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Title: Blast from the past: Old FS Websites..
Post by: Fineus on June 20, 2004, 10:59:11 am
So there I was, stumbling across archive.org when what did I find?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302040452/ross128.telefragged.com/

Yep! It's Ross128, the first FS site I ever worked on (founded by Inquisitor). Ahh.. the good old days...
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Post by: Lightspeed on June 20, 2004, 11:08:07 am
ooold. :p
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Post by: Brando on June 20, 2004, 12:33:09 pm
*sings* Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemoriieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees....
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 20, 2004, 01:33:37 pm
I wish the missions archive works :(
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Post by: Gloriano on June 20, 2004, 01:36:27 pm
http://archives.volitionwatch.com/

This? well it's works
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Post by: Lightspeed on June 20, 2004, 01:42:49 pm
wow- the forums work! :D
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Post by: BlackDove on June 20, 2004, 05:03:12 pm
"I don't like to lose."

Funny.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on June 20, 2004, 05:26:10 pm
Looks like VW with the contents list on the left. :p
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Post by: DaBrain on June 20, 2004, 05:50:15 pm
Take a look at the screenshots on the bottom of this page.
What are those lensflares?
I had a Voodoo3 back then, but never saw something like this.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010203194100/ross128.telefragged.com/sc-fs1.shtml



Edit: Try the Poll on the page.

I tried to vote for 404... Well you'll see it's funny ;)
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Post by: Falcon on June 20, 2004, 06:16:19 pm
I wish I would have know what this was all about....

Babel Effect (http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babel_effect/)

Twilight (http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/twilight/)
Title: Blast from the past: Old FS Websites..
Post by: Ace on June 20, 2004, 06:20:19 pm
Falcon: Shivans, explosions, conspiracies. :p

DaBrain: Early experiments with weapon effects after talking to some Volition folks and Dark (back in the dark ages when everyone was learning how to mod things) to get things like looked like lensflares in the weapon image. Problem is, they looked horrible in anything but a few screenshots.

Performance sucked because I used a very large image and projectile size so it'd look like a projectile followed by a lensflare. No alpha channels so the image was rough (the .jpeg blurs it enough so you don't see that)

However, it looked like a muzzle flash until the lensflare flies off behind the pulse :p It also looked weird when hitting something because the projectile was so big. The third problem was how everything got distorted when looking at it from different angles.

So it was a bad idea, cool at first, but not usable.
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Post by: Falcon on June 20, 2004, 06:27:49 pm
I love consipiracies and explosions they make me happy and you know what happens when I get happy :mad2:  

Excuse me I have to rest..... :nervous:
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 20, 2004, 06:44:00 pm
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babel_effect/index2.htm
a better link for you, falcon
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Post by: Black Wolf on June 20, 2004, 10:54:17 pm
Does anyone have Freakspace archived? Just think of all the newbies who've never read 'em :D
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 20, 2004, 11:11:17 pm
http://forums.shatteredstar.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=135463#135463
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Post by: Black Wolf on June 20, 2004, 11:19:01 pm
Yeah, saw thatr about five minutes after I posted :D
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 20, 2004, 11:21:00 pm
lol
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Post by: Setekh on June 21, 2004, 07:05:26 am
Man, that is some old stuff. We've come a long way eh, Kal? :)
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Post by: an0n on June 21, 2004, 07:07:09 am
*dies laughing*

Vote 404 on the poll.

The irony is amazing.
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Post by: Knight Templar on June 21, 2004, 02:23:10 pm
:lol:
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Post by: WMCoolmon on June 21, 2004, 05:28:11 pm
*Votes*
*Page refreshes*
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Post by: Fineus on June 22, 2004, 06:06:58 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
Man, that is some old stuff. We've come a long way eh, Kal? :)

Oh... I...ah... yeah :D

I still have fond memories of Ikeya Productions though (my nebula creation off shoot from the Ross 128 website). Back in the old days when changing the colorisation on a nebula could constitute a mod... *sighs*.
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Post by: Hunter on June 26, 2004, 04:47:50 pm
Good times, good times...
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Post by: Stunaep on June 26, 2004, 04:55:10 pm
Dude, that's so old that I wasn't even around by that time (thus, the page sucks, since it lacks the awesome aura of Stuness)
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 26, 2004, 05:42:41 pm
Does anybody have Operation Avatar Demo?
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Post by: Knight Templar on June 26, 2004, 10:07:53 pm
Does anyone have Twilight?
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 26, 2004, 10:09:09 pm
TWILIGHT was released!?!? :eek2:
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Post by: Knight Templar on June 26, 2004, 10:14:32 pm
Apparently...

Go read the forums.
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 27, 2004, 09:44:25 am
*Bump*
So does anybody have them???
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Post by: Carl on June 27, 2004, 09:55:21 am
yey! it's R128! and the FS3 wishlist still works!
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Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 09:57:21 am
...oddly enough this is before my time.  

