Marc Miller, the creator of Traveller and one of the founders of GDW, has announced that more of the GDW Science Fiction RPGs are to be released as PDF compilations via his company FarFuture Enterprises.

Currently, he has released MegaTraveller and 2300AD. Shipping is fast (my copies of both took less than a week to get to the UK) and there is no extra charge of international orders. The PDFs the same quality as those on DriveThruRPG, but you get all of the books for a fraction of the cost. Details can be found here.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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Here is the FFE press release accompanying the announcement:

We are please to announce our latest CD ROM projects from Far Future Enterprises:
 
Ships October 1-
Twilight: 2000 V2.2. the canon for Twilight: 2000-- the original texts of all Twilight: 2000 version 2.2 military role-playing materials published by GDW  Game Designers’ Workshop between 1990 and 1996. Each image and text PDF contains original page images and searchable text. All files are printable in whole or in part.
 
   v2.2 Rule Book                                               
   v2.0 Boxed Set                                               
   Infantry Weapons                                            
   US Vehicle Guide                                            
   Soviet Vehicle Guide v2                                   
   Merc:2000                                                      
   Bangkok                                                         
   NATO Vehicle Guide v2                                 
   Merc Gazeteer                                                
   Nautical and Aviation Handbook                     
   Twilight Nightmares                                         
   Heavy Weapons Handbook                             
   Special Operations                                          
   Castle by the Sea                                             
   Referee's Screen                                              
   Operation Crouching Dragon                           
   Eastern Europe Sourcebook                            
  Rendezvous in Krakow                                         
            Plus: The Official Guide to Twilight: 2000 - an overview of the game system and its components.
            Plus: Challenge Magazine articles on Twilight from Issues 45 to 77 (all the applicable T2k articles for v2.2)
 
Ships November 1-
Classic Traveller. the canon for Classic Traveller-- the original texts of all of the Little Black Books in the ground-breaking and award-winning science-fiction role-playing game. Each image and text PDF contains original page images and searchable text. All files are printable in whole or in part.
 
            The Traveller Book.
            The Traveller Adventure.
            Books 0 through 8.
            Supplements 1 through 13.
            Adventures 0 through 13.
            Double Adventures 1 through 6.
            Games 0 through 6.
            Modules 1 through 5.
            Aliens 1 through 8.
            Special Supplements 1 through 3.
             Plus: The Official Guide to Traveller - an overview of the Classic Traveller game system and its components, and the History of the Imperium - an overview of the background for Classic Traveller.
 
Ships December 1-
Journal of the Traveller’s Aid Society. all 24 issues of The Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society. Game Designers’ Workshop GDW’s award-winning quarterly magazine dedicated to the Traveller science-fiction role-playing game system.  Each image and text PDF contains original page images and searchable text.
            All files are printable in whole or in part.
  
CD ROMS are $35 each. International: There is no extra charge for shipping air letter post internationally.

I've just upgraded the software that the website is built with from RapidWeaver 3.2 to RapidWeaver 3.5 because the newer version offers some advantages to managing the site (permanent links to blog entries, better functionality for editing and improved themes to name a few of the changes).

This has meant that I had to upgrade the 'theme' which provides the common formatting for the pages, which went smoothly as far as I can see. However, I haven't tested each and every bit of format and function, so I'd like to ask you to let me know here (via the comments to this news entry) if anything doesn't work as expected.

The 'BITS Members' section has been removed as I have completed the initial testing. It will return, and members will be contacted with details on how to access it. Our plan is to make the newsletter available through it rather than requiring YahooGroups membership.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)

This is a quick sneak peak of a ship that will be in a new BITS book out later this year. This isn't for Power Projection: Reinforcements, but for a new classic era adventure, 'A Cold, Dark Grave'.

It was modelled by Nick Bradbeer, and shows the ship before any textures or details are added.