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Hello !

Dipswitch is here again to tell you what happened in our beloved ascii
scene in May. Whether you see sense in TAC or not, many people always
wait for the next issue and are glad...

First of all, I must confess that there are some collys from the last months
which were not included in the last issues. These are two SEA collies,
which made a long way from Poland to Germany, a Weapon-X colly which
laid in the ascii base of Artificial Insemination/Finland a whole
month (!!!) until someone has the good idea to upload it in The Yard,
from where it travelled through the whole other amiga boards. The fourth
colly is the great Abhorrence colly which i simply forgot in the last
Issue... SORRY, ABHO !!!
Yeah, and yesterday I recieved some collys from Ghandy's mailcontact,
who has no bbs access but does only diskswapping. They are also from
January and March and so...

Well, what happened else last month...? Some old guys showed up again,
like aDON/ex-oMA and zORRO/ex-dG!. There is even a rumour that aPU/ex-dKB,
zORRO/ex-dG! and zOD!/tRSi are going to form a new asciigroup... well,
we'll see !

eSCUMA, the, as far as I know, first female asciiartist ever, joined up
with the 1oo% ascii posse, where her boyfriend hAWKWiND is also a member.
1oo% did a member meeting in Fuerth/Germany at Hawkwind's place, where
nEURODANCER, hAWKWiND, eSCUMA, miRACLE and aNTi-G were present. An amiga
intro and a new homepage is planned for the future, as well as many new
collies <g>.

Big thanks to nEURODANCER/1oo% for the whole divider logos and miRACLE/1oo%
for the title logo. To all other ascii artists: please do a logo saying
'THE ASCII CHARTS' !!!

It seems that aV3NGER a.k.a. aVENGER a.k.a. sHAOLiN/oMA is planning a come-
back. The fact is that he requested some logos from zANER and me for a
new colly.

My email <[email protected]> will no more be present from
the 1.7.99 because Los Endos BBS will close their email service. If you
know/have a bbs with free email service please contact me.

Nothing more to say !

- diPSWiTCH/aRCADE^aHS^1oo% // tHE yARD bBS // tHE aSCii cHARTS

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\ \ \ | / : \ | \ : \ \| / /
--\ \/ _ | / : \ |_ _ \ \ /-
\_____ / \_______/' /_____/:\_____\ ` \_______/nD--- \ \\_______/
\__/ : \____/

First of all, an IRC capture where bOHEME^sE gives his statement to
Ascii Charts and the death of ascii... check it.

----/start of IRC capture/-----

> boheme: what ?
#ascii>
<bOhEmE^sE> ..and you can quote me on that
<bOhEmE^sE> dip: the ascii charts hblahablaoot
*** snuffy ([email protected]) has joined channel #ascii
> boheme: why ?
#ascii>
<bOhEmE^sE> snuffa
*** Acorn ([email protected]) has joined channel #ascii
> ACORN!!!
> boheme: tell me your critics !!!
#ascii>
<Acorn> Dippie!
<zANEr> acorn!
<Acorn> zanero!
<Acorn> bohemas!
<Acorn> Zeus!
<Acorn> hmm
<bOhEmE^sE> dip: stoopid shite.. and the charts are idiotic since you got
there collections from a few months
<Acorn> wrong win..sorry
<bOhEmE^sE> acrn bububub
*** bOhEmE^sE is now known as bHe^fL
> boheme: if someone's stoopid then you are... they're called charts'99 and SO
THEY ARE !!!
#ascii>
<bHe^fL> folar gettinghere
<zANEr> hi folah!
> folar !
#ascii>
<Acorn> diPSWiTCH: what's the problem?
<bHe^fL> ouh.. folar here
> acorn: what problem ?
<Acorn> diPSWiTCH: hmm..nothing..:)
<bHe^fL> hee that is uck ht to
<zANEr> bHe^fL> i think the charts are like that, because the chart stuff is
only from 1999 not all-time ... i think that would be a better addition
diPSWiTCH...
<bHe^fL> hard to type with this communicator
> boheme: tAC are important to get this ascii battle alive again... can you
say something agains that ?
*** Signoff: snuffy (Ping timeout)
*** klefz_ ([email protected]) has joined channel #ascii
> zaner: wie was ?!?! soll ich aus 99 alltime machen oder wie oder was !??!
<zANEr> diPSWiTCH> nein, aber irgendwie versuchen eine alltime liste zu
erstellen, das ist naemlich richtig geil so als ueberblick .. :)
<bHe^fL> ascii is dead
> zaner: dann koennte ich sie ja gleich von xCZ abschreiben...;)
<bHe^fL> i mean noone needs it
<zANEr> diPSWiTCH> stimmt ...

