Break Into Chat
Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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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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Hollie Satterfield, creator of “Space Dynasty”
What does it take to get published? How about a deranged TRS-80 Model I that has taken over a lunar colony? That did the trick for Hollie Satterfield in 1983, when 80 Micro magazine published his computer program “Attack of the TRS-80.” Afterward, he embarked on a career as a programmer analyst — and along…
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Space Dynasty memories
They say first impressions are everything. That seems to have been true for teenage me when I tried Hollie Satterfield’s BBS door game “Space Dynasty” — and wrote it off. But first impressions are often wrong.
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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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