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Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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Jon Radoff, creator of “Space Empire Elite” and “Final Frontier”
Jon Radoff is an internet entrepreneur whose career has gone from dial-up to “Beam me up.” Radoff broke into the gaming business as a teen, writing the BBS door games Space Empire Elite and Final Frontier for the Atari ST in the late 1980s. He built one of the original commercial games on the internet,…
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ANSI mermaid swims in parallax
I made it into an artpack! It’s no exaggeration to say that as a kid I always admired the guys in the artscene. I saw their work from afar, and they inspired me to dabble in ANSI myself. I didn’t produce anything memorable, and I certainly never tried anything ambitious, like a character portrait. So…
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“From Here to Eternity” launches today
Shooter Jennings’ new BBS door game, “From Here to Eternity” officially launches today, Sept. 28, 2015. As Jennings told me in our interview, he is offering 1 Bitcoin (approximately $240) as a prize to the “the first player to pass through The Coil (the final gate) with all 20 artifacts.” The game will last for…
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Shooter Jennings, creator of “From Here to Eternity”
Not many folks are developing new BBS door games these days. But one of the few is Shooter Jennings, who is currently beta testing his game, “From Here to Eternity” on his BBS, Bit Sunrise (Web, Telnet). Make sure you visit his board and try the game! Jennings is best known for his musical career.…
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Talking BBSes on the Electric Dreams podcast
Earlier this year, a new BBS-related podcast debuted: Electric Dreams. Host Mike Whalen emailed me to invite me onto the show, and of course I said yes. He interviewed me in March, and I understand he also interviewed other folks like Ken Gagne. The podcast series debuted later that month, and it sounded great! Unfortunately,…
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ANSI tile map
Earlier this year I described how we used Synchronet’s Javascript support plus its Frame and Sprite libraries to produce some pretty cool ANSI animation effects, including a sprite walking in front of a parallax-scrolling background. Recently I’ve been experimenting with how to make maps.
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