Break Into Chat
Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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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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Jewels, bats, and balls
Last year I was studying BBS doors. This year I’ve started writing some! I have two percolating right now: “Jewel Mountain,” a game I’m making with my daughter. Progress has been slow because we still haven’t worked out exactly what the game mechanic should be. “Sports Stats,” an informational door that will give live standings…
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Talking BBS games on the Bobby Blackwolf Show
A few weeks ago, I joined Bobby Blackwolf to talk about BBS door games on his gaming podcast. We reminisced for almost an hour about BBSing, terminology, TradeWars, LoRD, SRE/BRE/SEE, RIP graphics and more. I had a lot of fun, and I hope you will get a kick out of listening. By the way —…
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Me vs. the Super Bowl
Earlier this week Bobby Blackwolf recorded an interview with me that he’s going to include in his weekly gaming podcast this weekend. We reminisced about BBSing and BBS door games and I talked about Break Into Chat. The podcast will live-stream at 8 p.m. (EST) Sunday, which means I’ll be up against the Super Bowl.…
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