News Displaying 10 to 19 of 97  GVZtz1uakAAAFAd.jpg) I'm sure I came across twitter user: LunoriqreZX before.
They seem to be quite a fan of Star Fleet.
Their AI images of Princess Keeli and Lamia have been added to the fan artwork section.
On a completely different subject, I'm looking for a replacement for our SLIR online image resizer script because that script hasn't been developed in many moons.
It doesn't have any capability in the area of webp or avif formats that we see more-and-more of.
The 'alternatives' that I'm finding all seem to demand PHP 8+, so I'm gradually increasing the PHP version on the server and seeing what breaks first.  I'm sure I've come across this blue outline of X-Bomber before, but more recently, I came across the outputs from Illustrator, showing the process of making it, along with a very nice and useful graphic of the X Bomber logo.
I see that the creator has a redbubble, featuring this and other designs.  Found on nitter, this is an AI enhancement of the often-seen publicity shot of the X-Bomber studio model.
The enhancement process is quite striking and it gave me a very strong Chris Foss vibe.
At the same time, it seems to have introduced a few features that don't make perfect sense.
It makes you feel like you're looking at an Escher when you examine it more closely.  While things are quiet on the Star Fleet front, I wanted to share with you a website that I came across the other day while browsing around about the subject of Y2K futurism.
Deadnet Internet Services
Your pitstop on the Information Superhighway!
This site looks as though its design has been more-or-less untouched since 1999. It certainly has the turn-of-the-century website feel and yet it even now has a very active forum and IRQ full of very friendly people.
Also the internet radio stations are great.
I've been listening to the TechnoBase FM station a lot. It helps move the day along and, with the announcers being German, I can practice my German a little as well.  I set up a Star Fleet Teams for 23rd Oct at 20:00.
It's an hour-long Teams call for Star Fleet fans to catch up and chat on about whatever.
Please use this link to join the meeting, nearer the time.
You can join the group, to get future notifications directly, and get more info via the Star Fleet Teams page.
If anyone would like to join, and can't make it, please let me know and I'll see about shifting it around.
I wanted a 'Teams' logo for the Star Fleet Teams page, but the actual logo design is so bland, that I decided to throw my own one together based on the old MSN Messenger logo.  With all the work that got done giving the site selectable themes and colours, I thought the available selection could be expanded.
I sometimes miss my old Tripod site from about 2003. I based the colours for it on the Subaru Impreza WRC.
I went over to archive.org and some old files that I had lying around to reconstruct the look of it.
I'll add it to the theme select page once I've tested it a bit more.
In the meantime, try it out by clicking here.  A while ago, I played on with XAMPP on our downstairs Windows box that handles all our films and TV.
I wanted to have a look at the feasibility of hosting xbomber.co.uk on that server, in light of the seemingly ever-mounting costs of hosting.
It was clear that, even with a huge amount of work, the results of doing that were going to be sub-optimal.
That having been said, the solution did work, fundamentally.
So I tweaked on with the firewall on our router, which I wasn't expecting it to allow me to do, and presented the downstairs machine to respond to any HTTP(S) requests arriving at the router.
Since our hosts have made such an enormous deal out of continuing to host xbomber.co.uk at its current footprint, I don't want to grow the footprint of the site significantly.
At the same time, there are a number of big files that I've wanted to host for a long time, so I applied the XAMPP method to making those files available.
The first thing that it lets me do is provide a mirror for the AI upscale versions of the show.
You can just stream the mp4 files straight over the browser.
I tested it from an outside connection and it streams really quickly.
Downloading those files from megaupload or mega or whatever it is, is a huge ordeal now.
The site gives you a 'quota' without telling you how big it is.
After downloading a few episodes, it decides that that quota is exceeded and forces you to wait for 4, 5 hours, or even more than that, before allowing you to download a few more.
In the end, I gave up and found it far easier to track down where I'd put those files when I downloaded them in 2023.
It also lets me put up all source code and releases for X-Bomber the Game, as well as some videos of the game, taken at different stages of development.
The machine gets put into hibernation overnight sometimes, but generally, it should be available and might be an extra string to the bow.
What I feel like doing is getting something like a little toughpad with a decent-sized SSD and SD card and have it perform the same job.
That way, it would eat a lot less power: allowing it to be kept on permanently, and it could back up internally anything from the SSD to the SD card.
Anyway, with all that being said, check out what's on there. I have a few more things I want to add when I find them.  The topic of the series Tugs came up in conversation the other day.
It is Thomas the Tank Engine but set in a harbour.
I see that, since the other year, when I tried to find this series for my daughter, the show is now available from archive.org.
The video quality is pretty OK: better than VHS, which is all that was previously available, and you can play the files directly from the site or download them as a torrent etc.
With almost all the shots containing water, I think the show would've benefitted a lot from having been shot at 120fps high speed, and being slowed down to 24fps: as lots of shots in Thunderbirds were, in order to make the water look like a large, slow-moving body of water.  The train job is getting back on the rails.
I want to use the existing mechanism for spawning the Alliance space trains on levels 5 and 14 as the basis for the trains inside the level 16 Alliance fortress.
That way, there's just one set of code and objects doing it all.
The space train mechanism that was upgraded back when level 14 was being done has been improved quite a bit so that the space trains can overlap eachother.
A lot of bloat has been taken out of it too.
That was needed before it can be extended to do the level 16 bit.  I found this build of the Good Smile MODEROID Dai-X by Design Works.
The builder clearly took a lot of trouble to make the result as accurate as possible: using a lot of reference material.
I've seen a few people build this model with reflective/fluorescent paint on the eyes that gives the appearance on camera that the eyes are illuminated.
In this case, it seems clear that this model has a light inside the head to make the eyes glow: possibly with batteries being located in the body.
At the same time, the large canopy on Mainbody is transparent unlike an out-of-the-box build, where the cockpit is opaque.
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