Well, I've got Arch set up on my old Lenovo Flex 2. Video drivers good, networking good, have SDDM and Sway installed. Using Kitty as my terminal emulator, VimFM as my filemanager, and wmenu as my launcher. Still gotta get power management and sound taken care of.
when you're like hey, I watched some of Iron Man last night, I should vibe code up a terminal emulator
The author created a reusable Go viewport component for text navigation in terminal applications, which they used to build "lore," a new terminal pager. This component handles text wrapping, searching, Unicode, and styling, improving upon existing tools like "less."
ok, cool, I see in the manual that the emulated modem supports outgoing and incoming connections. That means I could emulate a PDP-11 serial interface and then log in to the emulated UNIX and get an 80-column terminal instead of being limited to the 40-column C64 text mode or scrolling left/right.
The Pomera DM250 is a model in the Pomera series of portable text editors (the twenty-first century's answer to 1980s hardware word processors, also known as a writer deck or digital typewriter). It's a small, purpose-built computer made by Japanese stationery company King Jim. There's a more expensive English language version, the DM250US, but the original Japanese version can easily be set to use English anyway. (See how in the tips section below.) Admittedly, you have to get used to the Japanese version's small right-hand shift button, but that's not necessarily any harder than getting used to the English version's up arrow being on the bottom row of keys.
A dark grey Pomera DM250 sits on my desk, in front of my keyboard, flanked by a demonstrator (as in transparent) fountain pen and ink on one side and computer mouse on the other. Behind it, a desktop monitor has a terminal window open, showing the same Markdown file, displayed on a slightly smaller terminal window in a corner of the larger screen. Front and centre is the Pomera itself. Its widescreen 7″ screen shows the text in simple white on black, with the file's headings listed on the side. The keyboard, wider than the screen, is the thin laptop kind, with a Latin-and-Hiragana JIS layout.
Here's my rather lengthy review of the Pomera DM250:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Pomera_DM250...
In short, it's really good if you want to be able to write text files anywhere, without distractions.
The #commodore #c64 can't do 3D graphics, right? Unless it can ... ;-)
Escape From PETSCII Planet (2026) - Commodore 64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=494m0vw4Q_8
I need to find or create an 8x8 Teletext character ROM to use for BBC Micro MODE 7, which is a Teletext mode that was one of the BBC's requirements for the computer they would use for their educational learn-to-program TV series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletex...
It has PETSCII-ish graphics symbols.
Little something I was playing with designing for the C64. A PETSCII game that is sort of like Pipe Dream meets Tetris.
Only to find the Japanese did it in 1991, with Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen.
progress on the BBS is going smoothly. i have most of the networking stuff figured out and i've installed wordle. that's 80% of what i needed to do. i still haven't figured out a good name for the board...
thats a good tip! its funny how much im trying to avoid making my *telnet bbs* a nostalgia-based project lol. i wasnt there for the heyday but i still think its all neat, which i think prevents a lot of the "retvrn" type posting on other modern boatds
same for in MUD/MUSH communities. they are just now all right wing men.. very alienating
visiting some BBSes i haven't been to in a while... an unexpected amount of AI enthusiasm in the retro computing message board community (and some guys i used to talk to got VERY right wing in the last 5 years but that's more expected for some of them lmao)
some boards brag about having 1000s of files of worthless crap. some have miles of unskippable ANSI intros. my board will have some women on it and no right wing dipshits allowed. that will be my unique selling point
SysUp: THE Skip Howard Official HIGHTL - CHUILE Distribution Site For FFE 219-962-2132 ImagiSUFT ARCANUM Interhational UnLine Magazine EPIC UnLine Games * CD-ROM APUGEE QWK: Group * NET Mail * Transcan * Chicagoland Weather UnLine Legal Assistant YourNet A Family Net Service Largest BBS listing in the Mid-West - I with over 1000+,Get yours listed! Conferences/ Doors/ nessages/ Files This BBS Operates 24 Hours A DAY-? Days A Week 2400/9600/11400 bps.
BBSADD.ANS, 1994-10-01 from La Coleccion 1996 March (CD-ROM)
Nethack or other older rougelikes still have a lot of telnet servers up. I play a lot of those at work.
God, are there still good IRC communities out and about and alive?
I ended up uninstalling my IRC clients around when I stopped playing MUDs / MUCKs cause I had no need for telnet connects pffff...
There's another game I remember playing back in the 2000's in high school, I think it'd been around since the 90's too. www.dsl-mud.org
It uses Telnet as well. Seeing Telnet in this post made me remember Dark & Shattered Lands.
Haha thanks, I would LOVE to do an ascii game
ASCII art of my avatar
it was so fun to make this :D
I always grin when I use @anthropic.com Claude Code because it uses ANSI/ASCII art - something I myself used to make back in the early 90s as a kid when I ran a Bulletin Board System!! #dataSky, #dataBS #Claude en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art
Side of a hill with flint and stones with some flowers. This is done in ASCII art.
Another side of a hill with flint and stones with some flowers. This is done in ASCII art.
Added flint (<) and stones (•) to my #ASCII game.
These are items that can be gathered whereas the boulders and flowers either have collision (boulders) or will have some functionality like growth and can be picked (flowers).
#indiegame #indiegamedev #indiedev #rpg
A welcome screen. On the top it says “welcome to IGS at igs.joyjoy.net 6969 (9.0) Copyright(c) 1992-2026 PANDANET inc.” On the left is ASCII art for 围棋 spelled in at signs. On the right, “There is no expectation of privacy on this server. There is no warranty implied or expressed, provided with this software. If you are new to IGS, you need to type guest when you see the Login prompt. You will be given a guest account with limited access. To register, please visit the IGS home page located at: nttp://pandanet-igs.com/ Online help is available after you enter IGS. For help, enter: help If you require further help, please send email to: igs-adm@panda-igs.joyjoy.net
I would love the oral history for why the lovely login ASCII art splash screen says 围棋, which is… the name of the game in simplified Chinese rather than Japanese (which would be 囲碁)
code adapted from : https://gist.github.com/eparadis/d4a242c8cc149f3583c303efa80532c4 ascii rendition of the mandelbrot set, rendered on thermal receipt paper, on aim-65
tiny ascii mandelbrot
A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s
It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
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NOS-PHX1.ANS, 1997-05-25 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)
museumofzzt.com/file/view/nextgame/
“NextGame 33” by Madguy (1999)
Published by: MadGames
[Nextgame.zzt] - “Ship's End” {🔫: 0}
https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/nextgame/
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ZV-CORE.ANS, 2000-02-28 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)
Compiler Switches Sy yntax Code veneration Verbose browser Assembler Assembler reader Assembler output Direct assembler (*) Use default output (*) AT&T style assembler ( Use GNU as ( Intel style assembler () Use NASM coff ( Use NASM elf Assembler info () Use NASM obj List source () Use MASM list register allocation () Use TASM [1 list temp allocation () Use coff ( Use pecoff Conditional defines OK cance
ocompe.ans, 2001-09-09 from ftp.orgchm.bas.bg (FTP)
