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"2015-09-18T18:48:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6bf-cf9c-73fe-9610-2da980ec7e0b", "title": "Talking BBSes on the Electric Dreams podcast", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/09/08/talking-bbses-on-the-electric-dreams-podcast/", "published_at": "2015-09-08T19:49:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6bf-cf9c-73fe-9610-2da980ee4f07", "title": "ANSI tile map", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/05/26/ansi-tile-map/", "published_at": "2015-05-27T02:19:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6bf-cf9c-73fe-9610-2da981b03af5", "title": "Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/01/14/parallax-scrolling-effect-in-ansi/", "published_at": "2015-01-15T04:09:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6bf-cf9c-73fe-9610-2da9826fdaee", "title": "Merry Christmas … Atari STyle", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/12/22/merry-christmas-atari-style/", "published_at": "2014-12-22T17:33:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6bf-cf9c-73fe-9610-2da982e1a1c2", "title": "Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/11/12/hatari-lantronix-and-cosmosex-my-quixotic-quest-to-play-thieves-guild/", "published_at": "2014-11-12T23:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd168cd7de", "title": "A Star Trek font for the new Star Wars movie?", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/11/06/a-star-trek-font-for-the-new-star-wars-movie/", "published_at": "2014-11-07T00:07:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd16e9f9b8", "title": "The vicious circles of Google Plus", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/05/31/the-vicious-circles-of-google-plus/", "published_at": "2014-05-31T20:03:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1718e79e", "title": "Introducing my new game, “Doubles”", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/05/28/introducing-my-new-game-doubles/", "published_at": "2014-05-29T03:23:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1797f1e9", "title": "Mother’s Day: “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/05/11/mothers-day-mom-and-me-for-the-atari-st/", "published_at": "2014-05-11T21:42:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd17af3fc4", "title": "ATASCII animations", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/05/07/atascii-animations/", "published_at": "2014-05-07T20:16:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd188189de", "title": "Second collection: BBS-related podcasts", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/04/09/second-collection-bbs-related-podcasts/", "published_at": "2014-04-09T16:27:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd18a2381c", "title": "Trade Wars vs. Legend of the Red Dragon: Which was the most popular?", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/03/25/trade-wars-vs-legend-of-the-red-dragon-which-was-the-most-popular/", "published_at": "2014-03-25T19:44:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1918e20a", "title": "Hearing from my software heroes", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/03/12/hearing-from-my-software-heroes/", "published_at": "2014-03-13T03:41:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1977e8b5", "title": "Introducing our first special collection: Door World Magazine", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/03/08/introducing-door-world-magazine/", "published_at": "2014-03-08T20:35:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd19c063bf", "title": "Jewels, bats, and balls", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/02/25/jewels-bats-and-balls/", "published_at": "2014-02-26T00:51:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1a3dc970", "title": "Talking BBS games on the Bobby Blackwolf Show", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/02/19/talking-bbs-games-on-the-bobby-blackwolf-show/", "published_at": "2014-02-19T17:49:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1a79f5e3", "title": "Me vs. the Super Bowl", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/01/31/me-vs-the-super-bowl/", "published_at": "2014-01-31T20:24:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1abb8bdf", "title": "Seth Robinson talks LORD and Planets: TEOS with Matt Barton", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2014/01/02/seth-robinson-talks-lord-and-planets-teos-with-matt-barton/", "published_at": "2014-01-02T20:07:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1ba310cd", "title": "One year of Break Into Chat", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/12/02/one-year-of-break-into-chat/", "published_at": "2013-12-02T17:06:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6c9-5094-7202-992f-ddcd1baaf12a", "title": "Happy birthday, Atari Jaguar", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/11/21/happy-birthday-atari-jaguar/", "published_at": "2013-11-21T15:35:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e6d3-af82-73fc-aed1-d51079b7d35c", "title": "“On The Media” revisits a BBS “ghost town”", "url": "https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/11/08/on-the-media-revisits-a-bbs-ghost-town/", "published_at": "2013-11-08T20:23:54+00:00" }, 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2026

