RenoProject

RenoProject

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renoproject.org is a website documenting the history of Lucasfilm's Habitat, Fujitsu WorldsAway and all of their related 1990's & 2000's virtual worlds #VirtualWorlds #WorldsAway #LucasfilmHabitat #Fujitsu #Dreamscape #ClubCaribe #C64 #retro #FMTOWNS

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The original Habitat character creator has been restored. Likely the first instance of its kind in a graphical online setting, you could customize your sex, height, head and color/re-texture your torso and your legs before entering or "hatching" into Habitat. renoproject.org/lost-habitat... #MMO

renoproject.orgLost Habitat character creation tool restoredThere has been a flurry of activity around NeoHabitat recently thanks to the efforts of Steve Salevan, who did a huge amount of work on the initial restoration effort to get Lucasfilm's Habitat back o...
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Lost Lucasfilm's Habitat and Club Caribe development documents have been found. We need your help to secure them. Please check out the article. #virtualworlds #mmo #LucasfilmsHabitat #LucasfilmGames #clubcaribe #C64 #Commodore64

renoproject.orgLost Habitat and Club Caribe development documents found!Back in 2020, I'd been following up leads of names of former Habitat members and Quantum Link staffers to see if they had any memories of the place, or kept any development materials. One name in part...
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My interview with Wendy Sue Noah formerly of Fujitsu/Avaterra who worked on WorldsAway is now available for everyone. We chatted about Silicon Valley in the mid 90's, working at match.com as a startup. Bringing the online dating sphere to WorldsAway and more. renoproject.org/wendy-sue-no...

renoproject.orgWendy Sue Noah InterviewJust in time for the holidays is a lovely interview I conducted recently with Wendy Sue Noah, who was a Business Development Consultant at Fujitsu Software Corporation working on WorldsAway. Wendy lat...
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The interview with David Andrews, former owner of VZones and CEO of Avaterra.com is now available to everyone. It covers topics like virtual worlds in the middle of the dot com boom, Japanese business culture and insight into unique times. renoproject.org/david-andrew... #VirtualWorlds #MMO

renoproject.orgDavid Andrews interview now available to allAs mentioned a couple of weeks ago when we dropped the David Andrews interview, it'd be made free to everyone after the initial early access period. You can read it here right now. If you enjoyed th...
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Just dropped an interview with David Andrews, former VP of the WorldsAway group at Fujitsu, later CEO of Avaterra.com / VZones. Check out the article over at renoproject.org/david-andrew... #WorldsAway #Fujitsu #VirtualWorlds #MMO #VZones #metaverse

renoproject.orgDavid Andrews InterviewIf you ever spent time in WorldsAway or VZones from 1999 through to 2006, you may have heard the name David Andrews. Originally brought in to take over the reins of the WorldsAway Products and Servic...
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Doing a little bit of organizing. Got all of the Lucasfilm's Habitat and Club Caribe footage in one place now, as well as uploaded an hour and a half of never-before-seen Caribe beta footage. Read more about it after the jump. renoproject.org/habitat-and-... #VirtualWorlds #GamePreservation #C64

renoproject.orgHabitat and Caribe footage re-uploadedIf you've ever looked for footage of Habitat or Club Caribe on YouTube, you've almost certainly ran into the following videos recorded by Keith Elkin back in May 1988 for Habitat and Summer 1989 for t...
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I discovered source code for the Club Caribe virtual world server, a modified version of Lucasfilm's Habitat on the C64 which ran on Quantum Link (AOL) back in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I've uploaded it to GitHub and written about it here: renoproject.org/club-caribe-... #VirtualWorlds

renoproject.orgClub Caribe server source code foundWhen Lucasfilm's Habitat was first made open source, an event was held in September 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA. This was a hackathon primarily held to resurrect...
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A scene from the WorldsAway virtual world known as VZConnections. Taken sometime circa late 1999 or early 2000. Avatars gather in a park to play bingo with each other for prizes and ingame currency known as tokens. WA had a plugin API that allowed external developers to create games for the world.

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If anyone knows of any virtual world, game preservation or gaming starter packs that this account could be added to, please DM me or just add me. I'm going to be posting regular content on here moving forward. #starterpacks #retro #virtualworlds #videogamepreservation #archive #gaming

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Hey everyone, I ( @stublad.bsky.social ) created this account for my website, renoproject.org I document the history of a subsection of virtual worlds from the 1980's thru to the 2000's, beginning with Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first ever graphical virtual world (and proto MMO) Check it out!

renoproject.orgReno ProjectEverything about virtual worlds from the 1980's and 1990's, including Lucasfilm's Habitat, WorldsAway and beyond. See where the metaverse began.

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