To celebrate the release of the Lucasfilm's Habitat beta footage coming soon, here's some screenshots of stuff that haven't been seen for 36 years.
These were on the end of the tape containing in-game newspapers and weren't part of the original transfer.
Here you see QLink explaining that they were closing Habitat down and thanking everyone. New info here is that they claimed it'd only be closed for a month. It was a year!
The Habitat tapes have been transferred and currently sit at about 56gb each for both 2 hours tapes. I'll be uploading the raw files + encodes to the Internet Archive soon.
To cover the cost of shipping from the taper and back though, I need $20. I wouldn't normally ask but things are tight right now.
If anyone can help with that, here is my PayPal link. I'll be deleting this post as soon as it's covered.
Please help with the effort to restore and preserve the first commercial #VirtualWorld / #Metaverse: QLink's Club Caribe (built on Lucasfilm's Habitat) !
We're opening up the Club Caribe restoration project to everyone and we need your help!
It's been 30 years since the service shut down, but we have images + footage of almost 300 unique rooms or regions that can be rebuilt in the browser using a simple tool @SpindleyQ
created.
It's never been more viable to rebuild this pioneering world than today.
Connecting the hatchery where new avatars arrived in Club Caribe up to the rest of the world is going great! Almost at the point of being able to connect up these new areas to the areas I recreated 6 years ago and then we will have ourselves a party.
Here’s how the new Avatar region flow looks currently