{"id":1019,"date":"2008-07-31T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2008-07-31T01:31:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T06:31:36","slug":"pdf-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/07\/31\/pdf-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF DVD reviews, and something Captain Kirk never would&#8217;ve put up with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/who\/217b-music-of-the-spheres.jpg\" alt=\"Music of the Spheres\" class=alignright \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.review-o-matic.com\/movies\/index.php?file=pdf\">A glowing review of the PDF DVD<\/a> over at Flack&#8217;s site &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s just because I slaved over the thing for so long, but I think he liked it better than I did at any point.  \ud83d\ude06   There&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitpress.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=116650&#038;page=2\">some recent activity in the DP forum thread<\/a> too.  As Quark once said, buy early and buy often!  \ud83d\ude1b  I&#8217;ve burned a few new copies that I just realized put this thing into its <em>third<\/em> print run.  I&#8217;m still trying to see if I can get my act together and at least send a few for someone to have on hand at OVGE, but things have backed off enough that we&#8217;re in &#8220;burn about 5 at a time, and don&#8217;t burn any more until those sell&#8221; territory, so I&#8217;m not sure if I can work a 20-disc run into the budget in time for the 9th.  A lot of these DVD orders are winding up paying for baby chow (well, and daddy chow too &#8211; or, in today&#8217;s case, a new sack-o&#8217;-dog-food) so I&#8217;m not throwing the money that comes in at burning a huge number of &#8217;em in advance at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I finally got the Enterprise plaque hung on the door to my game room again, with an addition that would&#8217;ve made James T. Kirk&#8217;s head explode.  I thought it was kinda funny myself &#8211; the other sign was a gag gift from someone and here I go finding a use for it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-08\/gamrum1.jpg\" alt=\"There's a child.  On my bridge.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/wishlist\/o2newmockup2-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Martian Threat\" class=alignright \/>One last note: I&#8217;m apparently never <em>completely<\/em> out of the gaming scene, because I just discovered that <strong>an upcoming repro release of the finished-but-never-released Odyssey2\/Videopac game <em>Martian Threat<\/em><\/strong> will utilize some artwork I cobbled together just for fun a few <em>years<\/em> ago.  It will debut next month at Eurocon and will get a general (but limited &#8211; 100 or so) release afterward, with both PAL and NTSC copies available.  The &#8220;frame&#8221; seen around the artwork here will probably be different, since it will almost certainly be reworked into a more traditional Videopac-style package, but that&#8217;s a good thing &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of fine detail that would&#8217;ve been knocked out by that frame, including the work I did to make the &#8220;cockpit&#8221; look slimy, organic and alien.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: I&#8217;ve never actually played <em>Martian Threat<\/em> before (what with it being a rare unreleased game that I don&#8217;t own and all), so I have no idea if the artwork has <em>jack<\/em> to do with what really happens in the game.  \ud83d\ude06   You can expect a review in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.media\/phosphor\/\">PDF<\/a> (the site, not the DVD) late this year after I <em>have<\/em> gotten to play it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glowing review of the PDF DVD over at Flack&#8217;s site &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s just because I slaved over the thing for so long, but I think he liked it better than I did at any point. \ud83d\ude06 There&#8217;s also some recent activity in the DP forum thread too. As Quark once said, buy early and buy often! \ud83d\ude1b I&#8217;ve burned a few new copies that I just realized put this thing into its third print run. I&#8217;m still trying to see if I can get my act together and at least send a few for someone to have on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-hizzouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}