#igs

This is a clip of Fightcade Matches for Xing Yi Quan aka Martial Masters uploaded by CHAQN2 On YouTube. It's between Costa Rican Player Wen [AFW/EPA] And Mexican Player DeivMustein.
#MartialMasters #形意拳 #シンイーケン #IGS #FightingGames #Fightcade

#GiftArticle

“…details vary by context, but poli scientist Elizabeth David-Barrett lays out 3 general mechanisms of #StateCapture. They now sound familiar:shaping the rules of the game thru #law & #policy; #influencing admin decisions by capturing the #budget, appts, govt #contracts & #regulatory decisions;& #disabling checks on #power by #dismantling #accountability structures like the #judiciary, law enforcement & prosecution, & audit institutions like #IGs & #media.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/elon-musk-donald-trump-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk4.7kNE.lNjRD0c-drn1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Celebrate the new year with a fun new artpack: IGNITE 01!

This pack celebrates "Instant Graphics and Sound," a unique Atari ST-specific corner of BBS history, with 18 new images and animations for your viewing pleasure.

Download the pack from @mistfunk:
https://mistigris.org/packs/IGNITE01.ZIP

Learn more about it at Break Into Chat:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/12/31/ignite-the-first-all-igs-artpack/

#retrocomputing #IGS #vintagecomputing #atari #PixelArt #MastoArt #textmode #ansiart #asciiart #atarist #bbs

IGNITE 01 IS HERE!

Squeaking in before New Year's -- at least in *part* of North America -- it's the world's first all-IGS artpack from Break Into Chat and Mistigris computer arts (@mistfunk).

Featuring 9 static images and 8 animations in IGS format for the Atari ST. Download it now!

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/12/31/ignite-the-first-all-igs-artpack/

#igs #atarist #atari #pixelart #textmode #mastoart #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #bbs #breakintochat

Okay, I enjoy trying to make animations in obscure formats as much as the next guy, but I am NOT going to try this one.

A person’s got to draw a line somewhere. For me, that line is exercise.

https://wapo.st/3B6KXQO (gift link)

#igs #atarist #pixelart #animation #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #atari #bbs #bbsing

Ugh ... sprites and animation are so hard. And the limitations of creating this for IGS makes them even harder!

No wonder I waited six years since the last time I attempted to make an animation with a story/dialogue.

I made a ton of progress on Calvin today, and I wrote a script. Hopefully now I can stop spinning my wheels on the coding, and bear down on putting it all together.

#igs #atarist #pixelart #animation #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #atari #bbs #bbsing

I've been working on a new IGS animation involving this guy, who was pretty popular back during IGS heyday in the early 1990s.

Animation is pretty tough, but some of the constraints imposed by the IGS format (plus my own personal constraints) are making really hard. It's also challenging to draw these sprites!

But I think I've finally landed on a sequence of events I can draw -- and make fit in the available space.

#igs #atarist #atari #pixelart #bbs #bbsing #dev #retrocomputing

This is a clip of Fightcade Matches for Xing Yi Quan aka Martial Masters uploaded by CHAQN2 On YouTube. It's between Costa Rican Player Wen [AFW/EPA] And Mexican Player GIMURA.
#MartialMasters #形意拳 #シンイーケン #IGS #FightingGames #Fightcade

This is a clip of Brazilian Fightcade Matches for the Taiwanese Fighting Game Ao Jian Kuang Dao aka The Killing Blade uploaded by CHAQN2 on YouTube. It's between Gruntar And Tio Chico.
#TheKillingBlade #傲劍狂刀 #IGS #FightingGames #Fightcade

This is a clip of Fightcade Matches for Xing Yi Quan aka Martial Masters uploaded by CHAQN2 on YouTube. It's between Dominican Player Erickof1 And Brazilian Player Lucasrocha2013.
#MartialMasters #形意拳 #シンイーケン #IGS #FightingGames #Fightcade

From full-blown graphical user interfaces, to strategy and dice games, the point-and-click features of "Instant Graphics and Sound" made some radically different experiences possible on a humble Atari ST bulletin board system.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/09/13/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-5-point-and-click/

This is part 5 of my #longreads series on IGS. Boosts appreciated!

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

I hope you’ll enjoy reading about this little known protocol and the people who made it and used it.

I’ve spent years researching it, fascinated by the idea that my beloved Atari ST had something like RIPscrip, but better in many ways, years earlier … but I didn’t know it back in the day.

Four parts of the series have been posted so far.
#RetroComputing #LongReads #atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

How about some #RetroComputing #LongReads to relax with this weekend?

https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/

Discover the artist, the programmers, and the community who made cool — but forgotten — art, animation, and games for Atari ST bulletin boards using a protocol called "Instant Graphics and Sound."

(Boosts greatly appreciated!)

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

Steve Turnbull worked in showbiz and lived in sunny Laguna Beach, Calif.

A visual thinker, he had become disenchanted with the text-only world of Atari ST bulletin board systems.

Then he discovered "Instant Graphics!" in 1990 — and he began unleashing a torrent of art.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/22/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-4-the-artist-and-the-community/

This is part 4 of my #longreads series on IGS. Boosts appreciated!

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

How about some #RetroComputing #LongReads to relax with this Sunday?

Discover the community that made cool art, animation, and games using a little-known protocol for Atari ST bulletin boards, called "Instant Graphics and Sound."

https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/

(Boosts greatly appreciated!)

#igs #atarist #atari

If you build it, will they come? Larry Mears had created an innovative protocol for Atari ST BBSes — "Instant Graphics!" — but it took a pair of Navy guys from Jacksonville, Florida, to create the tools that would help it catch on.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/09/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-3-the-adventure-begins/

This is Part 3 of my deep dive into the history of the little-known "Instant Graphics and Sound" format.

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

A self-described “working man without a degree,” Larry Mears was a shipping clerk for a bakery in Huntsville, Alabama, who often downplayed his own coding ability.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/04/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-2-larry-mears/

“I am not an advanced-level programmer,” he once wrote. Still, he enjoyed programming on the Atari ST because it exercised his mind.

“My job takes care of the old back,” he joked.

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

In 1988, Larry Mears created a revolutionary tool for displaying animations and graphics on normally text-only Atari ST BBSes.

The problem was getting people to use it.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/04/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-2-larry-mears/

Part 2 of my "Instant Graphics and Sound" history takes an in-depth look at Mears, his first attempts to expand the frontiers of BBSing, and his early discouragements.

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

Years before the dawn of the WWW, the online world of the 1980s was almost entirely text. Larry Mears wanted more.

With IGS, he became one of the earliest to succeed in bringing vector graphics, animation, and sound to BBSes.

But his work is almost entirely forgotten today. Let's change that.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

It's here! Part 1 of my in-depth series on "Instant Graphics and Sound," a revolutionary but forgotten plain-text graphics protocol for Atari ST BBSes, which debuted in 1988.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/

Please help me spread the word!

#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs