Hi folks. I'm creating a new door game written in Pascal with a star trek >storyline. Looking for suggestions on good ansi art creation software I can use
to make my 'screens' for my text based game. I run linux so that's the one big >snafu.

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program, called
TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great making screens for my linux-based bbs. It may also work well under dosbox.

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a
native linux version.


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Dumas Walker wrote to CALCMANDAN <=-

Hi folks. I'm creating a new door game written in Pascal with a star trek
storyline. Looking for suggestions on good ansi art creation software I can
use to make my 'screens' for my text based game. I run linux so that's the
one big snafu.

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program,
called TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great
making screens for my linux-based bbs. It may also work well
under dosbox.

It does (work well under Dosbox).

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which
has a native linux version.

I downloaded that today and am going to give it a look.



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Re: New door game in dev
By: Dumas Walker to CALCMANDAN on Thu Mar 19 2020 04:00 pm

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.
Daniel Traechin

calcmandan wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested
it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Mon Apr 06 2020 09:52 pm

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

Daniel Traechin

calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Mon Apr 06 2020 09:52 pm

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

Anybody else know how to compile/run Moebius, as gotten from it's
Github site?



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Gamgee wrote to calcmandan <=-

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not
using).

Anybody else know how to compile/run Moebius, as gotten from it's
Github site?

Nevermind... I see now that it needs node/nodejs and 'electron',
not gonna bother with such ridiculousness... :-)



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 07:18 am

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

what distro do you use?
Daniel Traechin

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

That is all right. Glad it is working for you!


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calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

what distro do you use?

Slackware.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 05:46 pm

Slackware.

Can you install a .deb?
Daniel Traechin

calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 05:46 pm

Slackware.

Can you install a .deb?

I've read that it's possible, using 3rd-party utilities, but not
usually recommended. I've never done it.

I've decided not to bother with Moebius and will use other tools
for what I need to do.

Thanks for the followup.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Thu Apr 09 2020 07:16 am

Sorry I can't help. I'm a perman3wb with linux and I certainly don't have the skills to help with slack.

That's admired.
Daniel Traechin

Re: New door game in dev
By: Dumas Walker to CALCMANDAN on Thu Mar 19 2020 04:00 pm

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program, called TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great making screens for

"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard of it. :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Nightfox

Gamgee wrote to calcmandan <=-

calcmandan wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested
it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

I downloaded the debian package for it. Installed just fine.

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"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard of . :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Yes, and those of us who have been around that long would sure know of it.
I was thinking my audience might be newer to BBSing than us, but maybe I am wrong. ;)


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Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard

of

. :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Yes, and those of us who have been around that long would sure know of
it. I was thinking my audience might be newer to BBSing than us, but
maybe I am wrong. ;)

i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because
it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

Now, I do it all the time with this game i'm designing. Good times.

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i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

LOL, yes it was.

I have a sister who, back in the day, did get into doing ANSI art even
though she was not a Sysop (or even a BBS user). I think she saw some of
the screens I was looking at one day and thought it was neat.

Mike


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Dumas Walker wrote to CALCMANDAN <=-

i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

LOL, yes it was.

I have a sister who, back in the day, did get into doing ANSI art even though she was not a Sysop (or even a BBS user). I think she saw some
of the screens I was looking at one day and thought it was neat.

That's hella. Yeah, I'm only now growing a fondness for the art. Giong to differnt boards and downloading ansi packs. It certainly opened my eyes when a bug hit me and started this project.


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Hi folks. I'm creating a new door game written in Pascal with a star trek storyline. Looking for suggestions on good ansi art creation software I can use to make my 'screens' for my text based game. I run linux so that's the one big snafu.

Thanks
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Hi folks. I'm creating a new door game written in Pascal with a star trek >storyline. Looking for suggestions on good ansi art creation software I can use
to make my 'screens' for my text based game. I run linux so that's the one big >snafu.

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program, called
TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great making screens for my linux-based bbs. It may also work well under dosbox.

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a
native linux version.


