As you may know 16colors is the largest online ansi archive. The website keeps the memory of more than a decade of the ansi scene and has been the main source of inspiration of ansi artists for years.

Doug Moore, aka Lord Scarlet, also a Blocktronics member, is the hero behind the project. Doug is currently working on the new version of the site, but he could use some help. If you want to get involved, check the blog on the site index page to know more.

We´ve just added another project on the B7 Labs page. Flashterm is an ANSI capable telnet terminal for the web written for the Adobe Flash Player plugin developed by Peter Nitsch, one of our members that´s also the author of Viewtronics and Drawtronics….This guy is restless and we love him.

The project was featured on PCPlus magazine and is making a good noise in the flash community. Make sure to check Flashterm website to view it in action.

big yellow man (bym) is one ot the most talented and respected ansi artists in the planet and also a Blocktronics member, but that’s old news. What you might not know yet but should is that he recently created an ansi CD cover for the “Out of It” music album by Brad Sucks (yes, that’s the guy’s artistic name).

I had the luck to get a CD sent by bym himself and I can assure you the quality is quite impressive. Thanks bym!

A fantastic usage of the good and old ansi artform.

View the CD cover image here

I’ve just found out that one of my ansis (that’s enzO speaking) was featured in FREAX – The Art Album, a demoscene art book published in 2006 by Tamas Polgar, a german journalist.

Under the section “PC Ansi” you can view my megaman ansi used as 27inch memberlist back in the day. Unfortunately, my nickname is not listed in the artist credits page. On the same image, you can see a catch 22 “Glue” ansi (first one on the left). I couldn’t identify the middle one, but you have any clue, comment on this post.

I’ve emailed the book author and hope to get a free copy of the book (it actually costs 24,95 EUR and ships from somewhere in Europe, so requesting it from Brazil would be quite expensive).

The new website had a total of 300+ unique visitors 24 hours after the launch. We didn’t expect one million visitiors, but that’s an impressive number, considering Blocktronics has only 35 members. The site traffic shows us that there are still a lot of people interested in ansi art and that’s what keep us motivated.

God bless all of you nostalgic folks out there. We can’t bring the BBS scene back, but you bet we’re keeping ansi alive. Thanks to everyone that tweet’d about the new site! You guys rock!

We will be releasing our #2 ansi artpack on Nov 1st entitled “Codename Chris Wirth“. The pack is an tribute to RadMan, the greatest ansi scene GOD. No, he’s not dead, we just think making tributes to live people is fun.

This pack has been delayed so many times but now everything is set for Nov 1st. YES, WE MEAN IT!

You may have noticed the “Top 5 Artists” sidebar on the site…so, wtf is that? Well, we are now keeping track of our artists statistics (number of submissions per pack), as you can see on the artists pages (eg avg). Based on that, we build the Top Five Artists list where the artist with more submissions (solo + joints) in the group history is ranked #1 and the same logic applies to #2, #3…

This time avg kicked major ass and became the greatest B7 champion with 19 submissions in the first pack of the group (Res[v]olution) with zeroVision coming close in 2nd with 15 subs and myself (enzO) in 3rd with 10 subs (yes, I’M BIASED!). Pook and tombin complete the list. There was a tie in the 5th place between tombin and skypager, but tombin threw the coin and won! We still love you, skypager. Now, you go draw and try to be on the top 5 next time, slacker!

Our new website has been launched! We finally had the chance to publish and organize some of the content only members had access on the Blocktronics Google Group page. We’ve shared our videos, tutorials and complete memberlist with individual artists pages that are really worth checking.

Additionally, the new website features online ansi galleries powered by Viewtronics, Blocktronics flash based ansi viewer created by Peter Nitsch (aka. divy). Thanks, Peter! You’re the man!

Make sure to check out B7 Labs page and choose one or more ansi related projects to help.

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