• Re: Getting new users

    From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to Adept on Thu Nov 10 04:55:10 2022
    I largely agree with this, but I also would like to see things like
    having ANSIs that have greater resolution than 80x25, and maybe even
    have support for unicode, or at least a simplified set of unicode.

    I don't think it would be ANSI any longer at that point.


    Basically, I like the lack of graphics and variety of things that make
    it hard to share memes or have posts go viral, but don't get why that means we have to stick to 16 colors, 80x25, 7-bit ASCII.

    Though, on that note, I think Synchroterm has been making progress on those things, and I know Magiterm supports greather than 16 colors, even if I'm not quite sure how to draw anything with more colors.

    The next step up from ANSI is RIP Graphics, which is closer to CGA, maybe even EGA level graphics with more colors, and even sound.

    Granted you can incorporate sound into ANSI as well (ANSI Music), but there are not very many people in the scene that use it, and I don't think all the
    ANSI BBS terminals even support it. I haven't even seen or heard any new ANSI Music in a VERY long time.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Geri Atricks on Sun Dec 4 15:07:14 2022
    I largely agree with this, but I also would like to see things like having ANSIs that have greater resolution than 80x25, and maybe even have support for unicode, or at least a simplified set of unicode.

    I don't think it would be ANSI any longer at that point.

    I somewhat agree here, but there are a lot of cool terminal-based games for DOS and linux which don't adhere strictly to the 16 color palette nor the cp437 character set which would be /awesome/ to feature as doors on a BBS. So I too have been advocating for full unicode support for this reason :)

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Geri Atricks on Mon Dec 5 10:04:05 2022
    I largely agree with this, but I also would like to see things like having ANSIs that have greater resolution than 80x25, and maybe even have support for unicode, or at least a simplified set of unicode.

    I don't think it would be ANSI any longer at that point.

    Do you just mean that technically? Because, yeah, without the involvement of the American National Standards Institute, or whatever it is, it's _definitely_ not ANSI.

    But my inclination is that it'd be "ANSI-style graphics", and that the BBSs out there that have the 132 or 160 column or whatever displays still look like a traditional BBS, just with greater resolution.

    And unicode just means additional characters to work with.

    So, yeah, not technically ANSI, but it doesn't seem like it'd change the old-school flavor of things, as other versions of things might.

    Not sure how blasphemous the average BBS user thinks that is, though -- I know I'm on the non-purist side of many of these things, so I'm certainly biased.

    The next step up from ANSI is RIP Graphics, which is closer to CGA,
    maybe even EGA level graphics with more colors, and even sound.

    Yeah, and an entirely different style of drawing.

    Though, thinking of that, I wonder if anyone has thoughts on any RIP graphics editors. I'm not sure what exists out there, at this point, and I'm wondering if any of them make the process easy-ish.

    think all the ANSI BBS terminals even support it. I haven't even seen or heard any new ANSI Music in a VERY long time.

    It does seem like it's about as well-supported as ANSI-style graphics with more than 80 columns.

    But it seems like it's another toy in the toy box that's worth playing with.

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