Christopher Walken purportedly has joined the mesh. Could just be a rumor. #meshtastic #radio

shout out to the official Spring Boot course for soberly educating me on changing the ASCII art banner printed to the console when your application starts

The public preview of Github Copilot CLI launched today, and if you install it, you'll be welcomed by little ASCII art welcome banner that I animated. Creating it ended up being great example of how vibe-coding has entered my toolbelt. Nerdy deets in 🧵...

The best tool I could find was asciiart.eu's ASCII Draw Studio, that let me "draw" on a canvas in one color with no animation, and export out .txt files. Not exactly what I needed, but close enough to get started.

But, I couldn't stop there! Now that I had a taste of the ASCII bug, I knew that I needed to make a better tool for making ASCII animation. So, I spent a handful of nights with Copilot spinning up an MVP of my very first app: www.ascii-motion.app (desktop only for now)

I was very involved in the art scene for a long time and my friend had a Renegade BBS that he hex-edited to hell and back with insane art and I’ve never seen anything like it

Rusty-N-Edie's BBS was shut down by the FBI in 1993; they served a lot of pirate software. just about every GIF that existed before 1993 you can find with a Rusty-N-Edie's ad deduping web-scale data you see them... often Rusty-N-Edie watermarks are the global iridium layer in the GIF fossil record

It's ANSI cool, but is it PETSCII cool? Needs something like a Color 64 BBS door interface.

The Image BBS on a Stick v2.3 Windows & Linux installers have been updated (Sept 23rd 2025) with the latest files/configurations in our Downloads! #Imagebbs #Commodore #bbs Links Here: 8bitboyz.com/messageboard...

Ok hear me out: What if I got a land line. (is that even possible anymore? Nevermind.) And got a desktop computer. (It’s getting archaic now!) and I set up a BBS (damn). Then else could chill there all by ourselves. (Fuck I need that activated brain meme.)

Got you covered with two modern options (without a landline) and a BBS telnet list if you want to try other retro boards before setting up your own Dial-up VOIP area-51.blog/2021/01/16/g... Or WiFi Modem backofficeshow.com/shop/retronet Plus BBS www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/list/bri...

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/lostcavegr/?file=LOSTCAVE.ZZT&board=5 “Lost Caves Graphic Renewal” by Zenith Nadir/ZZFreak (1998) Published by: Interactive Fantasies [LOSTCAVE.ZZT] - “Crossroads II” https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/lostcavegr/

Mistigram: returning once more to the #anime #CowboyBebop, this suite of mini #ANSIart illustrations on the subject was drawn by @consolejockey.bsky.social and included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

Meshtastic now supports the Heltec LoRa 32 V4! Unlock more output power (28 ± 1 dBm) ⚡, plus solar ☀️ and GNSS 📡 connectors. Still compact and pin compatible with V3—an easy upgrade for your setup! Available now in the flasher! #meshtastic #LoRa #heltec

Charging the #meshtastic solar batteries to 100% before the winter hits. Let's see how long we can stay online. RAK outdoor antenna 868/+5.8dbi RAK surge protector (GND) RAK WisMesh solar battery light RAK WisMesh repeater

The real Gen-X chat is a BBS system running in an abandoned Blockbuster.

Wonder if things would have been better if social media never evolved beyond BBS.

the wikipedia page for renegade bbs software is the most obviously "written by the guy" wikipedia page i've seen in a long time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegad...

I had a (hex edited) renegade bbs that was later replaced by iniquity

🟥 REWIND | Rare footage of early ORACLE trials in a brief segment in tonight's ITV News at 70. Not the familiar teletext format we came to know.

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/587sqn/?file=587SQGBJ.zzt&board=20 “587 Squadron (GBA Jam entry)” by Agent Orange/asie (2021) Published by: PogeSoft [587SQGBJ.zzt] - “Level IX briefing” https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/587sqn/

Fun fact though: If you do right assignments you can use lightning bolt ascii art and your code is automatically more cool.

Mistigram: you've all seen the meme - the android ##YutaroKatori from the 1991 ##TheBraveOfSunFighbird series points at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon? But you've never seen it drawn before by LDA in ##ANSIart. This was included in last month's ##anime-themed MIST0825 artpack.

