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  • Re: ANSI speed...

    From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Exodus on Thu Nov 20 18:32:50 2025
    On 20 Nov 25 16:11:31, Exodus said the following to Atreyu:

    I cannot stand 1000000 line ANSIs ... I always hit SPACE to stop praying it works. I don't see an issue to have it display to a user unless they were an ANSI door, LOOKING at ANSIs.

    Reminds me of the few Iniquity & Obv/2 boards we had in the area at one time.

    They ALL had scrollers, custom menus with custom Ansis everywhere.... all
    the same gang of callers, all the same noise in the message areas, all the same pirated warez, all the same doors... nothing really original.

    The boards I did admire as original around here were ones ran by a crackpot religous zealot... Ohhh mannnnn the bible this, the bible that, Jesus this, Jesus that... was entertainment in itself. Subsequently we also had a self-described satanic board... another nutjob but slightly more personable.

    Then there was the wannabe-Rusty-'n-Edie pornographer couple with their stock TriBBS which they bragged at a local Sysop meetup was "the best software" and never shut-up about it or their file section which really you could've found on other boards that didn't care about the whole age verification nonsense.

    Ahh but my favourite was the Searchlight guy who deliberately took the modem offhook to create the illusion of a busy board.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Atreyu on Thu Nov 20 17:54:00 2025

    On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

    Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an
    ANSI.
    What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent
    speed

    Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

    All of my ANSI is optional. The scrollers are random as well.

    --
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
    ,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,999)


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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Shurato on Thu Nov 20 12:14:54 2025
    On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

    Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed

    Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Atreyu on Thu Nov 20 16:11:30 2025

    Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

    I cannot stand 1000000 line ANSIs ... I always hit SPACE to stop praying it works. I don't see an issue to have it display to a user unless they were in an ANSI door, LOOKING at ANSIs.

    I have a ton of art packs in my ANSI door that are 100000000 lines, but you can scroll up and down and look at it. I hate being FORCED to see them. I want to get to the MAIN MENU as quickly as possible and do what I came to do.

    ... If someone shoots me, I get to keep the bullet.

    --- Renegade v1.35/DOS
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (21:1/144)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Shurato on Fri Nov 21 09:03:24 2025
    Re: Re: ANSI speed...
    By: Shurato to Atreyu on Thu Nov 20 2025 14:17:00

    Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

    Atreyu

    It's not mandatory. You can use either the quick login, or customize the long login however you want.

    Setting them up in that manner is a good idea. It allows people to enjoy them a time or two and then opt out if they prefer.
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