ACiD Productions
| ACiD Productions | |
|---|---|
| Formation | September 1, 1990 |
| Purpose/focus | digital arts |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Key people | RaD Man Shadow Demon Grimm The Beholder Phantom |
| Website | acid.org |
ACiD Productions (ACiD) is a digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes.[1] More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development. During the BBS-era, their biggest competitor was iCE Advertisements.[2]
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History[edit]
ACiD Productions was founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand[3] 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). Membership rose from five members in 1990 to well over seven hundred by 2003. [4]
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, and ACiDic handles bulletin board software modification and enhancement.
Today, ACiD focuses largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news, and sale of their DVD-based artscene archives.
Works[edit]
ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. A select list follows:
Demos[edit]
Image viewers[edit]
- ACiD View
- SimpleXB
- RemorseView
Image editors[edit]
- ACiDDraw
- Empathy
- PabloDraw
Metadata protocols and binary image standard[edit]
Music disks[edit]
- pHluid
Disk magazines[edit]
- The Product
- Lancelot II
- ACiDnews
Radio programming[edit]
- The ARTS (news/talk radio)
- pHluid Radio (music)
- ACiD Radio (music)
See also[edit]
- ANSI art
- ASCII art
- List of artscene groups
- List of text editors (ASCII art section)
References[edit]
- ^ Garrett, Ben (2004-04-27). "Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium" (pdf). defacto2.net. "ACID (ANSI Creators In Demand) where the first of these international groups, trend setters who originally specialised in ANSI art and ANSIMation ads. They earned their reputation at being one of the best groups by creating art for the best pirate boards of the time."
- ^ Hargadon, Michael A. "Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000." Concordia University, March 18, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ Sadofsky, Jason Scott. "BBS: The Documentary". ARTSCENE Episode. May 21, 2005.
- ^ ACiD-100 All-time memberlist (1990–2003)
External links[edit]
- ACiD Productions
- Dark Domain The ACiD Artpacks Archive on DVD (ISBN 0-9746537-0-5)
- The ARTS ACiD's Artscene Radio Talk Show
- Official Facebook page for ACiD Productions
- 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
