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ACiD Productions
CountryUnited States
Years active1990–present
CategoryANSI art/tracking/demo
Founder(s)RaD Man
Shadow Demon
Grimm
The Beholder
Phantom
Product(s)ACiD View
ACiDDraw
PabloDraw
SAUCE
XBin
ACiDnews
ACiD Radio
Website(s)[1]


ACiD Productions (ACiD) is an underground digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development.

History

ACiD Productions was originally founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as music tracking, demo coding, and multimedia software development (e.g. image viewers).

In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, Remorse is the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art and other text-based graphics. Similarly, pHluid is responsible for module tracking and music production.

Today, ACiD focuses largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news, and sale of their DVD-based artscene archives.

Works

ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. An incomplete list follows:

Demos

Image viewers

  • ACiD View
  • SimpleXB
  • RemorseView

Image editors

Metadata protocols and binary image standard

Music disks

Disk magazines

  • The Product
  • Lancelot II
  • ACiDnews

Radio programming

See also

External links

ACiD tools downloads
  • ACiDDraw for DOS download page at ACiD.org
  • ACiD View for Windows An image viewer for Microsoft Windows which supports several formats, including ANSI art and ANSI animation; includes source code; compatible with Windows 9X
Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS
..... Click the link for more information.
MOD

File extension: .mod
Developed by: Karsten "Obi" Obarski
Type of format: Music MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.
..... Click the link for more information.
Current: Assembly - Breakpoint - Buenzli - Evoke - Scene Event - The Gathering
Past: Mekka & Symposium - The Party
Websites
Hornet Archive - Pout - Scene.org - demoscene.
..... Click the link for more information.
Christian Wirth, better known by the pseudonym RaD Man, is a computer artist and historian. He works in the field of ANSI art, a method of creating art using a limited set of text characters and color escape codes based loosely on the relevant ANSI standard (X3.
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PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986).
..... Click the link for more information.
Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions or SAUCE, as it is most commonly known, is an open metadata protocol for tagging and describing ASCII text files and other files, most of which generally center around or date back to the era of BBSing.
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XBin, or eXtended Binary, is a file format for saving IBM PC text mode images.

Essentially an extension to the normal raw-image BIN (raw memory copy of text mode video memory) files, it provides an enhanced means for saving console graphics superior to ANSI
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Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet.
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20th century - 21st century
1960s  1970s  1980s  - 1990s -  2000s  2010s  2020s
1987 1988 1989 - 1990 - 1991 1992 1993

Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar).
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ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS
..... Click the link for more information.
Bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line (or Telnet) and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, reading news, and exchanging
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Computer software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some task on a computer system. [1]
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20th century - 21st century
1960s  1970s  1980s  - 1990s -  2000s  2010s  2020s
1987 1988 1989 - 1990 - 1991 1992 1993

Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar).
..... Click the link for more information.
Christian Wirth, better known by the pseudonym RaD Man, is a computer artist and historian. He works in the field of ANSI art, a method of creating art using a limited set of text characters and color escape codes based loosely on the relevant ANSI standard (X3.
..... Click the link for more information.
ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS
..... Click the link for more information.
ASCII art is an artistic medium that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1967 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary
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MOD

File extension: .mod
Developed by: Karsten "Obi" Obarski
Type of format: Music MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.
..... Click the link for more information.
Current: Assembly - Breakpoint - Buenzli - Evoke - Scene Event - The Gathering
Past: Mekka & Symposium - The Party
Websites
Hornet Archive - Pout - Scene.org - demoscene.
..... Click the link for more information.
Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.[1] The term software engineering
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

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For the band, see .

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Remorse ASCII, or Remorse 1981, is the official ASCII sub-label of ACiD Productions.

History

Remorse was established in late 1994 by two IBM-PC scene ASCII artists from San José, California who went by the pseudonyms Necromancer and Necronite.
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pHluid, or the pHluid Music Group, is the music netlabel of ACiD Productions.

pHluid was originally founded as a module tracking group in late 1994 by ACiD musician Pinion. They released their first music disk in 1995.
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Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet.
..... Click the link for more information.
Talk Radio can refer to:
  • Talk Radio UK, a former national UK talk station which is to be relaunched the new digital radio licence by the 4 Digital Group.
  • Talk radio, a call-in discussion format for radio broadcasts.

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DVD

Media type: Optical disc
Capacity: 4.7 GB (single layer), 8.5 GB (dual layer)
Usage: Data storage, audio, video, games

Optical disc authoring
  • Optical disc
  • Optical disc image
  • Recorder hardware
  • Authoring software

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Current: Assembly - Breakpoint - Buenzli - Evoke - Scene Event - The Gathering
Past: Mekka & Symposium - The Party
Websites
Hornet Archive - Pout - Scene.org - demoscene.
..... Click the link for more information.
An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that displays a stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth and display resolution.
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In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer.
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PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986).
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