sOF! _____________ _________ __________|__ __ /___ __ _ ________ ____________\ _____/___ ________ | __ : / / / \\ _____|___ | __ /_\____ /__ / | / :/ /_____/__ \/ / | / / / / / / | /__ /_____________\ \ / / | /__ /___________/ /_____/__ |_____l______/ bds|_______\/ /_______|_____l_____/ acid|_____________/ -------------------------- /______//__ _ ------------------------------------- R E M O R S E ! A S C I I P R E S E N T S __ _ _ __ _:__\ /__:_ | | : : _ ____. _ ___ _ _______ _ ________. ._\\\ |___._\\\__|_._\\\__ \ _\\\ _ | | _ | | / _/ / | | / | | \ \_ / | tGø|_____/ |________|______\____/___________| /______| : : _|__ __|_ : /__ _ _ __\ : A H I R O P R O T A G O N I S T E X P O S E C A L L E D ____ ___ ____ ....... .__\__ \ ._\ /_ ._\_ \_ .......... : | ( \| \ \| (___/_ : : // l___ \___ \___ \_ ©hP! : : / /______/ /____/ /______/ : ____ ___ _____ _____ ____ ____ ._\_ \_ ._\ /_ / _ /_. / _ /_._\_ \_ ._\_ \_ | (_ _/_| \ \_/ ( |/ ( | (___/_| (_ _/_ l___/ \___ \_ ___l ___l___ \___/ \_ /______/ /____/____\ \______\ /______/ /______/ . ____ ___ ____ . : .__\__ \ ._\ /_ ._\_ \_ : :...... | ( \| \ \| (___/_ ........: l___ \___ \___ \_ /______/ /____/ /______/ D I E R I P P E R D I E ! I've never made a file_id.diz for the group called CLASS before, I wouldn't even know who they are. But let's just suppose for a minute I was going to do one. It might look a little like this: _\______ _____ _ _______ ______ ______/_ .\ ___/_.\ _/____ _ /.\ ___/_.\ ___/___ | | | | _/ _ _|_\__ _|_\__ _/ ::| | | | | | \_ | \_ | |:: _| l _| l | | | l | l | \____ \_____ |___| |____ |____ | [©hP!\____l===\___l===l____/==\___l===\___l=] A simple and straight-forward example of a style of mine everyone became familiar with in my ascii collections 'In the Mouth of Madness' (R-ITMOM.TXT) and 'To Serve Man' (R-TSM.TXT). Now consider the following if you would, "made" by Feral of NoName (F3-CLASS.ASC - NoName pack #10): _\_________Ö____ __ ____Ü____________________/_ _\ _____ /____\_ _ __ ______ ____/__ | | /_ | Ö_ _ |____ /_____ /_ ° | .| | .| | ; | .| þ| .| _| l :| : :| Ý : õ :| | :| \_____ :|___ :|___| |___ :|___ :| -----\\____i -\\____| -\\___.: -\\____õ -\\____l c L A S S Ä -Ä---Ä Ä----- -----Ä- - -Ä Ä(fERAL/nONAME)-- Forgoing the fact that it's too wide for a file_id.diz (it's 48 columns), uses control characters ("" and "Ü" both of which could cause strange results if they were fed through a bbs's internal file_id scanner), take a long hard look at it. Or better yet, look at this simplified version: _\______________ _________________________/_ _\ _____ /____\_ _ __ ______ ____/__ | | /_ | _ |____ /_____ /_ | | .| | .| | | | .| | .| _| | :| | :| | | | :| | :| \_____ :|___ :|___| |___ :|___ :| \____| \____| \____| \____| \____| And while you're at it, consider the shading effects I used in the following logo (from R-TSM.TXT): __/\__ _/\____ _/\_ .___ _/\____ .__ ___.\ ___/_.\ _\_ /.\ _/__ _/\___ _/\| /.\ _\_ /.__/\| /. (___) \_ | _ | ___/_.\ ___/ .\ | | _ |\ | | | | | | | | | | ___)__| | | | |_\___ | | | | .| | .| | .| | | | .| | .|. | | ©hP! __| .| | .| | .| | .| | .| | .| | .|. | |__ \\__ .| | :| | :| | :| | .| | :| | :|: | __// | :| | :| | :| | :| | :| / \ :| | :|: | | | :|___. |___| |__. | | :|___. |___| | .__| | | `---' `---' `----|__. | `---' `---'----' `---' `----' Begining to see the picture? But wait, let's take a look at a technique Whodini developed a while ago: _________________ ____ ____ ________ _________________ .________ ._\\__ / __//_| | |_\\_ |_\\__ /\ __//_| __//_ _| 7 _/| _) | \_/ | | | 7 _/|_\___ | _) | _ _ | 7 | | | | | _ | 7 | 7 |_ | 7 | | | | | | | 7 | | | | _ | | |_ J | | | J | | |_ l |_ l | l____| |/________l____| |_________l____| |/________J/________J wH0l____J