Feed Your Mind ld!acid Issue No 11 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update March 1996 As time advances so do we New technologies such as the Internet and po- tential new audiences are exposed to our creations raising overall awareness of the art scene and effectiveness in spreading our creations But the scene is evolving beyond a bunch of kids playing with their modems and TheDraw - computer artists are gathering in real life and applying their skills to real- -world uses such as the sold-out ACiD T-shirt campaign We have gained and lost friends through the passage of time and as old projects become completed others are proposed to fill their places The cyclic motion of the scene might seem to lead to an ultimate entropy but this figur- ing is failing to take one very important factor into consideration - what we do is really fun stuff If it wasn t fun we wouldn t do it Such simple logic seems hopeless but when you get right down to it there are no solid bonds tying us to the scene We re only here because we re having a good time and a day doesn t pass that we don t remember that We re all here for a jolly romp through cyberspace so kick back and loosen up to enjoy our production the cream of this unwritten union between art and technology Just some food for thought as you wonder at the inconsequential course of events which brought this whole scene into being By Wonder Monkey AIS Coordinator On January 6th 1996 ACiD Productions registered the domain name acid org With the acquisition of this name the official ACiD home page has been moved to http www acid org and we are getting closer to having 100% of our artists reachable via e-mail at acid org In the near future Catbones and Wonder Monkey will be working their tails off to update and improve the layout and design of the ACiD web page to keep it at the pinnacle of artistic presentation Look for the new pages to define the new apex of what is possible on the web on or before April 1st In the far future we will be growing our web and Information Technology influences as much of the scene shifts web-ward Look for ACiD to acquire a higher speed link to the net and for the number of machines in the acid org domain to multiply As we approach a new era be sure that the artistic vision and unparalleled talent of ACiD will continue to dominate and raise the zenith of your expectations of quality By Cthulu NAID known formally as the North AmerIcan Demo compo is being held during the latter part of May in Longueil Quebec Canada strikingly close to Montreal (geographically at least) As it is every year However this year will boast something special As with any party you just can t kick it off unless you have the right people present no matter how many bags of Doritos and LAN-wired Pentiums you have on-site It is such that ACiD Productions Inc will be livening up the revel a bit with members not merely un- officially present but with a strong showing in a variety of categories At last count the list of ACiD members signed up for this trip surpassed twenty members and growing Many ACiD members will be from day to day Considering the resources visiting the province of necessary to bring 20+ people from around the Quebec in Canada the land world to a particular spot in space and time of beavers polar bears merely to throw a little bash this should maple syrup and igloos be properly considered a project of somewhat epic proportions For more specific in- formation regarding this competition we urge you to stop by the Naid Apraxia 96 webpage at http www autoroute net naid Rumor has it that even the elusive RaD Man (and intimate company) will put in an appearance to bless the proceedings and throw a few disks elevating the entire adventure from a mere epic to true modern mythology And if you think that the demo-party will be fun just wait until you see the results of the half-hour ANSI competition By Cthulu and Soultaker ACiDic the BBS-modification branch of ACiD has merged with the illustrious PIA (Piranha PPE Coding) with the PIA founder Captain Hood being carried over to the position of the ACiDic PPE Team-Leader PIA concentrated on coding enhancements for the PCBoard BBS software and the move definitely strengthens ACiDic s PCB division while maintaining the Renegade and Obv 2 sections The bottom line for you the average BBS user is more configured boards with more numerous and greater enhancements brough to you by ACiD the sculptors of the scene The merger has injected a dose of 200 CCs of raw caffeine (in the form of J0lt cola no doubt) to the hearts of the coding staff in ACiDic resulting in a prolific surge of releases since the merger in Dec- ember By Cthulu Given a growth rate of 13% for this session it would take ACiD approx- imately seven and seven-tenths newsletters for the artist population to double However this is an extremely unlikely possibility due to the anticipated plagues floods locusts and the like accounting for the end of the world in 1997 If we fail to all be obliterated however we can assure you that a top- quality pack will be forthcoming the following month If you aren t prone to the demographic apocalyptic school of information distribution however a concise listing and description of our internal activ- ity should satisfy you First on our list of ANSI acquis- itions would be the awesome Anubis form- erly of Force Australia s best and now one of our own Trust us once you