Use TheDraw and the fonts mentioned previously from Roy/SAC site to make quick headers. The Moebius ansi editor is the most photoshop
like one for drawing pictures. blocktronics.github.io/moebius

Moebius is a bit old now, last update 2021. Consider IcyDraw by mkrueger:

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools

It has TheDraw font support, and half-block drawing like Moebius, but builds on it with layers+channels ala PhotoShop, SIXEL support, LUA plugins, and more! Highly recommend.

Current version of IcyDraw is 0.4.1: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyDraw0.4.1

Cheers,
RetroSwim

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Re: ANSI art
By: Retroswim to Lord Raptor on Wed Jul 16 2025 02:42 am

Thanks. Still trying to learn what's being used now.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Lord Raptor to MRO on Wed Jul 16 2025 08:39 am

Just getting back into it. Been 30 years since I last used a
bbs mailer! No telling what I'm gonna quote or who I'll end up
responding to but I'll eventually get this interface down.

1985 to 1995 was the BBS era. It could have lasted longer, but the shareware closed source mindset killed it off quickly when people discovered open source linux.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Jcurtis to Lord Raptor on Wed Jul 16 2025 09:26 pm

1985 to 1995 was the BBS era. It could have lasted longer, but the shareware closed source mindset killed it off quickly when people discovered open source linux.

Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.
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Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

IDK about you but it did for me.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Jcurtis to DIGITAL MAN on Wed Jul 16 2025 10:07 pm

Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

IDK about you but it did for me.

Care to elaborate?
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Jcurtis wrote to Lord Raptor <=-

1985 to 1995 was the BBS era. It could have lasted longer, but the shareware closed source mindset killed it off quickly when people discovered open source linux.

I don't think it was Linux that killed the BBS era, it was internet
access. People realized they could get a PPP account and log on
everywhere without getting a busy signal. Once Windows 95 came out and
the Dial-up Networking app made it simple to connect, that was the death
knell for BBSes.

Ironically, it was also a shot in the arm for BBSing, albeit
short-lived. Being able to download Fido packets over the internet
instead of going through the toll-based backbone system was a breath of
fresh air. Conversations could turn around in minutes/hours instead of
days. It was too late, though. By that time, people had discovered the
web.




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1985 to 1995 was the BBS era. It could have lasted longer, but the shareware
closed source mindset killed it off quickly when people discovered open source linux.

Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

While I tend to agree, and don't know what the OP had in mind, by opening things up it could have given some folks other things to do with their
"online" time while cutting into their BBSing time.

Although I never took my BBS down, discovering linux took a lot of the time
I had formerly dedicated to it. At some point, that pendulum did swing
back.

What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were running linux or Windows or ???.


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What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were running linux or Windows or ???.

The general public were never BBS users in the first place. Their world
was Compuserve, AOL, and later, the Internet.

Technical people populated the BBS world. When open source became widely available (linux), the BBS crowd abandoned ship. It could been different
with open source BBS software, but the shareware mindset persisted until
it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Jcurtis to DUMAS WALKER on Thu Jul 17 2025 12:53 pm

The general public were never BBS users in the first place. Their world
was Compuserve, AOL, and later, the Internet.

Technical people populated the BBS world.

I disagree: there were tons of non-technical people (by today's standards) in the BBS usership - the majority in fact.

When open source became widely
available (linux), the BBS crowd abandoned ship. It could been different with open source BBS software

There were many open source BBS programs, before Linux even existed.

but the shareware mindset persisted until
it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

The loss of *users* killed the BBS age and those users were mostly *not* using Linux or or cared whether the source code to their web browser or other desktop software was open or not. "shareware mindset" had nothing to do with it.
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Re: ANSI art
By: Jcurtis to DUMAS WALKER on Thu Jul 17 2025 12:53 pm

What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing
availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were running
linux or Windows or ???.

The general public were never BBS users in the first place. Their world was Compuserve, AOL, and later, the Internet.

Technical people populated the BBS world. When open source became widely available (linux), the BBS crowd abandoned ship. It could been different with open source BBS software, but the shareware mindset persisted until it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

I don't think that's true at all.. Anyone who was using those services back then had to be technical enough to even own a computer. And they would have been the same types of people to use BBSes. Another thing is that local BBSes were often free, whereas those big online services cost money. I could see a lot of people using BBSes instead of those services so they wouldn't have to pay their subscription fees.

