Category: BBSing
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Space Dynasty memories
They say first impressions are everything. That seems to have been true for teenage me when I tried Hollie Satterfield’s BBS door game “Space Dynasty” — and wrote it off. But first impressions are often wrong.
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ANSI_GFX_ADVNTR
I came across a cool new Ludum Dare project by Levi D. Smith called ANSI_GFX_ADVNTR It’s a simple BBS door-style game, similar in feel to Legend of the Red Dragon, but implemented in C and SDL. I like the game’s big colorful screens, and I hope he will consider making it into an actual BBS…
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Birthday screens using GIF -> ANSI converters
Earlier this year I set up my very own Synchronet BBS. I had been a cosysop for many years as a kid, but I never had my own BBS on my own hardware. My little BBS is a private one for me and my kids. My oldest daughter uses it the most. As we got…
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Kevin MacFarland, creator of “Assassin”
From writing tic-tac-toe in BASIC as kid to creating the classic BBS door game “Assassin,” computer engineer Kevin MacFarland remembers his past life as the “C Monster.”
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Assassin memories
A man cloaked in black approaches thee … “I see thou art new in these parts. Have ye come to join?” he asks. “Yes,” I answer. I watch as the man chants. Slowly the individual words flash on my screen: “Creare” … “an” … “vita” … “Irata!” And so another assassin is born.
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Austin Seraphin, creator of “Barneysplat!”
Austin Seraphin has been blind since birth and has loved computers since he got an Apple IIe at age 6. In 1993 he released Barneysplat!, one of the zaniest BBS door games ever conceived, in which players try to kill or intoxicate Barney the purple dinosaur and his cast of kids.
