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This may be completely irrelevant, but could it be because some of our backups were done from the SGI's using Irix, rather than windows? They might be Irix (SGI's proprietary Unix format) configured - so they'd show something, but Windows Backup wouldn't know what it was....just a thought.

I am really intrigued to see what you guys come up with, especially in the WCIV - WCSO range...

Actually, I believe that's TWO early designs for the Devastator, one older than the other...

I can speak to that a bit. When we did WCIV we concentrated first on the cinematic ship models. We used a huge library of photos Chris Douglas took of real-world aircraft, ships, helicopters and such and cut them apart in Photoshop and reassembled them into custom, semi-photo-realistic textures...

Robert Foshko is Adam's father. Among other achievements he wrote the pilot for "Land of the Lost", and was a writer on the old King Features "Flash Gordon" comic strip and on The Man from UNCLE. A very neat guy.

I also happen to have dat drive that I think will read that exabyte tape, though I might be wrong - I purchased it in an attempt to get data off my tape backup. I'd be happy to send it on to anyone who could make use of it...

The middle one is an Exabyte digital tape. I actually have one of these laying around somewhere with some of my Wing IV stuff on it; I've tried a variety of ways of recovering it to no avail. To complicate things further most of the graphics done for Wing III, IV, and beyond were done on...

Interesting that the author asserts that the property never "regained its footing" after EA bought Origin - Wing III and IV and Prophecy were all after the acquisition and I don't thing anyone would argue that none of those were up to the standards of the first two!

I remember sitting in Adam Foshko's office looking at audition tapes - I recall that either Amanda Wyss (the girlfriend from Better Off Dead) or Jenny Wright (from Near Dark and The Wall) auditioned for the role. We got Ginger's tape and there wasn't a soul in that office didn't know who she...

Yeah, the model had all kinds of moving parts and lights. The bay doors open up and down, the big dishes on the side of the tower swivel back and forth; there are running lights that strobe down the length of the landing bays...it really is quite an incredible piece of work.

I haven't been able to see the last three POOs...wassup wit dat?

Dooooouuuuughnuuuuuuuuuts! Capt. Johnny brought in doughnuts on Friday - I can't remember if it was every Friday or every other, but it was definitely Fridays. And he had a tendency to wander in a bit late (most likely because he'd been there 'til the wee wee hours the night before) so the...

Happy birthday, man!

Well, I certainly appreciate all the enthusiasm!

Well, original original format was Alias PowerAnimator format, but I upconverted them to Maya Ascii format a few years back.

What kind of format does it prefer? I'm using PolyTrans to convert the original models, so I've got a laundry list of formats I can convert to...

I've got the Murphy, Midway, Shrike, Devastator, and Vindicator left to convert...did I already post the Shrike? Can't remember (getting old!). Some of the ships - Midway and Devastator in particular - have some texture funkiness I need to correct before I can post them. But soon. Soooooon.

Use it all you want, make whatever changes you want - it's out there for anyone to use however they like!

Okay, here it is... http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcp/stingray.zip I mentioned this to Ben, but for everyone else: this is a straight conversion from the original NURBS model we used for WCP. Some of the original materials didn't convert properly, so if you want to get the thing all...

Well, this is the original cinematic-quality version we built for the game, along with all the original textures - it's pretty high-poly, so I don't know if you'd want to use it or not, but I can certainly make it available.