I posted in January a detailed post about what ANSI animation is, hence the “part deux” for the title of this post. If you want to know what ANSI animations are and how they are created, check out my previous post. I discovered some additional ANSI animations thanks to PabloView. ACiDView for Windows obviously did not show them properly or I just never looked at those ANSI’s right, which could also be the case. Anyhow, I was using PabloView to browse some old art packs and realized that the AAA art packs from 1991 consisted mostly of ANSI animations. The majority of the animations were pretty short, they also look a bit “rough”, but you have to keep in mind that this stuff is pre-ACiD and pre-iCE material, so give the artists a break. They were kind of pioneers back then and had no clue where this whole thing would lead to one day. At the same time I decided to make a video that highlights some of the ANSI animations from my last post, but also a bunch of really great (and long) still ANSI pictures with hundreds of lines in length. So I ended up creating two videos. Here is the first one … Background music is by Jeroen Tel from the C64. It starts off with a bunch of ASCII and ANSI logos by myself. It shows the ASCII version of a logo first and then peels it away to show the ANSI version of the exact[…]
Boy, what days. I was working on getting two years worth of videos up again and the links and embedded players on my site fixed. Well, over 150 videos from over 2 years, not a task that you could consider to be a light and easy one. To learn about the reasons why I had to do all the changes, check out my original post first and then my post at SearchEngineJournal.com, where I complained about YouTube and how they handle things.I never heard a word back from them… nada, nothing, nichts, nitschevo. I am still very mad at them, especially, because they never even bothered to let me know why they did it. They simply blocked the account, all videos became inaccessible. No access to video comments, messages, subscribers, nothing.I found out that I can access my play lists, if I know the URL. I can only access videos in those lists that are not from my account though. I also found something in the YouTube “account” section of my other YouTube accounts that I have not seen before. It is a page called “Account Warnings” where it says for my other accounts: “Your account is in good standing.” I wonder if there was anything different in my primary YouTube account. I cannot recall that I ever received a notice about any messages or notes that would be considered “Account Warnings“. I am pretty sure that they suspended my account without prior warning so I question the usefulness of[…]
I am sorry for all the dead videos at my blog at the moment, but as I mentioned in my last post, my primary YouTube account is currently in status “suspended”. I tried to contact YouTube several times via email and fax (yeah, that machine that sends paper over the phone wires). I also tried to call them, but if you do not know the extension of the person you want to reach then you got stuck in an automated computer menu jungle or the system hangs up on you. I complained about this horrible support at one of the business blogs I write for and home that I will hear something from YouTube within this year or so. I have not given up my account yet. I probably lost the hundreds of subscribers, but I hope for YouTube that my 160+ videos are still okay. I still have my other YouTube account with the user name “sacreleases” where I upload demos, intros and cracktro videos recordings and ANSI animations or ASCIImations. That account has over 200 videos available for watching. In the case that you did not notice, but I made the first 199 videos accessible from the RoySAC.com homepage via a YouTube JavaScript widget. One Video that I uploaded last night was the ANSI animation by Jed and Tracer of ACiD Productions for the BBS “The Bog” from around 1992. I added audio to it, just for the fun of it and to support the visual images. I[…]
Well, we are currently so nicely in the mood of “complete” and “all”, why not add something else “complete” to it. I hope at least that it is complete. I made some remarks already during a previous post where I also highlighted the Dytec remix video, which should have given you some clues about what will come. Yep, a list of all Dytec Crack Intros with links to the video recording of it. I only found four Amiga intros, but then I think that Dynamic Technologies was never really active there. I need to check that with Fatman. I found 7 Cracktros (including one beta) for the IBM PC, for MS DOS and a whopping 26 intros for the Commodore 64. If there is any intro missing, please let me know. I hate to have an incomplete “complete list” of things hehe. Okay, here is the list of all the Cracktros. Click on the thumbnail image to get to the video version at YouTube. Dytec Amiga Intros (4) Dytec PC Intros (7) ?? Dytec C64 Intros (26) ?? ?? Okay, here is the remix video again. Backup URL to Video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I219kyAw5yw).Backup Link to Video at YouTube Cheers!Carsten aka Roy/SAC
Boy, the demoscene came a long way since their humble beginnings in the early 1980s on archaic computers like the Apple II, Atari 800 and especially the Commodore 64 and later the Commodore Amiga 500. If you want to learn more about the old days and stuff like that, check out my post about the history of the demoscene that I wrote about one month ago. My older post “Introduction to the World of Demos” is also fairly interesting IMO. Well, the examples from my previous posts may be nice, but things improved a lot since those days. A very good example is the winner demo from last years Assembly demo party in Finland called “Lifeforce“, created by Andromeda Software Development or short ASD or Andromeda. I uploaded the demo to several sites, including Facebook. I am an Internet marketer and that is how I make my living. I have naturally many Facebook friends, who are also in advertising and marketing. One of them watched the demo and left a comment, asking me, which “Agency” this “Video” created. I had to educate him that his “Agency” is a bunch of high school or maybe college kids from somewhere in Europe and that the “Video” is actually a program that creates all the visuals and stuff in real-time… and in a much higher resolution than you can see on YouTube, which only has a crappy 320×240 resolution for all their videos. Too bad that I was not able to see his[…]
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