۲  ۲    ۲۲  ۲ ۲  ܲ   ۲۲ ۲  ܲ۲  ܲ۲۲ ۲۲߲۲۲ ߲۲  ߲    ܲ۲ ۲ܲ ۲  ߲۲  ߲߲۲      ۲   ߲ ܲ  ۲ ۲ ۲ ߲۲ ۲  ߲ ۲   ۲  ߲ ܲ ۲  ߲ ۲ ۲ ߲ ߲ ۲ ߲ ۲ eT߲ How'd you like this design on a teeshirt, mm? We're w orking on it... Wow. Two years. How many of you have been in a group when it celebrated its second anniversary? A not outstanding number...  now how many of you have managed to spend two years in the same group? Twen ty-four months..  Only seven hundred and twenty days? It seems at times that I've just started the group four weeks ago, and at times, with our ever-shifting memberlist, that  is basically what I've done. If you want to skip all of this rambling philosophical bullshit and get  down to the soft porn at the bottom I won't blame you. Before I do any more nostalgic reminiscing, I'd like to  thank the people who have made this trip interesting and endlessly challe nging: Fab One,  Darkforce, and Halaster. A group stag nates without a conflict and I'd like to  think that by outlasting the first two we have emerged  improved from the experience, but it is through the last individual that it reall y got interesting - competing with a co-conspirator. Hal, to give yo u credit, I'd have to say that somehow Fire profited more from the merger tha n Mist did in the long run. I haven't the slightest idea in hell how you man aged to pull it  off, but you get the big gold stars next to  your name in my book. (Somehow, Ithink that it has something to dowi th a charismatic ansi artist leading the group. Sigh.)  Anyway, in the two years I've been left here to fen d for myself, I've gotten to know so many of you - no one can view the scene like a group leader does - keeping track of former members as the years pass. If Nit had phoned him up four days earlier, Eerie would never have been i n Relic. At one point, almost the entire Senior Staff of Fire was run by former mist m embers - Hal, p#1, Surreal Logic, The Extremist, and Sir Lancelot. Dark was directed by the 4th Disciple - aka Tribe - for quite a long time. Even if Mist hasn't managed to leave too solid a mark on the scene on its own, it s eems that the experience of having been in the group is a benchmark of it s own. Though it's hard not to feel personally slighted when a  member leaves, it's difficult not to feel an inkling of pride as your former m embers ascend to  the higher eschelons of the scene and peak as members of Acid, Ice, Legend, and  whichever other groups are highest at the time. So I' d like to thank Mage, Questor, Nitnatsnoc, and pretty much everyone else who was in Integrity for inspiring me to keep guiding new artists towards their aspirati ons. It's hard to sit alone, effectively crippled by politics an d a poor career choice early in my scene life, watching everyone else as cend and pass yo uby and eventually burn out and disappear. It's sad to  watch former idols and mentors drop out of the scene and disappear forever. But even as I've lost so many friends to the ravages of time, in two years I've managed to make so many more that almost everybody knows who I am, even if they've neve r even heard of my group. I'd just like to thank here everyone who have manage d to endure sinc ewe started this whole silly thing - Mavrik, th ough we've had conflicts, for ... observing the whole phenomenon since the very beginnings ou t of the ashes o fiMPERiAL, maintaining KitschNet, makin g the first issue of Kithe, and, well, letting me know when my aspirations are a bit too lofty. N itnatsnoc, though I  eventually managed to drive you away from me out of di sgust, for maintaining Th eScreaming Tomato, our WHQ, since even before the g roup was founded and for keeping a long track record of my broken promises and fudged vo tes. Dr. CPU - we're still using your application generator, which is merely a  tweaked version  of the Imperial one, which is in itself an adaptation of the NWA one, from the Poison one, and the Dax one... that application generator is ol der than I am 8)  Beatle, for hanging around to gauge my pending  eliteness and returning to inspire me to use all of the available mediums. I'd also like to thank all of the small groups who ܲwe have  so nearly related with so many times- from the  ߰ merger  offer from The Guardian of Shiver (before he۲turned into  a pervert) two days after the first pac k was released   through to Magellan and Storm, ts a nd TekLordz,with whom w e've nearly merged so many times, Halaster and Fire ,(no, wait, we DID  end up merging, if only for two months)  ... Jashik, Prizm and  Icon, Heat Wave and Divine, Vapour, Egoteq andA dment,  Hennifer and Septic, Inferno and Blind, and later Tran ce,and  well, everyone else.    (Hee hee... if Mist, Fire, Teklordz and Storm had managed to merge all at once, as was possible, we thought of naming the resultant group MisFiTS.  Still  seemsa pro pos.                                                                                                                                      ۲  ۲    Mistigris: Bitter since 1994   SOFT PORN!  Yes, 100 lines is a good cutoff point for my ever-in creasing series of ranting greets. No, this isn't really soft porn, thoug h thanks to the efforts of Nuiwanda, Magik Elvis and Livewire (and the h idden agenda of Candide), we have managed to deliver much less-than-moral stories to you. I nstead, I'll be  thanking everybody who contributed as guests to this p ack, while showcasing various FILE_ID.DIZes which didn't cut it for  + we are not from here +some reason or anot her this month. It's going   to be our last ch ance to show them to you for a   ܱ۲۰while, though,  so we decided not to waste the   hard work of th e individuals involved. Enjoy,   yt  or lau gh your butt off, or whatever.  ۲ ۱ Guests in this pack inc lude:  ߲ܲ E-Motion and SynerG-E  of the Immortal  ߲ ܲ Syndicate, a 6 04-based music group and  ۱ ۱ collaborators in t he 604 music disk project.  ۲۱۱۱We've been friendly wit h the members of this grou p ۱  ever since th ey offered us a one dollar discount at   ܱ ۱ ۲ the New Media '94 demoshow for being mist members . ۱ ߲ ۱(Hey! Bill Gates' face is twis ting around!) ܱ m ߱ i They both bring some music t o our mega-release.  s mistigris t octoberNext is a picture of perfect c harity from Everlast  1 9 9 6of ACiD (no, no t the Legend guy, the other one) as he furnishes us with an ASCII logo with which to promote mistigris 4vah..ourselves. See? Being   the Secretary does give     me some special  ܲ ۲ ۲   connections and    priviliges 8)   Feral of Trance  m. is t.  duplicatesthe deed a s ۲ he provides us with two ۲ p ieces of old-school ASCII of  h is own.  ߲ ް ߲ Lord Max imoffisn't really in a     group right now, but his logos ar e mega!   in Iori Yagami's pic, so credit goe s   where it's due.  happy birthday mist!Merlynisn't big into the  art scene (though one of his rants DID appear in a pack about a year and a half ago) but he IS a big fan of Dougl as Adams, as are many of  us here at mist. (Well, I am, at least.) As such, how coul d we turn down such a st erlingANSI as his Don't Panic yt۲ݲ۲ݲpiece? Sure, it's not t echnically perfect, but you  ۲۲can always just put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses before looki ng at the pack.   Onyx of Sonic Equino x was apparently once a Mist  ߰ member. No one rememb ers, however, including  ۲ himself. Since h e left, though, he's kept busy mor e  or less singlehandedly running SE's music division.   He lent us the  use of one of his 60 or so spare  ۲ ۲ songs that were lying a round the hard drive,  gathering dust.  ۲ ۲   ۲ ۲ Penn of Rune donates a super pic of (er.. to) us  in a rare gesture of i nter-group support. Yay.   Questor is a peculiar ca se. He started drawing ANS I ۲ back for Misti gris' very first pack. (No, Calvin ۲  doesn't count.) H e then went on to soar to the top   ۲  with Integrity, and the last group that he was  ۲  officially affiliated with was the  original  incarnation of Legend. Since th en, however, he's   er.. 'lent' us a few p ics of his as his need for  a running supply of wa rez surpasses his distaste of   ۲ ۲  ANSI drawing.  Seeing as he hasn't officially  rejoined, we can't list  him as a member (although we'd love to) so instead he j ust gets a really  mistigris - 10/96long descriptionhere. A fair trade-off?  two year anniversary pack  Don't worry, only a few more guests 8)...  diz by neophyte  Mage of Fire did the spiffy abstract inte rface for this colossalissue of Kithe.  