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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 /. :)
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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