Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Dec 02 2025 16:48:52

  Re: Re: Thin client PC to run
  By: Gamgee to Rob Mccart on Tue Dec 02 2025 04:53 pm

 RM>> Back around that time there were several BBS systems in town and I was
 RM>> creating the menu screens for a couple of them. I was writing the code
 RM>> from scratch at the time, and I totally lost interest when programs like
 RM>> The Draw came out and any idiot could do it..  I prefer being a Special
 RM>> idiot..   B)

 Ga> Wow, I bet that was fairly tedious work, doing ANSI screens that way.

Recently, as RIP support has been added to the latest SyncTerm, I've been more seriously been thinking of making RIP menus for my BBS.  There are RIP drawing tools, but for things like adding buttons, colored borders & areas & such, I'm not sure the RIP drawing tools I've used so far support those (oddly); for those things, it seems like a similar situation where I may have to write them by hand with a text editor.

Nightfox

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