Sunday, May 21, 2000

GreenMarine Wasn't Canned -- 3:52 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Mark Rein wrote to Blue to confirm that Brandon "GreenMarine" Reinhart had NOT been fired by Epic as some had foolishly surmised. Here's the whole thing, yanked with extreme prejudice.

There has been some speculation that we fired Brandon. This is completely untrue. We were very happy with Brandon's work. He made a big contribution to the success of Unreal Tournament and laid the majority of the groundwork that got our engine up and running on PlayStation 2 in so little time. At Epic he was part of a 4-man programming team working on the technology side of our PlayStation 2 efforts and I know he longed to be doing more challenging gameplay-specific programming similar to what Steve Polge does at Epic. Brandon was very professional about his departure choosing to leave after the E3 "crunch" and with no unfinished tasks. If he was going to leave he chose the best possible time with the least possible impact to our current projects and for that we're grateful. We'll miss Brandon but we wish him great success at 3D Realms and our already high expectations for Duke Nukem Forever will now be raised even higher!

Q3A Jailbreak Beta 2 Released -- 3:46 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Beta 2 of the Jailbreak mod for Quake III Arena has been released. Well, partially anyway. Some new and revised maps from Sul are available now. You can get them from the Jailbreak files page. Soon more maps will be released, along with some code changes.

You can check out my review of the first beta here. My main gripe with the old beta was map-related more than code-related. Here's to hoping some of the problems were addressed.

History today -- 11:57 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1832: First Democratic National Convention.
• 1840: New Zeland declared a British colony.
• 1881: Clara Barton founds the Red Cross.
• 1924: 14 year old Bobby Franks is murdered in a "thrill-killing" planned and executed by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two University of Chicago students.
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh completes his solo flight of the Atlantic, landing near Paris.
• 1956: The United States explodes the first air-dropped hydrogen bomb over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
• 1968: The nuclear-powered US submarine USS Scorpion was lost with all 99 hands.
• 1980: Ensign Jean Marie Butler becomes the first woman to graduate from a U.S. service academy, accepting her degree and commission from the Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT.
• 1991: former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assasinated during national elections.

Saturday, May 20, 2000

Mozilla Builds -- 2:30 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

MozillaZine has a new feature where they rate the daily builds for Mozilla so you know whether or not to bother downloading them. They also list what new features have been added and what bugs have been squished. I downloaded yesterday's (May 19) Win32 build and it works quite nicely so far--much better than M15. I'm especially happy that they eliminated the bug that gave me fits whenever I tried to post and edit news to The Haus. Click the following links to download the May 19 build: Win32, Linux, Mac (May 18).

MAME to emulate ATAXX -- 1:24 pm CST, Update by The Master

This has GOT to be some of the coolest emulation news I've seen. According to the MAME WIP, the Leland driver has been completed, allowing emulation of Ataxx. Ataxx was one of my favorite games back in the college days. I wonder if the company that rents video games to UWGB would be willing to unload their machine. Heck, I'd find room for the upright if it still works :-)

User Friendly Facelift -- 1:16 pm CST, Update by The Master

Looks like the folks over at User Friendly have given their site a drastic facelift. If you don't read UF, be sure to check it out!

Sony Sues Bleem! Again -- 1:13 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to a CNet article, Sony Sues Bleem, Again. No surprise here, since Sony thinks they're going to lose market share to Bleem. This is quite silly in my opinion, since this only OPENS the market for Playstation games, that would not otherwise be purchased. Cheap people like me won't own a console and a PC if we can help it. I don't know if Sony has much of a shot on this, since most of their similar lawsuit against Connectix has been thrown out already.

History today -- 1:10 pm CST, Update by The Master

• 1506: Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
• 1861: North Carolina votes to secede from the Union. The Capital of the Confederacy is moved from Montgomery, AL, to Richmond, VA.
• 1902: The U.S. ends its occupation of Cuba.
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY, in his aircraft "Spirit of St. Louis" on his historic solo flight to France.
• 1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
• 1939: Regular transatlantic air service begins with a PanAm Airways aircraft, the Yankee Clipper, takes off from Port Washington, NY, bound for Europe.
• 1969: US and Vietnamese forces capture Apbia Mountain, known as "Hamburger Hill" by American forces, in one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam conflict.
• 1995: A two block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House is permanently closed as a security measure.

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