Read Between The Lines the ACiD news n e w s unsane -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - --- Issue No 12 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update June 1996 -- - - -- - - - -- - - - -- - - - - -- This newsletter serves many useful and utilitarian roles in the art scene It acts as a cultural bastion a constant beacon which can always act as a guiding light through the next season of turmoil and inconstancy in the fickle- ness of the scene It is a common point of reference through which every in- dividual in the art scene may be however peripherally connected It gives a few lucky writers and artists chances to practice their skills at sounding official and pretentious Oh yes and it also tells you what happened within the past three months By RaD Man and Hack A new chapter has been written in the ever-turbulent saga concerning the art scene s involvement with Walnut Creek s FTP site ftp cdrom com On March 9th 1996 the Hornet demogroup unanimously decided to remove the incoming ansi directory for a multitude of reasons This in turn caused an outrage of sorts from various followers of the art scene and the heart of the scene itself ACiD serving as one of the scene s leading groups took a step forward and did something about it Soon after the expunging of the much relied upon headquarters for art packs ACiD members and the art scene as a whole united and wraught out ways to ensure it s reinstatement One of the individuals responsible for the original instatement of the demo archive and honorary Hornet member Pallbearer (pub- lisher of Freedom CD) received a phone call from RaD Man Pallbearer believed that they should keep the ansi archive and would request such Calls were then made to Hornet members Snowman and the now opprobrious Trixter who also promised to put in a positive word Unfortunately the calls didn t keep the directory and the Hornet group s decision remained unchanged As the once popular directory began to be a fading memory the scene con- tinued to show disappointment by mailing Hornet s public relations liason Trixter with thousands of messages in protest Determined to find someone with an open mind RaD Man scheduled an in person face-to-face meeting between Snowman Prisonernumberone and himself On April 7th they met The meeting was held over dinner at a fine Italian restuarant in Concord California After extensive in depth discussion many real- izations about how alike the demo scene and the art scene are were made by all parties You could say everyone had a better awareness about what really goes into it all Both groups endure the same hardships and experien- Unfortunately for Snowman the Italian ces and there is a finer gray restaurant at which they dined did not line between the two types than have their air conditioning working some may have thought After- wards a gentleman s agreement was made ACiD and Fire would take ownership of what was once thought to be the lost directory of ftp cdrom com Did our superb negotiating skills shine through or did they merely serve good linguini We may never know however the results remain to be seen as win-win conditions for everyone across the board As of June 15th 1996 the directory has been re-opened under a new more appropriate name on the massive 100Mbps site at ftp cdrom com pub artpacks Presently ACiD has full responsibility of overseeing and main- taining the artpacks archive To further the quality and ease of upkeep Fire member prisonernumberone will also be cooperatively helping out We would like to thank everyone who spoke up and sent messages to the Hornet group expressing their concerns Thanks to each and everyone who did this directory is now back The benefits of this new archive seem to be never ending as it serves as a home for distribution for the many up-and-coming art groups without the benefit of their own FTP site By Cthulu The North American International Demoparty was held in Longueil Quebec Canada on the weekend of Friday May 31st through Sunday June 2nd 1996 Though ACiD was present at last year s competition and even won prizes our presence this year was greatly bolstered and felt by all Current and former ACiD members at this year s party included Blue Gravity Evolution Future Assassin Kosh Mind Bender Render- Useless Sinned Soul Soul Assass- in Tasmaniac Vibrance the matched pair of RaD Man and RaD Woman Malcolm X Twisted Terrorist and Ironman the Champion of the keyboard-throwing competition The party lived up to it s name as there was a large showing of both Americans and Canadians and even a confused trickle of Finns Aussies ACiD artists chartered their own and Englishmen were present Those private jet to fly to the NAID party in from out of town faced three alter- Canada Look you can see RaD Man natives spending the night in a re- vamped classroom on the premises themselves renting a room at a REAL hotel in the city proper or and this was the most common choice simply staying up for the entire 36 hours of the party There was a fourth option actually but only possible for those who attempted the third while being ill prepared - several people passed out during the party ACiD s graphics department took first place for the second year running with Blue Gravity continuing where Visigoth left off last year His amazing piece of high resolution artwork entitled You Too Can Be A Gfx Dude! can be viewed in the June 1996 Acquisition under the filename BG-NAID1 GIF Both Soul Assassin and Kosh of ACiD also placed in the top twenty and had their works shown on the big screen at the party! Soul Assassin s graphic has been made into an advertisement and can be found in our pack as SA-DEMNC GIF Kosh s entry entitled Count Zero Interrupt is included as KO-NAID1 GIF as well But we have been found to be nearly as pleasing to the ear as to the eyes