable!#ASCIIart #Thanksgiving #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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It would be hard to overstate the antipathy among many Atari ST users for the IBM PC and its clones. They saw the PC as an inferior, ugly machine. The IGS anima…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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Screenshot from an animation shows a pyramid.
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A pyramid piece by Steve Turnbull, called "XNET_LST.IG", is a trippy tour-de-force — the most amazing IGS animation ever created, in my opinion. Full of details…

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This collage shows 16 pieces of retrocomputing artwork made on the Atari ST.
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IT'S HERE! My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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"Mack the Mouse" telecomic shows a big mouse standing. Behind him, two people's heads stick up out of the ground. A sign says "The Clinton win is like Groundhog Day. Democrats keep popping up to see if they see their shadow!"
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I just added ~140 ANSI "telecomic" strips to the 16colors archive.https://16colo.rs/artist/don+lokke+jrThese #ANSIart #textmode political cartoons were created …

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A black and white image of the face of the character Spock from Star Trek.
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Have you explored the #longreads story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Disco…

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Screenshot of an old home video showing Ralph Mariano seated at a desk with his Atari ST computer.

Breaking news: I've got a cool update to my IGS series!This morning, Tony Rau sent me a 2.5-minute video he recorded in 1987, showing Ralph Mariano, his Atari S…

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Screenshot of an advertisement for the game WarLords, with a castle.
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Beyond upgrading a bulletin board with clickable menus, IGS’ mouse-interaction features had enormous potential for #BBS games.https://breakintochat.com/blog/202…

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Screenshot of a BBS menu. The screen is filled with an 8x3 grid of pink rectangles on top of a blue background. Each rectangle contains a different clickable command.
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Since 1988, IGS had made it possible for sysops to spiff up BBS menus by drawing graphics, or at least changing fonts and colors.But in 1990, IGS added support …

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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Employees work on computers at ICONZ, an internet service provider in New Zealand, in the mid-1990s.

In 1991, Jon Clarke and Stu Lees created a one-of-a-kind graphical user interface for their STaTus BBS in Auckland, New Zealand. Anyone who tried it would "see …

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Screenshot of an Atari ST-like desktop, with a mug shot of a man with glasses superimposed.

From full-blown graphical user interfaces, to strategy and dice games, the point-and-click features of "Instant Graphics and Sound" made some radically differen…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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Screenshot of a graphical advertisement for KenCom BBS, featuring a starship in space above a planet.
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Have you explored the story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Discover a niche…

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At least one of his pupils followed through. Tom D'Ambrosio, who made a bunch of well-known and whimsical ATASCII animations in the early 1990s, was eager to le…

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Steve Turnbull — eager to teach people to create art using "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST — devised a simple exercise to encourage people to prac…

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"CUBES.IG" is a great example of Steve Turnbull's IGS work.The animation begins with five cubes rotating in different directions, and a cascade of sound effects…

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Steve Turnbull poses with Kermit the Frog on the set of a television commercial shoot.
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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…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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As soon as he discovered IGS, Steve Turnbull began making art that went "far beyond colored boxes with text in them". https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/22/…

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