acolyte french word meaning ally someone who supports you trust in you and never will let you down volume 1 issue 1 why ANSi is one of the best game around author j33p33 well the reason seems obvious to many oldschool sceners ANSI is a nice group of individuals who care about each other im myself been in the ANSI scene since 10 years hey 10 years isnt it great i love seeing old names in the channel people with who i spent time learned several interesting things like the english language i gained interesting skills mastering such a difficult medium and trying to do something good out of it i have seen many trends pooping out during those years excellent artists namely nootropic aka dieznyik lord jazz halaster wator just to name a few all of these started specific trends not to mention the 514 area code crew which was mad elite the night angel fluor bigge piffe zarkon snake grunger bibitte the night prowler magnetic m blackviper firestone these guys were real cool and influenced many artists im really proud of my area code =) 514 montreal quebec canada! not to mention ICE originated from there as well as several other groups i remember the bbs days i was using some software called THEDOOR and someone was remotly able to see and interact in thedraw it was really cool and some of my students became real good! what is the best part with ansi its such a nice game were you compete against yourself try to improve your skills sharing it with your peers collecting comments tricks im am aware of the new utilities that came out mainly that windows based multiuser ansi editor i think its a great idea i know most people will say ansi is a dead art but think twice the resulting files are TINY display on about all computers what you can do with the medium is LIMITLESS even if some say you cant it even got animation! it helps you when it come to drawing pixel art may it be in photoshop or any other software it helps you developping your sense of perfection in ansi if you cant place the caracters so your curve looks like a curve you lack!!! hehe one of the first thing i learned when i have been shown ansi is HOW to draw a circle i must admit i was really impressed at the question since i remember some well renown artist was once asked to draw a circle on paper and he drew a perfect circle there is also some things that i want to clear up yeah today the computer is somehow really good it can do tons of things for you help you out with various things but i dont think utilities like FIGLET and things like that will ever replace handmade ansi ascii everyone got a personal style its what is fantastic and dont expect something outstanding from a font generator its cool yeah its fun for people who want to add a oldschool touch to their email their motd or things like that but besides that i dont know maybe the artists in the scene should contribute to such a apps making a complete FONT scheme with their own style thats my opinion GIF to ASCII ANSI will never be as good as a ansi made from scratch in a editor its just cheating in my opinion yeah i admit it can be useful in some conditions 100+ lines ansis where you draw your outline in photoshop and then convert it to ansi you drew a nice font in a hirez format and now you would like it in ANSI thats all i can think of at the moment but well on another note i would like to tell you about the software wonder MYSTIC BBS its a nice telnettable bbs FREEWARE one coded by the mystic team which you may know some of them (grymmjack gooroo) its one of the best piece of software i seen recently its really awesome so far its really cool to be able to play old interleagues game like BRE tradewars and so on please visit em at their website www mysticbbs com there is more goodies in the works like a telnet client which looks really good but unfortunatly not as complete as MTELNET so far go take a look and DONATE!!! ho btw i dont have much time on my hands im really busy but well ill have a super surprise for you ANSI crew in the near future if you code in c++ or any other language and would like to work on a 3d ansi renderer =) you can email me at jeepee420@yahoo com i had this idea a while ago but i think it could be really nice making just a real basic one but whatever let me know i agree its not a very hi-tech project but well its just for the fun of it i think it could impress a couple of people by its oldschoolness P NEWS NEWS NEWS i dont know if many of you checked out whats up with the music softwares recently but i leeched a couple and some are really impressive expect a CD from me in about 3-4 months =) check out these nice products fruityloops 3 4 sonar rebirth reason and also i would like to mention MODPLUG which is a module tracker whichs is a FREEWARE its said to support VST it support all the old standards us sceners were used to MOD S3M XM IT MID and is excellent in terms of sound quality tons of options if i mention it its because i got impressed and also i encourage you to give donations to the author since we all know people making free software are either already rich and making software for fun or on wellfare and eating 2 days old pizza like the divx coding team btw go check divx 5 0 it seems awesome take care thats all for this first issue of HACK-O-1337 which will be included monthly in our REVIVAL package thanks you have a wonderful day full of joy and happyness =) j33p33