Subj : Re: Getting new users
To   : Geri Atricks
From : Adept
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 10:04:05

 GA>  Ad> I largely agree with this, but I also would like to see things like
 GA>  Ad> having ANSIs that have greater resolution than 80x25, and maybe even
 GA>  Ad> have support for unicode, or at least a simplified set of unicode.
 GA> 
 GA> I don't think it would be ANSI any longer at that point.

Do you just mean that technically? Because, yeah, without the involvement of the American National Standards Institute, or whatever it is, it's _definitely_ not ANSI.

But my inclination is that it'd be "ANSI-style graphics", and that the BBSs out there that have the 132 or 160 column or whatever displays still look like a traditional BBS, just with greater resolution.

And unicode just means additional characters to work with.

So, yeah, not technically ANSI, but it doesn't seem like it'd change the old-school flavor of things, as other versions of things might.

Not sure how blasphemous the average BBS user thinks that is, though -- I know I'm on the non-purist side of many of these things, so I'm certainly biased.

 GA> The next step up from ANSI is RIP Graphics, which is closer to CGA,
 GA> maybe even EGA level graphics with more colors, and even sound. 

Yeah, and an entirely different style of drawing.

Though, thinking of that, I wonder if anyone has thoughts on any RIP graphics editors. I'm not sure what exists out there, at this point, and I'm wondering if any of them make the process easy-ish.

 GA> think all the ANSI BBS terminals even support it. I haven't even seen or
 GA> heard any new ANSI Music in a VERY long time.

It does seem like it's about as well-supported as ANSI-style graphics with more than 80 columns.

But it seems like it's another toy in the toy box that's worth playing with.

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