{"id":43120,"date":"2021-04-28T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=43120"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:15:27","slug":"toys-for-my-escape-velocity-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=43120","title":{"rendered":"Toys for my Escape Velocity Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Printed and painted Kestrel and Lightning models on a PowerBook 5,4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had my regularly-scheduled itch to play Escape Velocity<\/a> or one of its successors and\/or clones the other week, and decided to play the real thing this time since I did a lap on Endless Sky<\/a> not too long ago, and NAEV<\/a> still doesn’t quite grab me.

I’m now most of the way through a game of EV (under emulation in Basilisk II), and …impulse bought a cheap 2004 15″ Aluminum PowerBook G4 (a 5,4) off the internet after a crash ate a save file. I have good coverage of Apple 1984-1994 in my collection (in the form of bulky desktops with CRTs), and x86 OS X is pretty easy to run in a VM, but I have a hole in the late PPC era. That machine will hopefully eventually also get its own post as I finish fixing it up, it’s not in perfect condition but it auctioned below prevailing when I was looking, and seems to be acceptable.

While I was looking into the player communities (…because it’s become very hard<\/a> to set up a working install of EV Nova recently, and I can’t find a backup of my registered copy) I discovered that a couple months ago some wonderful person<\/a> (slurked on thingiverse\/quarmus on reddit) made and shared 3D models of the Kestrel and Lightning ships from the original EV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…So the little Mac-user child of the 90s in me promptly headed down to the basement to print a Kestrel and a pair of Lightnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I gave them a quick sand to take the worst print artifacts off and sprayed them down with a couple coats of gray Krylon Fusion, which gave a decent base coat. I needed to do a little (bad) detail painting on the Lightnings, and the acrylics I have around didn’t stick well to the spraypaint, so I dug out my decades-old Testor model enamel set. Eventually they were shaken and stirred enough to get the job done; in another post post, an absurd over-engineered shaker that didn’t really solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EV is still one of my favorite games, though I think Endless Sky’s implementation of the formula is actually significantly better for a modern player without the memories, especially now that Ambrosia is defunct and the hacks around registering Nova seem to not be working. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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