Yeah, but they've been replaced by GIF and JPG, and most people have left it far behind. Unfortunately just like many of the games here. It's really too bad, because so much of the old-school technology could give a lesson to the newer stuff, and show the youngies what it took to get from the dark ages to now in technology. These days kids come in knowing all about how to browse the Internet and to use Word effectively. But they never get a good feel for how a computer works in the background, unlike the older days. Sad really.
Any of your ANSI utils in use today? TheDraw was my staple, and I was ok with it, but nothing real special. I opened TheDraw for the first time in many years just a couple of months ago, and couldn't remember much. I did manage to get the Ship/Castle animation to work, though! Hehe ...
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Arrrg! I messed up...MLBBS's were the latest and greatest in the late *80's*
oh yea, I'm gratefull to be there when this whole computer thing was "growing up"
you had to know what you were doing back then......
the entire DOS was three files: Command.com, Msdos.sys and.... another one...the last two were hidden, so you only saw Command.com when you DIR'ed it.
Used to peruse PC Magazine for these little code snippets...either in Basic, or Binary(Assembly?)
you wrote it out as something like:
...if I recall....to convert it...lessee....it was, I *think* a consol command....remember those?
like
COPY CON THIS.TXT
This is a test <enter>
then CTRL-Z to put an EOF mark
<enter>
and you had yourself a text file
Anyway, when you ran the code it turned into a .COM file....
Those dozens of little utilities you couldn't live without.....
Hey, remember...EDLIN?????
Wow.....those days when microsoft had the crappiest utilities going....Hmmm...nothing has changed much, has it.....
ANSI stuff.....lessee... I probably have the sorce code somewhere...the only one that comes to mind right now was ANSIFY....took any standard ascii text file and ANSIFIED it, turned each letter into a random color.....did other stuff too, like cOnVeRtInG cAsE
you could set the intensity, Blinks or no blinks, etc.
Tells you how slow the old systems were: it had a progress bar so you could see it processing...heh.....
I did some stuff you could incorporate into your Basic program, graphics wise, but i can't remember off hand.....
Oh yea, I remeber The Draw's Spaceship and castle...and what passed for animation back then.....
It had an export function that made BLOAD images...
Remember when screensavers were really used to save the screen? Those old green monitors would burn an image if the text/whatever was left on too long....
Retro stuff.....what happens when you get old....
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