Artists News
Adon announces to all that might wonder where he has gone You can
write into your mag that ive got a new computer, and also a working
keyboard - and maybe i will do some more logos in the coming time.
Splatter announces the following about Azkiness Still no good contact
with Paszczak, but he might return and release again, but right now
aint there any signs of life, and Splatter might join another crew,
which he did when he joined up with Looker House. But Azkiness still
lives on.
Nup of MoSoul renamed to B. Like to chat him? Try to find his e-mail,
he liked to have it censured here in the Gazette.
Exile did recreate Grand Royal after Red Demon had left for House of
Style, and later Low Profile. Now hes in charge of the group together
with the new members War child and Lord Chaos.
Maz spoke about his old group Art, and first declared it as dead he
also says that hes really tired of making ascii, and has probably
quitted for good, but he couldnt 100 declare those facts but did
after a while convinced himself that Art probably still is active.
Contras future is now unclear as the leader H2o left, and the other
members hasnt said anything about any new joinings nor changes.
Zeus declares him leaving Style with this: aha.. well, im releasing
a new collection soon, to inform my resignment which has happened over
3-4 months ago from style. ill see if somebodys interested, but i
dont think so, im no good at ascii anyway.. Oh YES you are. Ed.
Lord Chaos is about to re-join a ascii group, and it might be the newly
reorganizing Grand Royal.
Art Bomb was released, and it showed not at all to be an ordinary
ascii-mag, but a vote-chart covered with 85 other interests like psx
and music instead of pure ascii, like this mag, The Ascii Gazette.
A new group was created, Mad Skillz, by Mexx, who earlier just had been
independent.
Ascii Makers Feduration renamed to Link 124, and two new members joined.
Ultimo Imperio are once again in trouble. As Low Profile declared them war
hasnt life been easy. And now recently were english Ultima re-born and
will use the ult-tag in file-names.
The 100 Most Respected Ascii-Artists project by Punk of Head is cancelled
after two never released issues. Instead will Punk work on a new larger
project called Art and Style including
- top 100 most respected ascii-artists also counted tribute-collies.
- top 20 most respected ascii-groups also counted tribute-collies.
- top 100 guest-artists.
- a list of all checked collies.
which will be released in a not too distant future.
Wild Style was reborn by Tsar1 when he released his first pack for a long
time. He could also nowadays be seen on the internet once in a while.
Other old school artists who has returned to the scene through the inter-
net are Rotox, Kamenski, Maz and Mo Souls Manta.
When Hiro Protagonist released his large latest colly, it was under the
Remorse label. Remore is according to Hiro Protagonist THE oldest
ascii/ansi-crew EVER note that it has nothing to do at all with amiga-
ascii with a history that goes back to 1981. They are now reborn and
are added to the Ascii Gazettes databank.
This is a great part of what Hiro Protagonist explained about the pc-ascii
scene. Read and learn, this explains alot
The Ibm ascii scene began in 1993, with an ansi group named Tribe.
Tribe was the first ansi group to release ascii, their ascii man was
Piromaniak. The first all-ascii group was Katharsis!Ascii an offshoot
of the original Katharsis clan. Tinyz was the original member of
Kts!Asc and still heads the group today. Katharsis!Ascii membership
included artists across the globe, and was the only ascii group in the
ibm scene until in late 1994 when Necromancer and Necronite both of
whom were previously in Shiver founded a group called Remorse. Remorse
was the basis for what I have come to term the ibm ascii explosion.
It is here that we see a split in the ibm ascii scene, what we call
the old school and the new school. The new school came about as certain
artists in Remorse developed a new block style of ascii, more closely
related to ansi than anything else. The old school remains based on
/- characters while the new school employs .s as its primary
character table as a side note: alot of new school does not translate
properly to an amiga due to certain highbit ascii characters which are
frequently used in the style do not have exact counter-parts under the
amiga ascii table, or their locations differ.
Until Katharsis!Ascii released its first ascii colly, the standard
form for distribution of artwork in the ibm scene was single files in a
zip archive. The reasons for this are simple: viewers could be easily
coded to handle the relatively small individual works the works could
be colored or left uncolored on an individual basis at the artists
discression and the tradition of ibm ascii was that each individual
logo was a work of art unto itself, style and alignment changed to suit
the needs of the logo rather than rewording the logo so it fits some sort
of cookie-cutter ascii font set. And our scenes approach to art was
entirely different than yours. When a group released the entire group
released. Everyone who had something for the months pack usually
released within the first week of a month got their submissions to the
senior staff or founders who would then assemble everything into a
single archive, write the newsletter and memberlist, and release the damn
thing. In three weeks the whole process would start up again as artists
reacted to last months pack and came back with more individual styles
and responses.