----/end of IRC capture/-----

My comment to this: Boheme, if you have had read the Ascii Charts
carefully, you would have noticed that the header of the charts reads
'Charts'99' !!! And if ascii is dead, so why are you idling the whole day
on #ascii ? Why don't you do something to stop the death of ascii ?
You think noone needs ascii ? Well, why do I get ca.20 requests per
month ? Boheme, this is nothing against you, I like your art (if you
do some;) but stop giving superficial comments, better think !

This letter i recieved from an amiga scener named Joule...

----/start of email/-----

From: Joel Johansson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:10:00 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: YAM 2.0Preview7 [020] - Amiga Mailer by Marcel Beck - http://www.yam.
h
Organization: bumbibears
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
X-UIDL: 940eb56499d9b0cbaf4eb97cad9e5164

greets.. just wanted to tell you that i think the oldschool asciiscene
need a thing like 'the ascii charts'. dOn't stop releasing it!
thank you very much and have a nice day..

--
:
. jOule __.___ /_.__|--|____ .____ .
|-------/ | // | ! | /--| -_/------|
:------/---'-//---'-----'--/---'----------:
[email protected]
jOule #skaraborg #amielite IRCnet

----/end of email/-----

Hello Joule, thanx for the flowers...;). No, I'm not going to stop
releasing this little mag...

The following mail came from Abhorrence/Inhale, whose colly i forgot to
review/put in the charts.

----/start of email/-----

From: "E. Vesa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: tac
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:40:52 +0300
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-UIDL: a1aab5445bc2b1ade5e38ef0273d6038
i just checked tac-9904.txt and found out that my colly (ih-ange.txt)
wasn't
noticed in any way... i guess every other colly released in april was
noticed
there. why is it so? it's on hosee and it should be on every major bbs, so
you
should have got it. i even talked to you about that some time ago...
no bad feelings, i'm just wondering.
- abhorrence / inhale ^ flo

----/end of email/-----

Hi Abho !!!
Oh god, I'm really sorry...! I looked at TAC and I noticed too that
neither your colly is reviewed nor Inhale is listed in the charts !
I loved you colly very much (thoug I perhaps missed a DIPSWiTCH and an
ASCII CHARTS;). But I forgot to copy it from the terminal download dir to
the ascii archive dir. And I do reviews from collies which are already in
the ascii dir... so I just forgot the colly... Sorry !

Ok, no more mail... Well, if you got something to say, write !
Up to the 1.7.1999 you can write to <[email protected]>,
after thart you will have to reach me on some boards... Perhaps there
will be a TAC email address in some months...

Now, to the reviews..!

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\ \ \ \ \ \ bLACK mAiDEN ! : fiLENAME: bm-bbb.txt
/__ /_____/___ /_____/__/_________________: dATE: 01/05/99
. aRTiST: Ave
: "breakbeats because i love it" : tAG: ave'bm
: another collection by : gROUP: Black Maiden
: ave/blackmaiden -- : hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
:____ _ _ ____: fiRST oN: Hazard/2
dip/// / � � � � � � � � � � � \ \\\ a!

