Tag Archives: bbs
PETSCII movie by Matt Williams, 1988. Watch the original 5-minute movie about a mysterious pizza shortage here.
Predator ANSI by zeroVision. Made for the Iniquity BBS, 2006. Full piece here. h/t: Sixteen Colors.
BBS-screens, courtesy of Jason Scott, from an article about the history of American bulletin boards in the 80s and 90s.
From Here to Eternity – a brand new BBS-game developed by Shooter Jennings (son of country legend Waylon Jennings) with ANSI-graphics by Misfit/Blocktronics. It lasts for 30 days, or until someone finishes the game. You can win 1 bitcoin (apx 240 US dollars).
Play the game on Bit Sunrise BBS (web, telnet) and read a lengthy interview at Break into Chat (the #1 place for BBS-games) where these images are also from.
The disk directory of the
＿|￣|○ C64 music disk, and a file listing at Antidote BBS where it was first uploaded. More GIFs here, video here, music here.
Ad for Cheese Line, a Swiss Amiga BBS. Sort of looks like a Figlet font.
CloneWorld BBS, 1988.
This is the welcome screen for the late Mike Cohen’s Cloneworld BBS in Matawan NJ. It was heavily animated, upon logging into the BBS it was completely drawn from the bottom up using ANSI animation starting with a black screen. The text (Welcome to Cloneworld etc) was drawn last, swooping in from the lower right and swirling around the screen until it landed as seen here. Our BBSes were local phone calls to each other, and Mike and I became good friends and spent a lot of time on the phone discussing BBSing, computers, and cars.