Sunday, March 12, 2000

X-Box Analysis -- 7:39 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Thresh's Firing Squad has gone over the specs of the X-Box, Microsoft's recently-announced gaming console. Everything sounds VERY cool right now, but it's all vaporware for more than a year. If MS can actually pull it off--watch out Sony and Nintendo. Personally, I think that this just shows why Gates has a zillion dollars and the rest of us are eating Burger King. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (/me gets hungry for a Whopper)

Shtuff -- 4:38 pm CST, Update by The Master

I've made some cosmetic updates to the site (broken links-ick) and updated my Jukebox with 20 or so new tunes. Was about time I did some snooping around the 'net for some good midis again.

On other news: Me and A.T. are dominating on the EZ-Net Q3A server (because of bot practice, but what the hey), and my cockatiel Ricky died this evening. Talk about a swinging door. That's the way it goes with pets tho, and especially birds. R.I.P Ricky, you were a good bird.

Quake3 Mission Pack -- 9:50 am CST, Update by The Master

According to Blue's, id Software is working on a Quake 3 Mission Pack at this time, and GameSpy has some screenshots of some Paul Steed models from the pack. Well, this is interesting news. My only question is: What do you do with a mission pack on an MP game?

Update! Okay, the Shugashack is calling it an expansion pack, which makes a HECK of a lot more sense.

A.T. Hun comments: Must . . . have . . . Q3A-related . . . paraphernalia . . .

Saturday, March 11, 2000

Broussard, Part II -- 11:54 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The Shugashack has posted the second part of their interview with George Broussard, head honcho behind Duke Nukem 4 Ever. Some of the questions are profoundly stupid, but there are still some good points to be gotten from this part of the interview.

5.08 Drivers, Part II -- 9:53 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Thresh's Firing Squad has put up their second look at NVIDIA's 5.08 Detonator drivers. They run scads of Quake III Arena benchmarks on a DDR GeForce and a TNT2 Ultra. The Ultra saw some modest performance increases (but 5 fps is 5 fps, no matter how you slice it). The GeForce sees far greater speed-ups. Their conclusion (which is confirmed by an NVIDIA engineer) is that the T&L parts of the driver have been seriously tweaked, leading to these performance increases. NVIDIA is supposed to have "official" versions of these drivers out in a week or so. Until then, if you have any NVIDIA graphics card, it's worth your while to check these drivers out. Thanks Shugashack.

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