I was 12 when I first started using BBSes, so I wasn't even very technical yet.. There were a lot of other kids my age using BBSes around that time too.. And in fact, in "BBS: The Documentary", there was an episode where one particular sysop said "12 year olds who got a modem for Christmas" was a common thing, and often he'd close his BBS to new users for a couple months after Christmas because there would be a flood of kids who wanted to create new accounts.

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Jcurtis wrote to DUMAS WALKER <=-

What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were running linux or Windows or ???.

The general public were never BBS users in the first place. Their world was Compuserve, AOL, and later, the Internet.

Technical people populated the BBS world. When open source became
widely available (linux), the BBS crowd abandoned ship. It could been different with open source BBS software, but the shareware mindset persisted until it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

You're as clueless about this subject as you are on everything else
you've bloviated about around here recently.

Is there *anything* that you actually know something about?



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Re: ANSI art
By: Digital Man to Jcurtis on Wed Jul 16 2025 09:33 pm

Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

It was probably Jesus.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Nightfox to Jcurtis on Thu Jul 17 2025 04:03 pm

were often free, whereas those big online services cost money. I could see lot of people using BBSes instead of those services so they wouldn't have to pay their subscription fees.

It was such BS when some BBSes went pay just because they added some small amount of Internet access from it.

Yeah, those boards died the quickest.

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Re: ANSI art
By: phigan to Nightfox on Fri Jul 18 2025 12:27 am

It was such BS when some BBSes went pay just because they added some small amount of Internet access from it.

Yeah, those boards died the quickest.

Nothing wrong with making an honest buck. But it only lasts until big money takes notice. Small operators are gradually squeezed out and eventually only giants remain. That's what the telcos and cable operators did to independent ISPs.

Like the shareware mindset, it was always doomed.

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Dumas Walker wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-

What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were
running linux or Windows or ???.

Windows 95's networking, a critical mass of email users and the
proliferation of "friendly" Internet apps like Netcomm's NetCruiser that bundled a dialer, browser, email client and news client all-in-one was a
body blow that BBSes never really recovered from.

Fun fact - NetCruiser email accounts came in the format
user@ix.netcom.com. NetCruiser was originally going to be called
"Internet Express", but they ran into copyright issues.

My dad retired in the early 90s after a career in accounting working on
Big Iron. He thought he might want to do some consulting, so I cobbled
together a 386/40, a couple of megs of RAM, a spare monitor, a copy
of Windows and a copy of Lotus 1-2-3.

Consulting didn't pan out, he got a Netcruiser account and started
emailing people he knew who had email and discovered newsgroups -
specifically alt.smokers.pipes, a community who turned out to be His
People.

He also thoroughly enjoyed side-scroller games like Commander Keen,
going through a video game phase he predated as a kid.

If it weren't for NetCruiser, he never would have gotten the first foot
onto the internet.





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Nightfox wrote to Jcurtis <=-

around that time too.. And in fact, in "BBS: The Documentary", there
was an episode where one particular sysop said "12 year olds who got a modem for Christmas" was a common thing, and often he'd close his BBS
to new users for a couple months after Christmas because there would be
a flood of kids who wanted to create new accounts.

I remember the kids who started night-time BBSes on their parents' phone
lines, then had to take them down when people called during the day.

"STOP CALLING, MAN, MY PARENTS ARE REALLLLY PISSED!"




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phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-

It was such BS when some BBSes went pay just because they added some
small amount of Internet access from it.

Yeah, those boards died the quickest.

I don't think I ever paid for BBS access. One-time donations or ensuring they didn't pay at gettogethers, yes.

One of the great attractors to running BBS was having people call your
board, leave messages and upload files - all without you having to make
a call or pay for a membership. :)



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What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were running linux or Windows or ???.

The general public were never BBS users in the first place. Their world
was Compuserve, AOL, and later, the Internet.

I disagree. When I first got into BBSing, those things were in their
infancy (or were yet to become a thing at all) and there were a lot of
non-IT folks using BBSes, myself included. Seemed like anyone who got a PC that had a modem was at least trying out BBSes.

Where I live *now* (a smaller, non-urban town), what you say is correct, but the reason here being that most people in this area (even the ones I worked with in IT when I first moved here) didn't have computers at home. When they got them, it was for getting on the internet. They skipped the BBSing
"phase."

