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Can it run door games like LORD? Are the ANSI graphics "real"? These are important things to look for in a modern BBS system for me.


Depends on what you mean by real :D It's all unicode text, but you can actually share old school ANSI art in the .ans format because it includes a cp437 to utf8 converter. No door games but i hope to extend the MIDI scripting language to do other things, including eventually making games. Little programs/games embedded directly inside posts is an exciting idea.


So no ansi animations then?


Nope no animations. I think that functionality would come from extensions to the scripting language i mentioned, but that would of course be a different format than original ansi animations.




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