(I wrote this once before, but I think I deleted it. If you see it twice, my apologies.)

So if you're reading this, I've at least got DOVE-NET set up properly. I just set up Synchronet lastnight for the first time. I haven't run a BBS since the mid 90s, and when I did it was RemoteAccess, and I wasn't very good at being a SysOp.

That said, how are you guys running your door games on Linux? I've got an Ubuntu box lying around as a media server, so I tossed Synchronet on it out of nostalgia mostly. I've got Dosemu installed via apt, and cannot get LORD 4.07 to run properly on it, nor under DOSBOX on my Windows 8 PC. Not to mention getting the program to work launching out of a door menu.

Inaddition, does anyone have a suggestion on a good ANSI editor? I'm a
terrible artist but I'd like to at least make some splash screens. I'm torn about whether or not I want to pony up for a Linode and a domain name and actually run a BBS or if I want to keep it in my house as a hobby deal and just give the IP out to a few friends to let them play with it.

Thanks for the help, in advance.


Xir
Sysop, Bayou Connection
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Re: New to Synchronet
By: LaRRy LaGoMoRpH to Xir on Mon Nov 03 2014 12:31 pm


Thanks for the BBSlink.net idea. That's a stellar idea and I'm going to avail myself of it, I believe.

Does PabloDraw support the old TheDraw fonts? I still have a bunch of those lying around on some CD backups that I'm playing with using TheDraw under DOSBOX but I don't have to tell you how clunky that is.

I appreciate the reply. =)

Xir
Sysop, Bayou Connection
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Re: New to Synchronet
By: Xir to LaRRy LaGoMoRpH on Mon Nov 03 2014 03:10 pm

Re: New to Synchronet
By: LaRRy LaGoMoRpH to Xir on Mon Nov 03 2014 12:31 pm

Thanks for the BBSlink.net idea. That's a stellar idea and I'm going to avail myself of it, I believe.

Does PabloDraw support the old TheDraw fonts? I still have a bunch of those lying around on some CD backups that I'm playing with using TheDraw un

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DOSBOX but I don't have to tell you how clunky that is.

I appreciate the reply. =)

Xir
Sysop, Bayou Connection

I don't believe PabloDraw has fonts, but I could be wrong. It has some stuff you wouldn't expect, like server functionality for collaborative drawing, but I don't think it has fonts.

There are probably a few ways to do fonts, but the way I do it is using a tool in the browser that generates ASCII fonts and I just copy and paste into Pablo Draw. It's not ideal, but in a lot of ways it's superiorto the Draw which people have told me is not a vortex I want to get sucked into. I remember being good at making animations inthe 90's, and that would be what I miss in Pablo Draw, although I can animate a bit using some synchronet Javascript libraries. But yeah, I digress, I don't believe it supports the Draw fonts,
but you should be able to copy and paste something similar inthere. This is the URL of the place I generate ASCII fonts, I'm sure there are other ways to do it including from the command line, but using this URL with the copy and paste method is my trick : http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

I have to color stuff in after it's done, but I'm ok with that. When I think about it, there's probably a gazillion features that could be added to Pablo Draw to make things easier, but I have no idea who even wrote it and I'm just grateful there's something semi-modern, cross platform, etc that is pretty stable for making ANSI art. There's probably not a huge market for that software, although it seems like there are ANSI artists active who don't do the BBS thing but still enjoy the artform. I think the majority of those people use Pablo Draw, for what it's worth.

Glad to hear you're probably gonna sign up for BBS link, more players for the games! Watch out for me in Tradewars.

cheers,
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