Break Into Chat - BBS wiki breakint_bbswiki https://breakintochat.com/wiki/Break_Into_Chat MediaWiki 1.43.3 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Break Into Chat BBS Wiki Break Into Chat BBS Wiki talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Module Module talk 0 216 5446 5352 2026-06-01T22:25:12Z Josh Renaud 1 Remove dates from interview list. 5446 wikitext text/x-wiki == All about bulletin board systems, door games, and retrocomputing == Who can forget an encounter with the Ferengi? Flirting with Violet the barmaid? Nuking a neighboring empire? [[TradeWars 2002]]. [[Legend of the Red Dragon]]. [[Solar Realms Elite]]. Classic games that were played once upon a time on dialup BBSes. The '''Break Into Chat wiki''' was created to preserve the history of these and other [[BBS_door_game | BBS door games]], after editors on Wikipedia began [https://breakintochat.com/blog/2012/12/13/so-it-begins/ deleting door game articles]. I research and rescue old software on the '''[https://www.breakintochat.com/blog/ Break Into Chat blog]''', such as the [https://breakintochat.com/blog/2022/11/26/bringing-dry-bones-back-to-life-the-kirschen-software-collection/ computer curiosities of Ya'akov Kirschen], or the [https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/ innovative Instant Graphics and Sound protocol] for the Atari ST. On the blog you'll also find [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/door-game-creators/ interviews with door game creators], my experiments with [https://breakintochat.com/blog/tag/ansi/ ANSI art animation techniques], [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/door-game-memories/ BBS door game retrospectives], and much more. Finally, Break Into Chat hosts a growing number of BBS- or retrocomputing-related '''[https://breakintochat.com/collections/ special collections]''', such as [https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/ 300,000 Fidonet messages from the 1990s] or [https://breakintochat.com/collections/atascii/ AtasciiTube, the ATASCII animation player]. == In-depth histories == * [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/kirschen/?order=asc Bringing dry bones back to life: Saving the software of Ya'akov Kirschen] * [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/?order=asc Instant Graphics and Sound, the innovative protocol for Atari ST BBSes] * [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc ANSI art and webcomics] * [https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/unearthed/ Unearthed: Rescuing lost software] == Interviews == <rss max=24 date="">https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/interviews/feed/</rss> == Articles on this wiki == {{Special:AllPages|hideredirects=1}} == Special collections == * [https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/ 300,000+ FidoNet messages from the 1990s] * [https://breakintochat.com/collections/atascii/ AtasciiTube - ATASCII animations] * [https://breakintochat.com/collections/magazines/ace-st-louis/ ACE-St. Louis "NewsLine" newsletters] * [https://breakintochat.com/collections/magazines/door-world/ Door World Magazine] * [https://breakintochat.com/collections/podcasts/ BBS-related podcast episodes] == You can help! == I believe eventually academia will give BBS door games the scrutiny and research they deserve. I hope the articles on this wiki, as well as the original research on the [https://www.breakintochat.com/blog/ Break Into Chat blog] will be helpful in those future endeavors. I have not simply preserved old Wikipedia articles. I have expanded them, and added new articles and more sources. But I could use help! There remain many, many BBS door games not represented on the wiki right now. Can you help? '''[https://digipres.club/@kirkman Please get in touch]''' to request access. Here are the guiding principles: * Any door game is worthy of an article (notability will not be a concern) * The more sources, the better * The higher the quality of the sources, the better --Josh [[User:Josh Renaud|Josh Renaud]] ([[User talk:Josh Renaud|talk]]) 12:00, 28 November 2012 (CST) == Reactions == * '''Jason Scott''': [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826 The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History] (Dec. 7, 2012) * '''Benj Edwards''': [http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/922 Wikipedia is Deleting BBS Game History] (Dec. 8, 2012) * '''Kevin Driscoll''': [https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/71 Cooperative Mode for Amateur and Academic Game Histories] (July 2019) <!-- code to suppress the table of contents --> __NOTOC__ mzdn93vh0f0wwymb70sixr7wb6de5jg