Happy April everyone! I decided to poke around my hard drive and dig up some old ansis of mine I got a modem in 1988 but i didn t get TheDraw until early 1991 I didn t have a handle until the end of that year so that s why the first few are unsigned The first two ansis blink so make sure your viewer is set to display blinking text instead of high-intensity backgrounds Anyway you can trace my progress from mid-1991 to late 1992 when i stopped doing ansi Around December 1993 i got back into the scene as a coder for a warez group called LSD and by summer 94 i helped resurrect UAA (this was the second time UAA was brought back to life) UAA merged into MAG before i could release anything and MAG died before i got a chance to release anything NATiON grabbed most of the members of MAG including myself just after school had started Unfortunately NATiON didn t release a pack that month and died the next month so yet again i didn t get to release anything I worked independantly until i delivered my iCE app in December 1994 and got accepted the next month Anyway here s my roots -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 10 91 - SearchLight BBS allows an ansi to be displayed when you switch message bases This was the one that was displayed when you went to the Video Games message base This was for my friend (in real life) Zirkoid s board first called Planet X later renamed to Doorway to Doom or Doorway to Death depending on what mood we were in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ _ _ _________ ________ Video Games Sub-Board + _ _ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 07 91 - This was the sub-board picture for the Art Gallery obviously -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 31 92 - I made a few other ansis between september and january but they re lost forever I got a lot better and joined the first group i d ever heard of Upcoming Ansi Artists I think this was the first ansi i did for them Hmm i probably should have used color 8 on the pencil lead Oh well -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANSIblaZerUAA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 04 92 - This was the logoff screen for DTD Check out that reaper ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call back or else your sleep will be eternally disturbed! Boo! - ANSI laZ UAA 92 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 09 92 - A joint ansi ) Me and Zirk did this one over at his house one day -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U ANSi ANSI ZiRkOId laZ D w y D M Running Searchlight 1 77EMS (Celerity February 14) HUGE Message Base Cool Staff Registered versions of ThePit 2 0 and TradeWars 2002! 1 Day Validation NO ul dl ratios LI s LARGEST ANSi Collection Call or go to HELL 516-364-5574 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 29 92 - You might notice that none of the remaining ansis say UAA I was kicked out of the group by Quasar Like most assholes he went on to join ACiD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a n s i b y l a Z -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 01 92 - Isn t this shadow stuff cool I started working on the font at the bottom but got sick of drawing before i got to the word BBS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ansi by laZ -to- BBS Because you never know what s lurking behind you (516) 364-0814 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 10 92 - I was playing around with shading blocks for this one And no i wasn t depressed i was just trying to be artistic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 05 92 - This one s simple but i think the effect looks neat --------------------------------------------------------------------------------