Here’s a quick, generic guide on how to upgrade Mystic BBS from one version to another. I’m presenting this both because I’ve seen the occasional new Mystic SysOp ask for guidance on upgrading, but also because my BBS, Distortion, had been lagging behind several versions for a while, and the latest version as of this… Read More »
Finally, continuing from part 2, last but certainly not least, we need to talk about color. Color accuracy in ANSI is something that was occasionally discussed around the scene even in the DOS days, but those issues mostly centered around the particulars of an individual’s monitor’s brightness and contrast settings (or perhaps how rich of… Read More »
Now let’s go into a bit more detail about proportion and aspect ratio. An aspect ratio is, at least when we’re talking about displays, the ratio of the width to the height of an image. In Part 1 of this series I talked about how the default CMD.EXE font was totally the wrong size. The… Read More »