Take to the stars!
Origin Systems’ sci-fi space sim Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger is set to receive a 30th-anniversary edition, thanks in part to an internal restoration project led by an EA employee who has been digitising the company’s video archive.
The news comes courtesy of a talk called “The Lost Tapes – Preserving the EA Vault and Restoring a Classic”, which took place at Portland Retro Gaming Expo on Saturday, October 10th. This saw EA senior producer Jim Vessella revealing the project, while discussing his wider efforts to preserve roughly 16,000 tapes in EA’s archives. Due to being based in the UK, Time Extension wasn’t in attendance for this event, but thankfully the Video Game History Foundation board member Steve Lin and the library scientist @chorby.org shared some information from the talk, which gives a little more detail about what we can expect based on some of the slides from the panel.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Take to the stars!
Origin Systems’ sci-fi space sim Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger is set to receive a 30th-anniversary edition, thanks in part to an internal restoration project led by an EA employee who has been digitising the company’s video archive.
The news comes courtesy of a talk called “The Lost Tapes – Preserving the EA Vault and Restoring a Classic”, which took place at Portland Retro Gaming Expo on Saturday, October 10th. This saw EA senior producer Jim Vessella revealing the project, while discussing his wider efforts to preserve roughly 16,000 tapes in EA’s archives. Due to being based in the UK, Time Extension wasn’t in attendance for this event, but thankfully the Video Game History Foundation board member Steve Lin and the library scientist @chorby.org shared some information from the talk, which gives a little more detail about what we can expect based on some of the slides from the panel.
Read the full article on timeextension.com