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ACiD Productions Releases Final Artpack
Jason Scott writes "Among the people I have interviewed for the forthcoming BBS Documentary are members of what was known, throughout the 90s, as the 'ANSI Scene'. They released artpacks of ANSI art on BBSes across the world, and then later on the Internet. Among these were members of the group known as ANSI Creators in Demand, or ACiD. Besides inventing the artpack, the group has continued to release them for the last 13 years... until now. The group's leader, RaDMan, has announced the arrival of the 100th and final artpack. Clocking in at a mind-boggling 400 megabytes plus, it contains high-rez, ASCII, and of course ANSI art, as well as a huge selection of music. It even has a rap featuring RaDMan himself claiming domination over the art scene. The download page lets you grab it in FTP, HTTP, and Bittorrent. If you ever spent an evening poring over the latest 'pack', now's the time to see ACiD's last hurrah."
The art thing is good and fine.. but what about her. She's a chick. That's better than art!
Here before all but 8486 of you.
Radman is a washed up little kid. He doesn't dominate anything. He doesnt draw anymore.
Oh, really?
You've got some splaining to do!!BitchX logo by radman
ACiD logo by radman
This site is only partially finished, but you can see an online ANSI art gallery (of all groups) at http://ansi.idledreams.net. Hopefully it won't crash too hard from /. :)
ACiD-100. The 100th Acquisition Update. The Final Artpack.
At the start of this year, ACiD announced the release of their 100th and final artpack, ACiD-100. This may ring a small bell for some of you, and no bell at all for others; however, to refresh, from 1990 to 1997, ACiD was the household name for all your ANSI art / ascii art / high-resolution artwork needs, especially toward the promotion of private bulletin boards systems (BBSes).
Of course, with the advent of GUI operating environments and ubiquitous affordable Internet access (+ their contingent collapses of local dialup textmode culture) the text art that was once their bread and butter fell by the wayside, last released in 1997. However, as a commemorative gesture, a bevy of new material in the medium by original ANSI masters manifests in this ultimate release. Weighing in at a hefty 454MB, it also features a wide selection of music in the MP3 and Impulse Tracker module formats from their musical subsidiary, the pHluid Music Group. Also featured are last versions of their four most popular software titles for DOS and Windows, complete with never before seen full source code released under the GNU GPL.
Several highspeed servers are available for your pick of file transfer via BitTorrent, FTP or HTTP. If you wish to mirror please contact Anthem on EFNET IRC in #ACiD or simply leave your Torrent client open and continue to help seed.
Thanks to everyone who stayed up late with me on IRC while I got the servers running and a very special thanks to the one who made all of this possible from 1990 - 2004 and taken the art scene to the next level, RaD Man.
-- Anthem and Cthulu
Torrent Clients
BitTorrent is a P2P sharing method and is the preferred means of obtaining ACiD-100. You may download BitTorrent 3.3 here.
Broadband users should experience rates of about 300-450kb/s due to our highspeed seeds. After installing BT, simply click on the file below to begin downloading.
Download ACiD-100
acid-100.zip - Preferred method, requires a Torrent client
acid-100.zip - HTTP mirror (.us, 1gbit, high24[7/ hoa)
acid-100.zip - FTP mirror (.us, 100mbit, djquad/ acid)
acid-100.rar - FTP mirror (.nl, 1gbit, redhound/ scene)
acid-100.rar - FTP mirror (.de, 100mbit, ferrex/ sac)
Tracker Stats - BitTorrent Tracker download statistics
ACiD Radio - Streaming ACiD-100 and pHluid music!
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In related news, ACiD is selling DVD-ROMs for $13 USD containing the entirety of the Artpacks Archive they maintained -- in short, redundancy-checked, corruption-checked mirrors of all remaining / existing ANSI and artscene release activity, from artpacks to loaders and cracktros to e-mags. All that, and I hear they include an interface permitting the effortless access of these archaic visual formats on contemporary platforms -- so if you ever again wanted to see a lost JED ANSImation display at 2400 baud, here's your chance. For more information, please consult www.darkdomain.org. A descriptive list of the 4.2GB worth of files included on their DVD is also available at http://www.darkdomain.org/allfiles.zip.
If you're on a Windows or (no joke) OS/2 box, try mTelnet [ozone.eesc.com]. It's got (near as I can tell) perfect ANSI support, and it's got genuine old-sk00l flava in the interface. It's an excellent BBS client.
According to the site:
A monumentally final chapter in the ACiD artpack legacy is upon us as we rapidly approach the release our landmark 100th ACiD Acquisition Update. It's not for me to say what happens afterwards, but this will be *my* final release with ACiD.
(Emphasis mine)
It's not the end of ACiD at all.
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