Subj : Another suggestion....
To   : Deuce
From : Time Warrior
Date : Wed Jun 01 2005 04:11 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Deuce
  Re: Another suggestion....
  By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Wed Jun 01 2005 08:18 am

 > To: Time Warrior
 > Re: Another suggestion.... By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Wed Jun 01
 > 2005 00:47:00

 >  >  > Yeah, I'd never use the damn thing.  :-)

 >  > You'd want to for my board. But that was another one of my points. Truly
 >  > modded boards with good ansi are rare these days. They used to be all ove
 >  > droves but not anymore.... it feels like if someone tore down the Statue
 >  > Liberty or something :-(

 > Well, ANSI animation *never* worked the way the original artist intended exc
 > in the VERY rare case 9I only ever saw it once) where a separate file was
 > created for every speed.  I don't think there has ever been a time when at
 > least three different connect speeds wern't common on any BBS.  Added to the
 > fact that MNP and HST were common and resulted in higher effective
 > throughput... and the fact that you could end up falling back to odd bps rat
 > (16800, 21600 etc) always made it kludgy at best.

I was never talking about animation. Someone ELSE mentioned that. I'm talking 
about 100 line ansi's flying by at the speed of light on boards with art on 
them that these days unfortunately, are a rare breed :-(

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