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Ascii-Magzines
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Is something that defintly seems to be really popular right now. After
the great success of the first real Ascii-magazine, the ArtMag produced
by RoadHogz (who they are? see the RoadHogz-part) suddenly the whole
scene went crazy and started to support and follow the evolution of the
ascii-scene.
ArtMag was created using amiga-guide and included lists over the latest
mounths released collections and a special vote-panel where the best
artist and the best ascii-group was voted. The votes were made with
simple messages and text-files to the editors, and therefor not what I'd
call the 100% reliable thruth. But there was a /X-door-project going on
and ArtMag hoped to be able to use Flite's 'ArtChart-door' as soon as
possible.
What was RoadHogz created for then? And what did they do if the liked ascii
but didn't produce any themselves? The answer were that they concisted of
some pc-dudes who leeched the collections and spread them through their
pc's all over europe. And they also added a special tag at the bottom of
every collections which proved that the collection had been spread by a
RoadHogger. It looked like this;
[%::::::::::::%] rOadhOgged [%::::::::::::%]
This passage through a pc made some chars in the collections to change.
Acctually quite alot, just look at this;
Original: Roadhogged:
¦ ------------> ª
¬ ------------> ¼
¯ ------------> »
· ------------>
Ä ------------>
ä ------------> S
ö ------------> ÷
í ------------> ø
ì ------------>
¡ ------------> í
¤ ------------> ñ
That makes quite a difference, take a look at this ascii by DeathLord,
and how it looks like when Roadhogged;
Original: Roadhogged:
. . . .
¯| |||/ »| |||/
| | +\_ | | +\_
_j .(__o/ _j .(__o/
|_ ¦¯ ¯¯\ |_ ª» »»\
|\\l l\_)_ |\\l l\_)_
| \(____¯__ ) | \(____»__ )
|{_¯ _}|| ¦ |{_» _}|| ª
`-| | || l_ `-| | || l_
/¯dL! ¯\ll___) /»dL! »\ll___)
There came a converter from Count Zero ( rooDe-Hog 1.0 ), but some chars
became single spaces, and that's impossible for every converter to fix.
So everything wasn't as pleasing as it could have been. Phase and Vinzi
didn't at all like the pc-transport of the collections and created a
group called A4 (Ascii Artists Against Artmag).
Also the general reaction of the trade with pc's were very bad, but the
scene seemed to like the idea of a ascii-mag though, and the general advice
was for RoadHogz to quit the trade but to keep their mag.
ArtMag dissapeared with Zen as he moved to Botswana (see the RoadHogz-part)
and the new main-editor became Satans Fire. Now, this was where the mag
started to dissapear. It got heavely delayed and when it came were it fill-
ed with really stupid mistakes that made the main impression really nega-
tive. Every since that latest double-issue hasn't anything at all been
heard from RDZ and I think the mag is delayed with about 4 mounths by now.
Well, read more about this matter in the RoadHogz-part, and now to what
else is coming up in the ascii-magazine business.
The rumors about Mark Ryder's ascii-magazine has been quite well-spread by
now, and Mark Ryder himself tells us that it'll be out sometime after he
has finished his military service later this year. But no further comments
about what it'll include and how it'll look. But it'll be a amiga-guide-
project.
I've also heard about another big project that is on the scetch-board,
ready to get released soon, anyway this winter/spring. It'll be a special-
coded ascii-magazine with loads of feautures and many wellknown editors.
But as it's really classified I can't tell you any more.
This magazine, Ascii-Gazette, has rechieved many positive reactions
(not only positive ones though) and I'm pleased to see that all my work
wasn't just thrown away. This issue, Number 2, will perhaps/probably be
the last one, the requirements I had to continue with the Gazette-project
was that I got help from persons, and that I developed new parts of it as
AsciiCollection-reviews, Previews, Interviews, Group-pages, Advertisments
and much more. I now has gotten a new offer to join a different magazine,
which I'm very interested in. And I will perhaps also make some ascii-
pages in the ST-magazine that will be reborn soon. That is what has made
me change my mind about this magazine, and that is perhaps also the
reasons that I abandon it after this issue. But we never know for sure,
do we? And I havn't made up my mind to 100% percent yet...