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history:museum:rip [2020/10/01 17:44] – [See Also] Added link to Tedium article on RIP (and other) BBS graphics technologies digital manhistory:museum:rip [2023/12/21 12:30] (current) – [See Also] A couple more RIP vids digital man
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 Around 1992, I was contacted by the creators of the RIPscrip protocol (TeleGrafix was the company name, but I just knew them as "Jeff and Jim"). They had already "ripped" their own MajorBBS system and they gave me a demo using their custom terminal program, RIPterm. They wanted to help me to do the same with Synchronet. I met with them and gave them a tour of the Synchronet menuing system. After a week or so, they gave me the files (icons and RIP files) to include in Synchronet distributions. I added some auto-RIP detection and automatic ''.RIP'' menu file display and Synchronet v1b01 was the first BBS software to "ship" with built-in RIP support in January 1993. Around 1992, I was contacted by the creators of the RIPscrip protocol (TeleGrafix was the company name, but I just knew them as "Jeff and Jim"). They had already "ripped" their own MajorBBS system and they gave me a demo using their custom terminal program, RIPterm. They wanted to help me to do the same with Synchronet. I met with them and gave them a tour of the Synchronet menuing system. After a week or so, they gave me the files (icons and RIP files) to include in Synchronet distributions. I added some auto-RIP detection and automatic ''.RIP'' menu file display and Synchronet v1b01 was the first BBS software to "ship" with built-in RIP support in January 1993.
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 So the Digital Dynamics crew got excited about RIP for a while and imagined the possibilities of a modernized/graphical user interface for BBSes everywhere. That never really transpired. But it was a good platform for artists who could adapt to RIP's vector/EGA-centric format and funky fonts. So the Digital Dynamics crew got excited about RIP for a while and imagined the possibilities of a modernized/graphical user interface for BBSes everywhere. That never really transpired. But it was a good platform for artists who could adapt to RIP's vector/EGA-centric format and funky fonts.
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   * [[:history:museum:|history:museum index]]   * [[:history:museum:|history:museum index]]
   * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgUSGzqFdk|Video demo of a "modern" ripped PCBoard BBS using RIPtel]]   * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgUSGzqFdk|Video demo of a "modern" ripped PCBoard BBS using RIPtel]]
 +  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydkoaRqcus|Rocking RIP Galleries featuring over 100 Rip art graphics [Quick Version]]]
 +  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z202UuTrDfQ|Relax and Chill Jazz Lounge and RIP Art Galleries]]
   * [[https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps/|Article: Web the RIPper]]   * [[https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps/|Article: Web the RIPper]]
  
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