Josh Renaud

Sad news: "Dry Bones" cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen has died. https://www.jns.org/dry-bones-cartoonist-yaakov-kirschen-dies-at-87/ I first encountered Kirschen through his "Mom and Me" and "Murray and Me" graphical chatbot programs (received from my uncle Jim when he handed down his Atari ST to us in the late 1980s). Kirschen's work on "Mom" and "Murray" was profiled in-depth by the NYT, LAT, and others. (1/x) #atarist #atari #retrocomputing #kirschen #drybones #jewish #vintagecomputing #obituaries

If you're the person who just won the eBay auction for seven "1985 Antic Software Atari ST Game Disks" for $107.50, please get in touch. I want to make sure the monochrome version of "Mom and Me" gets archived. #atarist #atari #digipres #kirschen #antic #ebay #archive

In recent weeks I've been playing "DDST," a fun adventure game for Atari ST BBSes that I had never tried before. I *love* that it lets you save basically whenever you want. Makes it possible to avoid losing progress while exploring dungeons crowded with monsters and traps. My wife took a quick peek while I was in a dungeon and asked if it was a QR code. Nope ... just some VT52 text art! #atari #atarist #bbs #games #gamedev #vt52 #textmode

🎉 💾 🎨 Celebrate the new year with a fun new artpack: IGNITE 01! This pack celebrates "Instant Graphics and Sound," a unique Atari ST-specific corner of BBS history, with 18 new images and animations for your viewing pleasure. Download the pack from @npub1hrle...e3l0: 📦.zip Learn more about it at Break Into Chat:

Break Into Chat

IGNITE - The first all-IGS artpack! - Break Into Chat

It's a love letter to "Instant Graphics and Sound", an obscure graphics protocol for BBSes on an often-overlooked computer platform, the Atari...

#retrocomputing #IGS #vintagecomputing #atari #PixelArt #MastoArt #textmode #ansiart #asciiart #atarist #bbs

IGNITE 01 IS HERE! Squeaking in before New Year's -- at least in *part* of North America -- it's the world's first all-IGS artpack from Break Into Chat and Mistigris computer arts (@npub1hrle...e3l0). Featuring 9 static images and 8 animations in IGS format for the Atari ST. Download it now!

Break Into Chat

IGNITE - The first all-IGS artpack! - Break Into Chat

It's a love letter to "Instant Graphics and Sound", an obscure graphics protocol for BBSes on an often-overlooked computer platform, the Atari...

#igs #atarist #atari #pixelart #textmode #mastoart #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #bbs #breakintochat

I hope tonight Santa can avoid getting entangled in the U.S.S. Enterprise's transporter beam. 🎅 🖖 Here for your viewing pleasure is "Star Trek: The Trouble With The Rangifer Tarandus," a short holiday ANSImation I made for Blocktronics a while back. 🦌 #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #santa #christmas #startrek #ansi #ansiart #ansimation #textmode #pixelart #xmas2024 #christmas2024 #mastoart #bbs #textmode

Ugh ... sprites and animation are so hard. And the limitations of creating this for IGS makes them even harder! No wonder I waited six years since the last time I attempted to make an animation with a story/dialogue. I made a ton of progress on Calvin today, and I wrote a script. Hopefully now I can stop spinning my wheels on the coding, and bear down on putting it all together. #igs #atarist #pixelart #animation #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #atari #bbs #bbsing

I've been working on a new IGS animation involving this guy, who was pretty popular back during IGS heyday in the early 1990s. Animation is pretty tough, but some of the constraints imposed by the IGS format (plus my own personal constraints) are making really hard. It's also challenging to draw these sprites! But I think I've finally landed on a sequence of events I can draw -- and make fit in the available space. #igs #atarist #atari #pixelart #bbs #bbsing #dev #retrocomputing

Hey #BBS, #textmode, and #pixelart friends ... I'm seeking folks who would try drawing one 320x200 16-color screen in "IGS" format. I made a web-based app that implements the most basic IGS drawing commands to help you avoid needing to use an Atari ST emulator.

JoshDraw

Hoping to release the first all-IGS artpack. Already have 6 pieces, and I'm hoping to get it to 10+. More about IGS:

Instant Graphics and Sound (IGS) - Break Into Chat - BBS wiki

#textmodeart #textart #pixelartist #vectorart

The @internetarchive today posted its 130-page "Vanishing Culture" report, which highlights the "fragility of our digital landscape" and the importance of "empowering public-serving libraries and archives." I contributed a short article on my Kirschen research, which you can read on page 117. It's an honor to be included with folks like Jordan Mechner and Jason Scott.

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record | Internet Archive Blogs