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Dumas Walker wrote to CALCMANDAN <=-

Hi folks. I'm creating a new door game written in Pascal with a star trek
storyline. Looking for suggestions on good ansi art creation software I can
use to make my 'screens' for my text based game. I run linux so that's the
one big snafu.

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program,
called TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great
making screens for my linux-based bbs. It may also work well
under dosbox.

It does (work well under Dosbox).

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which
has a native linux version.

I downloaded that today and am going to give it a look.



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Re: New door game in dev
By: Dumas Walker to CALCMANDAN on Thu Mar 19 2020 04:00 pm

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.
Daniel Traechin

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calcmandan wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested
it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Mon Apr 06 2020 09:52 pm

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

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calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Mon Apr 06 2020 09:52 pm

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

Anybody else know how to compile/run Moebius, as gotten from it's
Github site?



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Gamgee wrote to calcmandan <=-

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

sudo apt install moebius

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not
using).

Anybody else know how to compile/run Moebius, as gotten from it's
Github site?

Nevermind... I see now that it needs node/nodejs and 'electron',
not gonna bother with such ridiculousness... :-)



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 07:18 am

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

what distro do you use?
Daniel Traechin

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I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

That is all right. Glad it is working for you!


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calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Heh. That only works on Debian-ish systems (which I'm not using).

what distro do you use?

Slackware.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 05:46 pm

Slackware.

Can you install a .deb?
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calcmandan wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Tue Apr 07 2020 05:46 pm

Slackware.

Can you install a .deb?

I've read that it's possible, using 3rd-party utilities, but not
usually recommended. I've never done it.

I've decided not to bother with Moebius and will use other tools
for what I need to do.

Thanks for the followup.



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Re: Re: New door game in dev
By: Gamgee to calcmandan on Thu Apr 09 2020 07:16 am

Sorry I can't help. I'm a perman3wb with linux and I certainly don't have the skills to help with slack.

That's admired.
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Re: New door game in dev
By: Dumas Walker to CALCMANDAN on Thu Mar 19 2020 04:00 pm

That is not a big issue. I currently use an old DOS program, called TheDraw, in a dosemu window under linux. It works great making screens for

"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard of it. :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Nightfox

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Gamgee wrote to calcmandan <=-

calcmandan wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I saw someone else also suggested a program called moebius, which has a native linux version.

Yes thanks for that. I'm using moebius now since you suggested
it. Sorry, I forgot to reply.

I (tried to) take a look at Moebius on Linux, but how the heck to
you start/run it? I downloaded the zip (I think) from github and
did not see any executable files in there, or source code to
compile... How do you run it??? Thanks.

I downloaded the debian package for it. Installed just fine.

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"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard of . :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Yes, and those of us who have been around that long would sure know of it.
I was thinking my audience might be newer to BBSing than us, but maybe I am wrong. ;)


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Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

"an old DOS program, called TheDraw".. You say that like nobody has heard

of

. :P It was probably one of the most well-known ANSI editors in the 90s.

Yes, and those of us who have been around that long would sure know of
it. I was thinking my audience might be newer to BBSing than us, but
maybe I am wrong. ;)

i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because
it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

Now, I do it all the time with this game i'm designing. Good times.

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i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

LOL, yes it was.

I have a sister who, back in the day, did get into doing ANSI art even
though she was not a Sysop (or even a BBS user). I think she saw some of
the screens I was looking at one day and thought it was neat.

Mike


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Dumas Walker wrote to CALCMANDAN <=-

i was an avid bbs user in the nineties but never heard of 'the draw' because it never occured to me to create ANSI graphics. That was a sysop's job in
my eyes.

LOL, yes it was.

I have a sister who, back in the day, did get into doing ANSI art even though she was not a Sysop (or even a BBS user). I think she saw some
of the screens I was looking at one day and thought it was neat.

That's hella. Yeah, I'm only now growing a fondness for the art. Giong to differnt boards and downloading ansi packs. It certainly opened my eyes when a bug hit me and started this project.


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