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Josh Renaud

In recent weeks I've been playing "DDST," a fun adventure game for Atari ST BBSes that I had never tried before.

I *love* that it lets you save basically whenever you want. Makes it possible to avoid losing progress while exploring dungeons crowded with monsters and traps.

My wife took a quick peek while I was in a dungeon and asked if it was a QR code. Nope ... just some VT52 text art!

#atari#atarist#bbs
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Josh Renaud

If you have the new SyncTerm, then check it out!

Telnet to GOF at guardian.synchro.net, port 23.

Set "Screen Mode" to "Atari ST 80x25" and "Font" to "Atari ST."

You can also see VT52 in action by visiting these other fine BBSes (running on actual Atari ST hardware):

Dark Force
darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org:1040

STar Fleet HQ
bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983

Biker Bob's Clubhouse
bbsclubhouse.ddns.net:1040

The Cellar
thecell.ar:1040

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Josh Renaud

Due to the new Atari ST VT52 support in SyncTerm, I added a VT52 logon screen to my "Guardian of Forever" BBS today.

GOF is a Synchronet BBS. I love Sync's JS support ... makes it easy to code interfaces, doors, etc. It's how I added IGS support before.

Anyway, most menus are still the stock Sync ASCII, but I hope to slowly add VT52-specific ones eventually.

Textmode screen says "Guardian of Forever -- a unique bulletin board system supporting VT52, ANSI, and IGS."
#atarist#atari#vt52
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Josh Renaud

FANSI had its own file format -- .FAN -- which I'm hoping to write a parser for.

I learned something new today from Eric March about the .FAN format.

The first ~6K is character data -- every character, along with its FG and BG color, for the 80 columns and 24 lines.

But the final 30K is bitmap data -- a full screen dump of the image as it is displayed in the editor.

Why?
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Josh Renaud

Recently I've been working on a fork of libansilove and ansilove-c that adds support for using fonts and color palettes derived from the Atari ST programs ANSIterm and FANSI.

FANSI was a really slick ANSI editor for the ST from Eric March.

It was a godsend to me as a teen when it was released in 1994. Finally I had a way to draw my own ANSI art in the full 16 colors.

If only it had come out a few years earlier!
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Josh Renaud

Deuce recently added support for the Atari ST flavor of VT52 to his SyncTerm program.

I first requested this feature 14 years ago. I was so excited it finally happened, that I made a new VT52 animation to celebrate.

Plus I dug up six more that I have never seen published anywhere else.

breakintochat.com/blog/2025/02

Break Into Chat · Some love for VT52 on the Atari ST - Break Into ChatThis Atarian’s dream has come true, though it took almost 14 years. Last week, Deuce (Stephen Hurd) released SyncTerm v1.6, which adds initial support for the Atari ST’s VT52 emulation mode, as well as the three ST screen resolutions and color palettes. Today, I made a short new VT-52 text animation to celebrate: Though I […]
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