Mar 27
Tom Noir Comments: Release Notes for Catware 3.7:
– Reduced shedding by 15%
– Catpeople can now wield glaives, halberds, and Beretta AR70s
– Removed ridiculous names from Author Name Generator
– Tail toggle added to preferences
– Text correction: mages cast ‘fireball’, not ‘hairball’
– Runaway reproduction issue now fixed
Published 1999
March 27th, 2017 at 5:13 pm
The author’s name only seems to have been tagged on as an afterthought. Initially I thought it was ‘Ruby Flames’, but no.
March 27th, 2017 at 6:08 pm
Wizard’s all, ‘Only two more hours until I can clock out and go home…’
March 27th, 2017 at 6:25 pm
I think Ruby Flames is the show cat’s name. Or Alia Shawkat’s name. Or something.
March 27th, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Catware, Inc. seems to have used up its nine lives. The company logo might be GSS worthy. Bait and switch, as Shattered Light seems to lack catpeople.
All things Catware, Inc.
http://www.mobygames.com/company/catware-inc
March 27th, 2017 at 6:36 pm
@fred: Wenceslao Moreno should sue them for stealing his hand’s profile!
March 27th, 2017 at 7:12 pm
Go Fuego yourself
March 27th, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Wait, we’ve seen that loincloth before…
March 27th, 2017 at 8:40 pm
“Based on the sensational CD/ROM…”
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have located the exact point where the 90s peaked.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:13 pm
Oh my goodness, I believe I did think Ruby Flames was the author name.
*Blushes*
March 27th, 2017 at 10:18 pm
@Tom Noir – “knaak, knaak, knaak, …” 🙂 🙂 🙂
March 27th, 2017 at 11:18 pm
@dswbt who wore it better?
March 27th, 2017 at 11:36 pm
“Can you make the cat person’s head about 50% larger? Good, good…… now double it! I want him to look as if he might tip over any moment.”
March 28th, 2017 at 12:02 am
@JP: I don’t know, but…is it horrid of me, that I keep imagining the crossover fan fiction?
March 28th, 2017 at 12:56 am
@dswbt Dick Steel vs Pussy Power in a battle over who gets to wear the velour loincloth to the ball.
March 28th, 2017 at 4:36 am
Judging from Knaak’s wikipedia page, either Ruby Flames was the only book in the series, or someone else wrote the second book.
March 28th, 2017 at 10:43 am
Includes USB stick with the FREE game Snake!
March 28th, 2017 at 1:51 pm
fred’s link above reveals that the Shattered Light game came with a full level editor. And it got me thinking…
Suppose that a vintage 90s CD-ROM computer and VR helmet, one of the real neck-busting jobs, had ended up in the late 1960s. Brothers Jeff and Bob Leighton, mid-level administrators at the real MI6, can get the setup working but not well enough understand what it is or how it works. Rather than take it to their colleagues who could reverse engineer it, the brothers decided to use it for their own entertainment.
There’s a recent hire, Richard Lipschitz, who insists on being known as Richard Blade. Dick is not only a card-carrying narcissist but more than a little slow, and his by-the-book obsession with detail is more than a little grating for the bored brothers Leighton. Jeff bets Bob a pound that he can get Lipschitz to strip naked except for a layer of paint, and Bob eagerly takes him up on the offer.
They create an imaginary branch using the power of Paperwork ™.
They transfer in as much antiquated computer machinery as they can, hiding their time-traveling computer setup in the middle of it all.
They build themselves a world straight out of those pulp novels Lipschitz loves to spend government time reading.
And they let the fun begin…
March 30th, 2017 at 2:43 am
Yup, get here two days late and everything you could think of to say has been said.
Good Show, GSS!
April 3rd, 2017 at 2:54 am
That’s quite a wolflike feline.
August 7th, 2017 at 2:31 am
It looks like there was a trilogy made of these, this being the first. the other two were:
Dark Light, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro;
and
Catseye, by William R. Forstchen and Jaki Demarest.
August 7th, 2017 at 1:28 pm
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