Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Greek Times to phigan on Wed Feb 25 2026 15:01:00

"Plain Text is beautiful" as a Gopher site has a slogan!) lol

Absolutely. I love seeing a nice, formated screen of text. No distracting images, animations, etc.

Quite a few of those publications were advertising an "online version" of the magazine available through their BBS. Was it just plain ASCII text dropped into file sections?

Pretty much. Like their BBSes, they didn't put much flair into their e-zines. Some mags were offered on commercial services like AOHell...er, "L", Prodigy, Compu$erve, etc. where they could add color and images, but you paid extra for those.

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Hey Robert!

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:54:00 +0000, you wrote:

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.
But, I might install a 32-bit version of windows so can use TheDraw and
set up my bbs directory as a shared volume.

Have you actually looked?

https://github.com/cwensley/pablodraw

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_draw/releases

There's two you can try. I'm sure there's at least one or two more than that, even.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to GREEK TIMES on Thu Feb 26 2026 05:54 am

On Feb 25, 2026 02:33pm, GREEK TIMES wrote to Robert Wolfe:

you mean stock,like mine :) except i have pull down menus :)

lol

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.

PabloDraw isn't?
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On Feb 26, 2026 07:04pm, ACCESSION wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Hey Robert!

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:54:00 +0000, you wrote:

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.
But, I might install a 32-bit version of windows so can use TheDraw and
set up my bbs directory as a shared volume.

Have you actually looked?

https://github.com/cwensley/pablodraw

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_draw/releases

There's two you can try. I'm sure there's at least one or two more than that, even.

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On Feb 27, 2026 12:42am, DIGITAL MAN wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.

Never used it, but will have to give it a try.
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On Feb 27, 2026 12:42am, DIGITAL MAN wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to GREEK TIMES on Thu Feb 26 2026 05:54 am

On Feb 25, 2026 02:33pm, GREEK TIMES wrote to Robert Wolfe:

you mean stock,like mine :) except i have pull down menus :)

lol

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.

PabloDraw isn't?

I installed it, but it lacks support for Wildcat! @-codes though, So .BBS screens just open up as plain ascii.
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Re: RE: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to ACCESSION on Fri Feb 27 2026 07:08 am

Have you actually looked?

https://github.com/cwensley/pablodraw

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_draw/releases

There's two you can try. I'm sure there's at least one or two more
than that, even.

Thanks, that's a start. Now to just get connected to an ftn networkj
or two :)

I don't know why someone would rather use pablodraw than fireup dosbox and
use aciddraw or thedraw.

icedraw is pretty nice though.


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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to DIGITAL MAN on Fri Feb 27 2026 07:15 am

PabloDraw isn't?

I installed it, but it lacks support for Wildcat! @-codes though,
So .BBS screens just open up as plain ascii.

just use ansi screens with your bbs.


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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Greek Times to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 22 2026 08:48 pm

If your looking for old magazines "Internet Archive" is your best bet.

https://archive.org/

or

The Beta Search Engine for faster pulls

https://discmaster.textfiles.com/

Peace!
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Hey Robert!

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:08:00 +0000, you wrote:

Thanks, that's a start. Now to just get connected to an ftn networkj or
two :)

I had mentioned this to you awhile back when answering you feedback, but you must not have read it yet.

Regards,
Nick

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Hey Robert!

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:15:00 +0000, you wrote:

PabloDraw isn't?

I installed it, but it lacks support for Wildcat! @-codes though, So
.BBS screens just open up as plain ascii.

Was there ever an ansi editor that supported Wildcat @-codes?

Here's another one you can add to your list to try, but I can't promise it supports what you're looking for. However, if any of the three I mentioned are still currently maintained, maybe you can ask for that feature:

https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Looking for screensho
By: Accession to Robert Wolfe on Fri Feb 27 2026 09:13 pm

Hey Robert!

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:15:00 +0000, you wrote:

PabloDraw isn't?

I installed it, but it lacks support for Wildcat! @-codes though,
So .BBS screens just open up as plain ascii.

Was there ever an ansi editor that supported Wildcat @-codes?

oh yes. don't you know wildcat! is the bbs software of true
millionaires?
thedraw and other ansi editors supported wilcat! color codes https://i.imgur.com/0hSwYLR.png

Here's another one you can add to your list to try, but I can't
promise it supports what you're looking for. However, if any of the
three I mentioned are still currently maintained, maybe you can ask
for that feature:

https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/

he should just use a converter script.


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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to DIGITAL MAN on Fri Feb 27 2026 07:15 am

On Feb 27, 2026 12:42am, DIGITAL MAN wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Robert Wolfe to GREEK TIMES on Thu Feb 26 2026 05:54 am

On Feb 25, 2026 02:33pm, GREEK TIMES wrote to Robert Wolfe:

you mean stock,like mine :) except i have pull down menus :)

lol

Only because I've yet to find a decent Win64 compatible ANSI editor.

PabloDraw isn't?

I installed it, but it lacks support for Wildcat! @-codes though, So .BBS screens just open up as plain ascii.

WC Color codes? Send the author a feature request! He's responsive.
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I had mentioned this to you awhile back when answering you feedback, but

you

I'm reconne cted to Fido just need to start requesting echoes.

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On Feb 27, 2026 09:10pm, ACCESSION wrote to Robert Wolfe:

Hey Robert!

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:08:00 +0000, you wrote:

Thanks, that's a start. Now to just get connected to an ftn networkj or
two :)

I had mentioned this to you awhile back when answering you feedback, but you must not have read it yet.

Oh sorry. Life's been keeping me busy lately. I am connected again courtesy of Ward Dossche.
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Hey Robert!

On Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:08:00 +0000, you wrote:

Oh sorry. Life's been keeping me busy lately. I am connected again courtesy of Ward Dossche.

I don't think Ward Dossche has anything to do with the feedback you left me on my BBS..?

Regards,
Nick

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