____________ / /___________ / / / ___ _\ __/ __/ (___) ________ ____/ ____ \ _____ \ ____ ___ ________ _) _ / _) / _) /_/____\__ \_/ _____) /___/ \__) ____/ / /___/_/ /_____/ / / ____/_/ / / / / __/___ /_ / ___ / ___ / ___ / ___ ___ / / ___ / / \______/ \______/ \______/ \______/ \/ \__________/ \______/sYz /___________/ / /___________/ (a)MERICAN (s)TANDART (c)ODE oF (i)NFORMATION (i)NTERCHANGE Back again, and now I with proud could call this a 'real' Gazette, as it has been released more than one issue! And I still do it for the same reasons as the last issue. I have again produced a magazine with Ascii-News, Facts and Lists. Since we have a scene out there with about 450 more or less active Ascii-artists (28 new since last issue the 12/12'95), and a lot bigger crowd with fans and supporters of the Ascii, I thought that it was time to define this subject, and bring you all a hopefully quite true story about what really went on during these years when it all happened. Here you could read about almost EVERYTHING that has something to do with Ascii. As someone told me, this aint a Gazette, it's a Dictionary for the Artist of Today! Do click your way through lists over the active artists of today and see who joined which group the latests days. Now with this new issue it all is a bit updated too, so hopefully even more entertaining this time! This is, and will always be really stunning experience, thats for sure. Special subjects for this issue are (together with many others) E-Mail, Boards, Release-Lists, and many explenations about what really happened to the groups that dissapeared. This production is absolutly not only for the ones involved in this wonderful scene. Quite the contrary, since most of the teaching parts of Ascii-Gazette are formed to get everones attention. A Beginners Guide, as well as the Professionals Dictionary! Do also notice that the Text-version of the Ascii Gazette aint exactly the same as the Executable version. So don't forget to check both of them. How to read this? Well, use your keyboard, or the arrows in the menu. First Page ^ Previous Page < · > Next Page v Last Page And the following buttons are used for: Menu: Got back to the Menu Note: Switch on/off the Music Exit: Exit Ascii-Gazette Search: Go to the requested Page I used a program called 'Magnum' to put together this production. Magnum is a program that I got without a doc, and since there aint no © info in the code of it, I could only thank the author, whoever it may be. About the comments that came when people discovered that I used this program, I have to say: I'm a very demanding person, I like to do things, I like to do them correct, and quite effective. I couldn't impossibly finish this project and the have to wait 5 mounths for a coder to make a special coded version of the Ascii-Gazette. That's why I choose the easy and simple way, using a program that some would call 'lame' like this one. But, I'm terribly sorry if this is the way you feel about it, but in that case don't even bother to execute the porgram, read the text-version of the Gazette instead. When I found this program I saw it as the best alternative, and though I probably shouldn't have done the same thing today, I'm not THAT disappointed with what it does. Think again, do you really dissaprove it THAT much? It's quite descrete and displays the ascii fast and easy, and it's really simple for me to use when I make the Gazette, so I can't say I concider it as THAT lame. I'd like to appoligize for my english grammar that probably is terrible bad at a couple of places, and for my lousy Iff that I used in the intro pictures and in the menu. Otherwise, the credits for this production would be like this; Facts and Text by: [ Xcluziwe / Sos ] Iff-Pictures by: [ Xcluziwe / Sos ] [ WGJR / Eup ] Module by: [ Laimbrain / Grt ] Additional Facts: [ Fatal / E^d ] [ Desert / Dzn ] [ Exocet / Al ] [ Drakar / At! ] [ Relief / -T ] [ Trivial / Ds! ] [ Cesium / Session ] [ Lord / Absolute ] [ Princip / Qtx ] Xcluziwe logo: [ Stylez / C! ] And other artists in the different parts. Most of them credited at next to their logo. Anyone forgotten? Hope not, sorry, in case! And please! DO NOT forget that also the Menu-Pages are two, so you could push the [>]-arrow there too, to list the second page of the menu. If you must/like to get in touch with me, do reach me at most of Swedens major Elite-Bbs's, or at the very exclusive Ascii-Gazette Contact Head- Quarter, Fatal's very recently opened board, Another Step. The Number is +46-21-330975, and do visit it, as it's swedens first 100% Ascii-Board, and this is where you find all the swedish artists. Hope you'll enjoy this, and perhaps even learn a bit? And to all the facts that may not be true, I'd really like to correct them, get in touch with me for updates, so that the next (if there ever will be any?) issue will bring the very correct facts. / Signed the Editor, Xcluziwe · xCz Last update made some minutes before release, 03h50m Am the 21/01 - 1996.