I got FS when the VBB was at it's height... and when I learned about fan sites, they merged everything into Volitionwatch...  The first one, though.
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Post by: Gloriano on June 27, 2004, 11:44:45 am
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Originally posted by jdjtcagle
TWILIGHT was released!?!? :eek2:


Yes, It was Released Actually I still have it after all these Years:D

It's awesome 6mission but it's not avaible anymore because there was some proplems
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Post by: pyro-manic on June 27, 2004, 12:08:55 pm
??? :eek:

Post it? Pleeeeeeease?
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Post by: Gloriano on June 27, 2004, 12:31:03 pm
No, I once asked from Ace if i could release it and He said no.

here is quote from Ace

Quote
Originally posted by Ace
No. Twilight was pulled due to some serious crash to desktop errors that were not caught during the beta test. When the source code project is further along, I'll do a beta with a slightly tweaked version of Twilight to see if the problems persist.

If not, then it'll be re-released.
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 27, 2004, 01:31:33 pm
Uhmm... does it crash with 3.6?

If I'm undertanding correctly... we have a huge? mod/campaign that is complete and isn't released yet!?
Title: Blast from the past: Old FS Websites..
Post by: Gloriano on June 27, 2004, 01:36:12 pm
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Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Uhmm... does it crash with 3.6?

If I'm undertanding correctly... we have a huge? mod/campaign that is complete and isn't released yet!?


Twilight? no it's not big only 6 mission few new weapons and
1 model

The Babel Effect was going to be big IIRC but it was Canceled
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Post by: jdjtcagle on June 27, 2004, 01:39:32 pm
Ya, I knew the Babel Effect big, it was just wierd the way it died... :(
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Post by: Goober5000 on June 28, 2004, 01:49:50 am
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
No, I once asked from Ace if i could release it and He said no.
Ugh... the SCP never heard about it. :doubt:

If the SCP team had a copy of the campaign, we could find and fix the bugs faster.

That out of the way, does anyone have a copy of the AOB demo? ;)
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Post by: Styxx on June 28, 2004, 10:27:48 am
That brings memories, but this is the really sad part:

http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Skins1.htm

http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/MishShotA5.htm
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Post by: Setekh on June 28, 2004, 11:35:22 am
He sure was avant garde, that Dark fellow. ;)
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Post by: TopAce on June 28, 2004, 11:50:13 am
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Originally posted by Styxx
..
http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Skins1.htm
...


A reskined Star Destroyer as a Vasudan capital ship? :wtf:
Whoever did this was creative, but I am afraid I do not like it.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on June 28, 2004, 11:59:53 am
Indeed, all undownloadable...
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Post by: Styxx on June 28, 2004, 01:44:31 pm
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Originally posted by TopAce
A reskined Star Destroyer as a Vasudan capital ship? :wtf:
Whoever did this was creative, but I am afraid I do not like it.


You're too young, that's the problem.
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Post by: Rictor on June 28, 2004, 10:14:41 pm
does anyone have Ground FS (thats the purple one, right?) or Freespace Chronicles archived somewhere? Man, those were the days...
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Post by: Setekh on June 29, 2004, 03:07:41 am
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Originally posted by Styxx
You're too young, that's the problem.


So true. You have to realise how advanced Dark was for his time - he made the first FS mod ever, and was always pushing the envelope. Wonder what he's up to now.
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Post by: Cabbie on June 30, 2004, 03:04:45 am
Talking about Freakspace. Looks like Blackdove already took off the forum links. If you guys want, i'd be glad to host those comics in my server for newbies like me to see.

pls email me the whole thing at (plus other info i need to know like artist, background,  date etc.)

tokyo_cab_driver(at)yahoo.co.jp

and I'll make a page with a simple navigation, archives and everything.
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Post by: Ace on June 30, 2004, 04:08:23 am
In response to the first post: Inq did *tons* of R128 work, but he didn't officially start the site :) I can't remember the name of the guy who did though at the moment.

Anyways as a response to the comments on Twilight and The Babel Effect:
After Twilight was released I got E-Mails about crash bugs, etc. So it was pulled. After trying to figure out the cause and never being able to reproduce it, I decided to do some tweaks to the campaign including new command briefing animations. I talked to Setekh about that but with the things going on in his personal life at the time it was better to drop the idea.

The Babel Effect I was working on, which was going to be the sequel to Twilight and would conclude the plot. There were quite a few problems with getting its various mods to work and converted. (including my first and last modeling efforts)

Most TBE work I wound up loosing after a crash. That included the Vasudan drydock and the Babel Device which I both modeled. Both the original truespace models and the converted files were lost. My uploaded versions were also corrupt :ick:

Twilight I started working on after Crytek dropped the spacesim project they were working on (a long story). If it wasn't for that I probably would have released an FS2 campaign right after FS2 came out, or continued tweaking Cardinal Spear. (which will soon be re-released for FS1/2 as The Vega Engagement)

After TBE dried up, I worked with Orbital Design Studios on business development since D4 was dead thanks to Volition (another long story). I've now been helping IceFire finish up BWO, and I've been finishing the revamped version of Cardinal Spear since Goober asked to convert it over.

Mainly I've been working on other projects, including the cellphone game Rimscape which I've shown some shots of here before.

TBE will never be released, it's a dead project. A re-release of Twilight? Depends. In a few months I might see if some new command animations can be made.

About Dark:
A *very* skilled modeler with a good artistic eye.

If anything, I regret asking him to do stupid stuff like a reskinned Athena, reskinned Anubis, the PVI Karnak, etc. when I should have been doing the missions for *his* campaign instead when I had the chance...

*sigh*