get past the jackal head he s a really nice guy Our merger with Saga left us with many members even after it pulled some of them back and the remaining former Saga member with the handle closest to the front of the alphabet happened to be Not only will Anubis draw great Angel Dust the famous RIP artist and ANSI he ll weigh the hearts of narcotic deceased ACiD members with the feather of truth! Egyptian Gods The one with the handle second- are put to good use in this group closest to the front of the alphabet was Black Lightning a skilled ANSI drawer We d all like to welcome Burps formerly of Fuel and Odium from Belgium to ACiD s ANSI team (Sorry too easy ) Re-joining ACiD comes Black Guard artist of immortal RIPscrip who seems to have come to an impasse in his former views that being in ROC was more fun than being in ACiD Also coming back to where he be- longs is Catbones formerly Cat formerly of iCE and formerly of ACiD Before we proceed I d like to note that I should win some sort of award for using the word formerly proper- ly so many times in one sentence We re all very glad to have this up- start of the hi-rez community back beneath our wing and perhaps he ll have a new T-Shirt design for us now At the glitzy annual Formerly awards that the first run is completely sold night Cthulu is honoured with the out prestigious Some Sort Of award Fresh out of prison (and Anemia) comes Crimeboss an artist whose art was so wicked that he had to spend a few years incarcerated to calm him down Two RIP artists from Saga who joined ACiD and who have handles which are reasonably close to the letter a are Cyber and Degenerit To continue along this uncanny string of parallel similarities they both come from the 408 area code as well Fancy that! Grifter will feel at home in ACiD fresh from his stint in Saga even though his handle isn t really all that close to the beginning of the alphabet In fact it s about a quarter of the way through it Returning to ACiD is King Midas who will with great certainty live up to his namesake by turning all he touches to gold Or of golden quality whatever that is This will however cost him a fortune in keyboards A veritably venerated veteran of gorgeous graphic arts Kingpin returns to ACiD to impress us all with ANSI RIPscrip high-resolution art and alliter- ation Or perhaps that last item was merely fabricated I guess we ll NEVER KNOW Our ASCII department profits from the presence of Nuremburg formerly of Anemia and home to many German-speakers Primal may be an above-average master of the high-resolution arts but his talents may forever be shadowed by his eternal masterwork of the Freedom CD-ROM trace card Joining us from Saga comes Rza ANSI drawer and three-time winner of the unpronounceable handle award beating out ACiD members Nitnatsnoc and Cthulu Having mastered ANSI in ACiD of long ago and ASCII as a senior member of kTS^aSCII (Katharsis) Sparr returns to ACiD to flaunt his ability in both fields Official fontician (for which one needs a certificate from the Academy of Fontification at Walla Walla WA) Splatt joins us from Saga and now that he s here hopefully the time invested in the imaginary certification will pay off Hell s Fury from Canada is now known as Diocese of ACiD and if he s lucky he may one day be known as Diocese of ACiD from Canada who draws VGA Of course I don t want to know what his sig will look like Don t you hate it when you have to get to NAID and you suddenly develop a fear of brake pedals In the past when this problem was encountered it resulted in excess of traffic tickets Nowadays though the problem is negligent thanks to the official instatement of The Gray Ranger as the ACiD Chauffeur This also eliminates the need for valet parking Representing two different art forms two diff- erent former groups and even two completely unre- lated countries come Pharcyde ANSI drawer formerly of Stile and currently in Sweden and the VGA antics of Mr Schizophrenia ex-Apocalyptic Visions member The letter with the lowest total heat Cool T joins us from Saga to recuperate after having a tragic affair with Hot Q The fate of their illegitimate child Luke-warm J is undecided at The Gray Ranger joins this point ACiD as the official chauffer due in part Iczer-1 comes to ACiD to show us exactly what to his handling skills he can do in high-resolution After a few months of the giant squid he ll then show us exactly what his handle means (Only of course once all minors are shown from the room) Locutus formerly of Litespeed from Switzerland has recently been recruit- ed to ACiD s ASCII department Even as Nova leaves us his brother Fractal becomes the Team Leader of the Renegade modding division of ACiDic Next month we predict Fractal to drop out and their grandfather to join the ASCII department He too will fade into obscurity and the scene will become swayed by the powerful ANSI drawings of their dog Previously of pre-merge Saga Unsane (or Ruckus) joins as an able ANSI artist and funky fontician He will also be assuming the radical role of compiling both the awesome ANSI Logo and ASCII clusters from now on! Ded Silence and Darkwolf both appear in recent pHluid music disk(s) court- esy of ACiD Productions Inc If you want to listen to them you ll just have to download the disks at least until the proposed multimedia newsletter plan passes the red tape By Cthulu And now as always comes the somewhat unpleasant portion of the news- letter