ACiD Productions
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{{Infobox computer underground
| group_name = ACiD Productions
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| caption =
| years_active = 1990–present
| origin =
| country = [[United States]]
| category = [[ANSI art]]/[[MOD (file format)|tracking]]/[[Demo (computer programming)|demo]]
| founders = [[RaD Man]]<br />Shadow Demon<br />Grimm<br />The Beholder<br />Phantom
| products = ACiD View<br />ACiDDraw<br /> [[Empathy image editor|Empathy]]<br />[[PabloDraw]]<br />[[Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions|SAUCE]]<br />[[XBin]]<br />''ACiDnews''<br />ACiD Radio
| affiliate = [[Remorse ASCII]]<br />[[pHluid]]
| website = http://www.acid.org/
}}
'''ACiD Productions''' ('''ACiD''') is an underground [[digital art]] group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in [[ANSI art]]work for [[bulletin board system|BBSes]]. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and [[computer software]] development.
== 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 art|ANSI]] and [[ASCII art]], but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as music [[MOD (file format)|tracking]], [[Demo (computer programming)|demo]] coding, and multimedia [[software engineering|software development]] (e.g. image viewers).
In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, [[Remorse ASCII|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:
===[[Demo (computer programming)|Demos]]===
* "[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=941 Out of Sight, Out of Mind]"
===[[Image viewer]]s===
*ACiD View
*SimpleXB
*RemorseView
===[[Image editor]]s===
*ACiDDraw
*Empathy
*[[PabloDraw]]
===[[Metadata (computing)|Metadata]] [[Protocol (computing)|protocols]] and [[Binary numeral system|binary]] image standard===
* [[Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions|SAUCE]]
* [[XBin]]
=== [[Music disk]]s ===
*[[pHluid]]
===[[diskmag|Disk magazines]]===
*''The Product''
*''Lancelot II''
*''ACiDnews''
===[[Radio]] programming===
*The ARTS ([[news]]/[[talk radio]])
*pHluid Radio (music)
*ACiD Radio (music)
==See also==
*[[ANSI art]]
*[[ASCII art]]
*[[List of text editors#ASCII art|List of text editors]] (ASCII art section)
*[[:Category:Artscene groups|List of artscene groups]]
== External links ==
* [http://www.acid.org ACiD Productions] (Official site)
* [http://www.acid.org/100/eternal.html All-time memberlist] (1990-2003)
* [http://www.darkdomain.org Dark Domain] The ACiD Artpacks Archive on DVD (ISBN 0-9746537-0-5)
* [http://www.acid.org/radio/index.html The ARTS] ACiD's Artscene Radio Talk Show
;ACiD tools downloads
* [http://www.acid.org/newsinfo.html ACiDDraw for DOS] download page at ACiD.org
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidview6-win32/ 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
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