Board:   [DeveloperNet] DeveloperNet General
Subject: Projects
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Thu Mar 27, 2014 20:33

  Re: Projects
  By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Thu Mar 27 2014 13:54:02

 Ni>> similar to an internet web site with background music (which used to
 Ni>> be more popular, in the mid 90s, usually in the form of MIDI). I
 Ni>> tend to find that fairly annoying though - I sometimes like to
 Ni>> listen to music on my computer while browsing the web & doing other
 Ni>> things, so when I load a web page that has its own background music,
 Ni>> it tends to be annoying rather than adding to the experience of the
 Ni>> web site.

 MF> Ya midi's can be an ear full.  some of the tunes are ok but i much rather
 MF> have mp3's.  of course acustom client would be needed and the files would
 MF> most likely have to be downloaded and cached in a folder to not casue
 MF> streaming lag and eat up the connection.

The main thing that annoys me about music on web pages is that most often, it's
notsomething I really want to play automatically, and I'm likely to be
listening to music already or have the TV on, so music on aweb page just ends
up not sounding very good with whatever else I'm listening to.

 MF>  HDX was a pretty interesting
 MF> typeof graphical bbs system i played around with.  Something along those
 MF> lines would make for a nice type of secondary connection or interface to
 MF> the bbs.

Interesting, I hadn't heard about HDX.  In the 90s, I had used a couple BBSes
that had RIP set up, and I thought that was interesting for a graphical
interface, since RIP started to be a widely-accepted standard.  I alsoused a
couple BBSes using RoboBoard, which had its own graphical protocol.  RoboBoard
looked a lot nicer than RIP, but it was not widely accepted at all, and I think
it may have been proprietary, so (I think) there was only one terminal program
that supported it.

Nightfox

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