v9- f1RE gRAPHICS Yep! It s another fire pack There isn t nearly as much to say this month as there were last month so hopefully some people other than yourself will actually be reading the news this time around Fire coding has had some new life breathed into it this month A little while ago I was pleasantly surprised to see our old fire coders Maxwell and Lord Cracker both in #fire I was even more more pleasantly surprised when both told me they planned to return to the scene and fire and start doing some coding for us Maxwell plans to pick up where he left off and begin work on a new viewer for fire while Lord Cracker will be concentrating on demo-ish stuff Welcome back guys! The Extremist has been (hopefully temporarily) removed from his position as communications coordinator The duties of his job became somewhat more difficult after he lost his internet account ) I m sure Text will surface sooner or later however and we ll gladly reinstate him as long as he s still up for the job Fireweb s still around Hopefully the summer will give us some time to finally get fireweb org up and running Until then it still can be found at http patriot net panacea That s all the general news for now that I can think of Here are the other coords to tell you more specific stuff -God among Lice ANSI Yes we still do that once in a while Again there have been changes in our roster of ansi gods The good news is that two people from germany joined us but there are also three people leaving our ranks Leonardo of Mean Scheme and Black Maiden joined us to become a little more famous This guy definately deserves your attention His art simply rocks and not just because he is one of the few guys who still has a unique style Leonardo won the Mekka Symposium 97 ansi competition beating The Knight (of Fuel) and Mr4tune (of Fire and previously of CIA and Echo) Speaking of Mr4tune he placed second at the Mekka Symposium He left his affiliation with CIA and Echo to join our ranks Fire welcomes both Leonardo and Mr4tune Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to three pals Avenger decided to leave us because he s been far too busy with his senior positions in Black Maiden and his recently founded ascii group Zenith Avenger has also been spending time drawing for the German ansi group Mean Scheme Fever accepted the tempting offer of Twilight ansi senior position And Numb that person on earth we h8 so much g decided that it was time to feel fed up with drawing ansi for a while We will miss you pals As for the pack itself I guess we ve had better months But we still have some awesome pics to serve so don t get any funny ideas Fire ansi still sets your world aflame kid -nail Pariah speaks of his adventures in ASCII LAND! This has been a pretty slow month for everyone in Fire!ascii including myself Many of our members new and old didn t submit any art However it s still a quality release which is really the main idea Quality over quantity This month we gained the artistic talent of Point Blank a great artist formerly from serial and the original fire!ascii Compuman also joined up bringing his unique style along with him Discofunk left for unknown reasons and we wish him the best of luck with his senior position in the new odelay Sick of being confused for an Arab Haji changed his nick to Zygotron May has been a slow month for us but hopefully next month members will produce a large amount of asciis in compensation I am in the process of working out a merger type deal that would greatly elevate the quality of ascii in fire!a So stay tuned for that next month Send applications to pariah@digitaldreams ml org or pariahFAT on irc -Pariah Fire!ascii coordinator Hirez schmirez Me again This is probably the first month in quite a while that I can t say that our vga division has done at least or about as well as we have in preceding months Basically this is just a lack of output from our members So if you draw vga and you re in fire then get off your lazy ass and do something! And do it on time! Next pack is Saturday June 7 Our only change in the member list this month is the removal of Winbee You may be thinking that this is because of inactivity but this is however not the case Winbee finally showed up after a long absence but it seems he feels that he doesn t fit in with us And maybe he s right That is it -lGiOcDe WARNING NOTHING PANACEA DOES OR SAYS SHOULD BE TRUSTED OR TAKEN SERIOUSLY Greetings all you credulous beings out there! Two major events occured this month that will affect Fire forever The most unbelievable of course is the fact that ABC decided to show an article about the ANSI Scene In a special Monday-night Prime Time Live on June 23rd 1997 William Shatner will focus on the recent changes in technology and the Internet This article will focus primarily on Fire and it s valiant efforts to raise the quality of life for teenagers using the Internet Fire does this by giving teenagers something to do in the afternoon besides looking at pornography and pirating commercial software Members cannot wait to see the program and Eerie promises to mail ansi artists video-cassette copies of the article upon request Secondly After heavy debate and a few fist-fights Fire Seniors have decided to name ASCII CHARACTER ONE-HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE (159) as Fire s official ascii symbol This was done to ensure Fire s compliance with the ISPF s (The Internet Safety and Purity Foundation) new guidelines relating to the public distribution of non-commercial files through areas of low-bandwidth System Administrators wondering how these guidelines will effect them may email panacea@patriot net -panacea ire senior Outro I think our shift to releasing the first Saturday of each month has turned out to be a good idea The atmosphere while getting the pack together has been much more relaxed than in the past Then again maybe that s just because there was less artwork than normal to organize this month After last month s Mistigris tour stop this month has been tame I hope you can make do with what we have to offer with this pack Look for some more incredible artwork in the months to follow and beyond -God among Lice fire president oooossssyyyyp -zn 4$b i Newsletter written by God Among Lice Nail Pariah d888$b lII and some Panacea http patriot net panacea d$P 4$b Sll $$ 4$b $SS oooosssssssssyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy $$ yyyyyyyy$$$b $$$ $$ 4$P y y yy yyy$$