mistigris 1096, feelin the flow $$$$ $ $s$$$$$$$ $$s $$We also featu re guest writingby Heather  $$ sss$$$$$$$$sss $$$$$$$$ $$ Hollingdale , a very nicewoman who works  s$$$$$$$$$$$$s $ sssss at Starbu cks(among others)and who is a $ $$$$$ sss$$$$ss $$s s$$$$$$$$ regular on th e readingcircuit. sss$$$s$$$$$$$$$$$$s $$ ssss s $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ s $$$$ $$Also, we have a lit from Clarisse. $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $s $$s $ (See the poem for more info.) $ $$$$$s $$$$ss$$$ss$$s$$ $s $$$$$ss ss s$$$$$$$$ss$ s$$Finally, Zinc , the onetime founder of the $$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$s$$ $$$$ORIGINAL  Radiance music group (ie not the  $$$$ssrv! $$$ss s$Fire- sanctionned knock-off 8) and who is $$$$$$$$$ssssrevenge!mistsss$$$sscurrently in Chill, gives us two songs. "still kickin it back in your face"In return, we  showbad ascii drawings he made of cow's udders in Kithe. That's  gratitude for you, i sn't it? yt ۲ܲ۲ ۰ Gee, we have a bit of room left over here ۲۲۲۲ ۲ but we've run out of guest artists to lis t߲۲۲  s o I guess that I'll have to tell a bad  ߲߰۰ joke instea d.  mistigris 10 / 1996 Q: Why did the pervert cross the road ? " time for a new beginning " ۲ ݱ ۲ ۲ ۲ ޲۲ A: He was stuck in the chicken.  ۲ ۲ ۲ ݰ ۲ ۲ hb!۲ ޱ (yuck)  Having listed all of the guest artists, I'd like to proceed  to induct the following people into Mist's current roster. First off, I' d like to... ۲  ۰   ۲ ޲   ܰ                             Mist '96  ް Sentience ް             ۲    ۰     ܲ     NO no no! I said "INDUCT", not "ABDUCT "!Sheesh. Give a guy a flying  saucer and damned if he won't try to steal your cow. (Yes, that's supposed to be a cow.) Anyway... where was I. Ah yes. I'd like to draw your attention to the scene debut of H andiboy, who displays a previously unknown knack for drawing silly things in  ANSI, but who was originally recruited (and is still appreciated) for his ski ll in creating computer music. Also appearing for the first time anywhere is Silent Kn ight, a comic- book artist who is experimenting with the computer medium (and high-resolution VGA graphics in particular.) Enjoy his new style, but be sure that you talk loud enough for him to hear you, otherwise he tends to get kind  of irate.  Though the following people aren't in fact new mist members, their creation is either so alternately noteworthy or just plain rare  that it deserve  special mention here: Check out the collaborative poem between Bast a nd Crowkeeper on the subject of delicacy. Pay attention to Beatle's and Flying Fish's  lyrics today, because you might be hearingthem on the radio tomorrow.He y, I'm serious here. Check out the re-release of GoldView - nothing' s changed since the old version (well we were to have released a new version several mo nths ago but the  ETO's hard drive crashed, then he switched lan guages, blah blah, etcetera) BUT since many are under the impression that Mist has no viewer at all we just thought that we may as well correct that misnomer while releasi ng a ludicrously  large pack. Maeve Wolf has managed to drag herself away from he r e-mag chronicling the Australian art scene - OOZE - to give us a piece of  high-resolution insanity. Weird deserves credit for managing to get so much o f her unique ASCII stylings while managing to run her own complete group, kRAP . Mr. Flibbles will  attest to its successes. Finally, I'd like to point outwriting from four ve ry old-school Mist members who have been absent for far too long - Eoanya,  Zamfir Worshipper, Silver Angel and D'Artagnan.  Before I sign off, I'd like to further exploit my  powers of infofile- writ-ation by giving final deserved greets to the following peo ple: thanatos - for singlehandedly rebuilding mistigris' hig h resolution department the pope - for doing the same with mist's music departm ent zamfir worshipper, eoanya, but above all, coyote and bast  - for showing me how to include real sentiment in artistic expre ssion mage, prisonernumberone and other recurring guests - th e encouragement was needed, and as this shows, may have actually counted for s omething jughead, neophyte, the extremist, pedantik- for show ing me that if I can change someone'smind, maybe I can change the world   schtroumpf and cenobite - keep the word alive nootropic et al - for helping me start new