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Category : ANSI

Major Site Expansion and New SAC Section with Art Packs Page

by Roy/SAC

Categories: ANSI, Artscene, ASCII, DefCon, history, Pixel Art, SAC, text art

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Published on: August 1, 2007

I spent quite some time to update content at my RoySAC.com Website. I wrote a whole ASCII art primer article to give you an idea what I am talking about in general. It is for people who do know little or nothing about ASCII/ANSI art, the artscene and the warez scene it operated in.The biggest addition is the new SAC section, which is dedicated solely to everything related to Superior Art Creations, the art group, which I founded in 1994.You can find there SAC VGA logos created by SAC members for the group, as well as ANSI logos and ASCII logos, which were created for internal purposes of the group.The largest addition overall was the new SAC art packs releases page. It shows all 34 SAC art packs, which were released betweeen December 1994 and December 2005, the packs File_ID.diz, download links to the pack files, links to the SAC.NFO files for detailed information about each pack and a brief description for every release.The descriptions are more detailed than I had originally planned. Because of that, does the page act as SAC history page for now, until a better SAC history page is being created one day. There are some “holes” in it, but I hope to get the missing information and will then update the page accordingly.I updated pretty much every page of the site, including the home page, the Roy/SAC art page, the shop, the downloads section, the links page and the gallery pages (ASCII Art, ANSI Art,[…]

Coming Up: DefCon, 15 Las Vegas

by Roy/SAC

Categories: ANSI, DefCon, Personal, text art

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Published on: July 26, 2007

I will be at this years DefCon conference in Las Vegas, between August 3rd and 5th, 2007. DefCon is the world’s largest underground hacking convention! This will be the 15th installment of the conference. There will be over 175! Speakers and tons of sessions over multiple tracks. My friend Christian Wirth aka “RaD Man”, founder of ACiD Productions will be a speaker at the panel “Self-Publishing and the Computer Underground“, together with Myles Long Director of Depravity, cDc communications/CULT OF THE DEAD COW and Rob “Flack” O’Hara member cDc’s Ninja Strike Force. Have you ever considered publishing your own book? Your own DVD? Self-publishing has been a part of the computer underground since its inception, from the Neon Knights to the Syndicate of London’s recent book “End of Dayz”. This panel will discuss types of self-publishing (both on- and off-line) and their relevance to the computer underground. They will also discuss their personal experiences in self-publishing. Ample time for questions will be available. Learn about the process from people who have gone through it. Jason Scott from Textfiles.com and “BBS – The Documentary“, who is a DefCon veteran, will be speaking at DefCon again too. This years session is titled “THE EDGE OF FOREVER – MAKING COMPUTER HISTORY“ Too often, “Computer History” gets shoved into a forgotten bin of irrelevancy, devoid of use for lessons and understanding. Even more often, people often fail to realize they’re making history themselves. Jason Scott will walk though the basics of computer history, what[…]

Text Art Google Group

by Roy/SAC

Categories: ANSI, Artscene, ASCII, text art

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Published on: June 14, 2007

I created today a Google Group titled “ASCII and ANSI Text Art”, but it is open to anything and anybody who and which is related to Text Art. For that reason is the short name and URL to the group “textart” instead of “asciiart” or “ansiart”. ASCII and ANSI text art Visit this group ?? Subscribe to ASCII and ANSI text art Email: Visit this group Those templates were provided by Google hehe. I created already a little resources page and also started a discussion about something that has always been a controversy. I will not tell you what that is, go check out the group and find out for yourself. A number of XML feeds are also available for anybody who can not live without. ?? ?? Atom 1.0 15 New messages50 New messages15 New topics50 New topics ?? RSS 2.0 15 New messages50 New messages15 New topics50 New topics ?? Lets see how it goes. Cheers! Carsten aka Roy/SAC

History of Text Art Video by RaD Man / ACiD

by Roy/SAC

Categories: ANSI, Artscene, ASCII, history

Tags: Artscene

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Published on: February 11, 2007

I “messed around” with the Wikipedia article to ASCII art today. Okay, I did not mess with it, but rather cleaned it up and extended it a bit. This was triggered by a video of a friend of mine who is a well known figure in the underground text art scene with the name Christian Wirth. Back to ASCII Art AcademyOkay, he is not known by that name, but by his scene “Handle” which is RaD Man. RaD Man was a senior member of the art group Aces of ANSI art in 1989, which is the first known underground text art group on the PC and founded a year after, in 1990, the probably best known and respected ANSI art group with the name ACiD. ACiD stands for ANSI Creators in Demand. RaD Man was in Finland a couple years ago at the Assembly Demo party and was doing a presentation about the History of Text art. The presentation is about 1 hour long and covers the early forms of text art starting at the ancient Rome, to Typewriter art, Radio Teletype or RTTY, Atari ATASCII art and C-64 PETSCII art to Amiga 500+ Oldskool art and PC Block or High ASCII art and Newskool. The climax is the presentation of some impressive Textmode demos that are of relative young age (2002 and later). You can get the video, gigabytes of Text art and related material such as Tools and Editors, DiscMags and Source Code on DVD. RaD Man published[…]

Space Art – Prints and Calendars

by Roy/SAC

Categories: ANSI, Custom Prints, deviantART, Space Art

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Published on: December 21, 2006

Alex Gibson aka Sphereuk is another of my favorite artists at deviantART which I would like to introduce to my blog readers and subscribers.I did something like this back in April already for the artist with the name Dilekt. I just discovered planet and space art at dA at the time. Space Art now makes up a considerable percentage of art in my dA Favorites and virtually 100% of my dA Wish list.I think that this is a good Idea, because it extend the reach of these mostly young artists that are still students for the most part. Spheruk, who is from Great Britain, for example just finished his first semester at the university. He studies design (surprise) and wants to become a game designer.Because of the time he has to dedicate for 3D art and rendering did he say that he has to cut down on the time for creating space art. I hope he will not stop doing it, because his Space and Planet artwork is amazing. I sent Alex an Email last weekend and requested that he makes a Calendar available at the dA Print Shop with the IMO 12 best of his space art pieces.He promised to create one and I am looking forward to be able to buy it.Here are the 12 pieces of space art which I ask Spheruk to use for the calendar which will hopefully become available soon. In the meantime check out the existing prints by Spheruk at the dA Shop.[…]

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