Fire up the nostalgia!
Watch this Atari 600XL (U1MB) in action, dialing into Southern AMIS BBS using FujiNet!
Hear that HSIO and Wow rich ATASCII graphics—this is how online used to be.
Call Today:
southernamis.ddns.net (Port 23) Pure ATASCII goodness!
Get connected. Get retro. Get AMIS.
#Atari #FujiNet #BBSing #RetroComputing #Southernamis #Atari600XL #Ul1MB #atascii
Mistodon: flee for your lives! An enormous, enraged mollusk prepares to dismantle eight skyscrapers simultaneously in this screen, "Attacktopus", drawn by @Polyducks for last year's #ATASCII compo. This piece was included in the MIST-30 artpack celebration.
Milestone reached! Mr. Paint is now feature complete, and currently versioned at 1.37. Just under 2 months from initial coding. Mr. Paint (ATASCII Screen Editor) is available on my GitHub at:
https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/MrPaint
The next release of Mr. Paint will bring block copy and paste. And it will work across files! I’ve completed the functionality and have been testing. Just need some placement bounds control, or truncate if paste spills over screen edges, and it’s done. Expect a release by end of week.
#atari8bit #atascii #screeneditor
Another day, another big release of Mr. Paint, my ATASCII Screen Editor. Version 1.30 is out and includes five block operations and brings back some of the special characters (all the ones displayable via BBS terminal). I updated the manual significantly as well.
Well, after having pulled Mr. Paint releases due to library dependent bugs in the file save and load routines, they have been rewritten and working fine now. So I released v1.20. Now available on the GitHub, and includes additional demo screens, updated manual a few new tricks. Enjoy!
« nanoCave » - the Ascii cards
#nanoCave is a Rogue-like game for your Atari ST.
Here, three Atari 8-bit ASCII cards submitted at Silly Venture Atari ASCII graphics compo to promote the game.
Atari 8-bit
40x25 chars - monochrome
More info : https://electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave
I've released a few new versions of Mr. Paint over the last week. The latest from tonight is v1.08. Several new features have been added this week, code size optimized, and an updated manual with a shiny new cover page created with Mr. Paint. Available on my GitHub here:
https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/MrPaint
Have fun!
Some Atari 8-bit ASCII pictures that were submitted at ATASCII Compo 2023.
« The Call of Atascii » ranked 8th.
« Visiting the nanoBOT Wedding Fair » ranked 5th.
« Atascii Rasta » ranked 1st in the 'wild' category.
Atari 8-bit ASCII - 40x25 chars monochrome
#demoscene #atari #atari8bit #ascii #atascii
Mistodon: this monochrome scene, promoting the fictitious 0300-HOT-BOTZ chatline, was drawn by @illarterate . It placed 6th in last year's #ATASCII competition, and was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack celebration.
Finally, switching over to the 576 NUK+ to hit the Atari BBSs (the MiSTer FPGA Atari 8 bit core is unfortunately not useful for ATASCII BBSing).
The entries of the 4th ATASCII Compo 2024. Today, October 26th, at 7 pm CEST. https://youtu.be/OhntWA0rgpI
#textart #pixelart #ATASCII #ASCII #ATASCII2023 #ATASCII2024 #retrocomputing #Atari
Atari Message Information System AMIS XE part of the #southernamis projects. 1986 alive and well running at amis86.ddns.net port 9000 or connect from #atascii fTelnet at southernamis.com #atari #bbsing #retrocomputing
#Atari 800 the tank of the Atari 8Bit line. This 800 fitted with Incognito, FJC firmware, provides power without the price. #bbsing to telnet southernamis.ddns.net or you can connect in #Atascii at southernamis.com #southernamis #retrocomputing #atari800
Mistodon: when you split a walnut in half, the interior structure of the shell can resemble an #owl face. I expect that's why this #textmode composition by @illarterate which won 3rd place in the 2023 #ATASCII art compo, is named "Walnut the Owl". It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection.
Mistodon: if your tastes run more towards the tighter constraints of #teletext screens and those more exotic flavours of #textmode art such as the #AMSCII character set of the Amstrad CPC or #ATASCII from Atari's early 8-bit home computers, the new MIST0624 artpack collection has you covered. Here are some sample works from that collection, many of them entries in demoparty competitions, drawn by @atonalosprey , @illarterate and @teletextr
Southern Amis Projects www.southernamis.com
#atari #bbsing rotation, 65XE bone stock (and pretty), Indus GT Floppy, #FujiNet Prof, Big Blue Thermal Printer using BobTerm to call on #southernamis bbs in #atascii #atari65XE #retro #ataricomputer
In this months #atari #bbsing rotation, 1200XL with Rambo, UAV, Indus GT Floppy, FujiNet Prof, Big Blue Thermal Printer using BobTerm to call on #southernamis bbs in #atascii #atari1200xl #retro #ataricomputer
Home Computer Graphic Character Sets Compared
8-bit microcomputer graphics were, compared to the graphics cards and chips we mostly use today, pretty limited. While machines like the Commodore 64 and Atari 800 allow
https://setsideb.com/home-computer-graphic-character-sets-compared/
#retro #appleii #ascii #atari800 #atarist #atascii #bob #characterset #codepage437 #commodore16 #commodore64 #dos #ibmpc #microcomputer #pet #petscii #pixelart #plus4 #retro #subgenius #terminal #trs80 #vic20
Wait what kind of atari #atascii sourcery is this? The southern amis web site has atascii access to the #southernamis projects #atari BBSs?? Yes. Yes we do… southernamis.com FYI desktop recommended 
