Man that was good reading... 

Geep: No bad taco; just a bit of incubation. I like it when people reflect on what was, and what may be. 

I promise you, I have no nostalgia for the days when I had to plow through a massive ASCII file to fix a joint gone apeshit. On the other hand, I do hold the highest regard and appreciation for those who really pushed the envelope. I miss many of them - even the ones I verbally pounded on the hardest.

I still play around in this realm as the mood strikes me.

I began this little journey on an AMD Pentium-equivalent (forgot the model), a whopping 256MB of RAM, a and a Rage Pro 128 card, latched in turn onto a heavy-assed 17" (then 25") CRT SVGA monitor. I had just wandered in from the gaming MOD world (Weapons Factory for Quake 2, 3, and the just-released Unreal Tournament), looking for ideas to spruce up the maps and meshes with. I'd toyed with Poser a little, but nothing serious. 

It's been a long, strange trip, no? 

 

So... where we going, campers?