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What a fun watch. I was a member of CiA, the “Creators of intense Art” and my handle at the time shows up in the video. I wasn’t an ANSI artist though — mostly
by uptown 7y ago
What a fun watch. I was a member of CiA, the “Creators of intense Art” and my handle at the time shows up in the video. I wasn’t an ANSI artist though — mostly worked on VGAs using Photoshop and 3D Studio R4 on my 386DX with the math coprocessor. Rendering frames was painfully slow, but there was a big push each month to pull together a collection of ANSI, VGA, RIP, and Lit to release and highlight our skills.
I’m still in touch with a few of the guys I knew from the group. Most were people I’d never met in person —- only spoke to on phone bridges or on IRC.
Such a fun and formative time where everything was still so new and unexplored.
One of the more interesting things to come out of the ANSI scene, as the web began to emerge, was a website called tiles.ice.org which gave each artist just the edge pixels of a square of artwork from what another artist had created. From there, the artist on the receiving end, could create their own square of the overall composition. Only when all of the squares had been created could you see the end product with the combined imagery created from the imaginations of artists who expanded upon the edge pixels from another artist.
Thanks for posting this. I remember those days very fondly.
- rashkov 7y agoI think this could be the tiles, if anyone else is curious: http://www.ice.org/tiles/ http://www.ice.org/tiles/ Super cool project! Would be fun to have a modern equivalent.
- uptown 7y agoYeah, that was it. There's also a collection of many artpacks here: https://artpacks.org/ https://artpacks.org/
- jrnichols 7y ago> Most were people I’d never met in person I was on a BBS in Sacramento, CA and we had the opposite - it was a MajorBBS system and teleconference was almost always full. People could say "CIT" (Coffee In Ten) and we'd all drop off and meet up at a Java City location in midtown. The odd thing about this BBS was that it was a very diverse group, and not just a warez scene. It was actually a local social scene, and weathered the days of AOL. The web slowly killed it off, though.
- threeio 7y agoMajorBBS was a whole other ballgame when it came to operations... Cost of the software, digiboards, modems and multiple lines generally put it outside of the reach of the teenage sysop market... it also tended to lend to commercial operators who flipped into the ISP space (or at least it did on the east coast)
- jrnichols 7y agoWe had a couple in the northern California region that were MajorBBS. I don't remember the costs but it seemed like it was common. Wildcat and Hermes were others … I think. it's been a while. :) I'd love to spin up a MajorBBS installation again just to play Galactic Empire. That was a fun game.