Knowledge Is Power ld!acid Issue No 10 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update November 1995 Welcome to this the final newsletter of the year from the groovy guys down at ACiD Productions Inc Despite school and work taking its annual toll on the artist community we still have quite some news (and quite some art) ready for your enjoyment So sit down strap yourself in and get ready to expand your mind One of the big questions that everyone s asking about the scene nowadays is of course whatever happened to that nice group Integrity They were so polite and always released on time and they never ever paid disrespect to the fool and the weak Well after facing closer and closer deadlines each month it soon became apparent to them that they would soon become inable to maintain the high level of quality to which they had become accustomed There were only two choices available disband scatter as leaves in the autumn wind and never look back upon their days in the ANSI scene again or the second which was to take their combined talent to one of the few groups bigger than they were where they could relax and produce without worries and deadlines And it thusly that Integrity merged into ACiD in a move unseen since Gothic did the same nineteen months ago This of course resulted in a small flurry of memberlist changes and rearrangements in the ACiD hierarchy but we will address those below in their proper place The bottom line is that ACiD gained a handful of very talented artists while losing competition a double-bladed bonus that only a fool would turn down As to the process of merging itself perhaps ACiD should adopt a new slogan If you can t beat em eat em In combination with other factors instability in the scene has resulted in an almost record turnout of new members ambling their way down to the ACiD Corral We welcome them all to the group and can only wish them the success of their precursors and that they continue the lasting legacy of ACiD Productions Inc The Integrity merger brought to us a dedicated group of outstanding individuals who will assuredly rally and continue their magnificent work for years to come beneath the bold new banner of ACiD Darkforce and Mage the founder and former president respectively of Integrity retain some of their organizational responsibilities in the 604 area code where Integrity was based and in Canada in general land of polar bears and maple syrup Other new members coming to us from Integrity would include Prophet Heat Wave Nitnatsnoc and latecomers El Guapo Ghengis and Treason Showing his true colours Deeply Disturbed the founder of Legend has rejoined ACiD showing that his need to return to the top surpassed even the paternal instincts of overseeing his infantile group Soul Assassin an excellent RIPscrip animator comes to ACiD from Legend and Flatline to return to the group which made RIP popular in the first place Zevo another RIP artist from Flatline accompanies him in his quest for the best Arriving from nowhere groupwise or rather Sweden and Israel geographically Spellbinder an excellent toon artist Sharp Edge and Plague finish off this quarter s additions to the ANSI department Encouraged to expand his mind a viewer s head grows Starting off ACiD s official ASCII out of control It hurts division come four very special gentlemen complained the boy and I m Asphixia formerly of iCE Christopher Robin suing if only I can get my and Deep both formerly of Trank and head through this doorway Killa Hertz formerly senior staff of Spastic They serve to prove to the scene that ASCII is an art form comparable to ANSI when drawn and and created with the proper care befitting art at ACiD s level Take a look at their works in VGA modes through the new ACiD View Arriving just in time to supplement the release of the second Phluid music disk Xenoc and Nova surprise and please us all by their unmistakable ACiD groove Finishing off this month s list of new members DJ Quad joins ACiD in our information services division as a designer of World Wide Web pages He will work with the rest of the AIS division s resources of hardware software and raw talent to give all ACiD members the opportunity to stun and amaze the world with their own home pages run off of the ACiD server Katharsis the balance between the pro and con sides of issues dictates that as we gained several members this month logically we must have also lost several Who are we to dispute the ancient Greek philosophies It is with that sense of fatalism that we present you our list of prunings and foreign matter As was mentioned above the fall comes as a shock to many who are forced to return to pressing jobs school or other obligations It is as such that the modeming aspects of one s life are often neglected once the summer ends while others simply grow bored and lose interest In any event the following members were let go due to inactivity non-communication and a general dumb silence when their activities were probed Actraiser s act was put down we said good night to Asian Knight Breez blew away we forbade Forbidden Image turned out Guile with a smile dismantled Machine Head flunked Punk saw that Sparr hadn t gone far vanquished Vanquish saw through the Vision and that guy who we can t say anything cute about Axitious was also ejected for inactivity The Photoshop sensation Catbones perhaps better known as Cat who had been at one time the Director of ACiD Internal Relations was also removed this season due to economic instability Following his trail out go Sprite and Icto as well completing the trio of taciturn The Green Hornet was found tattooists not to be a green hornet at all In fact it turns Visigoth formerly known as Schizosynth out he is a grey fork winner of the NAID 95 Graphics competition and former admin of AgoraNet was also let go due to slow and misinterpreted communication Mindcrime takes over maintenance of our net Halaster departs in order to revive his one-time Georgia-based art group Fire Now THAT S loyalty to a dead group Two final victims of ACiD s new dual-grouping policy are Silver Rat and Black Guard who simply couldn t abandon VOR to remain in ACiD They ll be missed We here at ACiD would like to take a moment to re-state our policy regarding dual-grouping that is the practise of being in ACiD Productions