Subj : Projects
To   : Mercyful Fate
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Mar 27 2014 19:33:00

  Re: Projects
  By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Thu Mar 27 2014 13:54:02

 Ni>> similar to an internet web site with background music (which used to
 Ni>> be more popular, in the mid 90s, usually in the form of MIDI). I
 Ni>> tend to find that fairly annoying though - I sometimes like to
 Ni>> listen to music on my computer while browsing the web & doing other
 Ni>> things, so when I load a web page that has its own background music,
 Ni>> it tends to be annoying rather than adding to the experience of the
 Ni>> web site.

 MF> Ya midi's can be an ear full.  some of the tunes are ok but i much rather
 MF> have mp3's.  of course a custom client would be needed and the files would
 MF> most likely have to be downloaded and cached in a folder to not casue
 MF> streaming lag and eat up the connection.

The main thing that annoys me about music on web pages is that most often, it's
not something I really want to play automatically, and I'm likely to be
listening to music already or have the TV on, so music on a web page just ends
up not sounding very good with whatever else I'm listening to.

 MF>  HDX was a pretty interesting
 MF> type of graphical bbs system i played around with.  Something along those
 MF> lines would make for a nice type of secondary connection or interface to
 MF> the bbs. 

Interesting, I hadn't heard about HDX.  In the 90s, I had used a couple BBSes
that had RIP set up, and I thought that was interesting for a graphical
interface, since RIP started to be a widely-accepted standard.  I also used a
couple BBSes using RoboBoard, which had its own graphical protocol.  RoboBoard
looked a lot nicer than RIP, but it was not widely accepted at all, and I think
it may have been proprietary, so (I think) there was only one terminal program
that supported it.

Nightfox

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