News Displaying 92 to 101 of 101 A while ago, I had a play through of Star Trek: Generations.
The last time I'd played this, I made it onto the last level but not quite to the end of the game.
I remember playing it on a Saturday evening after coming back from the Warner Village cinema in Newcastle.
That site closed in 2004, which gives an idea of how long ago that must have been.
I downloaded the game, packaged in a self-running virtual machine from The Collection Chamber.
The game really is fascinating and seems to have had an interesting development history, with quite a lot of content having been cut from the finished release: only some of which is still present in the game's files.
In any event, it was a great trip down memory lane, and I did a write up of the game.
It's still a bit of a work in progress, but Star Trek fans may find it interesting.
I'm starting a little project with the site...
I kicked it off with a revamp of the Fan Artworks page the other week.
Something that really grabbed me lately has been sites like Frutiger Aero Archive which grab you and throw you into an age from about 20 years ago, when our consumer hardware and software wasn't just there to do a job, but to look good while it was doing it, and add something decorative to life: other than grey menus, bland colours and RGB lighting.
This site has had a bit of a grunge sci-fi design all its 23-year life, so adding a retro futurism aero aesthetic to it might not be too easy, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.
One thing is to gradually replace the cool but slightly brutalist Mnemo Filetype Icons with anything that I can bundle together that looks more like ABUR's Frutiger Aero icon pack, which, to me, looks a lot more joyful.
I re-did the site's favicon and x-impulse upvote button, based on Felice's great Blender logo that she did for the game some time ago, and which I will always love.
Hopefully, I can make the site a little fresher and friendlier, and it can, in a small way, take us back to an era of computing, from which I think a lot of people miss certain aspects.
I would very much welcome any feedback. A new Star Fleet story by Suzanne: Star Fleet Sargasso is available from the Fan Stories page.
The characters in this story are written in a very clever way that really builds on what happens to them in the show, as well as other Star Fleet stories. Here's an interesting ad-blocker: AdNauseam, which not just suppresses ads, but also clicks on them for you behind the scenes to mess with the 'advertisers' and help make their tracking telemetry worthless.
It is available for Firefox, Opera, Edge and Chrome.
I expect it work under Brave just as well, but I've only tested it in Edge so far. :)
I saw an Ericsson T28s for sale in great condition, which I had added to my collection.
Normally, the blister on the back where the antenna is mounted gets all worn and scratched-up, but this one is pristine.
I already had a T28 World, but its dark-blue colour isn't as cool as the urban grey (and also, it's not what I had when I saw at school).
The T28 was the coolest phone ever - even more so than the T39m that came after it.
The m515 next to it is the last evolution of the Palm V form factor, which was the best-looking handheld computer ever.
I have quite a few projects to write up on the site, once Christmas, anniversary, and birthday season gets a bit out of the way.
One of them took a slightly wrong turn, when I installed some unsupported Sony software into Windows 11 and my PC would no longer boot.
There were problems with that OS image anyway and it was time for a re-install. Happy All Hallows' Eve to all, and thanks to people who hopped on Star Fleet Teams yesterday,
I made a new Pumpkin Major Zero due to request.
This one may be better in some ways than the last one, and took a lot less time to make. The work to future-proof the site and get it running on PHP 8.x has progressed quite a bit.
Most of the site runs OK on it, but there is an issue in the media indexing system, where the PHP debugging is making no sense.
The sidebar script does much the same job via a slightly different method and this works fine.
So there will probably be a day next week when I flick the PHP version over to 8.4 and chip away at the problem until that indexing issue goes away.
I had to put a new installation of Windows on my laptop the other week and haven't installed all the relevant extensions into Clickteam Fusion to get work on X-Bomber the Game moving along again.
I will try to get that done and get the game under development again before long. I got fed up with some of the results of the usual search engines that I use and I decided to give Freespoke a whirl and see if it could find me some new Star Fleet material.
It took me to this Spanish-language blog, where I found some images of the Spanish VHS covers.
The style is a bit strange, but I quite like the 'redesigned' termoid.
On the other hand, the character illustrations are dreadful.
Meanwhile, I'm working on getting the site running on PHP 8, which is an enormous pain of an update, and takes PHP away from its original intent of being a language for personal homepages, in the interest of increased performance for web applications.
I see that phpBB 4 is in its alpha release and requires PHP 8.1 at minimum.
It's not as though I'm taking the forum over to a new major build of phpBB anytime soon, but it feels as though I need to get the site ready for PHP 8 in case the need to switch to it becomes pressing. After I pushed the PHP version on the server to 7.4, I hadn't noticed that the modules required by the Sphider search feature had been disabled and that Sphider had stopped working...
The required modules have now been re-enabled.
One further problem was that Sphider knows not to touch anything in the forum directory. The SIDs encoded into the forum's URLs that it serves cause Sphider to go around and around in circles.
After I changed the path of the forum directory, that was exactly what Sphider was doing and it wrote about 4GB of search data into the temp table of its database and a huge number of access requests into the logs. 😀
Now Sphider should be working correctly again.
I think I'll adapt the site slightly so that themes and other functionality carry over to the Search pages.
Edit: This has now been done.
Next, I need to tweak the sidebar module so that it's context-aware and goes into the right mode when displaying the search results.
I am very grateful to CaptainQuirk for his continued work on Sphider. There have been quite a few updates at X Blogger since I last posted an update about it.
Quite a few further episodes have received write-ups over the past few months, including episode 21 as of just now, and also the Bloody Mary's Promotion episode that was never English-language dubbed.
I would have signposted those here but for some reason, I hadn't been receiving email notification from substack in the intervening time. It really wouldn't do us any harm.
The Dai-X is more memorable and iconic but X-Bomber is their home for most of the series - even if it is a bit rugged and functional.
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