Sunday, June 4, 2000

New Q3F Beta -- 11:04 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new beta version 1d of Q3F over on the Q3F homepage. For details on what's new-check here.

Deus Ex has gone RC 1! -- 7:17 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to PlanetUnreal, Release Candidate 1 of Deus Ex has been released to testing at Eidos. This is VERY good news! I'm looking forward to this game.

Does anyone else find it ironic that the last game started by Ion Storm is going to be the third one released?

History today -- 11:00 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1939: The SS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast.
• 1940: Allied forces completed the military evacuation from Dunkirk, France. Winston Churchill makes his "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech to the House of Commons.
• 1942: The Battle of Midway began during WW II.
• 1944: U.S. 5th Army began liberating Rome.
• 1954: French and Vietnamese officials initialed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.
• 1986: Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty to spying for Israel. (He is serving a life prison term.)
• 1989: Possibly thousands of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square.
• 1998: A federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Saturday, June 3, 2000

Steed Speaks -- 2:15 pm CST, Update by The Master

Redwood has posted a small message from Paul Steed over on Stomped-basically he's not commenting on the actual firing yet, but is grateful for the continued support.

Playing some SIN -- 11:14 am CST, Update by The Master

After much consideration over my SP game collection that I haven't had time to play yet-I'm giving SIN another chance. After downloading 30mb of patches yesterday, I installed this bad boy and took it for a spin (at 12:30am, no less). I'm having a LOT of fun so far. The original SIN release was just awful, with instabilities and crashes all over the place. Patched to 1.06, this game is a riot. If it's on sale, grab it cheap and try it out-I don't think you'll be disappointed.

New Winamp 2.63 -- 11:02 am CST, Update by The Master

The folks at Winamp have released version 2.63 of Winamp-which looks to be a major bug-fix release, and re-adds the recording to WMA format-which is a nice touch.

Developers on DOOM, Round 2 -- 10:59 am CST, Update by The Master

Stomped has put up a second edition of their Developers on DOOM interview page. Check it out.

History today -- 10:57 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1621: The Dutch West India Co. received a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New York.
• 1808: Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Christian County, Ky.
• 1888: The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
• 1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France.
• 1948: The 200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. (There's one for you J!)
• 1965: The first American space walk was taken by astronaut Edward White, during the flight of Gemini IV.
• 1981: Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
• 1989: China's crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents protesting in Tiananmen Square began. In addition, Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.

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