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This is for those of you who weren't there in the beginning.
(url="http://"http://web.archive.org/web/19980704152318/http://www.escape-velocity.com/index.html")http://web.archive.o....com/index.html(/url)
It was fun to surf the old WWWBoard.
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#ev, the official channel for Escape Velocity chat.
heh HEH.
------------------ "I think more people need to have quotes from me in their sigs." - forge Pikepics, Floozy's Pics •• > (url="http://"http://pikeman.sourcecod.com") pikeman.sourcecod.com (/url) <•• pike's #ev3 quotes, PP™ (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number;=64&SUBMIT;=Go")Just Tech(/url): Whisky shot of the truly l33t.
Wow, that makes me feel old. I remember that was the site where i discovered that you could download plugs for EV, long long ago. Those days were fun.
------------------ "I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it."--- Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
Very cool. That was...a long time ago.
------------------ (url="http://"http://thangorodrim.angband.org/")Angband(/url). The D2 alternative.
way to long ago...
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Man I am not on there at all. I wonder where I was? Oh well.
------------------ --- "The few, the proud, the insane. The NR Development Team"-Me "Imagination is more important than knowledge"-Albert Einstein Kevin M. Boots
(quote)Originally posted by EVula: **This is for those of you who weren't there in the beginning.:)
------------------ David Arthur (url="http://"http://davidarthur.evula.net/")davidarthur.evula.net(/url): MissionComputer and the Talon plug-in (url="http://"http://www.ev-nova.net/")EV-Nova.net(/url):** There's no time like the future. | (url="http://"http://www.evula.com/")EVula's Lair(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.com/survival_guide/")EV Nova Survival Guide(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/")evula.org(/url)
Yeah... Where's our beloved Spider?
Heh. The old forums... with Sky moderating. The nostalgia is intoxicating. I think I need to stop looking at this now.
-AJ
------------------ 0-60 3.0s...1320ft/9.2s...Head Gasket Bursts...
(This message has been edited by AJ (edited 09-19-2002).)
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Originally posted by David Arthur: The beginning? From where I'm sitting, that site looks closer to the end.
It was 4 years ago, which is much closer to the beginning than we are currently.
It's more halfwayish it seems. Two years into the whole thing but four years previous to where we are now. That site kicked around for the majority of the time though, so I'd call it a halfway point.
------------------ forge: Tastes Like Steel
10/31/96
I think I deserve some recognition for giving you this nostalgia trip: (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum23/HTML/003843.html")http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/003843.html(/url)
Boo-yah! Zaphod Beeblebrox strikes again!
------------------ -Zaphod Beeblebrox - President of the Universe All hail El Presidente Beeblebrox
Wow. Wow. I am in shock.
Though I can't find any references to myself either. I guess that must've been a time when I disappeared.
I still remember being part of the group opposing having the EVO board separate, but looking at the way things are now, I guess it was a good idea. Well, then again, since EV and EVO have calmed down a bit due to Nova...
Ah well.
Oh god, I just clicked on the link to the old EVula's Lair...on Geocities.
------------------ Mike Lee (Firebird) Visit Cymltaneous Solutions: (url="http://"http://cs.paching.com/")http://cs.paching.com/(/url)
Originally posted by Firebird: **Oh god, I just clicked on the link to the old EVula's Lair...on Geocities.:) **
I still have his e-mail listed as EVula@rocketmail.com somewhere... Heh.
Well, this isn't EXACTLY related to EV, but it's got some close connections:
EV-inspired Vaporware:
VOID (url="http://"http://web.archive.org/web/19981205032416/http://www.blacksun.ca/")http://web.archive.o...ww.blacksun.ca/(/url)
NOVA (url="http://"http://storm.prohosting.com/cyml/novainterface.html")http://storm.prohost...ainterface.html(/url) (I can't find the site on the WayBack Machine -- I remember it was hosted on Adam Sommerfield's site though)
Okay, well, I can't much of the other things I was looking for. Some of the old stuff was in the database but the page data seemed to be lost. Specifically I was looking for the Final Battle 2: Xenocide and/or Epsilon pages to complete the theme.
But yeah, anyway, all this makes you feel the power of EV and how it'll never be topped. As EVula keeps saying, a net EV or 3D EV just won't be EV.
Oh, and I just found a cool fact -- my old web page (which I can't recover either) happened to be the fourth one down on the old Lair. That's interesting. I guess I should complete the circle and get hosting from EVula.org, huh?
(Edit) Changed image to a link. (/Edit)
(Edit) Grr...stupid web hosts not liking visiting of images. I'm really going to ask EVula for hosting now. (/Edit)
(This message has been edited by Firebird (edited 09-19-2002).)
Okay, the above post has been overedited. I hate to resort to just an image (actually, I think I have an early alpha of Epsilon lying around), but here we go:
FINAL BATTLE 2: XENOCIDE (later the ill-fated Epsilon project) (url="http://"http://storm.prohosting.com/cyml/xenocide.html")http://storm.prohost...l/xenocide.html(/url)
It looked so cool too...
I guess I should say something about this because Sky's not exactly around any more to kick my ass for spilling the beans. Epsilon was a hell of a project. Unfortunatly, we had a team of easily distracted graphic artists and only a single programmer (Who happened to be the main graphic artist as well). I dunno, sounds a bit crazy to me. Okay. Where to begin.
I'm sure a few of you know that Skyhawk hosted a hotline server for a LONG time. I was with him from the first days of FBII:Xenocide when he decided to recruit me up until almost the end (the battle of Skyhawk and Chad got pretty heated up there.) I wathced X evolve into Epsilon and then wither and die. (my AIM SN is still xenociddev).
Damn. I'm really having trouble finding the right words here.
I guess I'll start with the graphical side of Epsilon. We made some pretty pictures. Very pretty pictures. We dabbled in almost everything from wacky missile designs to crazy ship ideas. Sky, at one point, even created a ship with a fully modeled cockpit and pilot. Unfortunatly, in my opinion, the design, overall, was utter crap. We did come up with a few great looking ideas and some of them made it into Hazard! (another story. I'll get there in a few).
The programming side of things was handled entirely by Jos Delbar (?) and Skyhawk. Evan, at some point, decided that the EV engine just wasn't good enough. He went out and picked up a copy of the book, "The Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming." Using Jos's(?) Sprite Animation Master , SAM for short, He actually got a working graphics and control engine going. Quite honestly, he did a wonderful job too. He had a basic flight model, asteroids, planets with orbital gravitational pull (It was oh so much fun to slingshot yourself off a planet at incredible speed) and it's fair share of bugs. I think life just caught up with all of us at some point and we simply lost the will to work.
In the end, it fared no better than being a featureless asteroids clone with some decent graphics called Hazard!
Another person who can probably clear up this history lesson a little bit would be Regulus, if anybody can get a hold of him. He was there long than I and he seems to remember things more clearly.
That's about all I'm willing to type at the moment but maybe something else will pop into my head later about it.
(This message has been edited by AJ (edited 09-21-2002).)
Originally posted by EVula: **This is for those of you who weren't there in the beginning.:)
http://web.archive.o....com/index.html
**
Ah!! It's gone!
The page no longer seems to be available...it was good while it lasted though.
------------------ Mike Lee (Firebird) Visit Cymltaneous Solutions: (url="http://"http://cs.paching.com/")http://cs.paching.com/(/url) (hosted by (url="http://"http://www.evula.org")evula.org(/url))
Whimper whimper* It's gone. Can anybody get it back or find some other link ro something?
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More importantly, does ANYBODY have the old 1.0.0? You know, even before plug-ins. Sometimes it felt like a different game altogether, though it really wasn't. Must've been the destructible asteriods
drool
------------------ Some people say I'm a crazy kind of fool, be that as it may... I don't suffer from my insanity.
Originally posted by ghostdog: **More importantly, does ANYBODY have the old 1.0.0? You know, even before plug-ins. Sometimes it felt like a different game altogether, though it really wasn't. Must've been the destructible asteriods
Well, asteroids are still destructible in later versions, but they just take a lot of firepower to destroy...(a few minutes with the Alien Marauder in EVGE and its disintegrator does it...)