Looking for help creating a welcome.ans for my WWIV BBS
reddit / bbs

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njburchett66 · 2020-08-20 17:46

I used to run a WWIV BBS back in the early 90's and I was really good
at the hardware and configuring stuff and HORRIBLE at creating ANSI
graphics.

I have decided to bring my BBS back to life via telnet and have
created an image of what I would like the welcome.ans to display,
however, using the online generators it just isn't rendering
correctly. I even tried importing into TheDraw and still cannot get it
to load correctly

Anyone out there with the ability to take this image and create a
welcome.ans screen for me that actually works?

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manager_dave · 2020-08-20 17:47

Maybe check on r/ANSIart ?

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njburchett66 · 2020-08-20 17:47

Guess an image would help:

[https://imgur.com/a/qTDrCH7](https://imgur.com/a/qTDrCH7)

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[deleted] · 2020-08-20 23:27

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WWIVPENGUIN · 2020-08-20 23:44

Best result would be too convert image of deep thought himself, then
overlay native ANSI fonts on top.

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orion3311 · 2020-08-20 23:49

Dont forget to load ansi.sys if this is an okder system!

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njburchett66 · 2020-08-21 00:33

I think this is my solution. I found a ton of .TDF fonts for TheDraw
and have been doing a lot messing around. TheDraw is kinda coming back
to me after almost 30 years.

I have most of my screens with at least some average place holding
designs, and they look OK, for now.

Thanks all for the responses!!

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WWIVPENGUIN · 2020-08-21 01:20

That's what I did for my art on my BBS.  Http://BBS.stardoc134.com

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analog_potatoes · 2020-08-21 03:54

Dude just download [Pablo Draw](http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/)
or even better, [Moebius](https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/) and
learn it. If you’re going to run a BBS you have to do it at some
point. Now’s the time to get those skillz back. Also, you already have
a reference image so that’s much easier.

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nevarro · 2020-08-21 15:06

Yes, if you want to run a BBS, you should learn the tools used to make
it your own.