The first colly to debut in the ibm ascii scene was released by
the group Katharsis!Ascii. It was called THENME.TXT and was a rather
childish response to Remorses founding Kts!Asc was used to being the
only ascii group, but it was 350k of amazing artwork and set us all
spinning in different directions. The trend was not immediately picked
up but Katharsis!Ascii continued to release its Group Collys and try
to come to grips with a North American ascii boom in Remorse. Necromancer
and Necronite dropped out of the scene by the 3rd Remorse pack and
Whodini and Omicron were left to manage it their place. By the 5th pack
Whodini had had enough and quit to found a new group, Trank. Invitations
to join Trank were extended to most of Remorse the people Whodini liked
at any rate, and so we continued on under a new banner.
The amiga font became popular with some of us, and so we did art which
was accessable across platforms. The inherent nature of the / and under
the amiga font bringing new shame to our old 80x25 ibm ascii styles which
now looked like hell under it. Our productivity grew in leaps and bounds,
instead of 4 or 5 logos a month artists began doing 70k ascii collys
every three months. From there it all just kept on going..
And this is what Hiro Protagonist has to say about Remorse
Remorse recently reformed by a merger between Trank and the ACiD ascii
division ACiD, if youve been living under a rock, is the longest
running art group in the world. The Wu-Trank label is being kept alive
at some level, going back to represent the inner clique it originally had
for some. Remorse1981 has evolved out of the Wu, at some level, but seems
more progressive to me somehow. Meanwhile the main body of Remorse is
releasing in the ACiD pack as well as the old familiar RMRS-xx.ZIP
archives.
The difference of the pc and amiga ascii-scenes has caused a lots of
problems for magazines like this one. Ive decided to include artists,
groups and packs that appears in the .TXT-way. They may be from pc-
related groups like Remorse. Just as long as they are released in a amiga
viewable way.
There were rumours about a artists unite project by some called Expose,
but it never became more at the moment than rumours.
Adon announces to all that might wonder where he has gone You can
write into your mag that ive got a new computer, and also a working
keyboard - and maybe i will do some more logos in the coming time.
Splatter announces the following about Azkiness Still no good contact
with Paszczak, but he might return and release again, but right now
aint there any signs of life, and Splatter might join another crew,
which he did when he joined up with Looker House. But Azkiness still
lives on.
Nup of MoSoul renamed to B. Like to chat him? Try to find his e-mail,
he liked to have it censured here in the Gazette.
Exile did recreate Grand Royal after Red Demon had left for House of
Style, and later Low Profile. Now hes in charge of the group together
with the new members War child and Lord Chaos.
Maz spoke about his old group Art, and first declared it as dead he
also says that hes really tired of making ascii, and has probably
quitted for good, but he couldnt 100 declare those facts but did
after a while convinced himself that Art probably still is active.
Contras future is now unclear as the leader H2o left, and the other
members hasnt said anything about any new joinings nor changes.
Zeus declares him leaving Style with this: aha.. well, im releasing
a new collection soon, to inform my resignment which has happened over
3-4 months ago from style. ill see if somebodys interested, but i
dont think so, im no good at ascii anyway.. Oh YES you are. Ed.
Lord Chaos is about to re-join a ascii group, and it might be the newly
reorganizing Grand Royal.
Art Bomb was released, and it showed not at all to be an ordinary
ascii-mag, but a vote-chart covered with 85 other interests like psx
and music instead of pure ascii, like this mag, The Ascii Gazette.
A new group was created, Mad Skillz, by Mexx, who earlier just had been
independent.
Ascii Makers Feduration renamed to Link 124, and two new members joined.
Ultimo Imperio are once again in trouble. As Low Profile declared them war
hasnt life been easy. And now recently were english Ultima re-born and
will use the ult-tag in file-names.
The 100 Most Respected Ascii-Artists project by Punk of Head is cancelled
after two never released issues. Instead will Punk work on a new larger
project called Art and Style including
- top 100 most respected ascii-artists also counted tribute-collies.
- top 20 most respected ascii-groups also counted tribute-collies.
- top 100 guest-artists.
- a list of all checked collies.
which will be released in a not too distant future.
