Get Ready To Read ld!acid Issue No 9 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update August 1995 The summertime has historically been a very turbulent set of months in the scene countering some people s school holidays with others month-spanning vacations People often have more time to devote to the persual of their hobbies such as cleverly arranging coloured blocks wheras others find the long lazy days of summer the perfect time to get a life in the real world As such our memberlist is radically varied from our spring roster We begin our listing of the new members of the ACiD ANSI drawing club with the return of an old friend Crime Lord who has finished his sabbatical and returned to ACiD to once more impress us all with his ANSI drawing skills In the confusion surrounding Union s staged death and ressurection we acquired the services of one Neurosis Tripe will now appear for the first time anywhere in ACiD packs as he makes his scene debut right at the top And finally a very interesting trio round off our rote listing of the new members of our ANSI department Azrael Inner Vision and Twisted Terrorist until recently the supermen Inner Vision shows his behind Spastic have all relinquished their true identity to the grips on the group and ascended to our level public We can only hope that their stay with us will be as groovy as the trip here was After the release of our premiere musicdisc Phluid (see below for more details) our staff of musicians became justified at last To match the demand for more and better music came more and better musicians Joining the talented (and previously silent) ranks of ACiD Music are three harmonious young fellows DJ Bean of Epinicon made a glissando from CIA to ACiD Lord Pegasus of Kosmic packed up his metronome and came to ACiD from iCE and Sonic of Radical Rhythms perhaps better known for his ANSImation days in ACiD returns to us bearing tunes instead of toons ACiD s legacy of VGA artists who are tattooists began with CatBones whose appearance in the scene shocked and elated many It was then followed by his comrade Icto Now the circle is completed by the acceptance of Sprite Catbone s girlfriend and fellow tattooist into our VGA-drawing division Hopefully she will make as big a splash in the scene as her amour did several months ago Also joining us are Skyhigh from Union and Kosh a renderer from mOp ACiD s RIPscrip department regains a valued member in the form of Alien who was formerly known as Genocide The end of the world has also arrived to our RIPscript division by the timely arrival of Ragnarok from Flatline and Union Mr K an apparent master of C and Assembly intros has joined our already-munificent coding division Finally ACiD opens a new division this quarter that of the ACiD Information Services See below for an elaborated explanation - the new members of this division consist of Mr K grins for the Flood Myth who will continue to upkeep the camera while wonder- Superunknown web page under the guidance of ing what 31337 is ACiD and the services of Rooty who will maintain and run the official ACiD FTP site The excess of free time many of us encounter during the summer may be half partially responsible for the prolific creation and demolition of so many new groups during these three hectic months As such it is with extreme regret that we announce the summary resignations of Somms Corwin of Amber Iodine Morbius and Everlast who have left the fabled ACiD Productions in an effort to become legendary Their unique talents and styles have been a constant in ACiD s releases for several months and they will all be sorely mythed Last known photograph In addition Freak Soul Blazer and Typhus of Freak late 1994 have been dropped due to inactivity If they decide to take an interest in the scene s affairs once more we d enjoy hearing from them but their unusual silence belies little remorse for their withdrawal Our influence around the world has been greatly expanded by the various facets of the Internet but one must always still rely on the faithful bulletin board for smaller-scale dealings As such we have named several new bulletin boards located internationally to facilitate communication between our members and our distribution to even the most remotest of locales These new sites consist of the following End of Time back as our Outpost of South Carolina Twisted Society as our German Outpost and Stopoint as our South American Agora Sinned Soul has been promoted to General Coordinator Wonder Monkey has been handed the title of the Coordinator of the new ACiD Information Services Beastie and Blackjack of ACiDic have been immortalized forever being transplanted from the Senior Staff of ACiDic to the hallowed Founders positions ReDMan has been the second person ever to join the aspired ranks of JED in Alumni section of our memberlist Catbones has stepped down from the position of Internal Relations Coordinator The scene s grooviest tattooist Cat is now known as CatBones Schizosynth the FIRST place winner of the NAID Graphics competition (see below) is now known as Visigoth Lord Jazz was rumored to have changed his handle to Technicolor but it reverted back to the original Lord Jazz again In related news we wish it to be known that Crayola is also known as Fu in his activities outside of ACiD just so you know who to give credit to ACiD introduces a new division this quarter that of the ACiD Information Services This new division residing exclusively on various branches of the Internet will solely be responsible for the