Yesss, Ave is presenting some ascii skillz again after a long time...!
Nice style, perhaps the letters are sometimes too distanced from eachother,
but all in all a very nice production.
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

.
-:------------[ the newcoming ]--+ fiLENAME: r-ozz81a.txt
:.. _._____ ..... . . ... . . dATE: 01/05/99
: __|_ \ E M O R S E 1 9 8 1 aRTiST: Kayozz
: _\ |/ /_ tAG: ozz
: / \_____// Premiere colly for gROUP: Remorse 1981
:/_ __\ the rmrs crew by kayozz hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
-:- \/ --------------------------+ fiRST oN: Milan
:

Don't like that one too much... The whole colly is made very negligently,
some letters like the 'gum' in 'gumfuck' are extremely unproportional
and ugly. That's not a good start into remorse, Kayozz !
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

______ __ //\___ ______ REMORSE
_ ___\_ /( \/ /_\_ / _____ 1981 fiLENAME: r-tm.txt
_/ _/_ \/ / _/ _/_\\ __/___ dATE: 01/05/99
_ __\ /___/ /___\ /--\_ / aRTiST: Hiro Protagonist
/____\ /____\ /____\ ____// tAG: �hP!
/_____\ gROUP: Remorse 1981
[ R-TM.TXT � 05/01/99 ] ..... �hP! hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
.........................::::: fiRST oN: www.acid.org
::
:: A Hiro Protagonist Ascii Collection
::
:: " The Message "
::
::................... . 125,2OO bytes

Hiro Protagonist gives us a lifesign. Very nice one. You can say anything
against Remorse and against other hP! productions, but this one is simply
brilliant. Nice design, exellent style. The only minus: the whole logos
are respect logos to some strange pc ansi artists who can not use oldschool
logos either...
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

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/ | _____ _____ __ ___
| |__\\_ \__\\_ \_\// // fiLENAME: 1oo-feel.txt
| | / / / / /__ aScii lAbs dATE: 01/05/99
-| _|\_______/\_______/--\_/-\/----------- aRTiST: Neurodancer
|__/ prEsenting tAG: nD
"a feeliNg... so dEep... so cleAr" gROUP: 1oo%
by nEurodancer o1-mAy-1999 hiS cOLLY nO.: 13
____________________________________________ fiRST oN: Aurora Borealis

And another lifesign, this time from Neurodancer. When it comes to
innovative and funny colly design this is for sure the best production
of the month. Nice allround design, funny extra gimmicks like an 'ascii-
meter' and a clock doing DRRRRIIIIINNNG, all drawn very clearly in dots.
Well ok ok stop, I'm in 1oo% too so I'm getting too much into hailing ;)..
Leech this colly and see yourself.
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

[---------------------- kem/k0 --] fiLENAME: k0-invte.txt
_ _ k0re. factories dATE: 01/05/99
�_�___�_�_ _ _ ______ _ aRTiST: Kempy
� � � � � � � � _ tAG: kem/k0
�_� �_� �_�______�_� �_� gROUP: k0re
present kempy's I N V I T E hiS cOLLY nO.: 7
[-------------------- 01/05/99 --] fiRST oN: The Sect

Why this fuckers always pack their collies in an *.lha without any
reasons ? This is no ansi pack, stupid k0re fuckers ! There are even
boards who nuke such packed collies. All in all, the colly is not as
bad-ass as the most k0re productions, but still not good enough.
The file_id.diz sucks too, by the way...
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

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___\ | \/ _/____\ |_\_ \/ /
__\ | \___ \ | / \_/ __ fiLENAME: a!-germa.txt
-\ \____|__| \_____/\____|_____/\____nD/- dATE: 02/05/99
:.\ /.: aRTiST: Dipswitch
::.\ ' g E R M A N b O A R D S ' /.:: tAG: diP/a!
:::.\ /.::: gROUP: Arcade
::::.\ a cOLLY bY diPSWiTCH\a!^1oo% /.:::: hiS cOLLY nO.: 11
------\ /------ fiRST oN: The Yard
- - -\--(02/MAY/99)----(ARCADE)--/- - -

Nothing to say. My colly. Check it or not. Addies for all german boards.
- diP/a!

