Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Dec 02 2025 20:27:09

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Thin client PC to run
 Ni>   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.

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

That would be pretty cool, to see RIP on a modern system.  Sounds like a 
challenging task...  Let us know if you get any progress on it!




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