| Superior Art Creations (SAC) |
| | Years active | 1994–present | | Category | artscene warez | | Website(s) | http://www.superiorartcreations.com |
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 Energy VGA Logo by member artist Roy. Superior Art Creations (SAC) is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene. Download high resolution version (875x375, 121 KB)Superior Art Creations logo by webpige0. ...
The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short refers to a community of individuals and groups who are interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ...
Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of copyright law. ...
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The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short, refers to a community of individuals and groups, that are both interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ...
Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of copyright law. ...
Origin and brief history SAC originated as a German-based art group, founded in December 1994 by six members: Dream Design, Kaethe, Raiser, Toxic Trancer and the two legendary artists Hetero and Roy, with Roy acting as the primary organizer of the group. The first SAC Art Pack was released the same month at "The Party" Demo Party in Herning, Denmark. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Map of the future municipality Herning is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkjøbing County on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. ...
During the mid to late 1990s most of the notable ANSI artscene groups had distanced themselves from the warez scene, rather creating art for the sake of art, or for bulletin boards that were purely artscene related. Seizing this opportunity, SAC moved into this vacant territory and quickly became recognized as the leading group of warez scene artists. A screenshot of TheDraw editing an ANSI art picture of a shuttle; the purple text blinks ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. ...
A bulletin board system or BBS is software that allows users to connect to the computer system on which the software is installed. ...
SAC organizational structure From the very beginning SAC had a very loose group structure. Members worked mostly independently with little if any direction from the group leaders. Every member has the freedom to decide for himself which art requests he is willing to fulfill and which not. Seniority was achieved by being an active member for an extended period of time. Exceptions were made occasionally for outstanding contributions to the Group. New member applications were accepted or rejected by a simple majority vote of the existing members. It was never the decision of a single person (regardless of the status of that member). All new member applications and artwork samples were published in designated member-only areas at the SAC World Headquarter BBS "Closed Society" which was located in Berlin, Germany. The applications were also made available on the Internet at SAC's IRC Channel #SAC on the EFNet and SAC FTP Server HQ's. Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ...
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EFnet or Eris Free network (also written incorrectly as EFNet) is a major IRC network, with over 100,000 users. ...
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The role of the leader The role of the leader was primarily the task (which wasn't always simple) of collecting the new artwork produced by members and assembling the new SAC Art Pack, updating the group's NFO file and releasing the Pack. This was not a problem because the leader of SAC[1] was also the SysOp of the SAC World headquarter BBS called "Closed Society". . ...
SysOp (pronounced /ˈsɪs. ...
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ...
The job of the artists, musicians and coders - SAC artists created and still create today ASCII & ANSI Text art and VGA pixel art for other computer groups, BBS's (bulletin board systems) and FTP sites, websites and more.
- SAC musicians created "MOD" and later also MP3 music; just as a standalone piece of art or to be used in "Intros", Demo and other programs such as "Installers".
- SAC "coders" or programmers programmed BBS ads, Cracktros and Intros using most of the time graphics and music created by fellow SAC Members.
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is an analog computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. While it has been obsolete for some time, it was the last graphical standard that the majority of manufacturers decided to follow, making it the lowest common denominator that all PC graphics hardware supports...
This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint Pixel art is a form of digital art, created on the computer through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. ...
A bulletin board system or BBS is software that allows users to connect to the computer system on which the software is installed. ...
FTP or file transfer protocol is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). ...
MOD is a format for storing music on computers and is the first and original type of module file. ...
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ...
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A typical crack intro has a text running at the bottom of the screen. ...
Intros are a specialized demo in the vein of the Demoscene. ...
SAC/PPE For a brief period, SAC also had a PPE (PCBoard Programming Executable) section; this was eventually separated out from SAC and became the PPE Group "Peanuts" (Abbreviation: PNS).
PPE's are programs written in the proprietary PCBoard Script Language PPL (PCBoard Programming Language). They could only be used for PCBoard and no other BBS Software. PCBoard was very popular at the time and was used by over 90% of the warez BBS systems that were running on a PC. The introduction of PPL in PCBoard Version 15.0 boosted the popularity of the until then fairly unknown BBS software by Clark Development. Up to this time the PC (warez) scene did not have a powerful BBS software that could compete with the Amiga BBS software Ami-Express (Short: Ami-X or simply /X). Almost all warez BBS systems running on Amigas used /X. The PC adaptation of /X called PC Express saw a brief period of widespread use but was soon replaced by PCBoard 15.x. PCBoard was an MS-DOS / OS/2 bulletin board system (BBS) software package first created by the Clark Development Corporation, first introduced in 1983. ...
Scripting programming languages (commonly called scripting languages or script languages) are computer programming languages designed for scripting the operation of a computer. ...
This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages. ...
The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation (motto: ) as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ...
All SAC PPE's and SAC Art Packs are available for download at the SAC founder's website. The official SAC website is currently under development.
SAC today and tomorrow Towards the late 1990s, a good majority of NFO file ASCII art was created by various members of SAC. In 1999, lead ASCII artist Ferrex ascended to the role of senior staff and leader, continuing to control the group to this day. . ...
ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...
Now a globally operating organization, SAC employs approximately 40 artists and programmers worldwide and continues to be one of the leading groups creating art for the warez scene.
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A screenshot of TheDraw editing an ANSI art picture of a shuttle; the purple text blinks ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. ...
ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...
A bulletin board system or BBS is software that allows users to connect to the computer system on which the software is installed. ...
The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short, refers to a community of individuals and groups, that are both interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ...
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FTP or file transfer protocol is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). ...
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ...
Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of copyright law. ...
External links - Official Superior Art Creations website (Beta)
- ^ Roy/SAC ANSI & ASCII Text Art Official homepage of SAC Founder Roy
- All SAC Art Packs .oOo. available for download
- Superior Art Creations website superiorart.org snapshot on archive.org
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