christianvozar

These are (maybe) the best patterns for the vendors and their purposes but that doesn’t make them the best agentic patterns.

Not only are BBSes alive and well today so are many ansi artists who make the block art to power them. Be sure to give the ansi archive a look (https://16colo.rs). Create an account and give some rating love to artists who still keep this medium alive.

The Army and Navy also realized specialized, highly-skilled, and educated soldiers were needed. Not to command troops but to fly very expensive machines. They are the Warrant Officers (CO1 -> CW5) and get paid well and the respect of those that command without the burden of commanding large amounts of troops.

Go check out https://16colo.rs and enjoy! Lots of art still being put out.

Do you still have that art?

Alpha King here. Thanks for the shoutout from all us in B7. Be sure to check out our latest pack, a tribute to FiRE. https://16colo.rs/pack/fire-34/

One thing to note in why RIP could have never been successful, aside from originally being closed-source, is while it was vector-based in nature the specification called for a static sized view port of 320x200. Future revisions of the spec could have fixed this but it would have missed the window to be relevant going from BBS to WWW.

The ansi scene is alive today and more vibrant than the past decade. Be sure to pay a visit to 16c and view some of what ansi wizards put out using just those same 16 colors. alpha king / blocktronics

Blocktronics.org Some former acid still release in this group. You can find us around on discord or FB.

Well if you come across it the ansi scene as a whole would consider that some found gold. I would even donate to a Patreon to fund finding it or restoring it from a floppy.

The ansi scene is alive and well today. Several groups such as Blocktronics and Fuel continue to put out packs. You can view the work by some of your old favorites still kicking it old school on the archive: https://16colo.rs/

Have you check the archive to see if they were released and captured? https://16colo.rs/

That’s amazing! Did LD! Release the art for your bbs in a pack? Do you still happen to have the art somewhere? Would love to get it hosted on the archive if possible. https://16colo.rs/

There are still artists making great ansi art today. You don’t even need to draw with the keyboard if you don’t want with new editors like Moebius. http://www.andyh.org/moebius/

Give it a whirl, you’d be surprised how your fingers remember how to mash the function keys to shade!

What was your handle in iCE?

Should try rendering some of this. http://blocktronics.org

The ansi art scene is still kicking it. http://blocktronics.org