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        (a)MERICAN (s)TANDART (c)ODE oF (i)NFORMATION (i)NTERCHANGE


What wasn't supposed to be produced got to your hungry computer anyway!
This is the third time the Ascii-Gazette is released, and that is something
that I'd really not have believed when I tired released the first issue.
Why then? Well, the other ascii-projects hasn't been that very active, and
I kept on updating my old Issue2-lists, so I couldn't just sit there with
the new infos, without giving them to the public. And as I got so many new
artist-interviews did I just had to include them too. So, as it looks now
has the Gazette been out in three issues, the first one the 12/12, the
second one the 21/O1, and this one was released the 25/O2.

And though I never thought so am I back again, and now I could, with proud,
continue to call this a 'real' Gazette, as it has been released more than
one issue! The Gazette won't be exactly the same in this issue though. The
ascii-subject is running out of things to explain, so this issue will more
be a updated list and fact-magazine. Not so many informative headlines, but
if you wonder anything I refer to Issue 1 and 2 where EVERYTHING you might
wonder is declared.

I still do the Ascii-Gazette for the same reasons as always. I have again
produced a the ascii-magazine with all the Ascii-News, Facts and Lists.

This Issue has got the same layout and design as number 2. That was because
I didn't had the motivation nor time to draw more Iff's. I quitted that
part a long time ago and don't feel like bringing it up again. As you
have noticed aint my Iff's that good either, that's perhaps why. Hope you
don't mind that I didn't started my DPaint this time, but I don't think so,
as many of the Gazette's readers mostly look in the .Txt-edition.






Since we have a scene out there with about 470 more or less active
Ascii-artists (11 new since last issue the 21/O1'96), and a lot larger
crowd with fans and supporters of the Ascii, I thought that it was time to
define this subject, and bring you all a hopefully quite true story about
what really went on during these years when it all happened. Here you could
read about almost EVERYTHING that has something to do with Ascii. As
someone told me, this aint a Gazette, it's a Dictionary for the Artist
of Today! Do click your way through lists over the active artists of
today and see who joined which group the latests days. Now with this new
issue it all is a bit updated too, so hopefully even more entertaining
this time!

This is, and will always be really stunning experience, thats for sure.
Special subjects for this issue are (together with many others) E-Mail,
Boards, Release-Lists, and many explenations about what really happened
to the groups that dissapeared.

This production is absolutly not only for the ones involved in this
wonderful scene. Quite the contrary, since most of the teaching parts
of Ascii-Gazette are formed to get everones attention. A Beginners Guide,
as well as the Professionals Dictionary!
Do also notice that the Text-version of the Ascii Gazette aint exactly
the same as the Executable version. So don't forget to check both of them.

How to read this? Well, use your keyboard, or the arrows in the menu.

              First Page

                  ^
  Previous Page <  > Next Page
                  v

               Last Page

And the following buttons are used for:

Menu:   Got back to the Menu
Note:   Switch on/off the Music
Exit:   Exit Ascii-Gazette
Search: Go to the requested Page


I used a program called 'Magnum' to put together this production. Magnum
is a program that I got without a doc, and since there aint no  info
in the code of it, I could only thank the author, whoever it may be.



About the comments that came when people discovered that I used this
program, I have to say: I'm a very demanding person, I like to do things,
I like to do them correct, and quite effective. I couldn't impossibly
finish this project and the have to wait 5 mounths for a coder to make
a special coded version of the Ascii-Gazette. That's why I choose the
easy and simple way, using a program that some would call 'lame' like
this one. But, I'm terribly sorry if this is the way you feel about it,
but in that case don't even bother to execute the porgram, read the
text-version of the Gazette instead. When I found this program I saw it
as the best alternative, and though I probably shouldn't have done the
same thing today, I'm not THAT disappointed with what it does. Think
again, do you really dissaprove it THAT much?
It's quite descrete and displays the ascii fast and easy, and it's really
simple for me to use when I make the Gazette, so I can't say I concider
it as THAT lame.

I'd like to appoligize for my english grammar that probably is terrible
bad at a couple of places, and for my lousy Iff that I used in the intro
pictures and in the menu. Otherwise, the credits for this production
would be like this;




                                Facts and Text by: [ Xcluziwe / Sos   ]
                                Iff-Pictures by:   [ Xcluziwe / Sos   ]
                                                   [ WGJR / Eup       ]
                                Module by:         [ Unknown Maestro  ]
                                Additional Facts:  [ Fatal / E^d      ]
                                                   [ Cesium / Session ]
                                                   [ Lord / Absolute  ]
                                                   [ Princip / Qtx    ]
                                Xcluziwe logo:     [ Stylez / C!      ]

                And  other  artists  in the different parts.
                Most of them credited at next to their logo.
                Anyone forgotten? Hope not,  sorry, in case!

And please! DO NOT forget that also the Menu-Pages are two, so you could
push the [>]-arrow there too, to list the second page of the menu.

If you must/like to get in touch with me, do reach me at most of Swedens
major Elite-Bbs's, or at the very exclusive Ascii-Gazette Contact Head-
Quarter, Fatal's very recently opened board, Another Step. The Number
is +46-21-330975, and do visit it, as it's swedens first 100% Ascii-Board,
and this is where you find all the swedish artists.


And with this issue I defintly end the Gazette written by me anyway. I don't
know if I the future will get insperation back to start releasing it again,
but I won't updating my status-files as I use to do anyhow. That I did so 
was the only reason that you're reading this third Gazette now. I didn't
like the idea of sitting here with all the updated facts that I'd discovered
without releasing them. So, here you are, all the facts that are valid until
release date of this production.

But as I resign, I'd like to give an offer to all you readers out there.
If you really like this Ascii-magazine, and wouldn't like to see it vanish,
you're welcome to take the duty as the new editor. This could ONLY be done
with my approvement, and therefor you will have to contact me first. It ain't
that hard to produce the Ascii-Gazette, if you start with the already made
earlier issues. Just update the status-files every time you see and read a
new collection and store the collections that you download in a seperate
directory and you'll soon have the next issue of the Gazette. And of cause
is it only to ask me if you wonder anything.

Before you contact me though, remember that I would not like to see the
leadership of the Gazette taken by a Group. It should be one or more private
artists (I guess artists are the best Ascii-editors, or?) who won't release
the Ascii-Gazette under any special lables.
But don't hesitate to contact me now, it would be wonderful if the Gazette
could live on for a while.

Hope you'll enjoy this, and perhaps even learn a bit? And to all the
facts that may not be true, I'd really like to correct them, get in
touch with me for updates, so that the next (if there ever will be any?)
issue will bring the very correct facts.

                                  /  Signed  the  Editor,  Xcluziwe  xCz
                                     Last update made some minutes before
                                     release, 16h50m Am the 25/02 - 1996.