upkeep and administrative aspects of ACiD s internet services The staff of this trailblazing department are Wonder Monkey Rooty Flood Myth Piano Man and Sids They will be occupied with the ACiD FTP site along with the ACiD Home page Superunknown Acidelic among other aspects such as the host acid extern ucsd edu which has an account for all ACiD members to use the internet from and from which we have been linked by many notable Internet presences such as Netscape and Yahoo ACiD Productions now offers a groovy ACiD public mailing list devoted exclusively to the public discussion of ACiD and its impact on the world both real and virual It is open to anyone who inquires and you can subscribe automatically simply by sending a message to majordomo@acid extern ucsd edu with the following contained within the body (not the title) of the message subscribe acid-public Current discussion topics include a Japanese computer arts show being held Alien now faces the on Macintoshes and how blasphemous it is public since extended to contain drug references in our recovery from surgery publications removing the 4th eye ACiD Productions now has its own official FTP site operated by Rooty AIS (ACiD Information Services) on a T1 incoming line It offers all of the ACiD Acquisition Updates ever released in their original unmodified authenticity verified formats! And best of all they re all UN-CORRUPTED a serious problem when transferring files from most art demo FTP sites In addition to every single pack ever released it also sports a wide selection of other ACiD paraphenalia You ll just have to check it out yourself to see what it offers anonymously at ftp 165 90 150 52 library acid ACiD Productions now offers a third official World Wide Web site Acidelic along with the myriad member pages and the Superunknown It will combine elements of the original ACiD Home page with the Superunknown and will cover topics from music through to demos to e-mags though of course it will have its unique ACiD spin on things See how WE see the scene at the URL http www megamed com acid In a radical combination of the expanding World Wide Web software avail- able for Microsoft Windows today and the old standards of art ACiD Productions decided to pioneer a program which would allow you to view transfered archives while on the IRC browsing the Web or what have you It is available in two modes 16-bit and 32-bit and there are plans for a possible Windows 95 version pending Microsoft s distribution of the above It was originally created to span a rapidly-widening gap between Windows-only Internet software and DOS-only viewing software and it serves that purpose at this point in time It may never match the DOS-based version of the viewer but it is the only product in its class On the system modifications front the ACiDic Oblivion 2 team has released two new packages to help spiff up your oblivion 2 bulletin board system The UltraSound Pager by Mindcrime and the Light-Slide Matrix by Shadowhand were both released last month and can be found on any quality system as can all of the Acidic releases Also in ACiDic news work has begun on the official Acidic World Wide Web Home Page The page which is being written by Mindcrime and will feature VGA work from the ACiD VGA team should be available on the ACiD server within the next few weeks Be expecting to see more Acidic releases in the coming months as we gain new members work towards a better group structure and strive to become THE authority on system modifications On June 25th 1995 ACiD released its first ever musicdisc Phluid The project was organized by Pinion and was released in two seperate archives PH-0695A and PH-0695B It featured the groovy beats of DJ Bean Pinion Piano Man Psibelius Protocol Rimbo Stalker and Basehead of Imphobia and also sported outstanding graphics by CatBones and superb coding of the player by Crayola This project had been in the works for an inordinately long amount of time (ever since ACiD DJ Bean takes a listen opened its music division in fact) to the new Phluid and we hope you agree it was worth the wait For the first time since 1992 T-shirts made by ACiD are again avail- able to the general public While the original shirts of 3 years ago simply had the ACiD logo stencilled on the front of shirt in white these shirts have come about as far as ACiD has itself boasting a groovy full-colour back spread by none other than CatBones himself based on a sketch by the famed Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci They are available in two sizes Large and Extra Large For further ordering information please refer to ACID-TEE NFO which is included in this months Acquisition In the last issue of the ACiD Productions newsletter we regaled and applauded Visigoth s (then Schizosynth) efforts and accomplishments in regard to his attaining the second place prize at the NAID Graphics competition Well it seems that we must endure another three months of celebrating for the former first-prize winner had apparently broken the contest rules by using non- original artwork and was disqualified leaving our own Visigoth the new first prize winner of the NAID Graphics compo once more proving that sometimes you have to wait a few months to discover what you ve actually got under all that talent Please excuse the gratuitous usage of the word groovy in this quarter s newsletter If you have been offended go wax my butt ACiD Credits Writers RaD Man The Calibre MindCrime and Cthulu Special Thanks Stone The Crow & Halaster Photographer Lord Jazz ACiD