Our distaste can be concisely stated by the epigram that the least favored artists share a quality with those most repugnant of navels - they re both outies What we did to Andrew wasn t very Nice but he was inactive and therefore won t complain about it I think that s very nice justification if you don t mind After a glazed and vacant sheen had settled over the eyes of two former ACiD members silencing their mad babbles and rants they were left without their Neurosis and became peaceful enough for us to commit to the Bedlam Asylum That particular institution soon released one of them to pursue a custodial career Not Wanted For not robbing any banks committing any felonies nor draw- ing any ANSI to speak of one Crime Lord and a Gangstar The former has been lying low for two long trying to hide in the depths of the underground and the latter made a daring escape his only action after resigning and allowing himself to be arrested If you see them try to ignore them You might find our practice of removing inactive members Deeply Disturbing but at least they get the opportunity to have their names mentioned in a final blaze of glory with the likes of Heat Wave Malebolgia and Red Leader no matter how concealed their own handle is in the structure of the surrounding sentence There re many words which we could use to describe the moving of Stone the Crow to Legend but there s only one which we could use to describe the trans- ition of El Guapo and it might offend some people We re sure that you can figure it out if you try hard enough however We can only update the status of Prisoner#1 in that he was last seen being cooked alive by a fellow ACiD member Stone the Crow and his newborn Sids coder of one of the finest son Stone the Egg pause for a viewers throughout the ages resigned to brief moment before leaving ACiD pursue school and a job with the Fnord Project With all that gnoing on it snoon became obvious that he didn t hnave enough tnime for ACiD and the scnene Smooth was forced to resign ACiD when he retained the charge of his own group Teklordz due to ACiD s dual-group policy Hopefully they ll appreciate the incalculably immense sacrifice which he has made for them Twisted Terrorist got bored with his jet-setting lifestyle of blowing things up so he decided to call it a day and retire to a small cottage in the foothills However he broke his leg so it had to be set in a Splint When he got home he was astonished to hear his dog barking the name Rimbo Rimbo! From that day on the dog was to be listened to every time rumors were imminent of members no longer being in ACiD Due to too much pressure a rising musical star went Nova However from the ashes of the great giant arose bizarre Fractal patterns And finally and decidedly most importantly The Calibre who has been with us at ACiD Productions Inc for many years working his ways up the ranks from courier all the way to grand and illustrious Public Relations Coordinator also sadly resigns this month On a side note - regarding the somewhat inordinate amount of members with Saga references tacked on however sloppily behind their handles - the amount amount of Saga members who joined and remained in ACiD through the by-now- infamous merger were a paltry seven The vast remainder of former Saga members who had joined ACiD did so of their own accord weeks before the merger was even a glimmer in Ellis Dee s eye Hopefully this will dispel any discrepan- cies as to the importance of the so-called merger By Catbones Many of you are familiar with the most popular demoscene FTP site ftp cdrom com Most art groups find apt use of this site as a reliable forum to distribute their monthly archives where those active in the art and or demo scenes know that the most recent works can be found ACiD Productions has lead the way as always in opening the eyes of the public to the growth and evolution of our work In the past those working within the demo scene have held certain prejudices against those of us in the ANSI scene This past month s file download statistics however have helped us to shatter old biases and illustrate that ACiD Productions is not merely another ANSI group For those art scene enthusiasts who have from time to time been less than faithful to us and have doubted the puissance of ACiD s supremacy and for those who have picked nits regarding the various ratings games in the scene some specific statistics to ponder have been presented here The five weeks of activity following the belated release of the January ACiD archive stand as a clear endorsement of the wide appeal found in our archives that people have come to respect and imitate The senior staff of ACiD Productions has spent a lot of time answering mail these past few weeks composed primarily of commen- dations and praise from the demoscene the art scene and the general masses who flock to www acid org (ACiD s official web site which draws on average in excess of 700 hits a day) ACDU0196 ZIP was the most downloaded file over the past several weeks making DemoNews weekly Top 10 Downloads list week after week (including this past week just before the release of the current pack which you are in the midst of viewing) It has been directed to our attention that the January ACiD pack has been downloaded more than 600 times in the past five weeks from this FTP site alone! Correspondences and statistics have clear- ly demonstrated to us that ACiD is THE representative