The Written Word ld!acid Issue No 8 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update May 1995 Welcome again to another issue of the only newsletter pertaining exclu- sively to the activities of your favorite cyberart firm ACiD Productions These past three months have been occupied with internal growth an influx of new members and a few artists slipping between the cracks and dropping out of the scene or joining sundry groups As always we wish them the best of luck in their artistic pursuits however close or far they may be brought to their ultimate goal One of the scene s most admired art- ists Lord Jazz left his group Bleach and abandoned his solo releasing career to return to ACiD His re-arrival pro- mises to raise both production quantity and quality with his unique (though often imitated style Halaster left his Mist- igris to ascend to our higher level while Asylum the renowned independant artist widely known as co-sysop of Sushi Bar Z made us his group of choice Everlast a former member of Integrity also joined our ranks along with Iodine formerly of Shiver and one of the scene s premiere artists and Actraiser who left Spastic to become one with us All six of these artists not only specialize in ANSI art but they re real swell guys as well ACiD s RIPscrip staff has rapidly ex- Enthusiastic about his return panded to fit all available space to the art scene Punk punches with the arrival of a truly wicked art- the camera man ist Malebolgia In addition one of the original pioneers of RIP art Splitmetal has returned to ACiD Pro- ductions under the new alias of Punk Both these artists will surely attract a lot of attention from all RIP enthusiasts and possible create a few of them as well Jazz from 516 joins ACiD as a coder Many may know him as the creator of the Sinister Offline Mail Reader one of the best offline mail read- ers available to the scene today Sinister OLMR will Jazz coder of Sinister Offline Mail Reader is now be a pro- caught here doing what he loves most chatting with ject headed by the greats on the numba acid IRC channel Jazz himself ACiD s telecommunication division has expanded with the addition of two new members vYrus and Data Ruckus ACiD appoints a new Secretary Cthulu (of Mistigris ) His impartial- ity not only as a small-grouper but as a lit writer will aid us in many projects to come ACiD s sites have also undergone a few changes Sushi Bar Z with dual nodes at 28800 is appointed the position of Western Agora ACiD Europe has also reached the Dutch with the addition of Stairway to Heaven as the Denmark Outpost Crayola s creative coding adds ACiD wishes farewell to Animal color to the scene DieHard P-Chan Shock Wave and Spirit of Illusion all holding deadweight status If they re still alive then good luck to them If they re not rest in peace Eerie and Twisted Terrorist also parted in their seperate directions in order to form their own groups Formic Acid resigned from ACiD Productions due to conflict and disagree- ments concerning his artwork in the March 1995 Acquisition Recently the long awaited full release of ACiDDraw version 1 0 was made public Boasting a dynamic interface XMS support and the ability to handle up to 4000 lines this advanced new ANSI drawing program promises to be the wave of the future It is a public shareware release created by ACiD programmers Sinned Soul and Skull Leader To find out more information or to register ACiDDraw you can e-mail aciddraw@cyberspace com or refer to ACIDDRAW DOC included in the April 1995 Acquisition ACiD Productions and ACiDDraw now have their own official World Wide Web Home Pages! From these pages you can download the latest Acquisition leave e-mail to your favorite ACiD members grab up-to-date copies of our hottest utilities and applications link to other members and much much more via our graphical pages Connect at the following Caught flirting with Veronica Silver Rat gets into a scuffle with Gopher http www cyberspace com aciddraw http acid extern ucsd edu The first annual NAID (North American Demo) Competition was held this year from April 15th through to the 16th at Longeuil College in Montreal Quebec Canada Contributions were made in all of the categories Intros Graphics Demos and Music by many of the top demo groups of the United States and Canada including Renaissance Cosmic Cram and several others but members of several ANSI-oriented art groups managed to put in appearances despite the demo scene orientation Our very own Schizosynth placed second in the Graphics competition which was judged by several international real-life artists His representative Pyromaniac of Pure Resistance accepted the awards on his behalf The constraints of this partic- ular competition included that the picture must have been drawn in 640 by 480 reso- lution using a maximum of 256 colors without the usage of any scanned or rendered material As you can imagine with these limitations Schizosynth s original freehand style came through and won him second place You can check out Prisonernumberone is shown here his award-winner along with all of the demonstrating his affection for other winning materials and relevant art critics informations via FTP at ftp cdrom com pub msdos demos Next year s competition promises to be much larger and the quality of the submissions proportionately high providing that more members of the scene take an interest in the affairs of their demo-oriented brethren The past three months have been overflowing with changes of the best kind The ANSI department continues to reach new heights mirrored only by the widespread rise of the formerly overlooked VGA and RIP artists Coding projects old and new come to light in the new ACiDDraw and the newer Sinister ACiD continues to break new ground by taking advantage of technological advances and expanding its influence to the Internet using the World Wide Web and despite the turmoil present in the scene at this time ACiD rests comfortably in its sublime position overlooking the tension and strife with a bemused gaze We do not fear the future for it is us ACiD Credits Writers The Calibre & Cthulu - Photographer Lord Jazz ACiD