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Ok, yes, I suppose I was a bit liberal with those rules.

It's something that I made but it is now impossible to play with because dialup BBSs have gone extinct. By converting the ANSI images to PNGs, I tried to show what it would have been like to play with in its time.

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Most BBS users had to use their imagination when navigating text based interfaces, ANSI interface design and all - I had no problem traversing the experience.

The WWIV BBS world reminded me of another Telegard based BBS software I used a lot - Renegade BBS. You may not be able to get Dementia back up, but maybe some of the ANSI artwork could come back to life, RG was pretty configurable in it's time.

https://renegadebbs.info/

Interesting - wonder what they did to piss off Bluecoat (Content Blocked (content_filter_denied), Content Category: "Malicious Sources/Malnets")

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