emissary of the art scene in a position of leadership that we are proud and confident of filling more than adequately Thanks go out to the fine staff of DemoNews for the documentation of our small but meaningful achievements We encourage your subscription to this great demoscene publication which can be obtained by composing a message to listserver@unseen aztec co cz and writing in the body of the text subscribe demuan-list first_name last_name The listserver will then send DemoNews to your e-mail s return address as it is distributed By RaD Man and Cthulu On the 17th of November 1995 the group formerly known as Saga merged into ACiD under Ellis Dee s and Betrayer s direction and with their further promotion to the positions of ACiD American Coordinator and ACiD Internal Relations Coordinator respectively Loose ends in the scene had been tied up a vast portion of the ANSI power out there had been consolidated As with many marriages this one was not to remain in matrimonial bliss for much longer than the honeymoon The night of December 7th 1995 was indecisive the date on which Ellis Dee made the decision to back out of his merger packing up his former Saga members and en masse having a great exodus to a new group Clan which promptly had a cardiac arrest Or at least that is how our most informed sources speculate The great sweeping tide-like motion of the merger was not a complete waste of bureaucracy however for ACiD retained seven very talented artists from the doomed conglomeration Total gain was not as great as it could have been but when all was considered we had come out of the experience ahead All became after some ruffling of feathers nice and well again By Cthulu and Catbones With all this talk about the January ACiD Acquisition and now the sub- sequent release of the March Acquisition some perceptive ACiD fans are bound to ask What happened to the February pack While it is not an obligation to produce such a gem of computer creativity we do feel the responsibility towards our loyal fans to let you know why we did not It would be a shame to see you the loyal art scene connoisseur search long and hard for the pack that never was That and we can only take so much of the humorously jealous rumors our self-proclaimed competition would like to circulate So to cut to the meat of it We at ACiD have decided to take a pointer from the Groundhog and spend up to six more weeks recuperating every spring As policy becomes dogma this will eventually result in all of the small groups taking off every February for the same reasons as us The thought that these reasons wouldn t be applicable unless they were working under the same circumstances as us will I m sure fail to spark up in the damp forge of their synapses but these are the great thronging masses of the scene which we all have grown to love so who are we to disdain them They made us who we are after all Skipping the month of February was part of a tedious choice out of twelve equally deserving months but the decision was made to celebrate the second month with a rest in commemoration of the only month previously that ACiD had ever missed a pack way back in 1993 when you all were a bunch of little goobers who thought that spelling words in high-ASCII was elite If you refuse to invest in the traditional explanation perhaps logic will make a reasonable substitute - the skippage of a month every year will make the task much easier of processing the administration and red tape of your more-than-average art group and come back every March with an explosion of creativity and inspired rebirth By Cthulu The dust has settled the numbers for and the taxes paid and in the slowly de- scending calm of stately order we noticed that we had run out of T-shirts You know those black things with the Leonardo DaVinci emblems on them Well gazing upon the rows upon rows of empty crates in our maritime warehouses we had to smile and congratulate ourselves on a very successful real-world application to cyberspatial skills We d like to thank everyone who pur- chased one of our shirts and we d like to once more give full design credit to Cat for the artwork present on the article of cloth- ing In commemoration of our little bus- iness sting SOLD_OUT GIF will be found in this pack as a tribute to those T-Shirt ads which took up so much space over the past year In case the generality of the event Thanks to Lemonade for so is washing over you and the specifics merely patiently standing still while flying overhead the most important final being used as a live reference statement which we have to say is not to for our T-Shirt design send any more money - we have no more shirts to sell you Then again if you feel TRULY inclined to continue the monetary transfers there s nothing we can really do to prevent it but of course a group with the strict moral back- bone of ACiD would never descend to such depths Our justice is as great a part of us as our name full of truth and honesty And various hallucinogenic drugs By Cthulu ACiD Secretary and Editor-In-Chief It may have seemed to have all happened before but never quite this way Nothing ever happens the exactly same way twice and we re here to relish that iota of chance the quark of uncertainty Seize it and ride up and down through chance encounters And enjoy ACiD Credits Writers Cthulu RaD Man Cat Soultaker and Wonder Monkey Special Thanks Toast and Rendered Useless Photographer Nitnatsnoc ACiD