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(again.. haha we rule) Lots of other coo l stuff happened this month, so read on... ° n e w / l e a v i n g m e m b e r s ²° ² °°² - Zeldagiss joined the VGA department this month. Ther e should be some of his stuff in the pack, assuming we got it in time. - Acid_Snow joined the VGA department this month also, his quality vga will be a definate asset to the groups quality. - No members left this month. w00! ° a c k ! n e w m a n a g e m e n t ²° ² °°² - Dislogic's pooter like, spontaniously combusted and stuff, an d he's going to take the time to upgrade, get a second line and stuff. Either way , he won't be around, so Flight will be basically ruinning most pa rts of the group in his place for now. ° b o a r d n e w s ²°² °° ² - Flight's board (The Source) went up as planned, and is doing reasonably well. Call it if you haven't already. - Malformed's board (Spilled Entrails) got it's new config. Ca ll it too. - Ease is down for now. Dislogic is upgrading and stuff.  - pHEAR the f0am!!@*^#*!@%#&!! The best and most o riginal RG config ever put together anywhere is making progress. Be afraid or something... ° g e n e r a l n e w s ²°² °° ² - We received several merger offers this month over irc. We tu rned them down. - We are thinking of allowing long distance artists to join. Sorta . Some long distance artists were interested in joining, which got us thinking. The only catch is that they'd have to call our boards. Remember, we are stric tly a local group. We started to bring 613 back to life, and we do n't plan to endanger our progress by going to the inet. If you are a long distan ce artist (to 613/819) and you're interested, you better be wil ling to call long  distance regularly. ° p r o j e c t s ²°² °°² - Necrolyte and Flight wil be launching an emag  soon. They will (hopefully) be releasing concurrently with the packs. Look for issue 01 next mon th. - Artnet still isn't up. Go Dislogic. Apparently all the memb ers are going to beat him into it. Or threaten him with vulgar typing. Or  something... - THE ROOT VIEWER IS ALIVE!$*@&#@?!!! Necrolyte has pu t together a package that will beat acidview by th e next couple of versions. It supports just about every t ext format you can think of (ans/ascii/bin/xbin/adf/etc etc) and will hopefully have vga and rip support soon. There shou ld be a beta version in next month's pack. ° r u m o u r s ²°² °°² - The Scheme, Dislogic's new board, should be going up some day . maybe. Two nodes are becoming reality along with Dislogic's new part-time job.  The few donations Dislo gic has received will also go a long way in helping pay for the new phone lin e. - Dzaster won't have much in this month's pack, something about  him running a cheap imitation spoofer program for irc called WINSPOOF.  In running it, his hard drive was immediately formatted. Dzaster mentioned somethin g about not being about to see the dozens of deltree notices that were scroll ing down his screen. - Deadkrew is dead. Their boards aren't up, and noone has hear d from any of their seniors in the last month or so, we thi nk this is kind of funny, because our hypothesis that warez tur ned art guys have small attention spans has now proved to be true. Sorry DK, it's not our fault you guys cou ldn't hack it in the real world. - Flight's claim to have a 300 liner in the current root pack i s undoubtably the greatest showing of commitment any root member has shown. Flight  mentioned this to me on Sunday night, 4 days before t he pack was to be released. My response was, 'you bett er not be kidding, or your out of the group'. We'll just h ave to see what happens now won't we. ° Flight's notes ²°² °°² Hi. Well, we're still going strong after 3 months. Uhm, I am a little bit disapointed with the amount of work we received this month. th e overall sorta quality of this month's ansi is better,  but we didn't even come close to the sheer numbers of our last release. Oh well.. Anyhow, on a be tter note, the trend that started last month where artists were happy to do dual effor ts seems to have sorta continued.. and the quality of the pics is better  too, though there aren't near as many. I personally don't have as much in this pac k as I would like, since two hellish weeks at school and the fact I was never home over the break kinda left half my ansiwork for this month u nfinished. I don't know what everyone else's excuses are. Either way, we seem to be getti ng better each month (heck, most members are improving at a di sturbing rate) and I'm really liking the way the group is shaping up. Try to draw some mo re boys, but, other than that, you guys rule. Root rules.. Yer momma rules.. Fuck I'm tired. Uhm.. later. _Flight (ansi co-ordinatior) ° Dislogic's notes ²°² °°² In releasing this month's pack, Root has finally reached a mile stone in 613/819 art scene history.  