Mac's Lore

Mac's Lore

@macslore.bsky.social

I'm just a guy who liked to hear himself talk so he started a Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@MacsLore Email: macslore.yt@gmail.com https://www.artstation.com/maccrage patreon.com/macslore

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

The word "Protomech" (Battletech) came up so often of late that I had to go look it up. Now that I have, I am scared. And when that happens I go back to my creative comfort: Wing Commander. #scifiart #blender #b3d #wingcommander

"Ok, but I can't guarantee it won't be silly." Someone asked about making a #HeavyGear / #Battletech crossover render and that was my answer to them. #blender #scifiart #mecha

No particularly artistic idea here, I just liked how the 3d-ification of the Southern Republic emblem turned out when it's being lit right. #heavygear #blender

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Re-release of Wing Commander III coming out with video taken from the original tapes courtesy of a restoration project led by Jim Vessella who has been digitizing the EA video archive

War is serious business in the Terra Nova badlands of #HeavyGear I don't really know what tickled the creative muse enough to make this. #scifiart #blender

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We're getting WING COMMANDER FMVs, gang!!! Jim Vessella found over 600 source tapes in the EA archives and have been restoring them

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We talked about this earlier in the week and I don’t know enough about the Amiga to know if this is “competent hobbyist helped by AI” or “dumb guy makes more slop”. But it did get me thinking about Amiga Secret Missions!

Wing Commander: Secret Missions (2026) by rickyderocher for Amiga ECS. An AI assisted conversion of the DOS Secret Missions disk, with bugs fixed and hooks for both disks, which never got an official Amiga release. 🚀 🎁 rickyderocher.itch.io/wing-command... #ai #homebrew #amiga #ecs #retro #game

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (LucasArts) was released 29 years ago! The second and final Star Wars game with FMV sequences left me with some very fond memories.

I've been really getting into HBS' #Battletech lately. Which is strange because I bought it back in 2019 but could never fully get into it. But for whatever reason, it's really tickling the X-Com and Mech centres of my brain.

Every time I head back to do a #HeavyGear video I always end up modifying the models a bit. The Terra Nova video was the first time I ever did modelling at length, so anytime I go back I try to add what I've learned to them since. #scifiart #blender #b3d

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A lot of folks have very thoughtfully forwarded me a trailer for a "Wing Commander Remake". I am sorry to report that this is not genuine; it's a crypto bro who has found Howard Day's open source "Wingleader" assets and is vibe coding them to launder their reputation.

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THE EXTREMELY COOL THING HAPPENED! @alltinker.com has released WCAT 1.0 which... SUPPORTS WING COMMANDER II! For the first time in over three decades, Wing Commander II's speed issues have been fixed and we can play the game the way it was meant to be played. www.wcnews.com/news/2026/09...

wcnews.comBREAKING NEWS: WCAT 1.0 Released with WC2 Support!It's Wing Commander's birthday! 36 years ago today, Origin celebrated the launch of the original Wing Commander with a picnic and the announcement that Chris Roberts had been hired as the company's ne...
Ben Lesnick@banditloaf.wcnews.com

Hey, it’s Wing Commander’s birthday. The original game shipped 36 years ago today. I’ve heard a wild rumor that something extremely cool might happen later… cross your fingers!

It's Fall now, so that makes it #HeavyGear season for the Youtube channel. When did I decide that? Just now actually. #blender #scifiart

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The beta build of my new DOS game: "LETTERGUN - The Run 'N Gun Board Game", written in over 3,000 lines of QBASIC code, is now up for my $4+ Patreon supporters to try out! :D For everyone else, the full game will go up as a free download on my website (with source code) one week from now! ;)