Monday, May 1, 2000

Starlancer Demo Soon(ish)? -- 10:08 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Voodoo Extreme posted a link to Starlancer Vault's Starlancer FAQ that contained this interesting nugget o' info:

When is the demo expected to come out?

The demo for StarLancer is expected to come out in the middle of May. You will be able to fly as a part of the Ronin in events prior to StarLancer just after the outbreak of the war.

Starlancer is the new Digital Anvil (led by Chris Roberts, the founder of the Wing Commander series) space sim. I'd definitely be interested in checking the demo out. I saw the full version in Best Buy yesterday. The box art made it look like an updated version of the original Wing Commander, which would have been enough for me to buy it on general principle if it would have been on sale. Check out the official Starlancer site for more information.

NVIDIA (Mis)Uses GPL'd Code -- 9:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

It seems that someone found a bit of code that NVIDIA had used in their closed-source Linux drivers that was licensed under the General Public License (GPL). The GPL says, among other things, that since GPL'd source code is freely available if you use it in a project, your project's source code must also be freely available. Slashdot reports that someone informed NVIDIA of the problem and, through a polite discussion, the problem was resolved. It's nice to see that things can be "fixed" without resorting to lawsuits.

Take Two purchases GOD -- 9:27 am CST, Update by The Master

How's that for a subject? :-) According to this Press Release, Take Two has aquired Gathering of Developers-which will supposedly continue to operate as a wholly independent subsidiary. Thanks Blue.

Update: Mike Wilson updated his .plan with additional details on this aquisition. Sounds like a good deal at first glace.

History today -- 9:22 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1893: The World's Columbian Exposition was officially opened in Chicago.
• 1931: Empire State Building is dedicated in New York.
• 1941: Orson Welles "Citizen Kane" premieres in New York.
• 1948: North Korea is proclaimed as a state.
• 1960: A U-2 spyplane flown by Francis Gary Powers is shot down near Sverdlovsk in Soviet territory. Powers is captured.
• 1971: Amtrak begins operations.
• 1999: The "Liberty Bell 7", the Mercury space capsule piloted by Gus Grissom is found 300 miles southwest of Cape Canaveral, 38 years after it's loss at sea.

Sunday, April 30, 2000

Linux Driver Project Update -- 8:59 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I dusted my Linux box and installed a fresh copy of Red Hat 6.2 tonight. I attempted to install the XFree86 4.0-0.6 RPMs but kept getting all kinds of dependency warnings. If anyone has some good suggestions on how to install this and which warnings I can safely ignore, please let me know. I'm still pretty new to all of this.

WON Eastern Server is Down -- 7:17 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The Shugashack is reporting that the eastern WON.net server is down, making it impossible for anyone to play Half-Life or any other game that uses WON authorization. There is a temporary work-around described here. They aren't sure what the problem is, nor do they have an estimate on when it will be fixed.

New TFC Coming Soon -- 2:50 pm CST, Update by The Master

An article in PCGamer on a new version of TFC coming soon has been summarized over on PlanetFortress. Here's the scoop:

• Expected by PCGamer (read: not necessarily Valve) to be out in a month.
• Will be called Team Fortress 1.5
• Three new levels: Warpath, Epicenter, and Dustbowl.
• Uses the same netcode as Team Fortress 2 (this is an update for all of halflife-so mods like actionhalflife, counterstrike will have the sleek code too.)
• Contain a new Internet control system dubbed VGUI. (I have no idea what this is)
• "Dustbowl" is a map with a new game mode we've yet to see in TeamFortress Classic. In it, one team must carry their flag into the other teams base within a certain time limit, while the other team defends. -- Sounds a lot like assault with the clock timing each side.
• Valve also announced that a new version of Worldcraft would be released, bringing it up to version 3.3.
• A new Half-Life software developer kit (HL SDK 2.0) will also be released. Both applications will have a slew of new features and options.

History Today -- 1:46 pm CST, Update by The Master

• 1789: George Washington takes office as the first President of the United States.
• 1803: The Louisiana Territory is purchased by the U.S. from France.
• 1812: Louisiana enters the Union as the 18th state.
• 1945: Adolph Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide in the Berlin Bunker.
• 1975: The South Vietnamese Capital, Saigon, falls to NVA forces.

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