We are now the first local group th at has lasted an extendedamount of time without attaining AN Y long distance members. Our quality is alsosomething to be  very proud of, we are not a meager wannabe group of ind ividuals,but in fact, we are the foundation of what is t o come. Everything that has comefrom Root, has derived from hard work, and a desire to improve, to be the best we can be, at any costs. Our group is a representation of how something  good can come from basically nothing. After the 613/819  scene had died, our hard work and determination is what brought it back to life, and WE are the reason for it's rise. 613/819 is no longer an area code that has noth ing but 1 node warez boards, but is now a place where a major art force in the  scene derives from. Our work compares with that of internet based groups, wi th the exception that we are all from one place, that we are one, and not many s cattered all overa continent, or even the world. This is what m akes us better than groups with much more talented artists that are gathered from across the earth. We  are the the best at what we do, where we're from. This, is an accomplishment on it's own. . Root Forever.  _Dislogic (co-prez) ° Defiant's notes ²°² °°² Third pack, and we still alive. W)00o0.. Sorry if i have been a  bad group president this month, i've been mAD buZY with stuff. I might resign from my position if i don't do my job. Anyway, enjoy the pack. _Defiant (co-prez) ° Moleql's notes ²°² °°² Ahem... after reading all that tripe ( =) ) its now my turn. Just f or the record... i have a 319 liner in this pack. =).. yes, im being child ish about it... i want recognition too. Anyways, aside from all that stuff,  i personally am quite impressed with root. As it has been said be fore... we rule. Thanx to Gree.. for that lovely diarhea pic.. that was nice. Defiant, i feel, as im sure others do to, should get off his ASS and draw a pic! =)... a ll in all in all, i like it, and think that things are cozy the way they are.  LD distribution, no prob... LD members.. i dunno. Anyways, enjoy t he pack and make sure to let us know what you think of it. ...HEY!... why do i get the last space?!@@##$$&^#$())_$#@ !!  =) _Moleql (senior staff) ° Dark Spawn's notes ²°² °°² Woah, sorry to dissapoint Moleql but it looks like I get to be the last one to add to the nfo file! You're probably asking wtf I'm doing writing in t his and well the answer is simple, Dislogic asked me to. :) I guess th e only thing I want to say is how amazed/impressed I am by the work be ing put together by this group of artists. When I first heard of the idea to start a new 100% l ocal group I expected the quality to be half decent, but nothing amazing. D amn was I surprised to see our first pack. Our second pack reaffirm ed my thoughts that this group realy was something to be impressed by. Being a member of t he scene who does not actualy draw himself, I am only here becau se of the work of others,I don't get the satisfaction of seeing something I had drawn being release. So,for giving me something  worth looking at I thank all the Root members, and thin kthat you all deserve a pat on the back for bringing life into t his ac. again. OH, one last thing. To anyone and everyone who has hel ped out by drawing for my board foam, I want to give an extra big hug & kiss..  anyways, lat0rz _Dark Spawn (Root pimp) ... That's all for this month. We're strong, proud, and only lazy unti l a week before release day Now go look at the pack(*!@^!!! °° ²ÛÛÛÜ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ß  ßßßßßÛÛÛÛÛ°² Û²°°ÛßÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÛÛÛÛÝݳ ÛÛÛÛßß °°² ÜÜ ßßß ßßÛÛÛÝßßÛ²° ÛÛÛ ÜÛß   ²ÝÞ²±ÛÜ° ßßßßßßßß²°°Ü  ÜÜÜ Ü SAUCE000497 infofile! Root Root 19970403b:PÖ