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This is what BBSing at 300 baud looks like.

In 1984, this was about as good as it got for me.

Tonight, I needed to hit a couple of Atari / ATASCII BBSs and all I had at hand was a C64. So..I used "AtariTerm", which does ATASCII, but tops out at 300 baud.

It's like riding a bike through a neighborhood you usually fly though at 40MPH. You see and notice things you would usually miss.

I am no stranger to 300 baud, but it's been a while.

#Atari #ATASCII #bbsing #retrocomputing

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in reply to Paradroyd

@mdhughes Watching ASCII and ANSI BBS β€˜graphics’ come in line by line was SO exciting. We couldn’t wait to discover what the image was going to be, or what the (giant ansigraphic) letters/words were.
in reply to CM Harrington

@octothorpe The ATASCII animations of the time were awesome. I made a few little kung fu fight scene ones. They were made for 1200bps, so kinda unwatchable at later speeds.
in reply to Josh Renaud

@kirkman @octothorpe No, I was always Kamikaze, or I had another nick before that, but it wasn't Kung Fu.

Ninja II does look a lot like mine, tho, that style of little guy, and the ambush plot.

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