News Displaying 101 to 110 of 132  The other week, I got through almost all my recent photographs from the church at Holystone in Northumberland, which is one that I'd been wanting to include in this project for years.
The church is not far from the Lady's Well, which is a remarkably thin place with a very interesting history.
Up next is likely to be the church at Ingram.  Thank to Dan Hitchin, I was able to expand the collection of images of this publication that combines a lot of publicity stills with a lot of artwork that isn't found elsewhere.
In one of the new photographs (IMG_6123), you can see one of the double-page images much more clearly: the Alliance ship attacking what I think we can take as being Pluto Alpha Base.
The page text resembles a last report from Captain Carter (pictured, lower-right) to Star Fleet before the base is destroyed.
On the ground are some interesting anti-aircraft (or anti-spacecraft) vehicles, which are not seen in the show, but have a striking design.
Equally, you might take it (as I did originally), given that the base itself isn't pictured, that this is a different EDF installation: somewhere else inside the solar system or beyond, being attacked by the Alliance. Also, the appearance of the terrain is different.
I took it to be a volcanic planet: much like Alloria.
These ground vehicles could be specialised for other: possibly higher-gravity, environments, given that they aren't seen on Pluto in the show.
This copy of the book can be found on ebay, but its condition doesn't seem to merit the price.
I will keep an eye out for one in better condition so that it can be properly scanned for the website.
Update: I found some additional images of this in the Articles and Scans folder: one of them showing the Dai-X and the constituent fighters, which have been now been brought together in the same folder as more recent images.  I've been having a play of Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition. which is a renewed version of the 1995 3D flight-sim/spaceshooter, which led Microsoft to release Fury3: a very similar game made by the same developer.
On the one hand, TV had some elements that make it feel a little bit unfinished, but a lot of the bugs that contributed to that impression are fixed in the boosted edition.
At the same time, the game will play at 1440p resolution and higher.
The rendering distance is significantly increased, so you can get a much better look at a lot of interesting enemy installations and vehicles that are surprisingly detailed and well textured, given how little detail the original engine could output.  This project took a big knock for a couple of years, with the closure of most open churches.
Since then, I've built up quite a collection of images from places like Woodhorn, Bamburgh, Ingram, Stirling, Holystone, as well as others for this project.
I plan on processing as much of this back catalogue, as well as visiting some further churches this summer.  There's not a lot to do in Northumberland when the weather's bad.
Metroland, Quasar, Laser Quest - all dried up many moons ago.
So, I made a note to visit the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi in Allendale, which I found on google maps, while slacking off at work, as soon as we had a rainy weekend.
I was really taken aback by the variety of exhibits that they had.
Maybe the most surprising one was the skitter alien from Falling Skies, which I found to be a very compelling series.
Leelu loved their K-9 replica and wanted to take it home.
My wife, who works in museums, was really impressed with the interpretation panels and how well the exhibits were presented and preserved.
It was also a lovely village with easy parking and lots of hospitality.
Anyway, check out some of the photos that I got.
They only show a handful of the exhibits.
Someone was filming a documentary when we were there, which made it awkward to take more but it gives me another reason to go back before long. .png) I finished Recoil, since I'd already played it up to the second-last level.
In the last level, which starts off in a bombed-out city, you find Stubbie's Gas + Go, which seems like a well-run business, where, according to this, you can get a half-rack of ribs for $5.79.
Even though the robots have created an otherwise dystopian future, they seem to have inflationary forces well under control.
There is a bit of a knack to get Recoil working under Windows 11 these days.
Anyway, I really love it for some reason. It's kind of perfectly-formed and leaves you wanting more at the end.
You can download it from My Abandonware. I used the nGlide method mentioned in the comments to get it ticking over.  I found in my little sketchbook a little doodle of an underwater backpack for Dai-X for level 11.
This would be pretty quick to sprite, so I'll try and push it into the next version, along with a bit of a refresh of the underwater weapons.  I think the space fortress will have 3 kinds of trains:
A streamlined, futuristic train
A grungy, military-style train
A bio-mechanical train
... each with a few different types of matching carriages.
Here's my little illustration of the streamlined one, which I've begun spriting ...
Update
First train type nearly finished and other 2 underway ... .png) Before X-Bomber the Game is done, there needs to be a big train set created for the inside of the space fortress...
In Zipper's futuristic tank shooter: Recoil, there is a mysterious train in level 4.
It's very difficult to get a close look at it because it's faster than the player vehicle and can't be damaged by your weapons, requiring you to collapse a bridge in order to destroy it.
The train and each of the three carriages are armed with arc sabre weapons that rapidly drains your shield if you get anywhere near it.
The youtube playthrough videos weren't showing me what I wanted to see of it, so I used a save game to get really close to it to capture some screenshots; the BFT player vehicle getting destroyed in the process.
I also found that the game has an overhead view mode (press "G"), which was very useful for getting a top-down view on the train.
The VTOL aircraft that transports the BFT between missions looks better from above than it does from below.  I see that Sayabu's PPA replica has had another outing on twitter.
Check out the site's page on that project here.
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