X-Bomber the Game

v0.84n - Objectives

Done
 - X-Fighter multiplayer
	Shield bubble logic improved
 - Fixed bug affecting supporting player ship destruction
 - Player 2 (Sylph) control assignment glitch fixed
 - Sylph missile reloading fixed - now not possible via X-Impulse power-up
 - X-Bomber Prototype pulse neck laser improved
	(now looks as though it comes from underneath the ship)
 - Mouse selection glitch fixed on main menu mission selector
 - High score upload fixed on server end
 - L16 - Solar energy nets release debris when taking damage.

To-do
 - Improve assault tractor logic ...
 - L16 - Grey heavy bombers with hoverfans and Minelayers
 - Megacarriers 
	Implement green variant
	Re-instate neutralaser weapon
	Match deployed fighters to carrier
 - L16 Boss - Death-X Transforming Type
	Progress animations and weapons
 - Various escape pod types with rotation
 - Dai-X underwater backpack

2026.08.31

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Tatsuhiro Akama

I updated this folder with some new images of a colour-printed transforming Legtrax.

Click the image to check the folder out.

Folder Data

This papercraft model of the Dai-X, built by Tatsuhiro Akama was displayed at the 2017 Wonder Festival in Japan.
To me, it looks to be around 60cm tall and I really like the way in which, when displayed at the festival, they got the model striking a great pose.

Most of these photographs were found on the Japanese Twitter:
	#xbomber hashtag on Twitter
From these, you can see the various stages of assembly.
There appear to have been at least two Dai-X models built as well as various Gundams and a VF-25F Valkyrie.
The model appears to have been designed in software and then printed as a series of templates that can then be cut and assembled.

More recently, I found the video of this assembling and transforming Dai-X papercraft model.

Tatsuhiro has his own homepage about sci-fi papercraft:
	Tatsuhiro Akama

2026.08.30

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Nitter

This site links to nitter instances in various places, which act as a proxy to conveniently display information from twitter.
Most nitter instances have recently shut down due to twitter firing out cease-and-desist letters left, right and centre.

This already seems not to be going quite the way that twitter wanted it to and it might be in for an exciting surprise if it pushes the matter further.

Nitter has been declared dead many times over the years, for all kinds of reasons.
I would be very surprised if this was the end of it.

2026.08.25

A Few Little Updates

There have been a few updates around the site...
The comments system has been improved to wrap long lines wherever people had provided URLs in their comments, and the layout has been tweaked.

The Images part of the Media system was made a while ago to only display the filename of an image by default when the mouse rolls over it to make the output cleaner and less busy-looking.
The rollover background is now semi-transparent with a blur effect in CSS and even rounded corners.

I applied a little blur to the site's semi-transparent background to give it a little bit of the Windows 7 frosted glass look that is nice to see making its way back in places.
The main menu has been tweaked a bit behind the scenes.

The last lingering issue I was having that arose from switching over to the high seas of self hosting was setting Sphider search away indexing on a scheduled basis.
On shared hosting, it was done via a small bash script that sets the path to sphider as the working directory and then kicks off the spider indexer script in PHP from the server command line.
With Windows, the solution was just as simple, but done using a batch file triggered off by Task Scheduler.

Task Scheduler is actually better in a lot of ways, because it gives you control over how long a process is allowed to run for and what happens if that task is still running at when the time when it's scheduled to start again.

With that, we can be sure that search results on the site originate from a recent indexing operation, I can uninstall gitbash from my Windows box and I can re-disable the Linux Subsytem for Windows and do away with that stupid little penguin in Windows Explorer.

2026.08.23

X Bomber Viewing Guide

Published in 2026.08 by the Fantasy Special Effects Enthusiasts Club, led by Soba Fuji, and written by twitter user: Perfect Mitsunobu (Suzuki), this doujinshi apparently gives a good overview of the show, and the spacecraft in the series in particular.

Sadly, the book was not made available for mail order etc. apparently, so getting a hold of it may not turn out to be possible, unless it materialises on FromJAPAN or similar.

2026.08.19

X Blogger - Star Fleet in Look-In

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Ben's review of the Star Fleet Look-In comics has been expanded with 2 further articles.
Please find the links below:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Part 6

2026.08.15

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Mochie Gomez - Dai-X

Here's a new photo of an Evolution Dai-X that was built 2 years ago but only photographed after painting much more recently.

Mochi did originally say that he wanted to weather it and it's turned out dirtier-looking than my old Subaru.

2026.08.12

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Descent 3 - Piccu Station - Demo Version

I recently found out that there was an alternative version of the Piccu Station mission from Descent 3 contained in a 1998 demo of the game that is substantially different to the retail version.

I did a little summary of the differences and had a little think about what the early version of the level tells us about the changes that were made to the game's story during Descent 3's 3-year development.

2026.08.04

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Sailfish Swims Again

I set up my Sailfish phone (Sony Xperia 10 III) back in 2023.
Sailfish is a beautiful OS and a great alternative to iOS and Android.
It is also straightforward to install and I had the job done in about 40mins.

Sadly, back then I didn't have time to make it do all the things I wanted it to do and I missed the camera from my Lumia 950.
It was relegated to a drawer in 2024 but recently, I needed some data from it, and I eventually managed to get the phone to power back on.

The browser in Windows Mobile doesn't deal well with the Anubis forum extension, so I took that as an indication to try and move on again from Windows Mobile.
I updated SFOS from 4.6.0.x to 5.1.0.11 and a lot has improved.
I was able to get Brave and Thunderbird running as android apps under AppSupport, as well as VLC and The King James Bible.
The full Pure Maps application via Chum is on there too and the FluvalSmart app to adjust the lighting in my aquarium even works, now that Bluetooth works via AppSupport.

One problem that I had before was trying to get Sailfish to sync contacts and calendars with xbomber.co.uk over CardDAV and CalDAV.
Nothing seems to have improved in that area, so I exported everything from Roundcube and created a new fruux account.
Everything syncs flawlessly with that.

I will probably still end up using the Lumia as a camera from-time-to-time, but I feel very positive about having a phone that does everything that I want without the unbelievable intrusiveness of android.

Linux phones are more important now than ever. - feddit.org

2026.07.31

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