Technical people populated the BBS world.

While there were a bunch, not all of them were technical and, of the ones
that were, some were more "radio" (HAM) technical than "PC" technical. I
was not "technical" when I started BBSing. BBSing was my gateway into
getting into IT.

I knew of some HAM BBSers back then that were not PC technical at all. I
don't think any of them migrated from BBSing to linux, but they did move
on to the internet eventually.

When open source became widely
available (linux), the BBS crowd abandoned ship. It could been different
with open source BBS software, but the shareware mindset persisted until
it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

I don't think they did. If they could run it on linux, they did. I do
agree that many of the maintainers of the established packages, like PC
Board, GT Power, Wildcat, etc., hung onto the shareware/commercial mindset too long. That said, one of the more popular BBS softwares, RBBS, was IIRC always open source or freeware. IIRC, either Renegade or Telegard was also free
to use by then. I don't think those were the only ones.


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but the shareware mindset persisted until
it was too late. Stubborn authors sank the ship.

The loss of *users* killed the BBS age and those users were mostly *not* using
Linux or or cared whether the source code to their web browser or other deskto
software was open or not. "shareware mindset" had nothing to do with it.

Of the ones I knew, none of them were linux users at that time. They may
have migrated to it years later, after deciding that Windows wasn't to
their liking.

They bought a new PC that came with Windows 9x, discovered the Internet,
and they were gone.


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Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

It was probably Jesus.

No, I knew Jesus and Jesus (hey-zeus) was never a BBS user.


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Re: ANSI art
By: Dumas Walker to PHIGAN on Fri Jul 18 2025 11:02 am

No, I knew Jesus and Jesus (hey-zeus) was never a BBS user.

You don't have to be user to bring on something's downfall.
Necessarily.

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Jcurtis wrote to phigan <=-

Nothing wrong with making an honest buck. But it only lasts until big money takes notice. Small operators are gradually squeezed out and eventually only giants remain. That's what the telcos and cable
operators did to independent ISPs.

I was on one of those independent ISPs that resold Pacific Bell DSL. The
owner and I spoke the same language, so to speak (I was a telecom
manager at the time) and he vented a lot about how much in bad faith the
telco dealt with court-mandated allowances.

I had to reach out to look at DSL for my family's cabin out in the
sticks, and since AT&T is positioning to get rid of land lines, they no
longer offer DSL. They essentially offer the same thing that the
resellers were able to offer - DSL without the land line. They estimate
we'll get 6mb down/768k up.

It's 20+ year old technology, but it's the only game in town in many
places.

I suppose we could try for Starlink, but I'm not sure how it works in
dense tree cover.





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Dumas Walker wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-

Of the ones I knew, none of them were linux users at that time. They
may have migrated to it years later, after deciding that Windows wasn't
to their liking.

The timeline is off, I remember in 1994 working with Linux -- at work,
I had a tech working for me who'd gotten a copy of SLS linux and we
installed it on a leftover 486. Hardware support was extremely limited,
it took a call to some people at Intel to get support for our
EtherExpress 16 cards (To this day, we're not sure if we were allowed
to have the code and my friend insists that he was responsible for
Intel NIC support in Linux) and it all ended up being a wonderful
project for a team of tech support people - but nothing that Joe User
could manage.

A couple of years later, setting up SLIP on a Linux box was a pain,
and running FVWM and a primitive browser was challenging.



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Re: ANSI art
By: phigan to Digital Man on Fri Jul 18 2025 12:23 am

Re: ANSI art
By: Digital Man to Jcurtis on Wed Jul 16 2025 09:33 pm

Linux and open source had nothing to do with the downfall of BBSes.

It was probably Jesus.

I think it was Trump...

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Re: ANSI art
By: Bf2k+ to phigan on Sun Jul 20 2025 07:40 pm

It was probably Jesus.

I think it was Trump...

Wait, they're not one and the same?

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I was one of those Hams that began logging on to BBS'es after getting a C=64 many years ago.

I met you on another GT POWER BBS, The Volunteer BBS and later joined your Pan-American BBS .

Reading computer magazines started my interest but when a fellow Ham told me about a dial-up Commodore BBS i ztarted there.
I found about The Volunteer BBS from a list in a free monthly(?) magazine I found in some stores.

40 years ago.

