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Habitat and Caribe footage re-uploaded

If you've ever looked for footage of Habitat or Club Caribe on YouTube, you've almost certainly ran into the following videos recorded by Keith Elkin back in May 1988 for Habitat and Summer 1989 for the Club Caribe beta. For the first time though, I'

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Club Caribe server source code found

When Lucasfilm's Habitat was first made open source, an event was held in September 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA. This was a hackathon primarily held to resurrect Habitat from the dead. At the time, we only had access to the original

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Lucasfilm's Habitat Text and World Restoration news

For the past year now, you might have seen a lot of work happening with regards to archiving and documenting the history of Lucasfilm's Habitat on this website and our Discord server. All of the groundwork that was laid has finally come to fruition and I'm

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lucasfilm's Habitat Beta Blast Footage Released

The release of the re-transferred in much better quality footage from the end of the Lucasfilm's Habitat beta is finally here! You can find the original files of the transfer, as well as MP4's derived from them over at the Internet Archive by heading to https:

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat alpha artwork rediscovered

After seeing the amazing work SpindleyQ had done with the Habitat Inspector tool, it reinspired me to work on recreating Club Caribe again as I mentioned back in February during the 30th anniversary of the services closure. Part of recreating Club Caribe would involve recreating all of the documents that

Club Caribe

Help restore the first Metaverse: Quantum Link’s Club Caribe!

As we mentioned in our last post, it's been 30 years since Quantum Link's Club Caribe virtual world service closed its doors for the final time. It seems like the perfect time to revive our previous restoration efforts and revive as much of the world as

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30 Year Anniversary of Club Caribe closing

February 20th, 1994 was the day since Club Caribe was closed down for good on the Quantum Link service and it's the 30th anniversary as I write this. If you don’t know what Club Caribe was, it is the final release version of Lucasfilm’s Habitat. How

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January 2024 Roundup

Happy belated new year to you all! It's been a month full of activity, but instead of posting little bits and pieces and spamming your inboxes, I decided to do a summary of events for you instead as January comes to a close. Gathering of the Avatars I

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Gathering of the Avatars Postponed

The Habitat meetup we mentioned recently hosted by https://www.twitch.tv/bogusmeatfactory has been rescheduled to next week due to Bogus being sick. Come join us next Friday, January 12th from 7pm EST in NeoHabitat! Also don't forget, the EC Habitats hack day takes place the day

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Habitat and Club Caribe artwork extracted

User SpindleyQ on the NeoHabitat Slack channel has written a tool that extracts the artwork from the Lucasfilm's Habitat source code archives and displays it on a webpage, including full animations of everything, as well as showing a bunch of artwork created for testing purposes only that never

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The Gathering of the Avatars in NeoHabitat

Twitch Streamer and Video Game Preservationist, BogusMeatFactory is hosting an event in NeoHabitat this coming Friday, 5th January 2024 at 7pm EST until 11:45pm EST. The event is going to be streamed on Twitch. You can play NeoHabitat in your browser by using the NeoHabitat browser client or if

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VZSciFi - John Freeman interview now available to all

As previously promised, the interview with Avaterra Europe's former project director for the VZSciFi area of the VZConnections VZones world, John Freeman, is now live for everybody. Thanks to John once again for his generosity in sharing time and materials with us and thank you to the people

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EC Habitats Hack Day

Electric Communities was a company co founded by Chip Morningstar, Randy Farmer and Doug Crockford in the early 1990’s. Electric Communities was contracted by Fujitsu in 1993 to begin development of what would eventually turn out to be WorldsAway. As part of that deal, Fujitsu also paid them for

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New Lucasfilm's Habitat Footage - First Look

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Signup/Email issues

If you've recently visited this site based on the VZSciFi interview with John Freeman or the newly found Lucasfilm's Habitat game footage and tried to signup as either a free or a paid member but ran into problems, we've now fixed the issue. In

Lucasfilm's Habitat

New Lucasfilm's Habitat footage found!

I'd recently been in touch with a former WorldsAway member whose website I'd been looking at on the Internet Archive. They sent over a bunch of archival material they'd saved about the place and in digging through that, I uncovered a site they'

Interviews

VZSciFi - John Freeman Interview

If you ever visited the VZConnections world back in the middle of the year 2000, you would've stumbled across a strange portal just to the west of the Detroit entrance which took you to another place. Only it wasn't just another place, it was an entirely

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Supporting the site

Most of the content from the original site has now been transferred over to this new version of the site, except for a few interviews which will be ready to go soon. In the mean time, I've been playing around with the Ghost CMS system I'm

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Migration Update

As you may have noticed, the Image Archive is back online and so is the Wiki! The site migration is mostly completed now and the only thing left to do besides continue to add new content, is to finish transferring all of the interview section over. For now, only the

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Site Migration

As you may have noticed, this site looks a little different than before. In the past, I've been using Bootstrap to create the pages for this place because it was pretty simple, and it was also really lightweight. I didn't really want to use a content

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Aric Wilmunder Interview

Many people remember and treasure the adventures that Lucasfilm Games and LucasArts released, but out of all of them, Habitat is the forgotten game. Even though many famous Lucas alumni worked on the title to varying degrees, the greater public doesn't have the same level of awareness as

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Habitat Articles and more

Scans from six articles have been added to the Image Archive this month, with most of them being about Habitat and one being about WorldsAway. Habitat In the magazine called Info from August 1986, we find out that Habitat was announced & demoed in June 1986 at the Consumer Electronics

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New Blog

After ten plus years of gathering information, archiving files and interviewing people, I've come to realise that I have a lot of information that's only stored in my head. When you're dealing with something as esoteric as a particular brand of virtual world dating

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2020 Updates

This blog post is a reposting of content from the old updates section. With the new blog format, a separate updates page was no longer needed. 12/07/2020 So much has happened this year, but I hadn't updated the site until now. I'm posting regular

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2019 Updates

This blog post is a reposting of content from the old updates section. With the new blog format, a seperate updates page was no longer needed. 01/13/2019 Added scans of floppy disks used during the development of WorldsAway by original body artist, Karen Mangum. Those disks contained all