Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed.
I thought I had a solution, but it crashes syncterm and connectbot as well
as the BBS if those terminals are used... I was using doorway and an ansi display door. (ansidis).

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Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed. I thought I had a solution, but it crashes syncterm and connectbot as well as the BBS if those terminals are used... I was
using doorway and an ansi display door. (ansidis).

I personally like 38,400 for ANSi - but I guess thats subjective; 80s 25x80 screens were pretty wonderful @ 2400... but the later scrollers, and especially 1000+ line ones, needed more than 14.4k to be anything other than SLOW. :P

Imagine watching the ACiD TRiP [4000+ line ANSi] @ < 38.4k - OMG.



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* In a message originally to Shurato, paulie420 said:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of

an

ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed. I thought I had a solution, but it crashes syncterm

and

connectbot as well as the BBS if those terminals are used... I was using doorway and an ansi display door. (ansidis).

I personally like 38,400 for ANSi - but I guess thats subjective; 80s
25x80 screens were pretty wonderful @ 2400... but the later scrollers, and especially 1000+ line ones, needed more than 14.4k to be anything other
than SLOW. :P

Imagine watching the ACiD TRiP [4000+ line ANSi] @ < 38.4k - OMG.

0-255 are the options... Sorry I wasn't specific.

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On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

Atreyu

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On 20 Nov 2025, Atreyu said the following...

On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an A

What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent s

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

Atreyu

I have to agree here.

ogg

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Atreyu wrote to Shurato <=-

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an

ANSI.

What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent

speed

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards
with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

It's not just you.




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* In a message originally to Shurato, Atreyu said:

On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an

ANSI.

What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent

speed

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

Atreyu

It's not mandatory. You can use either the quick login, or customize the
long login however you want.

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Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

I cannot stand 1000000 line ANSIs ... I always hit SPACE to stop praying it works. I don't see an issue to have it display to a user unless they were in an ANSI door, LOOKING at ANSIs.

I have a ton of art packs in my ANSI door that are 100000000 lines, but you can scroll up and down and look at it. I hate being FORCED to see them. I want to get to the MAIN MENU as quickly as possible and do what I came to do.

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On 20 Nov 25 16:11:31, Exodus said the following to Atreyu:

I cannot stand 1000000 line ANSIs ... I always hit SPACE to stop praying it works. I don't see an issue to have it display to a user unless they were an ANSI door, LOOKING at ANSIs.

Reminds me of the few Iniquity & Obv/2 boards we had in the area at one time.

They ALL had scrollers, custom menus with custom Ansis everywhere.... all
the same gang of callers, all the same noise in the message areas, all the same pirated warez, all the same doors... nothing really original.

The boards I did admire as original around here were ones ran by a crackpot religous zealot... Ohhh mannnnn the bible this, the bible that, Jesus this, Jesus that... was entertainment in itself. Subsequently we also had a self-described satanic board... another nutjob but slightly more personable.

Then there was the wannabe-Rusty-'n-Edie pornographer couple with their stock TriBBS which they bragged at a local Sysop meetup was "the best software" and never shut-up about it or their file section which really you could've found on other boards that didn't care about the whole age verification nonsense.

Ahh but my favourite was the Searchlight guy who deliberately took the modem offhook to create the illusion of a busy board.

Atreyu

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On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an

ANSI.

What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent

speed

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

All of my ANSI is optional. The scrollers are random as well.

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Re: Re: ANSI speed...
By: Shurato to Atreyu on Thu Nov 20 2025 14:17:00

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

Atreyu

It's not mandatory. You can use either the quick login, or customize the long login however you want.

Setting them up in that manner is a good idea. It allows people to enjoy them a time or two and then opt out if they prefer.
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Shurato wrote to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an ANSI.
What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent speed.
I thought I had a solution, but it crashes syncterm and connectbot as
well
as the BBS if those terminals are used... I was using doorway and an ansi display door. (ansidis).

While it has been a while since I used AcidDraw, I dont set a ansi speed & depend on the bbbs/client connect & latency determine the speed.

No matter what speed you chose to display ansi graphics, other than locally on your monitor, it will be wrong. Well 95% of the connections.

Stop overthinking it & enjoy more beer!

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Shurato wrote to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an
ANSI. What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display
at a decent speed. I thought I had a solution, but it crashes
syncterm and connectbot as well as the BBS if those terminals
are used... I was using doorway and an

ansi

display door. (ansidis).

While it has been a while since I used AcidDraw, I dont set a ansi speed & depend on the bbbs/client connect & latency determine the speed.

No matter what speed you chose to display ansi graphics, other than locally on your monitor, it will be wrong. Well 95% of the
connections.

Yeah, EleBBS doesn't set a speed for ANSI display, it just blasts it out at whatever the speed is. Netrunner doesn't allow for this to be configured. Syncterm and Icyterm allow you to set the emulated baud rate, so I guess I'll rely on that. Acidraw didn't let you set the speed, thedraw does by
inserting a bunch of empty characters between each actually displayed character. A bit of a kludge.

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