February 5th: See Richard Garriott at the Austin Forum
Richard Garriott will be presenting a talk on commercial spaceflight at the Austin Forum.
Tagged: university of texas
Video: Origin – New Releases (1990)
Another video from the “Warren Spector Papers” archive at the Unviersity of Texas, this one looking at games Origin Systems released in 1990.
Video: Origin Systems – Works-In-Progress (1994)
A narrated demo reel of Origin Systems games in development in 1994. From Warren Spector’s contribution to the University of Texas at Austin’s archives.
Random Wednesdays
In which I attempt to get back into the typical routine of the site in the aftermath of a very busy Christmas break.
Richard Garriott Addresses Warren Spector’s Class
Warren Spector, teaching a class some years ago, brought in Richard Garriott to talk for nearly three hours about…almost everything.
Ultima Underworld 3’s Storyline
Pix has evidently been sitting on a copy of a story document for Ultima Underworld 3 for a while now, and he posted it online as part of his own celebration of Ultima Underworld’s 20th anniversary!
The Ultima 2 Preservation Study
A report — using Ultima 2 as its example — examining the technical hurdles and other challenges associated with preserving and re-playing (many years later) old computer games.
Post-Party Wrap-Up: The Wing Commander CIC's 13th Birthday Bash
The Wing Commander CIC team posted tons of updates — all of them awesome — yesterday, releasing tons of material related to all the Wing Commander games.
And speaking of Richard Garriott…
Now this is just cool. David Ribeiro sent me an email a few days ago with a link to the listing of what are called The Richard Garriott Papers at the University of Texas...
