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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.  I was really impressed with the Network Colourisation blu-rays.
I uploaded some screengrabs from the 3 Fireball episodes that were featured on the disc.  My Supercolorisation blu-rays arrived...
I enjoyed the episode of Four Feather Falls a lot more than I thought I would and I was remarked at how good Supercar and Fireball looked in colour.
It was also nice to watch a number of Anderson shows back-to-back that weren't all from the same series, because it made it easy to compare and contrast them.
The two Fireball episodes that I hadn't seen in colour were much better choices than Day in the Life of a Space General, which to me didn't seem like one of the best choices of episodes to colourise.
It was good to see the Granatoid tanks in HD and full colour, even if they were a lot less colourful than the Solarstar underwater tank from Stingray.
They made me think a bit about the woodlouse tanks from episode 13 of Star Fleet: Farewell: the Eternal Battlefield.
It's good to see that Spirit Entertainment looks to be helping us to get these kinds of discs again, even after Network Distributing's disappearance.
It was already well-worth buying.
I'll have a look and see what the second disc is all about. Hopefully, it holds some interesting extras or something.
The lion was not included.  I was hunting for something else, Star Fleet related, to complete a little job that I'm working on, when I found some additional material from BladeZ, of his remastering work on Star Fleet that wasn't featured on the site.
I know that a *lot* of work went into the project before 'generative AI' came along and tried to do it all for us.
Albeit, not in HD, they still look nice.
Better for it to be on the site for people to take a look at, than sitting on a disk in my computer,
You can see from the timestamps on the page what's been added yesterday.
Take a look at the download section which features a new ZIP archive of 25 (5 added) WMVs that aren't playable directly on the site.
A good deal of duplication has been removed from that section as well, which has slightly reduced the footprint of the site, and will hopefully make our hosts (and their NVMe arrays) happier.
In other news, I dared to try to make the forum registration process a little more streamlined by removing the security question, to see whether email-based verification was sufficient by itself.
There were quite a few spam sign-ups in less than 24hrs and the change has been reverted.
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