ADFA Creative pack for October November 1993 ADFA (pronounced ADD-fah) is a coalition of local Australian creative talent Where members have equal rights and work under the same banner to further the cause of electronic arts Our aim is to provide quality products for the BBS community in Australia Note from the President Well here we are again Only two months have transpired yet so much change has occurred in ADFA I d like to publicly congratulate everyone who helped contribute to this pack and those that helped me behind the scenes I m amazed everything came together at the last moment Anyway onto the latest group news 1 The ADFA HQ board has moved to Terminal Velocity (SysOp JetStream) Disorganised Crime and Rigel IV are no longer affiliated with ADFA These changes were prompted for various internal reasons DisC and R4 offered us great support and both SysOps constantly put up with my BS I wish Death Lord and Deadly Avenger well in their future endeavours 2 ADFA no longer stands for Another Damn Fine ANSi It is now just a name and not an acronym Reasons for this should be fairly obvious 3 ADFA has finally expanded interstate We now have boards in Western Australia (The Rave System) Queensland (The Wasted Lands) and Tasmania (The Castle) I d like to welcome them to the group Give them a call 4 Positions of division coordinators have been dropped in favour of president and vice-president roles Side Effect is now Vice There are also State co-ord roles These people manage ADFA affairs in their particular State All positions are purely managerial 5 Recently the Rebellion (old Victorian demo group) members reformed under the name of Proteus Now they ve joined ADFA and have a demo in the works Whilst they re ADFA members their releases will still be under the name of Proteus - a division of ADFA 6 There has been an increase in ADFA personnel We now have over twenty members I would like to welcome all the new members to ADFA and you can check out who they are in the member listing 7 ADFA now has a voice-mail box You can use it to post requests ask ADFA-related questions and hear about the latest ADFA news The number is 008-800-600 box 6078 and is a free call anywhere in Australia Even from a pay phone! 8 Remember creative requests can be posted via a message in any ADFA request area to a member and now directly to our VMB Make sure you leave details of the request and where we can contact you 9 Check out CasCade s ANSiMation parody of Central Park BBS (in CENTRAL ZIP) It s pretty funny but is not intended to offend anybody Take it with a grain of salt 10 RedBeard has gone to great lengths to improve his viewer It now has ANSi scroll back it can display COM and EXE files has an 80 x 50 text mode as well as numerous other features The artwork is by Side Effect 11 ADFA is now offering apprenticeships for people interested in the creative arts If you want to draw ANSies VGAs or even compose MODs and you _think_ you have the potential to become good contact us through the usual methods 12 Just before our second pack was released Randers (initials RA) a relatively inexperience ANSi artist joined ADFA Check how much he has improved in two months Quite impressive 13 Whilst some groups are still dabbling in ray-tracing (which is not art at all it s just coding) check out some *real* mouse-drawn VGA artwork from (a$peR Raster and The Illusion There are four hi- res VGAs which have not been coded This problem will be fixed next time but for now you can view them as GIFs (a$peR was finishing a Death Row advert just as the BBS changed names I ve decided to release it anyway NB On some cards CShow will not display hi-res pictures correctly Try viewing them in lo-res 14 A couple of months ago I made a comment to Side Effect that there weren t any MOD composers in Australia Boy was I wrong Since then a few musicians have joined ADFA and you can check out some MODs they have done ADFA raises the creative stakes yet *again* (can the opposition follow ) NB there were some problems with putting a MOD player into the viewer There will be one next time but for now use something like DMP 15 ADFA also has a literature section In the future they will write up some poetry stories etc for use in ANSies (or whatever) At the moment we only have The UnderTaker but hopefully we ll find some more people interested in this creative art form 16 That s it! Now check out the pack ttfn Blue Adept 93 ADFA President o7 11 93 Greets (sorta in alphabetic order) ADFA thanks the following people for their efforts FreeStyle - Keep at it man Screaming Mutant - Look forward to working with you The Blind Assassin - Sorry about the mixup You re a leg ) The UnderTaker - Try boxes with a bit more substance UNiQUE - Techno is just a series of beeps! ADFA greets the following people Death Lord - Best of luck with your finals and Evolution Deadly Avenger - Get your line fixed bub ) FirE - Hope you guys liked the ANSies ASCii s JetStream - Keep it going man SCM is better than SoC! Hehe DiE - Nice try fellas Sudden Death - Watch NFL it s more fun RoughNeck - Pity about Ci ( Everyone else that makes the Oz scene rock Personal greets Side Effect - Don t worry you can help pay for my couriering phone bill! Razor Byte - Put your BBS back up heh heh White Lightning - Art babes are better than law commerce ones The Sorcerer - Ok ok the thing is coming ) GRiM - Central Park How un-Australian! Maraudering Goblin - Get back into the scene and do some ANSies Paladin - Change your BBS s w so we can do some ANSies for ya ) (Hmmmm there should be more greets but I m damn tired and I just wanna get this babe out hiya to everyone I missed) ADFA Quotes the name Wasted Lands doesn t mean I m a drugged out SysOp -The UnderTaker Coloured ASCii! HOW LAME! ) -Side Effect I don t call DiE s gifs artwork I call it ray tracing -(a$peR Fuck Randers he s shithouse Let s not lower our standards -Side Effect I sound like I m starting to take over the group eh -Deadly Avenger Hmm what you use to view the RiP pics The RiP viewer -Side Effect Keep your distance There is a war going on -Sudden Death You got a VMB That must be expensive! -JetStream To get into ADFA Quotes just post some interesting messages Remember anything you do or say could get noted by moi End