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One year of Break Into Chat
Last week was a blur of activities starting with my tenth wedding anniversary, continuing through Thanksgiving, and culminating in Christmas tree hunting. Amid all the bustle, I almost forgot a milestone: Break Into Chat had its first birthday.
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Happy birthday, Atari Jaguar
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Atari Jaguar in San Francisco and New York City. Last year I wrote about Christmas 1993 when my parents surprised me and my brothers with an Atari Jaguar. Because the Jaguar wasn’t available nationwide yet, my parents teamed up with an uncle in California…
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“On The Media” revisits a BBS “ghost town”
As a journalist, I listen regularly to NPR’s On The Media program. Imagine my surprise and delight when a fellow journalist sent me a link to OTM’s TLDR podcast from yesterday in which one of the program’s producers revisits his old BBS stomping grounds. The board was M-net, a large chat system that’s still running…
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Another BBS game under development
A fellow named Spiro in New Zealand is developing a new LoRD- or OOII-style BBS door game. He’s writing it in Pascal under Linux. You can read about his progress and see some screenshots at his blog, The Old School Geek
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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…
