Break Into Chat
Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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Mother’s Day: “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST
As Mother’s Day approached, I suddenly remembered two very old programs for the Atari ST which I had fooled around with as a kid. “Murray and Me” and “Mom and Me” were written by Yakov Kirschen, who called his creations “biotoons.”
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ATASCII animations
You know a computer technique is old school when it was considered old-fashioned in 1985.
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Second collection: BBS-related podcasts
You’ve seen the BBS Documentary. You’ve read reminiscences about BBSing on blogs and tech websites. So how about something to listen to? Today I’m introducing Break Into Chat’s second special collection: BBS-related podcasts
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Trade Wars vs. Legend of the Red Dragon: Which was the most popular?
When I was on the Bobby Blackwolf Show in February, we discussed TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon. Early in our back and forth on LoRD, I said: “It became… you know, depending on who you talk to, probably the number one or number two game out of BBSes.” Blackwolf followed up by…
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Hearing from my software heroes
I spent much of my teenage life inside the confines of the Atari ST terminal program “ANSITerm” by Timothy Miller of Two World Software. I have mentioned the program before on the blog, and I even described it briefly when I was a guest on the Bobby Blackwolf Show podcast. But I’ve never really given…
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Introducing our first special collection: Door World Magazine
Today I’m adding a new section of special collections to Break Into Chat. These are going to be small, targeted collections unique to this website. The first such collection is Door World Magazine, a monthly online magazine about BBS door games, which was published from 1995-96 by RoAnn Vecchia and Dave Wendling of the N.U.G.I.…
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