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Re: Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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Post by lardissone »

ynac wrote: post #10

You're inspiring me to attempt a rescue of my last BBS (MajorBBS system) from 1991-1993. It had some great ANSI room and section screens. It was run from a single 1GB(!!) drive that cost us $1000. We had email, a couple stores (one of the first online book stores) and store-n-forward mail systems, maybe finger and telnet(?). Unfortunately, a neighbor got stoned, had a cigarette in bed and burned up his house and ours…

Beautiful! No backups at all of something? Sorry for your house burnt.

Re: Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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Post by lardissone »

xp84 wrote: post #9
lardissone wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, yes, I’m not able to test in Intel Macs. Will try to make it available to lower macOS versions at least.

You might find some volunteers here willing to make Intel builds :)

it's open source, anyone can help with it, I'm happy to merge PRs

Re: Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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Post by ynac »

lardissone wrote: post #11
ynac wrote: post #10

You're inspiring me to attempt a rescue of my last BBS (MajorBBS system) from 1991-1993. It had some great ANSI room and section screens. It was run from a single 1GB(!!) drive that cost us $1000. We had email, a couple stores (one of the first online book stores) and store-n-forward mail systems, maybe finger and telnet(?). Unfortunately, a neighbor got stoned, had a cigarette in bed and burned up his house and ours…

Beautiful! No backups at all of something? Sorry for your house burnt.

It was a weird time frame. My partner was living in the house, and I was moving to Seattle. The backup was pretty much inches from the system itself. Not the last time I learned that lesson. But, the original SCSI drive did survive, even if the machines and desk and couches, etc. were all ruined. With HTML coming along we didn't rebuild. It's still seems like such a huge loss not having entities like BBSs on the internet. Just like the loss of IRC and other basic systems / plumbing of the capital I Internet. Yeah, they needed upgrades, but that's what IETF, RFC, and scrappy hackers are for. Loving on the ANSI!

Re: Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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Post by jcynix »

user3939382 wrote: post #3

As someone with a flying toasters tie, I can’t wait to try this.

Ah, yes, After Dark, with the "Lunatic Fringe" module, which was fun (and was a time sink ;-0). And what I would like to see again is the "Stained Glass" module which produced phantastic visual effects when tuned a bit.
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