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Glad to hear someone still remembers RIPscrip graphics. I was a co-founder of TeleGrafix Communications, who made the RIPterm and RIPaint software for viewing a

• ethomson 9y ago
  What a blast from the past. I remember TeleGrafix fondly; if I'm being honest, I didn't really use RIPterm all that terribly often; I've always felt more at home in text. But I did run a BBS (1:233/24) and I enjoyed hacking on it more, I think, than actually running it. So I spent a lot of time trying to shoehorn RIPscrip into Maximus, more for the novelty than for any actual demand on the part of my callers. After googling, I just realized that Maximus 3.0 eventually included RIPscrip support built-in, but I had lost interest in my BBS and moved on to hacking on Unix systems by then. But I remember RIPscrip being a nice format. Thanks for providing me with many an afternoon spent tinkering with it.
• glenneroo 9y ago
  Hey I "volunteered" at your shop for awhile! I used to ride my bike an hour after school to get to the office, just to package up RIPterm/paint floppies and use that shitty FedEx PC in the back. I was a wanna-be code junkie and hoped I could glean some of the genius that went into making RIPscrip, though I'm sure it would have gone over my head anyways. It's a real shame that you guys didn't cash in, I always felt it was the natural progression from ANSI which dominated the BBS scene at the time.
• reiger 9y ago
  I spent days making RIPscript menu's - amazing technology for the time!