Wild Style was reborn by Tsar1 when he released his first pack for a long
time. He could also nowadays be seen on the internet once in a while.
Other old school artists who has returned to the scene through the inter-
net are Rotox, Kamenski, Maz and Mo Souls Manta.
When Hiro Protagonist released his large latest colly, it was under the
Remorse label. Remore is according to Hiro Protagonist THE oldest
ascii/ansi-crew EVER note that it has nothing to do at all with amiga-
ascii with a history that goes back to 1981. They are now reborn and
are added to the Ascii Gazettes databank.
This is a great part of what Hiro Protagonist explained about the pc-ascii
scene. Read and learn, this explains alot
The Ibm ascii scene began in 1993, with an ansi group named Tribe.
Tribe was the first ansi group to release ascii, their ascii man was
Piromaniak. The first all-ascii group was Katharsis!Ascii an offshoot
of the original Katharsis clan. Tinyz was the original member of
Kts!Asc and still heads the group today. Katharsis!Ascii membership
included artists across the globe, and was the only ascii group in the
ibm scene until in late 1994 when Necromancer and Necronite both of
whom were previously in Shiver founded a group called Remorse. Remorse
was the basis for what I have come to term the ibm ascii explosion.
It is here that we see a split in the ibm ascii scene, what we call
the old school and the new school. The new school came about as certain
artists in Remorse developed a new block style of ascii, more closely
related to ansi than anything else. The old school remains based on
/- characters while the new school employs .s as its primary
character table as a side note: alot of new school does not translate
properly to an amiga due to certain highbit ascii characters which are
frequently used in the style do not have exact counter-parts under the
amiga ascii table, or their locations differ.
Until Katharsis!Ascii released its first ascii colly, the standard
form for distribution of artwork in the ibm scene was single files in a
zip archive. The reasons for this are simple: viewers could be easily
coded to handle the relatively small individual works the works could
be colored or left uncolored on an individual basis at the artists
discression and the tradition of ibm ascii was that each individual
logo was a work of art unto itself, style and alignment changed to suit
the needs of the logo rather than rewording the logo so it fits some sort
of cookie-cutter ascii font set. And our scenes approach to art was
entirely different than yours. When a group released the entire group
released. Everyone who had something for the months pack usually
released within the first week of a month got their submissions to the
senior staff or founders who would then assemble everything into a
single archive, write the newsletter and memberlist, and release the damn
thing. In three weeks the whole process would start up again as artists
reacted to last months pack and came back with more individual styles
and responses.
The first colly to debut in the ibm ascii scene was released by
the group Katharsis!Ascii. It was called THENME.TXT and was a rather
childish response to Remorses founding Kts!Asc was used to being the
only ascii group, but it was 350k of amazing artwork and set us all
spinning in different directions. The trend was not immediately picked
up but Katharsis!Ascii continued to release its Group Collys and try
to come to grips with a North American ascii boom in Remorse. Necromancer
and Necronite dropped out of the scene by the 3rd Remorse pack and
Whodini and Omicron were left to manage it their place. By the 5th pack
Whodini had had enough and quit to found a new group, Trank. Invitations
to join Trank were extended to most of Remorse the people Whodini liked
at any rate, and so we continued on under a new banner.
The amiga font became popular with some of us, and so we did art which
was accessable across platforms. The inherent nature of the / and under
the amiga font bringing new shame to our old 80x25 ibm ascii styles which
now looked like hell under it. Our productivity grew in leaps and bounds,
instead of 4 or 5 logos a month artists began doing 70k ascii collys
every three months. From there it all just kept on going..
And this is what Hiro Protagonist has to say about Remorse
Remorse recently reformed by a merger between Trank and the ACiD ascii
division ACiD, if youve been living under a rock, is the longest
running art group in the world. The Wu-Trank label is being kept alive
at some level, going back to represent the inner clique it originally had
for some. Remorse1981 has evolved out of the Wu, at some level, but seems
more progressive to me somehow. Meanwhile the main body of Remorse is
releasing in the ACiD pack as well as the old familiar RMRS-xx.ZIP
archives.
The difference of the pc and amiga ascii-scenes has caused a lots of
problems for magazines like this one. Ive decided to include artists,
groups and packs that appears in the .TXT-way. They may be from pc-
related groups like Remorse. Just as long as they are released in a amiga
viewable way.
There were rumours about a artists unite project by some called Expose,
but it never became more at the moment than rumours.
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