The mystery of the Solar Realms Elite title screen original ↗

15 Jun 2026

The many ANSI title screens of Barren Realms Elite (BRE)original ↗

2 May 2026

Don Lokke and “Mack the Mouse”: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 5 original ↗

26 Mar 2026

The business of BBSing: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 4 original ↗

17 Mar 2026

2025

Eerie and “Inspector Dangerfuck”: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 3 original ↗

31 Dec 2025

BBSes and the artscene: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 2 original ↗

28 Dec 2025

Filling in the blanks: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 1 original ↗

24 Dec 2025

Remembering the late Yaakov Kirschen original ↗

8 May 2025

April Fools’ Day prank on Dark Force BBS original ↗

3 Apr 2025

A time capsule for 314 Day: St. Louis-area BBS message networks original ↗

14 Mar 2025

Some love for VT52 on the Atari ST original ↗

16 Feb 2025

Digging in to “Nosh Kosh,” the Jewish Pac-Man clone original ↗

14 Feb 2025

2024

IGNITE – The first all-IGS artpack!original ↗

31 Dec 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 6: Legacy original ↗

25 Oct 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 5: Point and click original ↗

13 Sept 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 4: The artist and the community original ↗

23 Aug 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 3: The adventure begins original ↗

10 Aug 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 2: Larry Mears original ↗

4 Aug 2024

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 1: Introduction original ↗

2 Aug 2024

I’m heading to Atlanta — plus, Jack Tramiel’s phone numbers original ↗

17 May 2024

The college basketball bracket … in ANSI original ↗

18 Mar 2024

Revisiting my ANSI tile map original ↗

13 Mar 2024

Try Kirschen’s games and software on the Internet Archive original ↗

24 Feb 2024

Unearthed: Kirschen’s “Magic Harp” for Commodore Amiga original ↗

3 Jan 2024

2023

Our latest special collection: The ACE-St. Louis “NewsLine”original ↗

3 Sept 2023

Unearthed: My old OASIS BBS Atari floppy disk original ↗

20 Jul 2023

Slides yield glimpses of Kirschen’s lost “Magic Harp” software original ↗

8 Mar 2023

Talking about Kirschen’s software at Arch Reactor original ↗

7 Feb 2023

2022

Unearthed: Kirschen’s “Music Creator” for IBM PC original ↗

29 Nov 2022

Unearthed: Kirschen’s Atari ST projects original ↗

28 Nov 2022

Unearthed: Kirschen’s independent Apple II projects original ↗

27 Nov 2022

Unearthed: Kirschen’s Apple II games for Gesher original ↗

26 Nov 2022

Bringing dry bones back to life: The Kirschen software collection original ↗

26 Nov 2022

Ten years of Break Into Chat!original ↗

25 Nov 2022

Thinking about Jadzia, C.G., and our ephemeral digital lives original ↗

24 Nov 2022

Joe Reiss, creator of the “Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary”original ↗

28 Sept 2022

Remembering the S.O.S. — the Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary original ↗

23 Sept 2022

Appreciating the physicality of floppies original ↗

10 Jan 2022

2021

“Creaks” scene 45: Goat glitch original ↗

17 Jan 2021

2020

Jon Radoff’s BBS-related correspondence original ↗

3 Dec 2020

Paul Witte and Herb Flower, creators of Thieves’ Guild original ↗

15 Sept 2020

I completed my 7-year quest to play Thieves’ Guild original ↗

15 Sept 2020

A different way to play, part 5: TWTerm original ↗

9 Sept 2020

A different way to play, part 4: GTERM original ↗

9 Sept 2020

A different way to play, part 3: OOIITERM original ↗

9 Sept 2020

A different way to play, part 2: Pit Terminal original ↗

9 Sept 2020

A different way to play: front-ends original ↗

9 Sept 2020

Tutorial: Telnet to a BBS using a terminal program in the Hatari emulator original ↗

