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Offline rcamp48

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Program for outputting ansi screens for a BBS
« on: February 19, 2020, 09:12:48 pm »
Does anyone have source code for making ansi screens in QB64 ??? I would love to see for a start a way of making the alphabet in big size as ansi chars. Multi color would be good , and usefull to some of the sysops like myself and others. A way of making ansi screens automatically would be nice.

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Offline TerryRitchie

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Re: Program for outputting ansi screens for a BBS
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2020, 09:19:07 pm »
I'm a BBS ANSI screen designer from way back ( Trial by Fire BBS located in Northern Ohio from 1990 to 1994, right down the road from Rusty'n'Edie )

A program written in QB64 would need to have all the ANSI escape sequences manually coded in, since ANSI.SYS is not compatible with anything except 16bit operating systems. Not impossible, but I would imagine very time consuming.

There are many ANSI editors already out there you can use. One that comes to mind I used to use was called "Playscii" and is still actively developed:

http://vectorpoem.com/playscii/

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