ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ± ADFA Creative pack for October/November 1993 ± ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß ADFA (pronounced ADD-fah) is a coalition of local Australian creative talent. Where members have equal rights, and work under the same banner to further the cause of electronic arts. Our aim is to provide quality products for the BBS community in Australia. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ± Note from the President ± ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß Well here we are again. Only two months have transpired, yet so much change has occurred in ADFA. I'd like to publicly congratulate everyone who helped contribute to this pack, and those that helped me "behind the scenes". I'm amazed everything came together at the last moment. Anyway, onto the latest group news: 1. The ADFA HQ board has moved to Terminal Velocity (SysOp: JetStream). Disorganised Crime and Rigel IV are no longer affiliated with ADFA. These changes were prompted for various internal reasons. DisC and R4 offered us great support, and both SysOps constantly put up with my BS. I wish Death Lord and Deadly Avenger well in their future endeavours. 2. ADFA no longer stands for "Another Damn Fine ANSi". It is now just a name, and not an acronym. Reasons for this should be fairly obvious. 3. ADFA has finally expanded interstate. We now have boards in Western Australia (The Rave System), Queensland (The Wasted Lands), and Tasmania (The Castle). I'd like to welcome them to the group. Give them a call. 4. Positions of "division" coordinators have been dropped in favour of "president" and "vice-president" roles. Side Effect is now Vice. There are also State co-ord roles. These people manage ADFA affairs in their particular State. All positions are purely managerial. 5. Recently the Rebellion (old Victorian demo group) members reformed under the name of Proteus. Now they've joined ADFA and have a demo in the works. Whilst they're ADFA members, their releases will still be under the name of Proteus - a division of ADFA. 6. There has been an increase in ADFA personnel. We now have over twenty members. I would like to welcome all the new members to ADFA, and you can check out who they are in the member listing. 7. ADFA now has a voice-mail box. You can use it to post requests, ask ADFA-related questions, and hear about the latest ADFA news. The number is 008-800-600 box 6078 and is a free call anywhere in Australia. Even from a pay phone! 8. Remember creative requests can be posted via a message in any ADFA request area, to a member, and now directly to our VMB. Make sure you leave details of the request, and where we can contact you. 9. Check out CasCade's ANSiMation parody of Central Park BBS (in CENTRAL.ZIP). It's pretty funny, but is not intended to offend anybody. Take it with a grain of salt. 10. RedBeard has gone to great lengths to improve his viewer. It now has ANSi scroll back, it can display .COM and .EXE files, has an 80 x 50 text mode, as well as numerous other features. The artwork is by Side Effect. 11. ADFA is now offering "apprenticeships" for people interested in the creative arts. If you want to draw ANSies/VGAs, or even compose MODs, and you _think_ you have the potential to become good, contact us through the usual methods. 12. Just before our second pack was released, Randers (initials RA), a relatively inexperience ANSi artist joined ADFA. Check how much he has improved in two months. Quite impressive. 13. Whilst some groups are still dabbling in ray-tracing (which is not art at all; it's just coding), check out some *real* mouse-drawn VGA artwork from (a$peR, Raster, and The Illusion. There are four hi- res VGAs which have not been coded. This problem will be fixed next time, but for now you can view them as GIFs. (a$peR was finishing a Death Row advert just as the BBS changed names. I've decided to release it anyway. NB: On some cards CShow will not display hi-res pictures correctly. Try viewing them in lo-res. 14. A couple of months ago I made a comment to Side Effect that there weren't any MOD composers in Australia. Boy, was I wrong. Since then a few musicians have joined ADFA and you can check out some MODs they have done. ADFA raises the creative stakes yet *again* (can the opposition follow?). NB: there were some problems with putting a MOD player into the viewer. There will be one next time, but for now use something like DMP. 15. ADFA also has a literature section. In the future they will write up some poetry, stories, etc. for use in ANSies (or whatever). At the moment we only have The UnderTaker, but hopefully we'll find some more people interested in this creative art form. 16. That's it! Now check out the pack.. ttfn, Blue Adept '93 [ADFA] President; o7/11/93. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ± Greets (sorta in alphabetic order)± ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß ADFA thanks the following people for their efforts: FreeStyle - Keep at it man. Screaming Mutant - Look forward to working with you. The Blind Assassin - Sorry about the mixup. You're a leg. ;) The UnderTaker - Try boxes with a bit more substance. UNiQUE - Techno is just a series of beeps! ADFA greets the following people: Death Lord - Best of luck with your finals, and Evolution. Deadly Avenger - Get your line fixed bub.. ;) FirE - Hope you guys liked the ANSies/ASCii's.. JetStream - Keep it going man. SCM is better than SoC! Hehe.. DiE - Nice try fellas. Sudden Death - Watch NFL, it's more fun.. RoughNeck - Pity about Ci .. ;( Everyone else that makes the Oz scene rock. Personal greets: Side Effect - Don't worry, you can help pay for my couriering phone bill! Razor Byte - Put your BBS back up, heh, heh.. White Lightning - Art babes are better than law/commerce ones. The Sorcerer - Ok, ok, the thing is coming.. ;) GRiM - Central Park? How un-Australian! Maraudering Goblin - Get back into the scene and do some ANSies. Paladin - Change your BBS s/w so we can do some ANSies for ya.. ;) (Hmmmm, there should be more greets, but I'm damn tired, and I just wanna get this babe out.. hiya to everyone I missed).. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ± ADFA Quotes ± ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß "..the name Wasted Lands doesn't mean I'm a drugged out SysOp" -The UnderTaker "Coloured ASCii! HOW LAME! :)" -Side Effect "I don't call DiE's gifs artwork, I call it ray tracing" -(a$peR "Fuck Randers, he's shithouse. Let's not lower our standards." -Side Effect "I sound like I'm starting to take over the group eh.." -Deadly Avenger "Hmm, what you use to view the RiP pics? The RiP viewer?" -Side Effect "Keep your distance.. There is a war going on.." -Sudden Death "You got a VMB? That must be expensive!" -JetStream To get into "ADFA Quotes" just post some interesting messages.. Remember, anything you do or say could get noted by moi. [End]