Subj : Re: RIP 1.54 and telnet
To   : esc
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Dec 15 2022 12:41:11

  Re: Re: RIP 1.54 and telnet
  By: esc to Oli on Thu Dec 15 2022 11:03 am

 Ol>> AVATAR was great. Unfortunately there are only few programs that
 Ol>> support it.

 es> I've never actually seen avatar screens on a BBS but recall constantly
 es> having to select ansi on some bbses and seeing avatar as an alternative. I
 es> was always curious but have zero context lol.

It seems Avatar wasn't very common.  When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, the software I used (RemoteAccess) supported Avatar as one of the possible formats, so I saved my menu files in Avatar in addition to ANSI and plain text.  One time I tried calling my BBS (or perhaps another BBS that had Avatar) with an Avatar-capable terminal program (probably Telemate), and it seemed somewhat noticeably faster than ANSI.

Nightfox
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