#baudday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #baudday, aggregated by home.social.
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Showed this ANSI tile map to my son, who noticed something extra when the sprite is moving. “That’s the cursor,” I said. “This is all text.”
“That’s text?” he asked incredulously.
I highlighted the entire screen. “Yep.”
“Can you copy and paste that into an email and send it to me?”
#BaudDay #ANSI #BBS #retrocomputing #gamedev #textmode #ansiart
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Serial port settings on a Tek-4013 vector graphics terminal, 1973. #BaudDay #RetroComputing
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One last bit of #BaudDay celebration — I blogged about some of the advances I made on my experimental #ANSI tile map on my #BBS.
It scrolls smoothly, one character/line at a time. And the ANSI sprites also walk smoothly from tile to tile.
My work on this experiment has come in five-year intervals, but I'm pretty happy with it. Someday I hope to make this into a proper BBS game in memory of my daughter, Jadzia.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/03/12/revisiting-my-ansi-tile-map/
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Why visit my #BBS, guardian.synchro.net, on #BaudDay?Well, you can fool around with some pretty cool ANSI experiments I've made over the years.
From a parallax-scrolling [Millennium Falcon animation](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2017/05/25/new-parallax-ansimation-millennium-falcon-dodging-asteroids/), to a couple versions of [RPG tile maps](https://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/05/26/ansi-tile-map/), to ANSI-fied movie clips, there's some neat stuff.
Or, if you're on an Atari ST with IGS v2.19, I also have a pretty fantastic logon sequence, unlike anything else out there.
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3/12/24 isn't over yet, so don't miss out on #BaudDay!
All you need to connect to a BBS is a good terminal program.
SyncTerm is one the best for calling BBSes. It supports lots of #retrocomputer character sets like ATASCII, PETSCII, and ANSI.
I have also heard many good things about https://muffinterm.app/ and https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_term
Once you have a terminal, try connecting to my #BBS, guardian.synchro.net !
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Almost forgot— it’s #BaudDay today: 3/12/24 happy baud day to all those that celebrate!
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At 110, a little too slow even for #baudday :(
Oh well! Here's some hearts to everyone out there loitering with me on the berm of the information superhighway...
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Hey, it's 3/12/24! Happy #BaudDay ya'll.
The first computer my family owned was an Atari 400, the 8k entry-level machine with a membrane keyboard so kids wouldn’t muck it up with their grubby hands.
I learned to type on that keyboard, ingraining a stompy two-finger typing style that I’ve never been able to shake. On the night my dad brought it home, we all gathered around the portable TV with a 4inch black & white screen that the Atari was plugged into and played Star Raiders. (1/5)
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(6/7) FinBox BBS closed in '02, after 8 years of operation. It taught me a lot about networking and other concepts that were also very handy in my IT work.
I think about the early 90s fondly, but there's also a lot that I don't miss; that 2400bps modem as a file transfer device sure was a pain compared to the fibre we have nowdays.
RIP FinBox BBS, 1994-2002.
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(5/7) FinBox got a 2nd line at some point and as Internet connections appeared, it also got multiple telnet "lines" aswell. It was a pretty well equipped BBS: a lot of file storage, local and echo-mail discussion areas, networked games, free e-mail for users and so forth.
In its heyday I was among the big ones in Finland. As you can probably guess, people slowly migrated to Internet for things they'd call a BBS for and eventually I had to downscale until I had only one line left.
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(4/7) I networked quickly with other people. FinBox eventually got its own phone line and went from night BBS to 24/7 one, with a dedicated computer running it. At the same time I was in my first job in a computer store so you can probably guess how this escalated fast.
The system at my room grew: it got a server, running NT 3.51 and the dedicated BBS machines running DOS 6.22 used its network shares so I could be online same time from another computer have a chat.
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(3/7) Naturally it didn't stop there. I was so damn curious about how these BBS systems worked. I downloaded one, called SuperBBS and the download alone took like hours with the speeds of the time.
Setting it up wasn't as difficult as I had assumed. The first actual problem was the phone line that I couldn't afford at 13 years old. A lot of broke-ass teens ran so called night BBSes, that used their family phone but only like after 10pm or so.
So, FinBox BBS was born early '94.
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(2/7) I was using a beaten up old 8088, for which I got a 2400bps modem. I saved up for a long time to get that. Naturally I went wild and called every long distance BBS I could find.
The first phone bill was big enough to be delivered with a fork lifter. Parents weren't exactly impressed. But the concept of reaching out to other people outside the little bubble I lived in was kind magical. It's hard to describe it to people who have lived in the connected world all their lives.
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Happy Baud Day, everyone!!
3/12/24
In honor of this singular occasion, I share two facing pages from the modem section of a 1983 Inmac computer supply catalog, for your enjoyment.
Let the festivities commence!
#BaudDay #Baud #bps #modem #telecommunications #computinghistory #BBS #BBSing #terminals #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #tech #hardware #computing #holiday #celebration #March
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The folks at Southern Amis BBS have declared today "Baud Day" (3/12/24), and that's a celebration I can get behind!
You can join the festivities by visiting a modern-day #BBS, and you don't even
need a #modem! Just telnet with a #terminal like SyncTerm.My BBS is called "Guardian of Forever." I created it many years ago for my daughters, and later opened it to the public. Lots of fun ANSI experiments, etc.
guardian.synchro.net
#BaudDay #digipres #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #bbsing
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today is #baudday so use one of those or similar devices as shown in the picture and call the BlackICE #BBS or any other board you like! +49 (0)2137 / 9 350 250 or +41 (0)52 / 50 80 256 both 19k2 ZyX more about baudday: https://www.southernamis.com/baudday
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March 12, 2024 is considered a #bbs #baudday with an odd bingo style of date identification. This probably means 👩🍳https://ironchefofmusic.com should revisit a classic ingredient, soon to be posted on @ingredients
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Will you celebrate #BaudDay and #TacoTuesday?