• ANSI Scene - Part 8 of Back to the BBS - last call!

    From hyjinx@21:1/126 to All on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 17:44:35
    Greetings one and all, It's almost time to release Part 8 (the final part) of the documentary series "Back to the BBS". This part is on the ANSI/text mode art scene.

    As usual for an episode of Back to the BBS, there are some interviews with
    some great characters. This episode includes AVG from Blocktronics, Cthulu of Mistigris, Mel Farr Superstarr of Fuel and introduces young talent to the scene, 'oddfirefox'.

    The episode introduces the origins of text mode art right the way from ASCII and the teletype, all the way through to maturity on the BBS using ANSI and
    the other derivatives such as PETSCII and TOPAZ.

    Visually, there's some great examples of early BBS artwork from the late 80s and early 90s, as well as bang up to date examples. There's a little
    discussion about literature too.

    There is still a very little amount of time for others to get in on the
    action, before the final edit, so if you want to do a 15 minute interview and you have a specific story to tell and have some notoriety in the ANSI art scene, then please get in touch with me at ajross dot nz at gmail dot com.

    Cheers,
    Al!


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to hyjinx on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 17:47:02
    On 11 Oct 2022 at 05:44p, hyjinx pondered and said...

    Greetings one and all, It's almost time to release Part 8 (the final
    part) of the documentary series "Back to the BBS". This part is on the ANSI/text mode art scene.

    :)

    Hey Al, thanks for the continued hard work in this space, the videos are great :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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