#vt52 — Public Fediverse posts

In recent weeks I've been playing "DDST," a fun adventure game for Atari ST BBSes that I had never tried before.

I *love* that it lets you save basically whenever you want. Makes it possible to avoid losing progress while exploring dungeons crowded with monsters and traps.

My wife took a quick peek while I was in a dungeon and asked if it was a QR code. Nope ... just some VT52 text art!

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If you have the new SyncTerm, then check it out!

Telnet to GOF at guardian.synchro.net, port 23.

Set "Screen Mode" to "Atari ST 80x25" and "Font" to "Atari ST."

You can also see VT52 in action by visiting these other fine BBSes (running on actual Atari ST hardware):

Dark Force
darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org:1040

STar Fleet HQ
bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983

Biker Bob's Clubhouse
bbsclubhouse.ddns.net:1040

The Cellar
thecell.ar:1040

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Due to the new Atari ST VT52 support in SyncTerm, I added a VT52 logon screen to my "Guardian of Forever" BBS today.

GOF is a Synchronet BBS. I love Sync's JS support ... makes it easy to code interfaces, doors, etc. It's how I added IGS support before.

Anyway, most menus are still the stock Sync ASCII, but I hope to slowly add VT52-specific ones eventually.

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Deuce recently added support for the Atari ST flavor of VT52 to his SyncTerm program.

I first requested this feature 14 years ago. I was so excited it finally happened, that I made a new VT52 animation to celebrate.

Plus I dug up six more that I have never seen published anywhere else.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/02/15/some-love-for-vt52-on-the-atari-st/

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