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/ifantsy10/?file=IFNTSY10.ZZT&board=1 “iFantasy 10” by Bob Pragt (2001) Published by: Interactive Fantasies [IFNTSY10.ZZT] - “$Very strange INDEED” https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/ifantsy10/

dark mode has been with me since my earliest postings on dialup ANSI BBSes

@PixelProphecy One of the few languages I ever tried to code with was Turbo Pascal. I couldn't write a line of it today without a manual.

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/gsdemo/?file=GSDEMO.ZZT&board=12 “Who Wants To Be On A Gameshow Demo” by BroKen (2001) [GSDEMO.ZZT] - “12 Easy1-Question 10” https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/gsdemo/

My Minitel/Videotel is now on Meshtastic! Used a RP2040, Heltec V3 and a bunch of chatGPT python code. Next up direct messages

Enigmatriz uses ASCII art to punch up and blow out public domain photos and illustrations — I love their style. [kottke.org]

I used to pretty actively play the Discworld MUD a few years ago. Maybe I should get back into it

I wonder if Discworld MUD still has their distribution mudlib…

I'm conflicted (again). I really want to get on with my Goodreads clone. It's the default personal library tool that people use, and - let's be blunt - it's rubbish. :( But at the same time, I've been getting back into MUDding again (on Discworld) and that's making me want to build my own MUD too.

I started playing Discworld MUD in about 1997, took like a 15-year hiatus and just recently came back. Still feels similar, everyone’s still really friendly!

Happy 35th, Gemstone IV. share.google/B7eBpU1RNeEk... I sank sooooo many hours into this fantasy RPG MUD as a teenager (then all over again in my 20s) playing Wendigi, the chubby little gnome picking locks on the treasure boxes of more daring adventurers.

So far I've played a bit of: - Aardwolf (10+ hours) - Forgotten Kingdoms (just the tutorial, I haven't been approved to leave the newbie area yet 🥲) - Archaea (maybe about 4 hours) - Gemstone IV (a frustrating 2 hours) #mud #multiuserdungeon

Amazing! I didn't get to C until uni when friends and I hacked a MUD together from C code we had been "given". Happy days :)

🎨 ASCII Mandelbrot Zoomer

Well, well, well. Look who's posting about #godot and #gamedev again. If you saw my earlier posts, you can tell that I've gone from "shitty 3d" to "sick ass ASCII" art. I'm going to start a thread to share some deets here.

one of those things that took like, wayyyy to long to get around to doing. just grey out abilities when the person it belongs to already has another one queued up.

Updated all the screenshots on the steam page! It's Melbourne International Games Week soon and I'll be relaunching the demo finally.. so much has hcanged. Will stream during the week also if you'd rather watch me play... MIGW runs 4th to 12th Oct 2025 AEST. store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/...

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/outside/?file=OUTSIDE.ZZT&board=9 “Outside Influence (Modified)” by El Capitan/Kosh/Zenith Nadir (2007) [OUTSIDE.ZZT] - “Hotel Room #1” {🔫: 0} https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/outside/

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/area51/?file=AREA51.zzt&board=13 “Area 51 Tanya Mission Pack Edition” by MicroX32 (2000) Published by: Flaresoft [AREA51.zzt] - “Area51 Ending” https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/area51/

Two games habe been added to my little BBS: Gutterball bowling and Tri Peaks Solitair. give it a try - telnet bbs.hackerforce.de:2323 #bbs #ansi

Oh no this is the greatest game of all time, never to be equalled.

Presenting our schedule for this week! One last early Friday stream, then it goes back to normal time. https://twitch.tv/worldsofzzt/ #stream_schedule #zzt

Mistigram: this ##ANSIart portrait of ##Ranma's ##RyogaHibiki as ##PChan the piglet was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social for Martin Kazmaier's ##anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS. It was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

Heltec V3 antenna upgrade. #meshtastic #Heltec #antenna #radio

Sign me up for anything procedural + ascii

ok so working on my roguelike made wanna make more procgen stuff.. so this morning i made a really basic worldgen tool that i find quite nice ! its just some simple noise and hash function but i think its still cool so here a quick video of it in glorious ASCII of course ! #procgen #gamedev