Stuart Cass

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat character creation tool restored

There has been a flurry of activity around NeoHabitat recently thanks to the efforts of Steve Salevan, who did a huge amount of work on the initial restoration effort to get Lucasfilm's Habitat back online. In order for our Commodore 64 client to work, we needed something to

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat and Club Caribe development documents found!

Back in 2020, I'd been following up leads of names of former Habitat members and Quantum Link staffers to see if they had any memories of the place, or kept any development materials. One name in particular kept popping up who had also been mentioned in some of

WorldsAway

Wendy Sue Noah Interview

Just in time for the holidays is a lovely interview I conducted recently with Wendy Sue Noah, who was a Business Development Consultant at Fujitsu Software Corporation working on WorldsAway. Wendy later transitioned over when David Andrews took over the WorldsAway Group and switched the name to Avaterra.com, Inc.

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David Andrews interview now available to all

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago when we dropped the David Andrews interview, it'd be made free to everyone after the initial early access period. You can read it here right now. If you enjoyed this interview and you'd like to see more of this

WorldsAway

David Andrews Interview

If you ever spent time in WorldsAway or VZones from 1999 through to 2006, you may have heard the name David Andrews. Originally brought in to take over the reins of the WorldsAway Products and Services Group at Fujitsu in early 1998, David took over a division that was operating

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Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts

It's been a while since I last posted anything on here. I've been working on a bunch of stuff behind the scenes (most notably in our Discord server) and haven't been able to push out all of the stories I've been working

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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'

Club Caribe

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

Lucasfilm's Habitat

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

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