Subj : Re: RIPScrip Artists Awaken!
To   : HusTler
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 06 2023 11:46:27

  Re: Re: RIPScrip Artists Awaken!
  By: HusTler to Digital Man on Thu Apr 06 2023 12:46 pm

 >  Re: Re: RIPScrip Artists Awaken!
 >  By: Hawk to Digital Man on Tue Apr 04 2023 07:56 pm
 >
 >  > > I didn't existed and was created in the mid-late 90's, long after I
 >  > > stopped thinking or caring (much) about RIP.
 >
 >  Why did you stop thinking and caring about RIP? I thought it was going to
 > change the entire BBS scene. I was dead wrong. What made you give up on it
 > DM?

Lack of interest or demand from sysops and users. It just seemed to be one of those novelty-like features that didn't get enough traction to really be a huge draw for users and thus sysops didn't really demand much more than basic support for it. The stock RIP menus in Synchronet are, I think, still completely unchanged from 1992. And they're not great.

I did see some cool RIP demos (a 3D maze/skeleton game comes to mind), but I think they were too slow to realistically play over dial-up.

 > RIP supports using a mouse and I thought that was what was going change
 > BBS'n. Heck  even Frank LaRosa closed up shop. I guess I'm still scratchin
 > my head over it. lol

Yeah, Frank bought into RIP totally. He was very nice when I met him at ONE BBSCON '93. I was bought into OS/2 at the time and that consumed the majority of my "new feature" development energy. In hindsight, I should've been working on something, just about anything, else. But a 32-bit multi-threaded version of SBBS v2 was still a cool thing to have done, even if it was for a dead-end OS.

I have some vague visions of what graphics could do to enhance the traditional BBS experience and plan to pursue that at some point. It's mainly just window dressing (or "chrome" they call it these days), but I'd still like to do/have that to impress users. As for a totally-graphical BBS (think Robocomm/FX), I don't have any interest. But I still think graphics, high (24-bit) color text/block-art, good mouse support are things that BBS users would appreciate using more regularly.
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