(08-02-2022, 10:25 AM)BDS107 Wrote: I know a challenge: reprogramming TheDRAW in QB64. But many items can be extracted like the BBS animation.
Other things can be included, such as choice between blinking or 16 background colors, saving to DATA statements, better support for 80x25, 80x43, 80x50 or more etc.
Unfortunately I'm not the best programmer to program something like this myself.
Not sure if anyone already has or uses such a program? Currently I am using TheDRAW from a DOSBOX.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
http://www.syaross.org/thedraw
I don't know about IBM-based BBS ANSI animation, but I made plenty of those kinds of animations and pictures on the Commodore 64 back in the days of modems and BBSes.
I don't recall what terminal program I was using back then (I have it on a floppy disk somewhere) but it let you capture your session to a buffer (all incoming and outgoing text, including keystrokes you typed, including CBMSCII graphic characters, color changes, cursor movements, etc.) which could then be saved to a SEQ file that could be loaded back into the terminal later, and played back so you could watch the drawings and animations.
I still have a bunch of these files with little ASCIImation movies I made, saved on 5.25" floppies, and it would be neat to be able to play those back, and record it to a video file or animated GIF.
I would probably need to transfer the terminal program and saved files to PC with an x1541 cable, and play everything back in an emulator like VICE which I think can do screen record to video file.
But it would be cool if there were a utility that could play back these files natively on the PC.