4 Sept 2020

Unearthed: Dark Fortress for the Atari ST original ↗

4 Jun 2020

Unearthed: My Atari 8-bit cassette tape original ↗

30 May 2020

Slack API documentation mentions BBS door games original ↗

12 Apr 2020

2019

Fidonet archive update original ↗

26 Nov 2019

Gary Martin, creator of “TradeWars 2002”original ↗

19 Jul 2019

Archiving 300,000 Fidonet messages original ↗

8 May 2019

Using high res on my Atari ST with the CosmosEx and a wire original ↗

12 Feb 2019

2018

Modding an iPod 3G to use a CompactFlash card original ↗

4 Jul 2018

New ANSImation: Star Trek: The Trouble With The Rangifer Tarandus original ↗

14 Feb 2018

2017

Web browsing on the Atari ST with a CosmosEx original ↗

6 Sept 2017

I rescued “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST original ↗

14 Jun 2017

New ANSImation: Star Wars opening crawl original ↗

25 May 2017

New parallax ANSImation: Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids original ↗

25 May 2017

Detention Block AA-23 original ↗

25 May 2017

RS232 WiFi dongle for your retrocomputer original ↗

5 May 2017

2016

Who needs SVG when you’ve got ANSI?original ↗

4 Oct 2016

My first ANSI portrait original ↗

20 Sept 2016

Converting movie clips to ANSImation original ↗

4 Jul 2016

Jon Radoff, creator of “Space Empire Elite” and “Final Frontier”original ↗

2 Feb 2016

2015

ANSI mermaid swims in parallax original ↗

31 Oct 2015

“From Here to Eternity” launches today original ↗

28 Sept 2015

Shooter Jennings, creator of “From Here to Eternity”original ↗

18 Sept 2015

Talking BBSes on the Electric Dreams podcast original ↗

8 Sept 2015

ANSI tile map original ↗

27 May 2015

Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI original ↗

15 Jan 2015

2014

Merry Christmas … Atari STyle original ↗

22 Dec 2014

Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”original ↗

12 Nov 2014

A Star Trek font for the new Star Wars movie?original ↗

7 Nov 2014

The vicious circles of Google Plus original ↗

31 May 2014

Introducing my new game, “Doubles”original ↗

29 May 2014

Mother’s Day: “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST original ↗

11 May 2014

ATASCII animations original ↗

7 May 2014

Second collection: BBS-related podcasts original ↗

9 Apr 2014

Trade Wars vs. Legend of the Red Dragon: Which was the most popular?original ↗

25 Mar 2014

Hearing from my software heroes original ↗

13 Mar 2014

Introducing our first special collection: Door World Magazine original ↗

8 Mar 2014

Jewels, bats, and balls original ↗

26 Feb 2014

Talking BBS games on the Bobby Blackwolf Show original ↗

19 Feb 2014

Me vs. the Super Bowl original ↗

31 Jan 2014

Seth Robinson talks LORD and Planets: TEOS with Matt Barton original ↗

2 Jan 2014

2013

One year of Break Into Chat original ↗

2 Dec 2013

Happy birthday, Atari Jaguar original ↗

21 Nov 2013

“On The Media” revisits a BBS “ghost town”original ↗

8 Nov 2013

Hollie Satterfield, creator of “Space Dynasty”original ↗

6 Nov 2013

Space Dynasty memories original ↗

5 Nov 2013

Another BBS game under development original ↗

28 Sept 2013

ANSI_GFX_ADVNTR original ↗

27 Sept 2013

Birthday screens using GIF -> ANSI converters original ↗

20 Sept 2013

Kevin MacFarland, creator of “Assassin”original ↗

6 Sept 2013

Assassin memories original ↗

5 Sept 2013

More VT-52 demos original ↗

11 Aug 2013

Bolivia vacation: Photo and video editing choices original ↗

17 Jul 2013