Labels:text | screenshot | graphic design OCR: All the news thats fit to print NEWSLETTER Issue No .6 An Official ACiD Productions(tm) Public Update December 1994 YBACH By Neurotic and Schizosynth As 1994 draws to a close, once again comes another installment of the quarterly ACiD Newsletter. the most affectionately referred to as 'The Scene' would have to be the development of the 'RIP' standard. RIP, or Remote Imaging Protocol, is a text based graphical language, which seems to fit somewhere in between ANSi and VGA. Primarily, throughout most of the bbs'ing world, RIP graphics have been used for more advanced interfaces on larger, more publicly oriented bulletin board systems. The mouse support, coupled with the ability to create buttons and icons makes it ideal for this. In the art world however, pioneers such as ReDMaN, Smooth, Lord Jazz and others have developed radically new techniques of drawing in this format. Discarding the simple one color filled images used commercially for complex, dithered, layered, and shaded images that at their best, rival VGA art. Now RIP pieces have become some of the most prominant, memorable pictures featured in major pacqs. In further news, major developments have taken place in the viewer genre. The development of more innovative, complex viewing programs have come about in an explosion of activity by the major groups. ACiD was quick to develop high resolution viewing modes, which created a whole new way in which to appreciate ANSI. Also, ACiD was first to adapt their viewer to the newly developed RIP standard, upping the stakes in inter-group competition by adopting the newly born format. Many groups have tried to imitate and compete with these new developments. The latest breaking news is the new ACiDView's ability to display VGAs. The new ACiD View has been revamped in several areas, and is once again at the head of the fray in this area. Yet another new development , which the indulgent reader is experiencing right now, is the innovative, quarterly, 'newsletter' format. Rather than relying on the conventional '.nfo' file buried someplace within the pack, ACiD has bared its creative teeth by coming up with a new, quarterly format. With a humorous parody of traditional, newspaper style, the ACiD newsletter attempts to update and not to bore. There were many new developments in the course of the years releases. The outbreak of 'April fools' antics confused and sometimes upset those who lacked levity, but provided an interesting change from the norm for most of us. The most notable of which might be considered to be Alter Ego's Entirely bereft humdinger bbs' incident. This twenty five line gem of levity, Mass is a picture to be remembered for some time to come. Delusion scowls at the camera. On the heels of ReDMaN and Smooth, a mew artist exploded onto The Scene. Lord Jazz set many new pre- cedents, with top quality, original images, and innovative, new RIP shading techniques. Lord Jazz has quickly become one of the most respected artists in the scene, in ANSi and RIP areas. His highly detailed backgrounds were a new, and dramatic development . More news in the viewing front came in the form of the 'SAUCE' standard, and its offshoots. This new concept allowed for artists handles and descriptions to be displayed in the main viewing screen. Files with the 'SAUCE' feature have information applied or Lord Jazz makes his "spooned' on after the End of File marker. This fashion statement allows useful information to be displayed in the sporting his attire viewing utility without and compromise of the artists for the winter sea- intent . son . In additional news , ACID artists and coders worked in concert to create new , executable ANSi pictures. These ANSIintros allowed for keypad controlled side scrolling through ANSi pictures that were wider than they were long . The most dramatic development in this area was the Bounce effect' created by Tasmaniac, and employed in newer pieces (many say it is quite hypnotic). In final news, ACiDDraw, the new drawing utility has redefined the ANSI drawing utility standard. With features conceived and tested by ACID'S most experienced artists and coders, this utility seeks to eclipse any previous standards set in this arena. Calculating the The advanced features this utility has, i.e. screen dimensions of the widths and lengths being controllable to a completely photographer S new extent, built in multi-res VGA viewing capability, cranium, Skull outline features, block flips, high-ASCII inversion Leader flips and more, are the best of the old, with many eager ly grins at the new ideas too. camera man. NEH AFFILIATES By RaD Man In recent months, ACiD has acquired several new up and coming artists, musicians, and other noteworthy members. They are as follows: Animal (ANSi artist from iCE) Asian Knight (ANSi artist from Nation) Bedlam (RIP artist) Cat (Original VGA artist) Mr. Sinister (ANSi artist and former Nation President) Red Leader (ANSi artist from Nation) Spirit of Illusion (ANSi artist from Nation) Twisted Terrorist (ANSi artist from DARK) Vanquish (ANSi fontician from Nation) Pinion (Musician from Union) Protocol (Musician) Ecstatic about being Psibelius (Musician and Epinicion President) ACID Productions' Rimbo (Musician from Lucid) first Israeli Stalker (Musician) member, Animal shows Kefe (Coder from Lucid) off his photogenic Sids (Coder from Tribe) smile. Winter Rose (Courier from iCE) In addition to the gaining of new talent, there has recently been a pro- motion within the Courier Division. Long time dedicated courier, The Calibre, has been promoted to the ranks of Courier Coordinator. Finally, ACiD would like to welcome its new Agorae and headquarters. When Beastie's Channel Zero closed down last summer, Terra Firma resumed the status of Western Agora. Suicidal Shrimp replaced its predecessor, Twisted Tower, Last, new Courier Home, the notorious 10-node board, Marauder's State of Devolution. ACiD Productions' By Beastie BBS Modifications Division and Somms ACiD has always been known for having some of the most impressive BBS setups in the scene. The recent interest in board modifications have pushed the configurable softwares to their limits. To fill the need for a new and better BBS, ACiD has spawned a new division entirely for system modifications: ACiDic. Today, ACiDic is concentrating on enhancing some of the more popular BBS softwares available, such as Darkflame Enterprises' Oblivion/2, Clark's PCBoard, and as Ion Davis' Renegade. Specialized teams have been developed for each software platform, ensuring that specific needs will be addressed. Since their formation in October, there have been several releases from each team, and we look forward to the many upcoming enhancemants to be released in the future. KACİD> Credits: Editor: RaD Man- Photographer: Lord Jazz <ACİD>
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