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MIST2000, our final compilation of works collected and never released, now has – following some extensive use as the carrot in our treasure hunt – at long last been made available to the general public. Here. Right here. Click the link already!

This pack basically represents materials that began piling up right from the assembly of M-9808 that were too inconvenient to late-breakingly incorporate into its bespoke HTML framework. We hadn’t determined yet that we wouldn’t be releasing any more artpacks until 2014, so potential submissions just kept on piling up. (Not from the textmode artists who go largely unrepresented here, they were always an antsy and impatient bunch, but in 1998 that was the most hastily-dwindling sub-specialization of the rapidly-diminishing artpack tradition anyhow… we were all looking ahead to what the hot new thing would be. If you’d told us that in 2015 it would be ANSI art, we’d have dumped our open cans of J0lt Cola on your head.)

This artpack contains a few specialty sub-collections, including a couple of bodies of work that we simply couldn’t figure out how to include in an artpack in 1998 (photographs? sketches? paper collages? THE SKY WILL FALL! In all fairness, releasing a 100-meg artpack in 1998 would have turned us into pariahs.) These include a complete story from the Dream Factory comic book that artists related to Mistigris actually published a single issue of (after we spent a few years talking it up), remastered versions of Digitallusions songs Melodia prepared for use on the WebTV service (and which did end up using them – though never paying her for them!), a complete playthrough of the “Eat Poop You Cat” game of telephone pictionary, unreleased tracks from our never-launched Mistigris music CD, Ice Cream Emperor’s suite of MS Paint works in an abstract expressionistic style, and the collaborative “Shakespeare’s Pen” comic book – up to the point where the narrative spiralled out of coherence. And – the only documentary existence suggesting that the Tracker Fix parties or 11th E-mag ever happened! Also: nearly 4 hours of music.

All that and many other interesting qualities which are expounded upon, at great length, in the artpack’s infofile. We hope that you enjoy this last great flourishing of historical Mistigris! After this, the vaults are looking positively vacant!