Tag: door games

  • Shooter Jennings, creator of “From Here to Eternity”

    Shooter Jennings, creator of “From Here to Eternity”

    Not many folks are developing new BBS door games these days. But one of the few is Shooter Jennings, who is currently beta testing his game, “From Here to Eternity” on his BBS, Bit Sunrise (Web, Telnet). Make sure you visit his board and try the game! Jennings is best known for his musical career.…

  • Talking BBSes on the Electric Dreams podcast

    Earlier this year, a new BBS-related podcast debuted: Electric Dreams. Host Mike Whalen emailed me to invite me onto the show, and of course I said yes. He interviewed me in March, and I understand he also interviewed other folks like Ken Gagne. The podcast series debuted later that month, and it sounded great! Unfortunately,…

  • ANSI tile map

    ANSI tile map

    Earlier this year I described how we used Synchronet’s Javascript support plus its Frame and Sprite libraries to produce some pretty cool ANSI animation effects, including a sprite walking in front of a parallax-scrolling background. Recently I’ve been experimenting with how to make maps.

  • Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI

    Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI

    Every so often I’ve been experimenting with Synchronet BBS’s Javascript capabilities, as I try to figure out how to make a BBS door game with my daughter.

  • Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”

    Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”

    Allow me introduce you to the “Thieves Guild Emulator,” a graphical front-end client for the Atari ST BBS game “Thieves Guild.” (Update: I have replaced the original video I posted with a new version that includes the game’s sound effects, as well as some gory combat) It took me a long time to reach the…

  • Introducing my new game, “Doubles”

    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…