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|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|
______ _____ |_|_|_|_| fiLENAME: sea-time.txt
_\ _/_ .\ _/_ |_| ____ dATE: 03/05/99
_./___ / \____ \| __/_.___\__ \_. ____\._ aRTiST: Blaze
| \ \_____/__|_______|____l/___| / | tAG: blz'sea
| s a t i v e m e a | gROUP: Sative Mea
_|_______________________________________|_ hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
\ Bd!/La! |_|_._._._. / fiRST oN: King's Crown
|_|_|_|_|_|
BLAZE is back into past. |_|
CONCEPTION 5 III: timelessness.

Hey, finally a polish colly with english text !!! But this makes the
colly not better... I still can not understand why Blade changes his style
from time to time against an uglier one. Polish asciiers seem to change
their style very often as I noticed. My advice to all artists: stick to
your style and improve it !
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

>> jEdI aRts __________.
._________. __\ /__
_____\ |/ \__ fiLENAME: ja!-99.txt
_/ . __ / dATE: 10/05/99
\ \/ / aRTiST: Wise-K
\ /\ \______/ tAG: wk
\ ___/ \_______\ gROUP: Jedi Arts
(c)\________\ ::..........::::::: hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
:::.............: : fiRST oN: Death Row
: the wise says know :.....
.......................: :
: your damn role. :
"nine nine" :....................:

Many of us waited for it, noone believed it would happen, but it did
happen: jEDi aRTS kick a colly in '99 ! Very lovely style, a real seldom
nowadays... Hope that we can expect more from Wise-K & Co. in the near
future !
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

--- [b|z'sea]--------------- ____
_:___________________________\ 7
� __________ \/ fiLENAME: sea-nwor.txt
| / ______\ , . | dATE: 10/05/99
� /______ / ) a t | v e � aRTiST: X-Ball
| / _______/____ | tAG: �6L
� / / _______/ m e a � gROUP: Sative Mea
|/� / ______|_________ | hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
=//====\_____ / ____ \=�= fiRST oN: Spaced Out
�/==========/ / \ / /=|=
=�===============\_____/ /==�=
=|====================/ /===|=

� "NEW ORDER" azkee collection
signed under label crazy'n'spin
SATIVE MEA squad by:
X-BALL/DECREE+SATIVE MEA
..in nin...[1999].
� watch and enjoy sucker �
--------------------[12/02/99]--

First thing to say: the file_id.diz says 12/02/99, but it's 10/05/99 !
Probably X-Ball copied the diz from some old SEA colly and forgot to
change the date...
I'm positively surprised about this colly. If it's X-Ball's own style
and he didn't rip anything, he would be the first SEA styler who reached
the international ascii level... Well, just my opinion.
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

_____ _____ ______
\ _/________ \ /_______ ______| \__
\___ / _/ \ | / fiLENAME: sea-pace.lha
___ / /_____\_________\ ____|_______/ dATE: 12/05/99
- / /-------------------------------. aRTiST: Blaze
| � � another sative mea smashhit | tAG: blz'sea
| stacked up 2nd part | gROUP: Sative Mea
| peace | hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
| spanked by blaze | fiRST oN: The Sect
|_________ ___|
dip/a! )/--------------------12/05/99-\(

You stoopid fuckers, stop packing your collies !!! I start to get really
angry... And Blaze is using the ugly style again. Well, at least he used
some nice guest logos...;)
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

