Break Into Chat
Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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A Star Trek font for the new Star Wars movie?
So, Star Wars episode VII has a title: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” And while fans everywhere are eagerly discussing the title, I was more interested in the font they used for the title. Nerdy, I know, but I’m a designer by trade. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has completed principal photography. #StarWarsVII #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/mFTP9YbKNN…
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The vicious circles of Google Plus
For the last couple years, my wife Yoli has used Talkatone along with a free Google Voice phone number in order to make and receive calls using our iPad. It was never a perfect system, but it was free, and mostly worked. Well, Google has apparently turned off third-party access to Google Voice, so Talkatone…
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Introducing my new game, “Doubles”
Remember how I mentioned in a previous post that I was writing two new BBS doors? One was called “Jewel Mountain,” an experimental project I’m making for my daughter; the other was “Sports Stats,” which would let users see standings and scores for baseball and basketball. Well, a third project came up and leapfrogged those…
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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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