intro -------------------------------------------------------------------- And thus the arrival of a new dawn approaches The era of expansion learning and advancement The dawn brings not the light of day but the cold of night Let your fear and hatred spawn from your inner self to your eyes and hands Let it overwhelm and seep into every pore and cell of your body Tendrils of electric blue void spark and sizzle not ever burning but freezing whatever it touches let the darkness begin extended explanation ----------------------------------------------------- Let the Six Pack begin! We welcome in 98 with a new style Continuing with the excellence our artists are known for we decided to add a little twist to their craft Each member was requested to expand into a media type not yet mastered to themself Ansi artists are experimenting with vga while vga artists are mastering programming just to name some of the quirky moves With artists grumbling in the background we swifty defeated their armies of complaints only to snicker and laugh at their newly (de)formed art Perhaps in time our artists may in fact release media outside of their own native waters on a regular basis But perhaps in time cows will rule the world Artistic talent is sometimes needed to be expressed differently and released differently in order to fully understand what you do Doing the same task over and over again tends to drive boredom into the thoughts of those who turn into slaves at the mercy of their art From a chaotic state into nirvana from uniformity into frenzy we have created something extraordinary Though most deemed this merely as an excercise in fun many stood with arms wide open to the thought of a challenge Of course no one would ever call what we ve done a challenge It s strange to realize but all we ever have are victories However this pack is not an excercise It s more like someone opening another window to us and showing us the new view - oxygene head coder personal reflection ------------------------------------------------------ With Acidic Soap bumbling about programming in his ear oxygene prowls over his other windows in his irc client A writhing flow of text fills his buffers Artists throwing their hands up in frustration The low murmur of questions and comments being volleyed to and fro between the departments his escape His friends His family He knows now what he has to do Needing a swift influx of pepsi oxygene contemplates an idea which occured to him while driving to see his counterpart Listening to squarepusher he relaxes into a state of bliss A release of internal energy flows into the words he composes on the screen The thoughts pour like sand through an open hand yet fall into place in a seemingly perfect crystaline formation Unable to keep up his hands ache with the fury his nerve impulses fire at them No end is in sight His words quickly dissipate as eagerly as they began Feeling like a new found stranger in an even stranger world he hears the calming voice of her He stops notices her presence and quickly closes his file eager to talk to her He turns around only to see an empty room Very long and very wide A massive expanse with a tiny spec off in the distance Time for a walk dark news ---------------------------------------------------------------- We have recieved numerous comments and suggestions about the reduction of our pack size The issue remains up in the air currently as discussions still produce points for each side The idea would be to release an ansi only pack and a separate multimedia pack (vga music coding) while allowing the option to grab the whole deal Work on the WHQ continues after taking a small break for some of our members who are doing the design of it No opening date is set however it is rumoured that it s done with the only effort right now being placed to serious modifications of the layout and additions A massive release from our coding department is slated tentatively for a February pack release date Seeing as our coding department has been wrapped up in this production we know that we will not disappoint This will be an addon release to the regular pack only due to the size of the program and associated files The web site will contain more information about this when the time comes so keep your eyes open! Remember folks Tentative ) Feel free to check out some of the amazing addons to our web site at www darkillustrated org which is running better than ever we might add Obtaining our own server and administration rights we have expanded our resources to such exciting things like DarkView NET which is our newly developed online pack viewer Also feel free to check out some of the members pages special note ------------------------------------------------------------- We d like to thank Mistigris for their inspiration in this idea we called the Six Pack ) Look out for their annual April Fools packs! Tsk finally released something *applause applause* member updates ----------------------------------------------------------- We lose two very special members from the ranks of Dark Illustrated this month As sad as we are to watch them leave we offer them the best with their new directions in life Burnout steps down as VGA head in order to take care of personal matters In his place he leaves Acidic Soap who will do an excellent job Burnout does intend to return to the ranks once his life is sorted out No doubt he ll come back better than ever as well as slightly heavier *snicker* One very important and age old member leaves us too Xypher Matryx bids a fond farewell after 5 long years in the ranks both as a member and most noteably as Senior Staff Taking matters in his own hands Xypher Matryx intends to tackle the world head on Hope he has _lots_ of asprin ) Take care punks As some leave some rejoin We welcome aboard The Green Hornet from his time away from us uvel0city Alla Xul and Grindstone also join up in the ranking Of course we ll see some amazing work down the line from these artists ) And we welcome back Holocaust The cheeky thunder monkey himself ) Look for some ruff artwork from him soon A minor clerical error was found in last months member list moomin13 was regretfully misplaced in our vga department list Apologies from the staff A late addition also failed to notice our beloved Warpus for the past few months too Err *** oxygene sets mode +asskick staff*@*!* dark site list ----------------------------------------------------------- To Be Announced DARK World Headquarters Unknown Neosporin DARK Western HQ Rage Mad Cows ! DARK Member Board Night Stalker Abraxas Diabolic DARK US Support Site Megga Hertz ABCB Cafe DARK Support Site Kyo DARK filenames ----------------------------------------------------------- Filename Conventions Filenames work like this XXXXX-## * XXXXX is a five-letter abbreviation of the artist s alias (Should the alias fall within five characters or less the entire alias will be used ) ## represents the current number of pieces the artist has produced the year of release * can be any valid extension for images executables data files or musical compositions The most common are DRK for ansi images including JPG GIF BMP etc for high resolution graphic images and MOD S3M XM IT etc for music data files miscellaneous banter and thoughts ---------------------------------------- And again #dark seems to provide at the very least some place where you can laugh at people Not with them ) PBreaker Hey we got to watch a TCBY store burn to the ground the other night Not that I had anything to do with it PBreaker It s just like OJ Simpson and women Sometimes you just have to slap the shit out of er I never said that _Epitaph sinned I guess my sense of humour is based around parodies and or wacky things whereas yours is in the embarassment of others sinned_ bingo jeriko And now i m taking off my pants Oops wrong channel sinnedRC5 Quake 2 at sinned acid org PBreaker Castle Wolfenstein at pbreaker fatty com jeriko all i have is a dx2 80 sinnedRC5 jeriko rest assured that I own 3 computers faster than yours ) _4thds I think my dog runs faster than your computer jeriko 4th your dog runs that fast only when it sees that gleam in your eyes * _4thds screams like a little girl and runs off oxygene see the little button on the left of the keyboard that seys caps lock press it now atHero Violence errupted last night after an unprovoked verbal attack on a well-known member of the Dark Illustrated gang A turf war began after name-calling escalated to kicks and finally full-scale nuclear warfare More on this at the 6 o clock report godless- The chicks downtown always complement my choices of cds but they never discount for me ) (or dance naked for that matter) godless- I AM BOOBYMAN Corinth )8-8==D Corinth look I m a hermaphrodite PBreaker Shit it s snowing tomorrow PBreaker This could make drunk driving treacherous oxygene i really believe that the essence to design is the ability to successfully convey ones idea in relation with space oxygene i guess it all depends how you look at it _4thds hmm and in english I like to dewdle *** ^-ZiP-^ (xxx@ham-2313 netrover com) has joined #dark __megaman pkunzip ^-ZIP-^ c hamilton-sucks ^-ZiP-^ ! ^-ZiP-^ I don t get it godless- think hard conclusion dedication ---------------------------------------------------- Another yearly chapter is written and another is begun with this month s pack We ve reached a focal point in DARK s history Continuing with the tradition of our previous years DARK Illustrated will remain as a pillar of strength from the North we ve made it this far This is dedicated to you (you know who you are) regardless of where you stand I know where I stand - oxygene head coder end of info file -----------------------------------------------------jizz