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By: hanov3r
10 June 2024 at 16:14
ReBoot is widely considered the first all-CGI TV series (although that distinction may belong to the French show "Insektors"). Thirty years after its TV premiere, a team in British Columbia are working on a documentary (LinkTree link) about the show. But, they've run into a minor snag (Google Docs link).

As part of the documentary process, the filmmakers are working to digitize the original master tapes. Unfortunately, the tapes only exist in a now relatively rare format, Sony's D1 system, and there aren't a lot of surviving players able to read them. The team's hoping to find some experts and/or some documentation to help achieve their goal. Reboot previously.

It makes for an interested digital archaeology story, though

By: hanov3r
29 May 2024 at 12:28
In late 1987, Sierra On-line released Space Quest II: Chapter II: Vohaul's Revenge, sequel to the previous year's very popular Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter. Written using their Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine, SQ2 would go on to sell over 100,000 copies, earning an SPA Gold Medal and seating itself as 4th in Sierra's top 5 best sellers.

In 1988, updates to the AGI engine prompted print runs of SQ2 versions 2.0D and 2.0F. Decades later, it would be discovered that the MS-DOS 720k floppies for those releases accidentally had a little hidden extra - about 70% of the source code files for the AGI engine itself.
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