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New iCE Web Site
Slothy writes "The old ansi group (and modern art group of all media formats), iCE (Insane Creators Enterprise), has unveiled our new web site. The new site allows you to search through all the art we've released since 1992, and it's viewable online. And for the icing on the cake, we're giving away some free (libre) software to go with the free (beer) art. Our code to convert ANSIs to hi-resolution images is released under the GPL. Drop by and find some old ansis you may have loved or see some modern work that's truly eye-popping. " Rob and I were talking with one of these boys at LinuxExpo and thinking about the BBS days of yore. This is making me so nostalgic, I might cry.
Does the name 'iCE" kinda look like a nod to "iMac?" Or did someone accidentally have their caps lock on wrong? =)
Java BBS
:-)
How about a conferencing system? (I always viewed a BBS as a conferencing system wannabe
Way back in the Dark Ages (mid 80s) I wrote the Unix-based CoSy system that (among other things) serves as the basis for BIX (Byte Information Exchange), (also NIX in Japan and CIX in the UK).
A while back I started in on a Java version of CoSy (with some added features I've been wanting to do), and its largely complete but has been on the back burner for a while now.
However, some Bixen recently have expressed some interest in it, and there seems to be some interest here, so I'll put the stuff up on my web page as soon as I get a chance (I need to check the files and add appropriate copyright/GPL notices, etc. Maybe (maybe) over the weekend.
(I'd love to be able to release the C source for the original CoSy but I don't have the rights. It was originally developed at U. of Guelph and the rights later sold to some Vancouver-based company who don't seem to have done anything with it in the last few years. The Web eclipsed it to a degree.)
-- Alastair
Humble apologies.
If it had a really good teleconference (GCOM style), I'd be interested.
Are there any really good Open Source BBS's with Renegade-style messaging and GCOM teleconference? A combination like that would kick some booty.
I've tried some BBS's for Linux, but they just don't have the same flair those two BBS's had for those tasks.
I used to run a Hacker/Phreaker bulletin board called The Digital Fallout. Had some really cool message bases since I turned away w@r3z d00dz that would post bullshit, and I looked for those people that could carry an intelligent conversation. We talked about all sorts of things, from drugs, to secrets about the telephone company, to spying, to technology, all those neat topics. We were all enthusiasts interested in the technology of the day. Ah well, those were the days.
I remember iCE, ACiD (ANSI Creators in Demand), and some other smaller groups. The internet had to come and kill it all. If anything, we need more of those close-knit groups again somehow.