Rocking Rip Art Graphics Galleries Featuring over 100 Rip art
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robbiew · 2023-11-03 01:29

I totally avoided RIP back in my BBS sysop days… but this is friggin’
rad

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thedigitalinfinity · 2023-11-03 02:13

Yeah these are quite cool and I seen quite a few familiar names on the
rip art from the ANSI scene and it definitely allowed for more
artistry than just the ANSI characters

having to setup basically a dual mode for your BBS to have ansi and
Rip at the same time had to be a pains taking task that's probably why
I didn't come across them too often

In '94/95 I "tried" a couple of RIP enabled boards in the Chicagoland
BBS area but my 14.4k modem took a very long time to load the cool
looking interfaces but it was just a tad bit ahead of it's time for my
Packard Bell 75mhz.

I remember one board that had a really cool looking main page that was
a cemetery and the headstones was each of the boards areas like files,
games, etc and it played a thunder sound effect when ever the lighting
flashed on the screen

When I was checking out rip enabled doors games I came across a couple
of RIP art galleries and I decided to record them and do up a video

I did this one and another which is the exact same Rip's as this video
but set to Jazz and I do a zoom pan of each Rip so it's like a relax
and chill video and is over and hour long
[https://youtu.be/Z202UuTrDfQ](https://youtu.be/Z202UuTrDfQ)

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nevarro · 2023-11-03 04:27

Nice video! Lots of art on display there and the pacing is great.

> In '94/95 I "tried" a couple of RIP enabled boards in the
Chicagoland  BBS area but my 14.4k modem took a very long time to load
the cool  looking interfaces but it was just a tad bit ahead of it's
time for my  Packard Bell 75mhz.

I had pretty much the same experience of not having a fast enough
machine at the time to be able to use and appreciate RIP on BBSes.

>having to setup basically a dual mode for your BBS to have ansi and
Rip at the same time had to be a pains taking task that's probably why
I didn't come across them too often

It absolutely is very painstaking. Lots of trial and error... hours of
testing and troubleshooting and trying different things... but a
couple of years ago, I put in the time to develop my own screens in
RIPaint and make my BBS fully RIPped including getting LORD working
with RIP, too. LORD was the easy part, though. It all works like a
charm in RIPterm 1.54.

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rumdumpstr · 2023-11-03 20:39

The cbbs list was the best.  RIP was so ahead of it's time.  A great
protocol but it taxed the hell out of connections and processors.

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thedigitalinfinity · 2023-11-03 22:05

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Lord I loved seeing this logo on each CBBS list

yeah it murdered my Pentium 75 mhz as well

I laughed when I saw that one of the rip art said best viewed at 4800
baud

I lived in the Carol Stream area and I miss the Galaxy World arcade (
sad to hear it's long gone), Augustino's rock and roll deli and my
favorite BBS the DOOM BBS I wish I had grabbed a screen grab of the
ansi doom art that was the login scroll it was killer

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rumdumpstr · 2023-11-03 22:34

I was in Naperville and had a few favorites, Lake County Radio Group
was the best.