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Webmaster Note

The old Betamountain.org (V1.0) is being imported into this new version, formatting of material will be an issue for awhile and I've tagged pages at the bottom accordingly for follow-up. At this time, the Character Guide and Episode Guide are not imported and I'll be working on those.

V1.0 is still available underneath at https://betamountain.org/index.htm and will remain there until I feel like it is time to move on. I'm not sure I intend to bring much of V2.0 into the site (at that time I had passed on the site to others).

If you want to stick around and see what is getting worked on, go here, or check out the Categories list.

Please be patient, BM.org has been gone for a number of years and just recently came home!

39.4% completed (estimate)

   


BM1.0 approximate size: 1000 files


Regards,
Bob

Looking for the series? You can get the whole series on DVD by picking up The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers Volume 1 and Volume 2!


Dec 30.2017

Ken Landgraf on Instagram, Facebook and Ebay

BM1.0 Icon My Computer.gif Reconnected with series storyboard artist Ken Landgraf this month. Ken continues to draw a wide variety of subjects and genres, including some new Galaxy Ranger pieces that are up for bidding on eBay! You can find Ken and his work at the links below.
SocialMedia-Facebook.png Ken's Artist Page
SocialMedia-Ebay.png Ken's listings
SocialMedia-Instagram.jpg Pictures and Art

eBay Auctions

As the auctions are time sensitive, I'll link to these for as long as eBay keeps them visible:
The Galaxy Rangers - Group Picture 1
The Galaxy Rangers - Group Picture 1 - Uncolored
The Galaxy Rangers - Group Picture 2
The Galaxy Rangers - Group Picture 3
As this site roles out, I will post some of Ken's previous Galaxy Ranger artwork. Thank you Ken!


Dec 29.2017 - David Rosler, News Archive Stuff, Crystal Structures


David Rosler

David has a project over at http://www.orbitermovie.com that is looking to crowd source the funding.

240 miles above the surface of the earth, the International Space Station has been sabotaged to further disable all U.S. space operations.

Down below, World War III has just begun.

Be sure to check out the movie trailers that are in 2D and 3D (one of David's many specialties)!


News Archive Stuff

BM1.0 Icon RecycleEmpty.gif I was importing old news posts to the site this morning and realized that I had used character icons for bullet points. I took some time to recreate those to use with the old posts in order to keep the feel of the old site alive.

They throw the formatting off a little, but maybe I'll continue to use them going forward. Here they all are:

BM1.0 Icon RecycleEmpty.gif GV
BM1.0 Icon Normalcursor.gif Tweeker
BM1.0 Icon Goose.gif Goose
BM1.0 QBall Icon.gif QBall
BM1.0 Icon Full.gif Elma
BM1.0 Icon My Computer.gif Badge

Crystal Structures

After 15+ years in the making, AKK posted to the mailing list this past week that her fan-fic Crystal Structures is complete! Congratulations Ann-Kathrin!

Note: AKK is updating her website and as soon as she unveils the site, I'll update all the links accordingly.


Dec 18.2017 - Old vs New

Importing some things from the original GR CD 1 (more on that later), and I came across a stitch that someone else (CGfWiG I assume) did from the episode One Million Emotions.

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Without remembering that it existed, I recently did the same stitch.

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That first one was done with the tried and true vidcap, presumably off of VHS. Pretty amazing how far things have come!

The Series 6 Podcast

Wait... there is something NEW to report about Galaxy Rangers? THERE IS!

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The Podcast

Debuting in June of 2017, the Series 6 Podcast appears with RD_Blade and Jay vowing to review each and every episode of the series!

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube


Brazilian Art Thieves

For the May 26, 2019 episode of the Series 6 Podcast, RD & Jay discuss a bunch of behind the scenes items, including RD's artwork being hijacked and put on Brazilian bootleg Galaxy Rangers DVDs.

In a moment of inspiration, I threw this together for them:


The Series 6 Podcast

Wait... there is something NEW to report about Galaxy Rangers? THERE IS!

Series6Podcast.jpg

The Podcast

Debuting in June of 2017, the Series 6 Podcast appears with RD_Blade and Jay vowing to review each and every episode of the series!

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube


Brazilian Art Thieves

For the May 26, 2019 episode of the Series 6 Podcast, RD & Jay discuss a bunch of behind the scenes items, including RD's artwork being hijacked and put on Brazilian bootleg Galaxy Rangers DVDs.

In a moment of inspiration, I threw this together for them:


Dec 16.2017 - Really Old Content, Ranger-L, Site Navigation

Started making the landing pages for all of the episode and character pages. There's a lot of old content to pull over into this site. To compound things, I got back on Ranger-L and got back in contact with some of the 'ol regulars (I didn't say "old"), which was great. That spawned the import of Fan Fiction ("Fanfic"), something I never got around to doing before. Please note that I'm importing things in a raw fashion and marking for cleanup at another time.

I fixed the upload bug and then started editing the skin css. I haven't figured out where all of the font coloring is held, so for now it'll look like this.


Zach and Zach Jr. at the helm in the episode Phoenix


Dec 14.2017 - Updates, Rebuilds, Contemplation

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I've wanted a site for awhile that had good cross-reference ability and I have some history with MediaWiki. This past week I built a temporary server, moved everything to it, tested out the basic setups, got SSL working via CertBot, cleaned up some very badly handled apache configurations, then rebuilt the original server, migrated everything back, then started installing MediaWiki. I haven't done this for awhile and it is always interesting to see what has changed for install procedures, packages, etc.


My first test article was The Ballad Of Ol' Roy and after that I've been working on migrating the old news posts and figuring out what skin I want to use. Mobile sites weren't an issue back in the day!


I've been looking around The Wayback Machine and noting all the sites that have gone by the wayside. There's a lot of content (series, fanfic, etc) that I am debating on importing into this site. I'll look for some feedback on this and if it happens, I'll memorialize the source.


Dec 3.2017: The Day BetaMountain.Org Came Home

In a completely bizarre occurrence today during an exchange with @Marienro2 on Twitter that had the bm.org url typed out, I clicked the link. I got a DNS not found result.


Flashback around 13 years ago, after an unfortunate series of events that transpired after handing the domain off to another individual, and trust me that losing the domain was nothing compared to the real life events that led to the losing of it, the domain expired and got picked up by a squatter. It sat there in that state for years, presumably until some time this summer and then undiscovered by me until today.


I jumped on it. BetaMountain is home (literally in some ways). If feels good. To be up front, I'm not sure what direction the site will go from here, things (links, scripts, etc) are broken, the place is a mess, but the site is here back under the rightful name!

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I need to post more about this in the future but if you haven't heard yet, there's a Galaxy Ranger's podcast out there and you need to go check it out. Check out series6podcast.com for more information and give it a listen (make sure you check out Episode 9)!

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