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Kirkman14

126 karma · joined February 17, 2013

Proprietor of breakintochat.com, a blog about BBSing and retrocomputing topics.
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Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens

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The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election

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"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994

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Yaakov Kirschen’s other legacy

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IGNITE artpack highlights obscure graphics protocol for Atari ST BBSes

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Lost Commodore Amiga music software recovered

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Pac-Man in a kippah? Lost Jewish educational Apple II games salvaged

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“What were we thinking?”: Creators of Thieves' Guild revisit 1990s BBS game

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I completed my 7-year quest to play Thieves' Guild, an Atari ST BBS game

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BBS door game programmers bypassed the limits of terminals and text

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See the Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids in thrilling ANSImation

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Dial-Up to “Beam Me Up”: Jon Radoff Talks Star Trek Timelines, BBS Games

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Parsing old BBS directories to visualize the St. Louis BBS scene

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From paper tape to BBS door games: "Global War" creator Joel Bergen

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Amit Patel discusses his old BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite"

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