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    Merry Christmas, 2009

    Rasta Christmas isn't 'till Jan 7th, so it's still a bit early, but I was watching WC on broadcast TV, and I posted this for my friends and family as an accompaniment, and thought you folks would like it at least as much as them: Wing Commander II.mp3
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    Trivia Questions

    Donut Horn Dunno. There was ALWAYS a lot of food there, mostly junk food. I don't eat a lot of sugar (makes me sleepy), so if there was a 'horn' I would have ignored it, anyway. There were donuts almost every day though (almost every person I worked with was a sugar FREAK, so I got a lot...
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    Toys At Work After Wing Commander II, when I was starting to do the WCI Japanese conversion, there was a period where we were being 'courted' by Electronic Arts, and we were supposed to 'behave' (wear shoes and clothes and stuff, yano). I think the worst hit here were Richard Garriott and...
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    Sure, it's actually kind of fun. In the old days, in our jackets, we PWNED Austin. I've not felt that for some time. It's still kind of weird (since I'm just a geek), but it's kind of cool to have fans, in a way. I thought of something funny (one of my best code inspirations, possibly my...
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    Backups 'n Rolands Brain fart on the Roland (I think the MP3 is a keyboard, now that I think about it). Martin had an MT-32. I had the LAPC-1 (because I wrote audio code). I would assume that 'untar' should take apart almost any tape, but that might be just because all the other ones...
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    Trivia Questions

    Exception 13 is what happens when you try to do a pretty standard 8086 operation (running the pointer past 'FFFF') on an 80386. The newer machine adds one to the address FFFF and gets 10000, the old one got zero. A lot of old routines were based on the idea that the largest chunk of memory...
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    Back Cover! Never saw it. I left to write 3270 emulators before it got put in a box (though I'm a bit dismayed that my name's not on there anywhere). Really all I did was library code and audio file work for that project, so I guess it's ok. Cafrelli managed to get Chris Roberts name...
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    Wing Commander/Origin Games for Sale!

    Other stuff I was really wondering what the stuff I've got is worth. I've got a buttons and caps for WCII, and T-Shirts for Ultima V, plus other assorted crap (including a black Origin Systems jacket with 'writch' stitched in as a name tag and a Britannia Manor 1994 T-shirt. Plus signed...
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    Wing Commander documentary vids.

    I've been watching I like it so far. I would suggest the mission in which your wingman always dies. I think it's s8 m1, but it's been a few years, yano. We uncovered it in moving to the Japanese platform. I suggested leaving the wingman die, but changing the speech at the funeral to the...
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    Trivia Questions

    Ok, you guys will likely KNOW this stuff, since for me, it was just work. I'm trying to get credits for the audio tracks of the Japanese version of WC I and II. I remember it was a crew of really cute Japanese girls, but I never did catch their names. i think they might have been famous...
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    The Dallas curse.

    Dallas Snell Dallas was our 'producer' on that project, essentially. Chris was the 'director'. Chris had a habit of throwing fits about his artistic vision, and telling us all to 'rip it all out' and start over. After a while, Dallas had to tell us not to listen to Chris anymore. The last...
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    Wing Commander/Origin Games for Sale!

    What are they worth? How about memorabilia, like gimme caps that say 'Wing Commander' on them, T-shirts, etc.?
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