doctor_x Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Does anyone have any thoughts of where I might find some of the old ATASCII bbs screens that were used back in the day? I'm putting up a CARINA telnet board to support 8 Bit Underground and would like to use some existing art rather than creating my own.. I remember some excellent stuff - but like the other stuff I've been searching for I have had a hard time finding anything on the internet. Also - and I havent searched for this yet, so dont flame me if the answer is easy - but is there a way to create ATASCII screens on the PC? I guess something like ATASCII Animator (which is what i used back in the day) for the PC? Thanks all for responses.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 This doesn't help you directly, but here are some intro screens I did for my Carina II BBS "back in the day": http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/82649-phantasmal-alchemy-bbs-atascii-intro-screens/ These are actually scans from printouts that I still have. Sadly that is ALL I have left from the BBS and I need to convert these to actual ATASCII files someday (which should be pretty easy). Ha, looks like I said the same thing in my post from four years ago. An ATASCII editor for the PC would make that much easier--I do not know if one exists. Have fun! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Albert - exactly what I'm looking for if they were downloads rather than scans - and very nice artwork for sure! thanks! This doesn't help you directly, but here are some intro screens I did for my Carina II BBS "back in the day": http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/82649-phantasmal-alchemy-bbs-atascii-intro-screens/ These are actually scans from printouts that I still have. Sadly that is ALL I have left from the BBS and I need to convert these to actual ATASCII files someday (which should be pretty easy). Ha, looks like I said the same thing in my post from four years ago. An ATASCII editor for the PC would make that much easier--I do not know if one exists. Have fun! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 This doesn't help you directly, but here are some intro screens I did for my Carina II BBS "back in the day": http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/82649-phantasmal-alchemy-bbs-atascii-intro-screens/ These are actually scans from printouts that I still have. Sadly that is ALL I have left from the BBS and I need to convert these to actual ATASCII files someday (which should be pretty easy). Ha, looks like I said the same thing in my post from four years ago. An ATASCII editor for the PC would make that much easier--I do not know if one exists. Have fun! ..Al Sweet - 40megs online! I'm almost finished downloading everything on your site with my 300bps connection... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Sweet - 40megs online! I'm almost finished downloading everything on your site with my 300bps connection... LOL, yeah, 40MB was almost infinite storage for the Atari 8-bit computers back then! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Steve Tucker's website has some ATASCII utilities down towards the bottom. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Thanks stephen. Steve Tucker's website has some ATASCII utilities down towards the bottom. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Sweet - 40megs online! I'm almost finished downloading everything on your site with my 300bps connection... LOL, yeah, 40MB was almost infinite storage for the Atari 8-bit computers back then! ..Al 40MB! And I thought I was the man back then running 4 Indus GT drives on my BBS! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Back when the BF A8 ran on dialup lines using BBS:Express 850 (1986 or so), the max I ever had was 10mb. The current BF running on PRO has 128mb (8 - 16mb ATRS). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 I realize this is an old thread, but my desire to archive some of the atascii art back in the day still exists.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 On a 90k SS/SD disk somewhere in my basement is the logon screen from "The Pig and Whistle BBS" in Montreal from the late 80s; if I can dig it out, I'll upload it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 On a 90k SS/SD disk somewhere in my basement is the logon screen from "The Pig and Whistle BBS" in Montreal from the late 80s; if I can dig it out, I'll upload it. The Pig and Whistle BBS... man, names like that strangely take me back. For ATASCII screens, drop Cybernoid a line. He had one for his Carina BBS he put up for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 On a 90k SS/SD disk somewhere in my basement is the logon screen from "The Pig and Whistle BBS" in Montreal from the late 80s; if I can dig it out, I'll upload it. The Pig and Whistle BBS... man, names like that strangely take me back. For ATASCII screens, drop Cybernoid a line. He had one for his Carina BBS he put up for a while. I need to go through my old floppies - I should have a few in there somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 -------------------------- -------------------------- -------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Albert Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 "YOUR MOM" LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 i would say there is no accounting for taste, but my mother is blind, so that would explain it ;'D sloopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 If you log in to my BBS in ATASCII mode, I have a main welcome screen in animated ATASCII that was done by Mike Stortz (author of ROTO). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtm Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) :thumbsup: That is fantastic. --Kurt Edited April 14, 2011 by kurtm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkman Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 (edited) Wanted to resurrect this thread because I've posted some ATASCII animations on my blog. In 1985, ANTIC Magazine published Mat*Rat's "Atari 'Toons" program, then asked readers to enter an animation contest. The winner would receive a 1200 baud modem. The video captures I made show the winning animations from ANTIC's contest, as well as two example animations created by Mat*Rat himself. The Atari 'Toons program allowed users to customize the ATASCII character set. The image above uses such a modified character set. Edited May 7, 2014 by Kirkman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Kirkman, there seems to be something up with the RSS feed of your blog, I can't get Feedly to seen any new post since Nov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkman Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Weird. I don't use feedly, so I'll have to investigate. Have you tried re-subscribing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkman Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Gozar, seems some of my Textile coding in an entry from last fall was breaking the feed. I use the NewsBlur newsreader, which I guess is more forgiving of broken feeds, and everything looked normal there. Thanks for the heads up. I fixed the feed and it now validates. I don't know how long it will take for Feedly to update, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 (edited) Well, attached you will find some ATASCII animations and movies, as well as some programs to generate them. Think at one time I also extracted a few ATASCII intro-screens from demos and (cracked) games, alas here are only two of them (have to look for the others)... even some tool-programs like Masher-XL, Masher-XE, Disk-Communicator and others did contain ATASCII-intro screens. And err, a search result at Fandal gives you this: http://a8.fandal.cz/search.php?search=ASCII&butt_details_x= Greetings, Andreas Koch. Edited May 8, 2014 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Ooops, here is the attachment. atascii_anims.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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