Re: COMADORE
By: Codefenix to HusTler on Fri Dec 09 2022 11:05 am

By: HusTler to theviper on Mon Dec 05 2022 09:24 pm

You have a 30/70 chance your ansi will display correctly. It depends what method (software) you use and which BBS's you post it on. Making an ASCII ad like MRO suggested would be the best thing.

The thing that I've found that works best is saving the finished ANSI so it has a maximum length of 79 or fewer characters per line. I'm referring to the line length internally within the file, and not the visual row width you see when you view it in the editor. There's a difference.

I always shoot for 77
also no clear screen or cursor positioning or 'ansimation'

Any lines longer than 79 characters get line-wrapped by some BBS message readers, which is why they end up looking garbled. Look at (but don't edit) one of the SDT files in your /sbbs/data/subs for your networked ad echoes sometime, and you'll see that the ads that originate from Mystic BBSes almost never have a line length longer than 79 for this reason. The built-in Mystic ANSI editor offers this option by default, and so does AcidDraw. I personally use AcidDraw to do one final save when I prepare something as an ad.

oh i'm surprised people still use aciddraw. usually people use pablodraw or something.

regardless, i LIKE ansi ads. i think they belong in the ad section.

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Re: COMADORE
By: MRO to Codefenix on Fri Dec 09 2022 03:57 pm

oh i'm surprised people still use aciddraw. usually people use pablodraw or something.

I like to use Moebius to do the actual drawing, and then use AcidDraw (in DOSBox) to give it one final save with the max line length option if I plan to use it as an ad. I wish Moebius and PabloDraw both had the ability.

regardless, i LIKE ansi ads. i think they belong in the ad section.

Agreed. I like seeing all the stuff people make.

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Re: COMADORE
By: Codefenix to MRO on Fri Dec 09 2022 05:47 pm

Agreed. I like seeing all the stuff
people make.

Me three. I just wish I could see them
on all the supported platforms... which
is possible!

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Re: COMADORE
By: Phigan to Codefenix on Wed Dec 21 2022 02:19 pm

Re: COMADORE
By: Codefenix to MRO on Fri Dec 09 2022 05:47 pm

Agreed. I like seeing all the stuff people make.

Me three. I just wish I could see them on all the supported platforms... which is possible!

not really.

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