Inc while filling the same position in another art group It s hurtful to both parties involved and intolerable So DON T DO IT Morpheus has been transferred from the programming department back to the AIS division to help ACiD with various aspects of the internet During the past 3 months Jazz has switched from coder to telecom koder and back to coder He likes to code he likes to make kodes decisions decisions ACiD Productions Inc always takes advantage of a new medium when one is found As such we were unwilling to let the return of the ASCII revolution pass us by and as such have created the ACiD ASCII division run by Christopher Robin The other members are Asphixia Deep MrK and Killa Hertz and before the apps come flooding in we d like to specify that for this particular division due to the esoteric nature of the art medium and the need to preserve the utmost quality of this volatile art form membership is limited to current ACiD members of other divisions and by invitation only Barely on the heels of its previous music disk ACiD follows through in the second of a surely epic series of S3Ms in pHluid 2 which contains songs by veterans such as Pinion Lord Pegasus Psibelius Protocol and Rimbo as well as by recent newcomers Nova and Xenoc All in all we can merely state that history has improved upon itself and that if we continue along this trend our music will continue to redefine the upper limit of quality well into the next millenium The new viewer is released to screaming mobs rave reviews and the best part of it all it that IT S IN THIS PACK for YOU to try out! No longer will you have to type out ANSIs from the time-consuming and laborious DOS prompt! ACiD View 4 0 combines the best and favourite features from TribeView and previous versions of ACiD View under the expert coding of Skull Leader whose past credits include ACiDDraw Boasting an interface reminiscent of The Hit Man s classic menu of a few versions back the current interface is illuminated by Skull Leader and RaD Man with additional artwork by Lord Jazz! But it doesn t just look pretty just wait till you see what else it can do! It s got mouse support! It s got an accurate baud simulator for RIPs and ANSImations! But we ve seen this all before what s NEW THIS! ACiD View 4 0 is the first and only viewer to date to feature a high resolution viewing mode which makes ASCII files viewable accurately in VGA! Six different line modes for you to choose from gives you SIX different ways to view each and every single file! But that s not all hard drive space and memory requirements of ACiD View have been reduced to one third of that of it s prede- cessor allowing you to run a better program with more facility! And to all of you who have been troubled by ACiD View s earlier version rejoice! While ACiD View 4 0 was completely re-coded from scratch the infamous flaw in Sids III series ASCII and VGA together at viewer was also corrected ensuring that you last! Perhaps the two best need never be bothered by the high-ASCII things brought together garbling your interface again! (Refer to since severed gerbil heads ACDU1095 for Sids ACiD View 3 99) and carbonated soda Now doesn t that sound like a sight worth viewing It views! It lists! It makes three kinds of julien fries! It ll even cut the OLD ACiD View in two! Order today and you get a free sample of AcidShine - the new car wax substitute Sticky smelly and cheap! In related news ACiD View for MS Windows (16- and 32-bit) were both released in the July pack and have since been discontinued while ACiD View for X-Windows a similar yet completely different program remains in production Demand for the preceeding programs was slim while the third shows a steadily growing user base It is rumoured that full source code to ACiD View for MicroSoft Windows may be released publicly in the near future Those of you on a SunOS Linux Freebsd and sysV platform are urged to try ACiD View for X-Windows which is for Unix boxes The structures of the operating systems and the usability of the program which is an ELF binary are such that together they can allow the viewing of any size ANSI that will fit into memory The viewing windows are very mutable and morphable and a shell version is in the works allowing you to view ANSI files remotely October 13th marked the release of the Freedom CD set which was the sequel to last year s Escape CD Freedom is actually a two-CD package consisting of an audio and a data CD the latter of which contains approximately 542 megs worth of music trackers all TraxWeekly DemoNews and Imphobia issues demos intros graphics from various compos artists a demobook the full CODE directory from ftp cdrom com ansi packs and a bit of other scene related stuff The audio CD consists of the top 12 MC3 Veteran winners and top 3 MC3 Rookie winners as well as songs by The REW Cybelius Zodiak Jason and Krystall Those who contributed to material contained on either CD (including ACiD members who had art in the ACDU0895 pack) are entitled to a one dollar discount from the price of $12 American Ordering information can be obtained from http www fht com hyper html In news completely unrelated to absolutely anything contained within the rest of this newsletter Nitnatsnoc a new member from Integrity woke up one morning witha large fish emerging from the side of his head No reasonable explanation could be derived from the respected scientific community at large and the fish itself hasn t been positively identified yet When asked about the fish Nitnatsnoc obviously distraught replied brusquely It s not a tuna The media then pursued Nitnatsnoc s agent Cthulu for more information on this mysterious fish-head but the best that could be gotten out of him was I am NOT a fish Obviously this is quite a deadly serious matter to anyone involved in the art scene so updates will be made available when further news develops It s not a tuna That was the newsletter for this month We hope that it has been enlightening informational entertaining and distracting Oh and check the contents of your hard drive before you go - that clicking wasn t just SmartDrive emptying its buffer Good night from us all at ACiD Productions Inc ACiD Credits Writers Cthulu RaD Man The Calibre and Pallbearer Special Thanks Deep Sabotage and STC Photographer Nitnatsnoc ACiD