as well Future Assassin took the 3rd prize in the music competition and his song Demon s Pride remix can be heard in the June 1996 pHluid Music disk as FA-PRIDE IT Evolution a new recruit from Toronto also shook up the party with his bombastic and bassy module called U MAKE ME WEAK which ranked in tenth place After it was played the ACiD crew did the wave Hey we put the party in demoparty His tune can be found in this month s pHluid disk as well under the name of EN-UMAKE XM Other features of the party aside from the accolades of ACiD members included wading through the sea of trackers and the numerous volunteers to play Virtua Fighter 2 and Duke Nukem 3D on the massive LCD screen visiting the museum of Dinosaurs (C-64s XTs etc ) and playing Pong and Lode Runner wait- ing a half hour for the judges to show up before realizing that the judges hadn t been picked yet NAID is but a foggy memory for those who throwing various articles of attended due to the gargantuous amounts defunct hardware in the name of of alcohol available at the party competition breakdancing smoking smoking getting your car towed and embarking on various excursion to the seamy underbelly of jovial Canadian society That and the consumption of eigth 4-litre pitchers of alchohol and 500 chicken wings at one sitting by the ACiD crew at the Peel Pub By Hack ACiD now has at it s disposal the use of two new FTP sites running at T1 bandwidth This is quite an improvement over our past capabilities of only 57 6k The first of these is our primary site link1 mcmaster ca acid which is graciously donated by the insightful staff at McMaster University The site is run by Wolfie who is also the system administrator of acid org and who takes over the role that was previously held by Wonder Monkey The second of these FTP sites was contributed by Pacific Coast Micro and can be found at pcmicro com acid This is our secondary site which serves as a mirror for link1 just in case worst happens and Wolfie gets run over by a garbage truck while skiing with RaD Man Somms and Beastie Five tons o putty is delivered monthly to the ACiD FTP site By Cthulu Bedlam after leaving ACiD for Mop once made the astute observation that artists after leaving ACiD to pursue other groups in the scene may go on but never do they return back to ACiD With that thought in mind we would like to introduce the summer line-up of returning ACiD members Descending to ACiD finally is Final Descendant No wait he s ascending ACiD is a step up from wherever he was after all Joining him in the upward climb of ANSI ecstasy is Sinister X formerly of Fire Returning to ACiD is a legendary character from the past - a former ACiD American Coordinator - and the co-founder of some of the stiffest competition we had seen recently But once again Somms is back working on our side Spirit of Illusion and Grateful Dead return to ACiD from Dark and Legend respectively and hope to stick around for a while this time As well as those old friends who are returning into our embrace there are those who have not as of yet had the fortune to become one with ACiD Everyone s gotta have a first time so the following are now officially no longer ACiD virgins Internal Flames formerly of Mop comes from Russia with love Love for drawing ANSI that is Reanimator formerly of Flavor on the other hand comes from Finland What with Well with all of those quaint Scandinavian accents of course Tomppa1 also comes to us from Finland via Flavor but this 7-year veteran of the Amiga scene draws high resolution art So does Tosh10 formerly of Teklordz and former founder of the defunct Error Art but he comes from the other side of the border in Sweden While we re on the topic of founders we may as well mention that Necromancer co-founder of the now non-existant Remorse ASCII has come to us to coordinate ACiD s ASCII division O-Tron himself the founder of Fists of Steel and former Art Coordinator of Teklordz joins up in an unsurpris- ing ANSI drawing role Shaolin has founded nothing but he comes to us from Fire to draw RIPscrip art Rotting Christ brushes away the flies every one in a while to draw ANSI especially now that he s left BDP in Belgium and the fantastical Borian leaves Ice to come to us after corporate-style persecution for what he considers to be a hobby However that doesn t mean that he won t startle you with his Geiger- esque works of high-resolution nightmare In an attempt to develop other art formats and become truely multimedia we have recruited the following six musical gentlemen into our pHluid division to appeal to your sense of hearing Arclight makes his scene debut just ahead of Evolution who placed in 10th at NAID and inspired the wave While there is doubtlessly more to say about him that will remain his greatest accomp- lishment to date for some time Vibrance is formerly of Adment and Dark and hopes that his vibrances and resonations will end in a somewhat appealing configuration of waves Sikos is from Israel and still uses the S3M format! (APPLAUSE) A traditionalist you see We could tell you about Taurus but it d all be a load of bull You can all rest easy because Rexazy has joined pHluid from Fuel Ice s European division Our coding staff undergoes a single addition this season - Mind Bender a master of Pascal C and Assembler steps into line after serving time in TDD and DWA Ironically enough while his Taurus a contemporary handle was inspired by a run-in with some acid ambient musician cites three years ago ACiD is inspired by our encounter John Tesh as a hero with him now In this ever-changing age of technology and pre-packaged foods we find that there is a gap that needs to be filled That gap is filled by Wolfie who runs ACiD s Official FTP site at link1 mcmaster ca and Thrasher who runs the mirror of the official FTP site at pcmicro com We welcome