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Lucasfilm's Habitat Beta Blast Footage Released

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:

Help restore the first Metaverse: Quantum Link’s 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

30 Year Anniversary of Club Caribe closing

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

Habitat and Club Caribe artwork extracted

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

The Gathering of the Avatars in NeoHabitat

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

EC Habitats Hack Day

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

New Lucasfilm's Habitat Footage - First Look

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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

New Lucasfilm's Habitat footage found!

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'

Supporting the site

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

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

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