Raiders Reworked and Ready To Fly

I'm currently working on retexturing my Vampire model and when completed I will fix up the Excal some more. I retextured my Excalibur model last year but I left my Vampire looking the same as it does in Prophecy. This is not to my liking, since I wish to separate as much as possible from the existing WC4/P look and generate a unique Wing Commander experience. Visually, I will be accomplishing this through darker, more monotone colour choices. The Vampire is no longer blue, but a dull grey (like modern American aircraft) tone, with contemporary-styled markings. I will later be adding similar markings to my Excalibur model, and my Albatross (my version of the Pelican) model.

More Academy and New mIRC

For people who are too impatient to wait for us to put Academy episodes on our FTP, you can now get all episodes from a file server on our own IRC server. Just join #Academy and type "GetWCA" to get started. For people who haven't used a file server before, here is a nice how-to. While waiting for your download, you can always kill time in #Wingnut.

In other news, Khaled has recently released mIRC 6.11. This new version includes 64 additions and fixes. mIRC is the IRC client of choice for most people, and Chris and myself have recently registered our copies. It's worth every cent for a program which we've used daily since 1997 or earlier.

Update: mIRC 6.12 has just been released. Apparently it is a release to fix a vulnerability which exists in version 6.0 and later.