Fanstratics

Will it be fantastic?

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I've been following the newsletters since their beginning.. Greg tells lots of great behind the scenes stories about the New World Computer and  HoMM3 days! His plans for Fanstratics to be a spiritual HoMM3 successor sounds cool. Hope it continues to survive the setbacks!

Here's links to all his newsletters, some pics, and some sporadic comments (taken from my posts on other forums)...

The latest newsletter 27 will be of interest to you guys as Greg mentions and links to your Succession Wars mod! The lead designer of HoMM3 knows about you guys!

Quote :

By Tuesday evening, I had put the finishing touches on my revisions to the Heroes3 Adventure Map GUI.  Using H2 art, from screenshots I’d taken, I used Photoshop to create a ‘mock-up’.  It looked very much like the Adventure Map you can currently see in the Succession Wars mod for Heroes3.

Newsletter 1...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter01



Newsletter 2...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter02



Newsletter 3...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter03



Newsletter 4...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter04



Newsletter 5...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter05



Newsletter 6...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter06



Newsletter 7...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter07



Newsletter 8...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter08



Newsletter 9...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter09



Newsletter 10, 11 & 12...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter10

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter11

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter12

Newsletter 13...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter13

Newsletter 14... There's a rather amusing piracy story.
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter14

Newsletter 15... Gotta love the story about "Phil" lol.
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter15

Newsletter 16... Sounds like there's been some setbacks...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter16

Newsletter 17... interesting story about Greg's take on the death of 3DO
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter17

Newsletter 18...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter18

Newsletter 19. Greg reckons Early Access in 2023... hmmmm... righteo.. anyway... there's another 3DO story here where Greg buries Trip and a few other people he clearly didn't think much of lol!
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter19



Newsletter 22...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter20



Newsletter 21...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter21



Newsletter 22... Looks like old man Greg (Mighty Boosh FTW) has got another long story for us about that time he got pizza in 1979... so long in fact this is just part 1 of the story lol.
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter22



Newsletter 23... The 'big' finale to the pizza hut story arrived lol... Man his stories really keep going and going don't they haha.. although he did successfully trigger a lot of nostalgia for me as much like him I remember getting my first 286 computer with no VGA card lol, all the hours I spent tinkering with stuff learning how to edit config sys and autoexec bat to eek out those extra bits of conventional memory some memory hog games like Master of Magic needed lol. Also reminded me of the first time I discovered Might & Magic 3 and then MM4&5 World of Xeen, however by then it was late 90s, so they were less technically amazing but I loved playing them nonetheless.
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter23

Newsletter 24...
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter24



Newsletter 25... no stories this time but apparently the next one is gonna be a 2 parter again lol
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter25



Newsletter 26 & 27. Sounds like Greg is still pretty unwell and not making much progress due to long covid messing with his heart. Got a new story though about his first day at NWC and dealing with "Wario" lol!
https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter26

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter27

Newsletter 28 is here... contains Part 3 of the HoMM3 dev story detailing the fall of Wario lol.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter28

Newsletter 29 is here. Greg talks about how amazing Fallout 1 was and how no one at NWC was interested in it which he found worrying.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter29

Newsletter 30 is here. Greg tells more behind the scenes HoMM3 dev stuff with this one being part 1 of a new story.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter30

Newsletter 31 is here. Greg continues with part 2 of his story about... oh man I don't even know it's about anymore lol. Something about takin a dump in the dark and a good game needs a heavy game box lol! Think he's running a bit low on material.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter31

Newsletter 32 is here. No HoMM3 stories this time as Greg is still unwell. Interestingly he tackles the scam accusation some have thrown his way.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter32

Newsletter 33 is here. Greg tells another story about the joys of working under 3DO management back in the day and what was the beginning of him deciding to leave NWC.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter33

Blake01 wrote:

Newsletter 33 is here. Greg tells another story about the joys of working under 3DO management back in the day and what was the beginning of him deciding to leave NWC.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter33

Just read that.. holy smoke, that sucks, though it feels like my life as well

Newsletter 34 is here. This time Greg tells the story of his first time discovering WinAmp & MP3s and how 3DO being cheap forced NWC to develop their own MP3 decoder for Heroes 3 so they could get the whole thing on one disc.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter34