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Guardian of Forever
■ UP reliability 90% · 69ms · checked
on The Vortex’s BBS list
- address
- guardian.synchro.net
- listed by
- Josh Renaud
- runs
- Synchronet · Telnet
- where
- Ferguson, MO, USA
- added by
- bbs hq on The Vortex, not yet verified as its sysop
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Guardian of Forever is home to lots of interesting ANSI demos and experiments by Kirkman (Josh Renaud):
“Jewel Mountain” (ANSI tilemap demo)
“Jewel Mountain” (parallax scrolling ANSI demo)
“Under the Sea” (parallax scrolling ANSImation for Mistigris)
Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids (parallax scrolling ANSImation for Blocktronics)
“The Trouble with the Rangifer Tarandus” (Star Trek-themed animation)
Besides those, GoF also hosts a number of unique doors such as “Bracket Browse” for the NCAA Tournament; demos created in the unique “Instant Graphics and Sound” format for the Atari ST including a “Calvin and Hobbes” animation; a custom VT-52 login sequence for Atari ST callers; and more.
Guardian of Forever login image in IGS format (for the Atari ST).
is it answering
answered 59 of 62 checks · reliability 90% · answered in 69ms last time
one mark a dial, oldest first — green answered, red did not. 62 kept, since ; the directory calls every board every night and remembers six months of them.
the score
nobody has scored it yet
six axes, one to ten, rated here or inside the BBS list on The Vortex — one score, either way. a rating fades with age, so come back and rate it again in a season.
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their screens
every screen this board has drawn for a caller before login — 1 so far, since . a board that changes its welcome art keeps every screen here; one we stop meeting on our regular calls is let go after three visits and six months. the art belongs to its sysop and its artists.