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/ | _____ _____ __ ___
| |__\\_ \__\\_ \_\// // fiLENAME: 1oo-miln.txt
| | / / / / /__ aScii lAbs dATE: 13/05/99
-| _:\_______/\_______/--\_/-\/----------- aRTiST: Miracle
|__/ : prEsenting tAG: mrc
:... "mIllENnIUM".................... gROUP: 1oo%
created by Miracle (you won't believe!:) hiS cOLLY nO.: 11
. ... ...... ...13/May/99 fiRST oN: Aurora Borealis

Yeah Miracle is back. Take a look by yourself, I can't review it neutral
'cause i'm 1oo% too...
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

__.._____ ____. ____ ____ ____
\_||_ // /|/ // /____)_ \_..__
vol/ / _. / _. ____/_||_/ fiLENAME: kkz-noi.txt
__./ \ \| \ \| \ \ .__ . dATE: 13/05/99
: //____/ \____\___/ \____\_________\:\ : aRTiST: Jaw
: � � : tAG: jaw
: | noise. by jaw | : gROUP: Killkrazed
: _�_ released 13.5 _�_ : hiS cOLLY nO.: 2
: _\|/_______________________________\:/_ : fiRST oN: The Yard

Oh gawwwd ! Jaw is incorregible... Again he tried to set some chars
together to let them be logos. Jaw, you say in your colly that i'm going
to have a good laugh again. NO ! This isn't funny, it's just sad.
Either you should learn it or leave it !
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----
.______
._____ -�6L |/ / ______ __________
__T 7________) /___l /__) __/
\_ _______ ______.__________,__ _ \_. fiLENAME: sea-mlem.lha
i / __/__/ __|/ __. | � dATE: 19/05/99
| \____ \ _l \_l | :� aRTiST: Azzaro & Blaze
/ // / \ _| -s3a .�: tAG: az0!/sea & b|z'sea
|_ /______/_____________/___\ )___.i||| gROUP: Sative Mea
/__ _ /___\ hiS cOLLY nO.: ?
<--s a t i v e m 3 a-[999]------------> fiRST oN: The Sect
brothers in law, azzaro&blaze gives
you another travel into da borderline
"MORNING LEMON" coop, 19th from SEA
POLSKA ASCII KURWA ROCKIN'

Yeah, this is a little bit nicer than the averange SEA productions.
Blaze (it's his 3rd colly in May) found a nicer style than in the last two
ones. Azzaro's style is too unreadable I think...
But all in all a quite ok collection.
- diP/a!

----/next colly/-----

___ _____ ___ ___ _____ ____
/ _ \__\_ \_/ _/___/ _ \__\__ \_/ _ \
_/ \_ / _/ \ \ \_ / / /__/_ fiLENAME: a!-rbeit.txt
\___|___/_\ \_______/__|___/____/________/ dATE: 24/05/99
:----------\___/-------[sTZ!/sE �'98]------: aRTiST: Dipswitch
: ' how to design a collie ? ' : tAG: diP/a!
: dipswitch helps you with some nice logos : gROUP: Arcade
: take it or leave it...........24.05.1999 : hiS cOLLY nO.: 12
:------------------------------------------: fiRST oN: Los Endos

Tsss... Again a colly from some ascii artist called Dipswitch...
This time with logos for others to design their collies.
- diP/a!

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\ _/ ___ | _|________ ____ _____
__\___.\\_ \| \: //_._\\ _/___ _\\__ \_
_/ | \ \ \______/ | ____/_/ _ /
\ | \ \_ | / \ / \ __
--\ _ | \ |nD!/ _ _ _ \ \----------------------\\/-
\\____| _ |\___| /______/ \\_______/ \---\ \
\\___| \____/ _
_______: ____. ____ _________ / \__
___\ |__\___|_\\ _/___ ___\ // _//__
iNTERViEW wiTH aVE/bM! _/ \ ` | ____/_/ \ _\____ \_
__ \ \/ _ | \ /\ / /
-\//---------------------\ _ / \ _ | _ _ _ _ /--
\\_____/ \\____|-\_______/ \___/\___/ \\_______/

dip: How did you get in touch with computers the first time ?