I wanted to learn about computing from folks who KNEW computing already
Kinda like the old Automobile commercial:
Ask the man who owns one.

How can I become A Mister Know-It-All other than by associating with the people Who Actually KNOW the ins and outs of operating computers,sharing their successes and failures with others Users.

I never got to the Mr. KIA level BUT I have learned lots and lots of things that makes computing life easier for me.
Also the BBS membership allows Me to share things I've learned (good&bad) while using the gear here.

Thanks to You and all of the other Sysops that I used their Systems, I enjoy using PC's and this cellphone You Folks have made my life easier.
So I come back, and back, and back againand again.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Ed
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Re: ANSI art
By: phigan to Nightfox on Fri Jul 18 2025 12:27 am

Nothing wrong with making an honest buck. But it only lasts until big money takes notice. Small operators are gradually squeezed out and eventually only giants remain. That's what the telcos and cable operators did to independent ISPs.

Like the shareware mindset, it was always doomed.
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Your last line had me remember way back 40 years ago when there were many free Games written and shared for the C=64 and after running a game I saw a screen saying itwS a Shareware Program and had some numbers after a Dollar Sign.

I'd never seen that before .Until that day.

Some years later I got a disk to try out Compuserve for a half hour at no cost. I looked aound Compuserve and didn't think it was worth paying for.

T'wasn't until I got interested in DSL that I wanted to spend money for my hobby.
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Your post had me remember that You and Daryl Stout were using your internet account to Transfer GT Power packets long before the FIDO SYSOPS begansoing that.

It is normal operating procedure now days

You Two were doing that to lessen your telephone bill(s).

THANKS MUCH­!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I found about The Volunteer BBS from a list in a free monthly(?) magazine I found in some stores.

40 years ago.

The Help Line was probably the first GT Power BBS I used. The Volunteer
was my local network hub for many years.

I found most local BBS numbers posted on the boards I called.


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Your post had me remember that You and Daryl Stout were using your internet account to Transfer GT Power packets long before the FIDO SYSOPS begansoing that.

It is normal operating procedure now days

You Two were doing that to lessen your telephone bill(s).

THANKS MUCH­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually starting doing that with some software that another GT Power BBS sysop wrote... Russell Kroll, I think. He maintained the software that
allowed a GT BBS to connect to Usenet/the Internet.


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Ed,

How can I become A Mister Know-It-All other than by associating
with the people Who Actually KNOW the ins and outs of operating computers,sharing their successes and failures with others
Users.

The same applies to amateur radio or any other hobby. You can NOT
know or do EVERYTHING in that hobby, but you can be an "Elmer" (to
use the highest compliment a ham radio operator can receive), to the
new folks to the hobby.

I never got to the Mr. KIA level BUT I have learned lots and
lots of things that makes computing life easier for me.
Also the BBS membership allows Me to share things I've learned
(good&bad) while using the gear here.

There are a few bad apples with any hobby, but for the most part,
experiences have been good...and you make many new friends.

Thanks to You and all of the other Sysops that I used their
Systems, I enjoy using PC's and this cellphone You Folks have
made my life easier. So I come back, and back, and back
againand again. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back after a nearly 9 month BBS hiatus (although it was
longer regarding the message networks), as "life got in the way";
namely with my younger brother's suicide, panic attacks, and a
nervous breakdown, that landed me in the psychiatric ward for a
week.

They were feeding us 2000 calories A MEAL (not a day), like WE
were the ones being fattened up for Thanksgiving...although some
of us feel that we're turkeys, anyway. <G> After my release, a
fellow ham radio operator told me "You have an excuse to be sane;
the rest of us aren't so lucky".

73,

Daryl, N5VLZ

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Ed,

Your post had me remember that You and Daryl Stout were using
your internet account to Transfer GT Power packets long before
the FIDO SYSOPS begansoing that.

It is normal operating procedure now days

You Two were doing that to lessen your telephone bill(s).

Like ham radio operators, BBS Sysops are frugal cheapskates. <G>

THANKS MUCH­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pleasure was ours.

73,

Daryl, N5VLZ

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Mike,

The Help Line was probably the first GT Power BBS I used. The
Volunteer was my local network hub for many years.

I found most local BBS numbers posted on the boards I called.

