ACiD Productions

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ACiD Productions
Country United States
Years active 1990–present
Category ANSI art/tracking/demo
Founder(s) RaD Man
Shadow Demon
Grimm
The Beholder
Phantom
Product(s) ACiD View
ACiDDraw
Empathy
PabloDraw
SAUCE
XBin
ACiDnews
ACiD Radio
Website(s) http://www.acid.org/
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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.

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[edit] History

ACiD Productions was 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.

[edit] Works

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

[edit] Demos

[edit] Image viewers

  • ACiD View
  • SimpleXB
  • RemorseView

[edit] Image editors

[edit] Metadata protocols and binary image standard

[edit] Music disks

[edit] Disk magazines

  • The Product
  • Lancelot II
  • ACiDnews

[edit] Radio programming

[edit] See also

[edit] 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