ave: My father was and still is interested into computers and electronics
in general. He owned a c64 and i enjoyed playing all those cool games
like jumpman, turrican, pirates and maniac mansion. that was my first
contact with computers, back then i was about 7 or 8. the first signs
of the scene were all those cracktro's. i fucking loved the ocean
loader tune of pirates :) i fooled around with basic but at that
age my programs were of course not too impressive.
around 1992 or so my father bought a 286 pc and on my 11th birthday i
was introduced to play commander keen.
some time later my father bought a modem and started to read and write
in the fidonet.

dip: How did you get in touch with the scene ?

ave: To be honest, the initial motivation about getting into the scene was
"pc underground" - the infamous book by one of those coexistence
guys :) a cd-rom was attached to it and in one of the demo-zips
was a mailswap-addy by the avatar/snet, who's still on #coders.ger
quite regurlar. that must have been around 1994. i wanted to get
in contact with him and since i read somewhere that he ran a board,
i searched in the fido nodelist for his board "britannia". i started
to call it and was really impressed by the great ansigraphics
(well, back then i thought they'd be great :) and all the scene flavour.
i downloaded every shitty file and after a while of reading the fido
scene-echos szene.ger and demo.ger i asked avatar if i could become
"point". i already tried to code in turbo pascal and did a few thedraw
font-ansis :) after a while of ripping sources and so on, i dropped
coding again and sticked to ansi. in the ansi.ger (fido-echo) i first
met the black maiden guys voice and tex. i joined a bunch of local
lamers called utshg, released two artpacks with them and a couple of
lame other stuff until i decided to apply to black maiden. my ansis
were quite unbearable, but kyp (who joined bm after the insommnia-pack)
and voice decided to let me in :)
i was fucking happy and i loved ansi. i drew the whole day and released
dozens of logos in every pack. i don't know why but i always focused
on logos. after a while i was recognized by other german artists.
i was invited to the anarchy-net (a fido-based scene-message-net) and
got to know alot of other scene people - all the (pc-)scenes were linked
to the same nets in the past (fido-ansi.ger, fido-scene.ger,
fido-demo.ger, anarchynet, ebolanet, pyxnet ..). so i met musicians,
coders, graphicians as well as warez guys. i got better and better
and until now i've been in a couple of quite known ansi groups like
mean scheme, fire, awe letterings and so on..

dip: You were active in the PC demo/artscene and are still active.
What do you do there ?

ave: my connection to the demoscene is based on those old relationships i
made via the message nets and besides that i am helping out poti of
black maiden, who organizes a small german demoparty called evoke.
today i loose the connection to the demo-scene more and more, since
many people moved to the internet and i sticked with boards.
i still draw ansi and ascii, but not that much anymore, since our
beloved real life has caught me, too :) another reason is that
the ansi-scene got a lot smaller and there are few releases nowadays,
it's not that motivating anymore :(

dip: Why did you start to draw Amiga Ascii, after doing PC Ansi and PC
($-Style) Ascii ?

ave: i started to draw ascii very early, but neglected it a long time when i
was focusing on ansi only. why did i start to draw amiga ascii?
hm, actually just to try if i can master it, too. i wanted to try all
kinds of textmode art and i always liked ascii (not as much as ansi but
still :) . another motivation was lord chaos of ex-whale (nowadays
of kolor), who i got to know via the previous described message-nets.
i wanted to be as good as him and he was a very friendly and funny guy,
who helped me out from time to time (explain the amiga-scene and such)
ansi bores me from time to time and then i draw ascii.
i was bored of the pc scene in general, it had nothing new for me and
so i started to call a few amiga boards. that's it.
i am still a pc scener, but i like amiga ascii and dedicate my ascii-
collies to the amiga scene.

dip: What is Black Maiden ?

