THE NOVEMBER 1997 DA
RK COLLECTION

Introduction

Welcome once again,
ye Dark faithful, to another monthly

installment of the
Dark Collection.  Those familiar with us

might wa
nt to skip immediately to the Dark News portion of

this file
and learn of the dramatic changes Dark is under-

going.

For those who are new to our Col
lections, here's a brief

summary of what you're looking at:
Each month the artists

who form this group called Dark Ill
ustrated release a multi-

media "pack" we call a Collection.  These
packs consist of
images drawn in various mediums (generall
y high-resolution
pieces saved in GIF or JPEG format, or lo
w-resolution pieces
saved in ANSI format) and occasionally i
nclude musical items
saved with S3M, MOD, or IT encoding

Why are we doing this?  Fame and for
tune, mostly. ;)  Oh,
and the interaction between like-minded
artists is swell
too.

- Xypher Matryx, Dark
Linebacker

Winter here. Just wante
d to congratulate everyone this

month on a well-rounded p
ack.  We've been kind of " lazy "

for the last couple of mo
nths and haven't been releasing to

our full potential.  Howe
ver we're back and better then ever.

There are a coup
le of changes being made but they're only

going to make us stronger.  Until next m
onth.

- Winter, Dark Qu
arterback

Dark News...

Hope your tickers are u
p to some excitement.  If not, you

might want the brac
e yourselves.  "Mutation" is about the

only term sui
table for what's happening to this Heart of

Darkness.

The past c
ouple of months have been trying on Dark's core

members, and for good
reason.  The Senior Staff have been

cycled to lend a
fresh perspective and direction to the

group.  Carnifex and Xyph
er Matryx, veterans from the very

beginning of Dark, have steppe
d down from their Senior
saddles.  One will be concentr
ating on his studies, the other
will be concentrating on global
domination.

In the meantime, two members from Dar
k's ranks have risen
to the challenges involved in t
he group's well-being. The 4th

Disciple and Corinthian will assume the r
esponsibilities of
managing this murderous mass.  (Rumou
r has it 'fex and xypher
both shared in a day long
cackle as their burden was finally

relieved. ;)  Tog
ether with Prison Breaker, these three will

incite the bloodiest riots you
r scene has ever known.  (And

help ra
ise the standards for packs in the process.)

The transition has been a
nything *but* smooth.  However,

the coming months will
demonstrate how profound an effect

these changes will mak
e.  We encourage your support, and we

also recognize there
'll be some resistance to the agenda set

by the new leadership.  For thos
e who are siding with the
opposing team, you have our
sincerest condolences.  The time

you spend fighting our evol
ution will have been wasted.

For those k
eeping track, the Internet department as been

merged (back?) into the Coding
division.  An important note

for those seeking P
urple Dye:  We recieved a garbled message

on our answering ma
chine that sounded something like "...help

k..........somebody call me...............

velkro......"  So we hav
e.  From this point on, the Purple

Menace (nonono
, not Grimace, fool) will be known as Velkro.

There's more to
come, but not all of it can be revealed to

our faithful yet.  Stay tune
d into the New Year for what we

promise to be the strongest Dark Illustra
ted ever!

- Xypher Matr
yx, Dark Linebacker

Dark Member Update

Seeking sh
elter from the radiated sunlight this month are

artists Catc
h22, Drs, Hitek, Noah,
Raize (returning), and

Rusted.  Long-thought-de
ad programmer Pyrochemist has come

slinking back into the active me
mberlist, cooking things up

with a strange glowing subs
tance...?  Moomin 13 who joined

us last month was not me
ntioned in the September infofile.

We apologize and welcome he
r into Dark this month.

Dark Sites...

Life ForceDARK World
HeadquartersSeraphim
Mad Cows?!?DARK
Member BoardNight Stalker
Abraxas/DiabolicDARK US
Support Site Megga Hertz

ABCB CafeDARK Support Site          Kyo

Where To Obtain Dark Collections

Via the interne
t, Dark packs can be obtained from the DARK

Homepage at www.darkill
ustrated.org

Most Dark members
can be contacted by e-mail (addresses

available in the m
emberlist), and some may be found lurking

on the IRC, o
n channel #dark. (EFnet)

For more detail
ed information on Dark Illustrated, Dark's

n F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions) text file is in

in this archiv
e. (DARK-FAQ.192)

Filename Co
nventions...

Filenames work like this:  XXXXX-##.*

XXXXX is a five-letter abb
reviation of the artist's alias.
(Shoud the alias fall within fi
ve characters or less, the
entire
alias will be used.)

## represents the current numb
er of pieces the artist has
produced the year of 1997.

* can be
any valid extension for images, executables, data

files ,or musical composi
tions. The most common are DRK for

images JPG/GIF/BMP/ etc... for high resolution graph

images, and MOD/S3M/XM/IT/etc for music data files.

Conclusion...

A confession:  Carnifex isn't really out s
tudying.  He's
actually hard at work
in the studio recording his new hit

e "Something like an Automaton".  Robot funk at it's

Join us now!  Or at the v
ery least, tune in again next

h for another blockbuster release!