> who remembers rip graphics?

Seeing LORD the first time with RIP graphics made me rethink everything I thought I knew about BBS games.

Good memories, beverage on me in the tavern.

Don't forget HS/Link! [1] It was kind of cool being able to chat while the transfer was happening.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link

HS/Link was invaluable for QWK swapping, especially combined with a {COMMO} auto dialer. I still miss QWK, which was essentially a two-way hybrid of RSS and RFC822.

I see Telix, Qmodem and Procomm mentioned frequently when people reminisce about their modem days but rarely {COMMO} which is a shame. It was a fantastic piece of software which deserves more recognition.

It taught me scripting at age 8. I will be forever grateful. The author passed away ten or twenty years ago, and the family decided not to release the source code, which I will forever be sad about. At least it still runs in emulators.

I believe I do! Where it'd paint the progress gif or line by line with other formats as it downloaded? You could terminate early if it wasn't what you wanted.

and full blown point and click guis!

of course it was made irrelevant by the fledgling world wide web.

RIP script bombs on BBSes were evil. You could black out someone's screen until they exited and dialed back up.

come to think of it, i don't think there were any private multiline boards in my local toll-free calling area.

it was only packet switched commercial services and shell based internet at the libraries/university.

The only multi-line one I remember vividly was running MajorBBS. The inter-user chat was especially vulnerable to sending RIP commands as it didn't filter them out.

"My user number? Why, 99E99, of course."

RIPscrip from Telegrafix, remember it well. Hit the industry like a tornado at the tail-end before the web overwhelmed everything

Not rip graphics, but targa and spectrum 512. Almost lifelike.