ave: black maiden is mainly a group of ansi/ascii/vga artists. we have
different projects like evoke (the demoparty) and such, but we grew up
in the ansi scene. the original black maiden founded by voice and tex
was founded about 10-12 years ago (i do not really know the exact date)
as a cracking and coding group on the CPC.
1994 they entered the pc scene and started to do graphics, i joined
in the end of 1995 and after voice and tex retired, i was chosen
to take over the role of the main organizer in 1997 and slowly
black maiden got more and more recognition from the international
scene. but we were always the underdogs, because we released only very
3-4 months and somehow our distribution was not too great. but we
were always the stylekings :)

due to lack of time and motivation our ansi releases got fewer in the
time. but that does not prevent us being good friends, we are partly
quite local to each other and so it's quite usual that we meet from time
to time.

dip: Please explain our (mostly-Amiga) readers the structure of a PC Ansi/Ascii
group in comparison to Amiga Asciigroups !

ave: the main difference is that you release together with other artists and
not single. it creates much more a group atmosphere, and every release
is a nice feeling. some ansi groups have a leader who decides everything,
but we are more or less democratic and vote for every major decision and
only some organizers take care of distribution and all those stuff.
at the moment i am still main organizer, because i am the one with the
most free time (highschool :)

the disadvantage of group releases, that there have to be deadlines or
you always have to wait for others, even if you are done with your work.

dip: In Black Maiden pack #20 you announced the stop of releasing artpacks.
Will single collies still be released ?

ave: yes. all our other work will be published via a webgallery and probably
a little mag which will contain our bi-monthly produced art.

dip: You draw on PC. How do you manage to let your asciis look nice on an
Amiga, too ? Do you use a kind of emulator or something ?

ave: yes, i use afs.com.

dip: What do you think about so-called 'oldschool ascii' PC groups like
Remorse, Mimic etc. ?

ave: well, i respect them and they release very nice newskool ascii, but
when it comes to oldskool-ascii i prefer most amiga-groups.

dip: Did you notice that many PC artists stopped to believe into the board
scene ?
Someone of Remorse even stated in a colly that there are no more boards
left as noone needs them. Isn't that a vicious circle since Ansi/Ascii
has in first line the aim to do art for the board scene ?

ave: this is an often discussed question in the pc ansi scene. i prefer boards
because they have a special atmosphere (not that sterile like internet and
more individual) and you don't have to wait for years to get to the next
page. it is a vicious circle and for ansi i think the only way
to survive is the "artform" way. ansi can only survive, if it gets
recognized as an artform by a broader public. releases from dieznyik, 4o,
crayon and so on are the right way i think. for ascii it's a bit different. telnet boards are usually too slow for ansi and so ascii has still some
chances to survive.

dip: What do you think about Amiga scene in general ? It's a quite new
terrain for you, isn't it ?

ave: i don't know much about the amiga scene, to be honest. i always got the
impression that there are less lamers and especially the amiga-graphicians
and demos are lovely :)
my first impression from ascii collies was that the ascii-scene is
a tad unfriendlier, but after getting into it i just recognized
that the opposite is the truth :)

dip: What's about readable versus unreadable style ?

ave: i am definately pro readable style, where readable means for me that the
is a system behind the letters and not just a pile of slashes.
you should be able to recognize a development in the style and not just
"one logo that way, one logo completely different"

dip: Now you are allowed to brag about your board !

ave: there is not much to say, i have very few callers and i just keep it
online to support the bbs-scene in general and share artpacks,
ascii collies, zines, graffiti and some other stuff with the last few
german bbs callers. alot of great ansi artists have drawn something
for it, so it's still worth a call :)
it runs pcboard and its number is +49-2406-929269 (v34+x75).

dip: Wanna greet someone ?