them both to ACiD s AIS Division ACiDiC our BBS modification division gains five talented individuals as well in this reporting period - Demaxxus maxes out EWheat (who s neat) Redemption is absolved of past offenses Spatula makes pancakes and Code Zero handles the zeros I guess they get someone else to put in the ones Wolfie is seen moments before getting tranquilized dragged out of its habitat and forced to work under arduous conditions for ACiD By Cthulu What goes up must come down What goes around comes around You can t lead a horse to water but you no that one isn t appropriate East come easy go Will we let them go Bis-mi-la er yes Yes unfortunately if Beelzebub has his sights on them there s not a lot we can do to those who stone us and spit in our eyes Anubis weighed the Feather of Truth against his heart and went with the path of true enlightenment to return as leader of Force an Australian ANSI group Diocese was expelled from the ACiD community after doubts were cast as to the integrity of his artistic inspirations Remember read between the lines folks Grifter just disappeared and grifted away one day No one ever heard from him again Inner Vision in pursuit of yet another Diocese wears a paper bag vision only he could see left ACiD to join Ice over his head to hide his of all groups embarrassment as he was kicked out for ripping Mr Schizophrenia wanted to stay in ACiD but the other voices wanted to try other groups After he laid off the medication he really didn t have much to say in the matter Rza quietly packed up and joined the ranks of inactive artists with unpronounceable handles Sparr fed up with never getting to keep ops on #kumquat left the scene Little did he know that there was a netsplit two minutes after he departed Splatt left ACiD with that dangerous starting a local group look in his eyes Consider yourselves forewarned Unsane took a vacation from the scene to unwind and reconcile his psychiatrist and grammar teacher at last Zevo took a three month hiatus from his rigorus schedule of arranging colored polygons With any luck we may see his return in the fall though no one really knows Krypto for reasons that were - you got it - cryptic he has decided to neglect that most important portion of his life the cyber one If you spot him be sure to yell board numbers and web addresses at him Psychoholic was a casualty in the differences between team leaders of ACiDiC It could ve been worse though at least he wasn t kept in a tiger cage for three years By Cthulu and Hack For various reasons ACiD will be changing the format under which it s released archives are named The variable reasons vary varyingly Do they vary much Very On the release of our 50th pack which we have calculated to be the September 1996 Acquisition and henceforth all ACiD packs will be released in the format ACID-nn ZIP where nn is the number of the pack released This our first file format change since ACiD s inception should last well into the next millenium while the ACDUmmyy ZIP format would get completely reduced to gibberish around December 1999 Why are we changing it now (In September rather) Well 50 is a rather nice round number Much more so than say 90 which would be the number of the first pack released in the new age The ideal year counting sytem would of course mark year 1 at the release of the first ACiD Acquisition but we ll have to bide our time before instituting such gross changes to the dating system We ll have to settle for adding a new month - ACiDember - inbetween August and September Then we can have the world-reknowned ACiDember ACiD Member celebrations By Hack Two years ago ACiD set forth the standard for internet communications art groups by coming out with it s own domain The debut of acid extern ucsd edu allowed ACiD to provide you with a wealth of information through a then-amazing 57 6k connection As times change so does the demand for speed and so does ACiD With the help of Wolfie our second AIS director we are now running acid org at full T1 speed This means that files will arrive to your ISP faster than ever and continue to boast high transfer speeds why supporting a ridiculously high amount o f simultaneous logins on our web pages The transitioning from the old to the new enable us to offer a new and improved site Add this one to your hotlist as it proves to be the best the scene has to offer By Kosh Now straight from Late Night with Kosh Letterman the official TOP TEN list for WHY THE ACiD PACK ISN T OUT YET! 10 If you calculate it using evidence from the bible the original Mayan calendar and the Hubble Telescope it s actually June 1st 9 RaD Man is still recovering from his NAID hangover 8 12 year old lamers took over #acid 7 The ACiD newsletter is a full motion video ansimation 6 The rest of the scene released their packs too late ACiD is actually early 5 The whole scene decided to merge with ACiD 4 Ice renamed everything with a * ice extension and put it in their pack 3 RaD Man only has a gig of hard drive space and the pack is 2 gigs 2 RaD Man is watching the I love Lucy marathon 1 Cat has *only* 45 VGAs done for the pack so far With the end of the newsletter imminent we feel that it is an appropriate time to announce ACiD s Official Pets both of which are Albino Snow Corn Snakes RaD Man s Tempus Scales (APPLAUSE) and Necromancer s Al (APPLAUSE) ACiD continues to break new ground in the creation of new artistic mediums in the validation of it s scene-spanning triumphs and even in diplomacy As the innovations of yesterday become the standards of today we are given a larger and larger base to rest on while striving for even loftier pinnacles And as always we will be the first to deliver them to you ACiD 96 - Groovy ACiD Credits Writers Cthulu RaD Man Hack Editor Necromancer ACiD ACiD Special Thanks Kosh Photographer Nitnatsnoc ACiD