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Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Galemp on September 26, 2002, 10:45:33 pm: Just decided to browse the 3D ship gallery on Freespace2.com, and guess what? MetaStream has been bought by somebody and the format isn't supported anymore. I also decided to look at the community links; a futile exercise in nostalgia...
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: vadar_1 on September 26, 2002, 10:47:24 pm: Metastream has been gone for almost a year now... did you notice the UBB wasn't there anymore either??
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: an0n on September 26, 2002, 10:48:47 pm: Are there ANY on the link list that're still active?
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: demon442 on September 26, 2002, 10:50:26 pm: I say that we email :v: and ask them to take the site down or something.
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Post by: Kamikaze on September 26, 2002, 10:56:28 pm: or refashion it so it directs people to the last bits of the FS community.. here and Vwatch :)
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: CP5670 on September 26, 2002, 11:17:23 pm: wow...Descent Chronicles and Ross 128; that was quite a while ago...
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Kamikaze on September 26, 2002, 11:29:37 pm: /me has nostalgic memories of both

Descent Chronicles was actually my favorite FS/FS2 fansite back then.... :) (and I check planetfreespace and ross 128 basically every day)
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Su-tehp on September 26, 2002, 11:46:07 pm: Are we here at HLP the last of a dying breed? Geez, I'm starting to feel like a dinosaur after the meteor hit...

It's enough to make me want to stick my head in a tar pit...
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: vadar_1 on September 26, 2002, 11:55:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Su-tehp
It's enough to make me want to stick my head in a tar pit...

don't worry, we won't try to stop you. In fact... we encouage you... I was told its always healthy to encourage people with their goals.
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Knight Templar on September 27, 2002, 12:00:25 am: Ross128 was bassically the Pre- HLP right? or was it different in some way?
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Post by: Knight Templar on September 27, 2002, 12:01:07 am: oh and yeah, goals are great. I want to be a lion when i grow up :ha:
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Su-tehp on September 27, 2002, 12:48:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by vadar_1

don't worry, we won't try to stop you. In fact... we encouage you... I was told its always healthy to encourage people with their goals.

Ha, comma, ha, comma, ha... :rolleyes:
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Fineus on September 27, 2002, 02:11:42 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Ross128 was bassically the Pre- HLP right? or was it different in some way?

Sort of... we had all kinds of unique stuff that nobody else had come up with at the time. However it wasn't really a branded "mod dedicated" FS site, it was just a FS Site. Perhaps the largest part of the mods section was my offshoot - Ikeya. Loads of backgrounds and nebulas and stuff.

That was back in the day when only a few people knew how to mod FS... good times. HLP is much larger though.
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Post by: Stunaep on September 27, 2002, 11:01:47 am: well, for a low-selling 3year-old game we have a rather large community, do we not?
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Post by: Corhellion on September 27, 2002, 11:12:22 am: We're prolly the biggest FS/FS2 forum/website on the net.

and it's a pity that FS2.com is down :(...maybe :v: is just making room for a FS3.com ;7

Hmmm....that'd be wicked...

*dreams about FS3 and what it might look like*

Cor
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Stargazer_2098 on September 27, 2002, 11:27:25 am: Soon, we might need a webpage named "Bring Back Freespace!"
:wink:

Stargazer.
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: JC Denton on September 27, 2002, 11:30:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by Corhellion
maybe :v: is just making room for a FS3.com ;7

Hmmm....that'd be wicked...

*dreams about FS3 and what it might look like*

Keep dreaming kid. There's a 99.99925% chance it ain't ever gonna happen.
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Stealth on September 27, 2002, 12:27:36 pm: FS2.com should have a VolitionWatch link... since Volitionwatch still gets updated

and we're going to get a kick-ass website in a few weeks :)
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Ace on September 27, 2002, 05:09:24 pm: Descent Chronicles was back in the day. Jeez I remember being at R128 when it started and then switching over to PFS way back when.

Really, R128/Ground FreeSpace to me seem like the soul-cousins to HLP when it started. Current HLP is much more like Descent Chronicles was except DC IMHO had a much more snazzy look to it.
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Post by: CP5670 on September 27, 2002, 05:40:08 pm: DC was famous for its mission archive though, right? I think that this archive is now at VW...
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Post by: Carl on September 27, 2002, 06:03:52 pm: i remember the last pic of the week ever on Ross128. a bastion strutting it's stuff.
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Post by: IceFire on September 27, 2002, 06:09:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
DC was famous for its mission archive though, right? I think that this archive is now at VW...

Yup...it came over with Remmy and Orange when they joined me and Wild on Volition Watch.
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Post by: NeoHunter on September 27, 2002, 08:50:35 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Carl
i remember the last pic of the week ever on Ross128. a bastion strutting it's stuff.

What stuff???:confused:
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Carl on September 27, 2002, 11:00:05 pm: it was shooting an AA beam at an enemy fighter.
Title: Freespace2.com--as good as dead
Post by: Xelion on September 29, 2002, 07:16:50 am: Quote
GalacticEmperor
Just decided to browse the 3D ship gallery on Freespace2.com, and guess what? MetaStream has been bought by somebody and the format isn't supported anymore.

Here it is I uploaded it because whether it is available or not at Viewpoint (Use to be MetaStream) I believe I also had problems with that in the past...Copyright to them as well :nod:
http://www.freewebs.com/iserver/MetaStream.exe

Enjoy! ;)

Note: The download will only work using the browser save target feature, no d/l progs work!