ave: um, i take my first interview ever as a opportunity to greet a lot of
guys:

dv8, poti, junk, the avatar, assign, buster, bisonours, black weasel,
dwarf, dizman, you dipswitch :), dieznyik, fastjack, salice, 4o,
faxe, jerusalem, jey, konami, kyp, lemon, leo, lord chaos, milkmang,
mother, nail, nemo, scheibe, disco1974, bizzarro, tarjan,
noize, osel, outraider, positive pain, pandur, samurai, scope,
seltorn, shaitan, shine, speed freak, storm&c-storm,
dalezy, tleilax, tna, toot, tex, voice, zaner, zippy, bk, trc, nstalkie,
mortimer twang ..

all black maiden members and ex-members..

all (ex-)members of the now dead groups utshg, ega, fire, mean scheme,
zenith design, seraphic, everglo, awe, fuel, blood, blend, phat ..

all members of the still alive groups poffelipoff, glue, fokus, kolor,
hieroglyphics ..

dip: Thanks for the interview !

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-- fEBRUARY 1999 - - - -
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| filename | colly title | artist | crew | date |
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| ztc-pl1.txt | pipi logic vol.1 | zito | zetec | 12.02.99 |
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-- mARCH 1999 - - - -
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| filename | colly title | artist | crew | date |
|--------------|----------------------------|-----------|---------|----------|
| ztc-cls.txt | citylights | zito | zetec | 01.03.99 |
| sea-psyl.txt | psilocybe cubensis | zabora | sea | 03.03.99 |
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-- aPRiL 1999 - - - -
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| filename | colly title | artist | crew | date |
|--------------|----------------------------|-----------|---------|----------|
| sea-pead.txt | peanut head | blaze | sea | 01.04.99 |
| owo-eil.txt | error in line'99 | zito |off world| 25.04.99 |
| ih-ange.txt | anger... | abhorrence| inhale | 26.04.99 |
| wpx-u're.txt | you are insignificant a... | weapon-x | - | 26.04.99 |
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| filename | colly title | artist | crew | date |
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| 1oo-feel.txt | a feeling so clear so deep |neurodancer| 1oo% | 01.05.99 |
| bm-bbb.txt | breakbeats... | ave | bm | 01.05.99 |
| r-ozz81a.txt | the newcoming | kayozz | remorse | 01.05.99 |
| r-tm.txt | the message | hiro prot.| remorse | 01.05.99 |
| k0-invte.lha | invite | kempy | k0re | 01.05.99 |
| a!-germa.txt | german boards | dipswitch | arcade | 02.05.99 |
| sea-time.txt | timelessnes conception 5 | blaze | sea | 03.05.99 |
| ja!-99.txt | nine nine | wise-k | jediarts| 10.05.99 |
| sea-nwor.txt | new order | x-ball | sea | 10.05.99 |
| sea-pace.lha | peace | blaze | sea | 12.05.99 |
| 1oo-miln.txt | millenium | miracle | 1oo% | 13.05.99 |
| kkz-noi.txt | noise | jaw | kkz | 13.05.99 |
| sea-mlem.txt | morning lemon | azz & blz | sea | 19.05.99 |
| a!-rbeit.txt | how to design a colly | dipswitch | arcade | 24.05.99 |
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kore (k0) - 5 collections (4)

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element (e) - 3 collections (5)
phunk (pnk) - 3 collections (5)
killkrazed (kkz) - 3 collections (6)
save our souls (sos) - 3 collections (5)
style (se) - 3 collections (5)
zetec (ztc) - 3 collections (-)

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linear (la!) - 2 collections (6)
mo'soul (m's) - 2 collections (6)
tasg/tesg - 2 collections (6)
black maiden (bm) - 2 collection (7)

7. die kranken bomber (dkb) 1 collection (7)
extreme arts (ea) - 1 collection (7)
inhale (ih) - 1 collection (-)
jedi arts (ja!) - 1 collection (-)
mimic (m) - 1 collection (7)
off world (owo) - 1 collection (-)
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