The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
The End of a Virtual Era
Submitted by StephenRecker on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 11:32pm
In 1996 I was producing CD-ROMs for Apple Computer and got the idea to see how far I could push Quicktime technology. To that end, I produced Virtual Gettyburg, which came out in 2002. It originally ran on Mac System 9 and Windows 95. About five years ago I upgraded it so that it would run on newer versions of Windows as well as Mac OSX and Intel Macs.
Much to my delight it still runs great on Windows machines and Macs through Mac OSX 10.5.8. But, as all good things come to an end, it does not run on later versions on Mac OS X (after 10.5.8) nor will it in the future.
In addition to that, I only have less than one hundred copies of the Virtual Gettysburg book, which I will not be reprinting. So I have been thinking about different scenarios so that I can continue to make the content of VG available for sale, although probably in a different format.
I moved out east about ten years ago to work on Virtual Antietam, but although I have it two-thirds done, the technology has changed so much in the last ten years when VG was state-of-the -art, that I have decided to reprogram Virtual Antietam as an online experience, making a lot of the content available on this site for free in the mean time. I may repurpose VG at the same time.
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Hello. I'm Stephen Recker and welcome to my blog. In it I will be discussing the different projects I am working on related to the American Civil War with a focus on photography related to the battle of Antietam. I am particularly interested in how the battlefield has been interpreted throughout the years. I will be discussing how it was done then and how new technologies can be brought to bear to bring life to those old materials as well as new ones. See the 99 Places Every Antietam Battlefield Guide Should Know.
Sharpsburg Items
Antietam Valley Record
Thursday, September 5, 1895