CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT : DO NOT FORWARD / DISTRIBUTE OUTSIDE OF ACiD PRODUCTIONS

                    ...ACiD Productions(tm) Presents...

             - ANSI Technical Guidelines and Specifications -

I.     Before you decide that you want to submit a piece of art for the ACiD
  Acquisition, please make sure you follow a few simple steps in order to
  make your work 100% compatible with various sysops' bulletin boards and
  various fans' ansi viewers, being that not everyone uses ACIDVIEW.EXE.

II. MATERIALS NEEDED:
       ACIDDRAW.EXE          - Found on most art-based bulletin boards.
       DOS-Based Text Editor - Q-Edit is recommened.
       About 3-5 Minutes     - Find the time.

       If you decide you would prefer to use GUILEDRAW or THEDRAW or anything
other than ACIDDRAW, please take care to use a text-editor and scan for
any occurences of "<esc>[?7H" and "<esc>255D", as these sequences are totally
useless and will just interfere with ANSI display in viewers and on bulletin
boards systems.

III. SAVING ANSIS:
       When saving pieces in ANSI format, please make sure that your piece
  does not exceed 71 columns, some use 69 just to be safe.  This is for added
  compatibility with bulletin board systems, that have message editors that
  crop out extra ansi codes per line after the word wrap limit is reached on
  uploaded messages.
        After your program has been saved, please check it to make sure that
  it ends with "<esc>0m", which will reset the default color back to white.

  NOTE: "<esc>" is extended character #27.  Please check your DOS manual to
  find out what exactly it looks like.

IV. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL:
        If you are using copyrighted material, such as comic book characters,
  please cite the respective author and/or artist responsible for the original
  piece.  Please also include the publication the reference was taken from.

V. SAUCING PIECES:
        If you decide that you want to SAUCE your own pieces, please make sure
  you complete all fields completely, correctly, and thoroughly.  Do not use
  the fields to make inside jokes, these fields are strictly informational and
  are used only for reference by viewers.  Unknowingly, most artists never
  edit their SPOON.INI file, and leave it as default.  This causes your group 
  name to be listed as something to the effect of "Read the .INI File".  The
  only fields that need to be entered in are the ASCII file type, which spec-
  ifies whether the piece is in ANSI format or ANSI-Mation format, and the
  line length which can be determined by viewing what line your ansi ends at
  in ACIDDRAW.  For information on the constant fields that need to be ent-
  ered, please refer to the ACIDVIEW.NFO, included in every ACiD Acquisition.

        If you have any questions, please contact RAD MAN on his bulletin
  board, SUCCOTASH.  The number is +1-408-XXX-XXXX.

  By The Calibre & RaD Man.