An overview of BBS (Bulletin Board System) games from the 1990s. How to connect to a telnet BBS to play DOOR games. Creating ANSI graphics with ACiD draw in DOSBox. VT100 color codes explained. A simple telnet server created in Ruby, which displays system time, counts to ten, displays an ANSI file, and has a number guessing game.
Hosted by Levi D. Smith
Ruby source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/SimpleRubyServer
Show Links and Notes
- Telnet BBS Guide – https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
- VT100 codes – http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php
- VT100 codes – http://www.climagic.org/mirrors/VT100_Escape_Codes.html
- VT100 codes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_sequences
- Old School Font PC Resource – https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/
- Telnet protocol – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854
- ACiD Productions (ACiDDraw) – http://www.acid.org/
- PuTTY – https://putty.org/
- DOSBox – https://www.dosbox.com/
- Ruby – https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
- Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster