News Displaying 31 to 40 of 64  I understand that Dan's SFFB has reached 1,250 users, which is an excellent achievement.
It's remarkable to keep growing a group about a TV show that's well-over 40 years old, and hasn't been aired in almost as long.  On the twitter page of user: LunoriqreZX, I found a banner image that seemed familiar.
It took me a while to place it, but it is clearly an enlarged still version of Dorian Sherratt's animation of X-Bomber leaving its hangar on the Moon.
I had to screengrab the image, since it wouldn't allow me to download it any other way, oddly.
I went back to Dorian's deviantArt page to see whether it had ever been uploaded there.
His profile is now inactive and I found the below tragic and very sobering information.  X-Bomber's documentation is getting a major overhaul, although it is still nowhere near finished.
The manual will be condensed into a single document that will be very comprehensive.
It will also serve as a behind-the-scenes guide.
I tweaked Brad's image of the Impala Cruiser, which appears a good bit in the game to make it fit in with the other images. 
X-Bomber Original Player Ship
(Closer in some ways to the one in the show)
- Pulse-fire neck lasers with additional sound effect, kindly provided by BladeZ
- Dai-X - Yellow x-tracer (ep19)
- Dai-X - Chest cannons revised
- Dai-X New mega missile detonation mode (spiral incendiary)
General
- Clickteam Fusion runtime updated from 293.10 to 295.10
- Player searchlights (for night mode etc.) implemented
- X-Bomber crew no longer chatter when playing as The Skull
- 'Points of interest' objects improved
Player Weapons
- New chest cannon mode for default Dai-X (high-velocity homing)
- Dai-X pulse gun reverted to v0.84e configuration (more accurate to show), as well as primary weapon cycling behaviour
- Braincom vulcan guns and cluster bombs revised
- Graphical bug fixed on Quantum Blaster special weapon charge particle effect
- Interesting positioning/graphical glitch fixed on ODIN/THOR boosters
Mission-specific
- L6-10 - Glitch with X-Bomber pulse gun muzzle flash colour fixed
- L6 - FG hologram effects further improved
- L15 - Battlecruiser shield overlay
- L16 - Reactor beam weapons fixed, core sprite added
Mission Briefings
- Solar system map generates faster
- Interesting glitch with map labelling fixed
- Adding further DVD screengrab images to mission briefings ...
Main Menu
- Ship selector in main menu displays images of player ships
- Main menu mini-map looks a bit more map-like  This week was the last week of our company's based office by the beach.
I handed the keys back to the owners on Thursday.
So long, old girl, and thanks for all the fish,  It has come to my attention that the BBC is actually doing something useful and releasing Blake's 7 on blu-ray.
The set also has the optional inclusion of re-done practical special effects, which will be interesting to see ...
Blake's 7: The Collection - Series 1 - HMV  I found this very stylish illustration on a site called twoucan, which is essentially a twitter image aggregator.  Twitter user: Yoshihito Kobayashi posted some images of a nice Japanese X Bomber picture book that I've not come across.
Illustrations are apparently done by Hiroshi Kida and are often a composite of an illustrated background and a photograph of one of the ships from the show.
That illustration with the battlecruiser and the exploding volcano is pretty close to the Molthane episode.
The smaller booklet is thought to have accompanied one of the small Yujin-style, vinyl figures that were released at the time of the show. Interestingly, it lists the ages of the characters.  Adding the new PlanetStyles theme to the SFXB forum got me thinking about my SFXBsilver theme that got somehow mangled during a softaculous upgrade in 2022, and the loss of the original Network54 SFXB forum.
It led me to want to do a write-up on the evolution of the SFXB forum, which has turned into a bit of a love letter to various forums that have had a connection to the development of X-Bomber the Game.
This little project turned into quite an undertaking and a work of reconstruction: merging Wayback archive snapshots that were missing a lot of stylesheets and images with elements that I was able to restore from my backup archives, so as to allow the article to have some accurate screenshots for illustration.
The Wayback Machine is a great resource, without which, it wouldn't have been possible to produce this little document to illustrate the efforts that lots of people have gone to in keeping the Star Fleet memory alive online. 
I found an article on the propaganda outlet: Forbes' website which went into the funding of Terrahawks ...
That led me onto a very interesting gallery on archive.org, containing the pages of a production booklet for a Japanese anime show called Terrahawks that obviously never came into being.
As you can see from the information contained, it was substantially different to the Supermacromation series that was eventually produced in the West.
Interestingly enough, rather than Zelda having a space city, it's actually the Terrahawks who operate from the space city (which itself was called Terrahawk).
The fascinating premise of the show is that the Terrahawks would have apparently been fighting to recapture Earth from a plague of mutants cooked up by the United Nations.
Criminally, no mention was made of Firestorm in the article.
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