Tag: bbs
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Solar Realms Elite memories
What made SRE magical was the number of people who were playing at the time I encountered it. These games were not meant to be played solo; they were meant to be social experiences as you tried to dominate other players and build the mightiest empire. And when I began playing, SRE was a popular…
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VT-52 demo: Beat Nick Part 2
Since I began telnetting into Atari ST BBSes again regularly, I’ve gotten interested in VT52 which was the Atari ST’s native terminal mode. The Atari supported 16 colors in low-resolution, and 4 colors in medium-resolution (80 cols). If you know BBSes, you can think of it this way: VT-52 was to the Atari ST what…
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“Why I love my ATARI Computer”
Today I came across a really cool textfile that I wrote near the beginning of my BBSing days. What’s amazing to me is that it gives a date for when I began BBSing, and even explains how I got started (a story I had forgotten).
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Telnet to a BBS using a terminal program in the Hatari emulator
UPDATE (2020-09-03): In the years since I wrote this blog post, I have found some ways to improve this process. Please read my new tutorial on how to telnet to a BBS using a terminal inside the Hatari emulator. When I was a kid calling BBSes, I used an Atari ST computer. But I seldom…
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So it begins.
Wikipedia deleted Space Empire Elite. Well, they killed the article, anyway.