When I first got into dialing up local BBS's, I found a BBS telecommunications program called "GT Power" at a local computer
store (which has long since shut down). It came on 5.25" floppy
disks. I recognized the software as what was being run by some
other central Arkansas area BBS's...and after the original author,
Paul Meiners, moved from Houston, Texas, to Phoenix, Arizona, I
finally got in touch with him, and was able to register it.

I ran it exclusively from 1992 to 2005 under dial-up. The only
2 other packages I used (after the change in developers for GT)
were Virtual Advanced and Synchronet. Of those 3, only Synchronet
is being actively developed with features, add-ons, etc.

Getting things set up wasn't difficult, but it was tedious.

I still use one of the GT Power utility screens (PowerNews),
that was done by Cory Wright of The Rising Connection (TRC),
and I had used his DoorWorks utility to track door usage. Since
I'm back with Synchronet, I've tried workarounds to find a door
usage utility that I can use, but so far, none have worked.

Daryl

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Mike,

I actually starting doing that with some software that another
GT Power BBS sysop wrote... Russell Kroll, I think. He
maintained the software that allowed a GT BBS to connect to
Usenet/the Internet.

I believe you're correct on that. Unfortunately, most of the BBS
software, doorgame, and utility authors are gone.

Daryl

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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: Daryl Stout to Dumas Walker on Tue Sep 02 2025 05:30 pm

and I had used his DoorWorks utility to track door usage. Since
I'm back with Synchronet, I've tried workarounds to find a door
usage utility that I can use, but so far, none have worked.

I don't know how well it works (I didn't write it), but there is this: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tree/master/xtrn/doorscan

Did you try that one?
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and I had used his DoorWorks utility to track door usage. Since
I'm back with Synchronet, I've tried workarounds to find a door
usage utility that I can use, but so far, none have worked.

Since synchronet is being actively developed, and there are still folks
writing utilities for it, maybe someone out there somewhere has ideas about that.

on edit: looks like DM suggested one that is in the repository.


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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: Daryl Stout to Dumas Walker on Tue Sep 02 2025 05:30 pm

I believe you're correct on that. Unfortunately, most of the BBS
software, doorgame, and utility authors are gone.

well they are still around. they have just moved on and i understand that.
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Rob,

I don't know how well it works (I didn't write it), but there
is this:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tree/master/xtrn/doorscan

Did you try that one?

I don't think I have...I'll have to get it.

Daryl

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Mike,

Since synchronet is being actively developed, and there are
still folks writing utilities for it, maybe someone out there
somewhere has ideas about that.

on edit: looks like DM suggested one that is in the repository.

I saw that, and I'll go get it after I finish this mail packet,
although dinner may need to come first. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: Digital Man to Daryl Stout on Tue Sep 02 2025 10:36 pm

and I had used his DoorWorks utility to track door usage. Since
I'm back with Synchronet, I've tried workarounds to find a door
usage utility that I can use, but so far, none have worked.

I don't know how well it works (I didn't write it), but there is this: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tree/master/xtrn/doorscan

Tim uses D-DooR v4.10 * Copyright (c) 1993 * Victor Magdic over at The Fool's Quarter

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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: The Lizard Master to Digital Man on Thu Sep 04 2025 09:24 am

I don't know how well it works (I didn't write it), but there is
this: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tre
e/master/xtrn/doorscan

Tim uses D-DooR v4.10 * Copyright (c) 1993 * Victor Magdic over at
The Fool's Quarter

yeah that looks decent.
https://i.imgur.com/FEgpvYm.png
I'm not sure how much he had to struggle with it.
i dont have it on my system and i dont see it on his website. his bbs has no files. okay now i see i have it. it's for RA.

i can upload it to vert.
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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Daryl Stout on Wed Sep 03 2025 04:55 pm

Re: Re: ANSI art
By: Daryl Stout to Dumas Walker on Tue Sep 02 2025 05:30 pm

I believe you're correct on that. Unfortunately, most of the BBS software, doorgame, and utility authors are gone.

well they are still around. they have just moved on and i understand that.

And some of us are still around, but haven't moved on.

Lonewolf
AI-WX Weather Door (2025)
RoboTape (1992) etc...

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Re: Re: ANSI art
By: Lonewolf to MRO on Thu Sep 11 2025 04:38 pm

well they are still around. they have just moved on and i understand that.

And some of us are still around, but haven't moved on.

Lonewolf AI-WX Weather Door (2025) RoboTape (1992) etc...

good for you
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