things                                                                                                                "Mistigris 1996 - we ain't no damned catfood." Oh yes... I almost forgot to mention! Mistigris now ha s an official mascot, Mistigris the cat (so named because, we ll, there is a brand of cat food  named Mistigri, (ah, that motto makes so m uch more sense now...) and when Xavie rgot his new cat he thought that the name wouldb e fitting. Presented here in the infofile are three artists' renditions of the cat, but we h ave been assured  that Etana's on top is the most authentic (although th e REAL Mistigris the cat  has a nose that is pink, not purple .) Someone said that we should make a new division for our  first feline member but then some genius reminded us that Genocide Kitte n used to be in Mist. And Bast still is. So... um. Well, so we didn' t because that would be silly. (Like that ever stopped us before...) ONE LAST THING! - (in keeping with traditional infof ile leanings) - READ KITHE! Yes, even though we haven't released an issue of ou r e-mag since ... March?(well, we did release the cookbook last month , but that was silly.) - anyway, we've still been writing articles for it. Well, this  is where the pot boils over. We've coded up everything which was to be in i t over the past ... eight months? eek... and are finally on hand to pre sent it to you. So chec kit out - its rear end is even smoother than The Produc t 2's. Okay, I lied. I have a few more things to say. Be sure to check out the  portrait that Silent Knight drew of ME, Cthulu. Er... portrait? Caricature more fits the bill, but I actually do look like that. Just in case you'd ever wondered. One more bit of administrative clearing up such stuffs he re - actual info  in an infofile - fancy that! The anniversary pack whi ch you are currently viewing was released with the file format MIST2YR#.ZIP  where # indicated a disk  volume. YES, this is a multi-volume release.  (no, they're not just for acid and ice anymore.) So be sure to pick up the other couple of di sks for some amazing high resolution art (in disk 2) and some pre tty mean music (disk 3) as  well.PICK THEM UP! Sure, it'll add a half -hour to your download time, but you can't very well say that the Mist anniversary pack licked b onch without at least having seen the whole thing! (And by the time you  do, you'll have fallen  asleep. Moo hahahhaha. So our sinister pl an unfolds...)  One last last last final thing - in case some of yo u are wondering... this is our 18th pack. However, our 2nd anniversary should hav e been celebrate din JULY. Mull over that for a little while. Done? All right, it's like this.  Mistigris was formed in July 1994, after the death of Imperial. We took three months to prepare our debut pack, and the time was well-investe d. Since then, though we have made many side releases of outside projects and music disks and the like, we haven't managed to always release a pack every mon th (particularly  in the later stretches of 1995.) I don't want to say too much here, but this might be the last time that you see a Mist pack for a long time  as well, at least in this half of 1996. ?!? Okay. That's all I had to say. Having thoroughly confused  you, now for the  credits! Top cat by Etana of Mistigris(not in fact by Hanna-Ba rbera as we had all previously thought.) Middle cat by Happyfish, who doesn't really draw ansi too often . Bottom cat by Neophyte of Plain FILE_ID.DIZes by, sequentially, neophyte, Mega!, neophyte, reve nge!, neophyte and Handiboy. The one that we actually used in the pack was by Platinum 8) The flying saucer was by, as the sig reads, Sentience of mistig ris. Providing that strange stuff happens between the writing of the  infofile and the release of the pack, we may also feature daintily some ansi  work by Mavrik of Fire, and regardless, we will be showing his expertise in Ki the coding. Finally, Trinity has returned, in changing his handle to Reveng e!, and then Bandicoot. So no, he's not ripping anyone 8) (just decided I'd sneak that in there.) All of this silly text was by my left pinky toe, who has delusi ons that he is i nactuality a giant with the head of an octopus who goes  by the name of Cthulu. SAUCE00How to make a beige box Me and my Monkey Mistigris 19961030P