Friday, June 23, 2000

Scott Miller Interview -- 10:20 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Radiated has posted an interview with 3D Realms' Scott Miller who is currently working on Duke Nukem Forever (aka Daikatana II: Electric Boogaloo). Actually the Radiated folks ask how 3D Realms intends on avoiding Daikatana's pitfalls since Duke Forever has been in production almost as long. Here's his answer:

Where (sic) making a great game, one that sets new standards, looks and feels cutting-edge, and has gameplay that's never been seen before. We also don't have burdensome sidekicks.

I think that could be considered a jab. Thanks Stomped.

EA Q3A Map Pack -- 4:56 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The crezzy folks working on EA's The World Is Not Enough Q3A-based shooter have released a map pack (26.6M) (made in their "spare time") for Quake III Arena. There are 12 DM maps and 1 CTF map. Most of the maps are space maps, but all of them have some unique twists (and some serious physics-defying bounce pads too). My favorite part of this pack is the quad trap on the one level (I'll let you figure out which one). Thanks Blue.

AOL, Time-Warner Merger Vote in -- 1:37 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to Yahoo! News, AOL, Time Warner Shareholders Approve Merger. Well, here it is-the ultimate powerhouse. Time-Warner's cable bandwidth and AOL's content and internet. Fear the future folks :-)

A.T. Hun comments: If the U.S. regulators let this one go through, mark my words: the AOL-TW monolith will become the target of the Department of Justice. That will happen sooner rather than later.

MOO3 Combat Design Doc -- 1:31 pm CST, Update by The Master

Quicksilver has placed a webbized copy of their Ground Combat Design Doc online for perusal. If this doc is any indication of the depth of play planned for Master of Orion 3, we are going to be seeing a truly incredible game released. If it doesn't take 50 years to write...

UT 421 Patch Info -- 10:30 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Uffda! Forgot to post this yesterday (two little kids with the flu will make you forgetful). UnrealTournament.org got word of fixes coming up in a 421 patch for Unreal Tournament (duh). Here are the game engine fixes:

• fixed another mixed skin cheat
• fixed creeping pings problem - especially prevalent with passworded servers
• fixed problems with passwords with spaces
• improved server CPU utilization
• improved prioritization of network traffic for low bandwidth users
• fixed ActorLineCheck() crash again - no really this time
• fixed clearing base on client in netplay - thanks Mongo
• fixed suicide spamming
• Last Man Standing now can have time limit
• fixed spriteballexplosion sounds playing client side
• faster translocation effect in software mode
• fixed collision bug which cropped up in 420 (overlord)

There are also a slew of UnrealEd fixes. The patch could be out as soon as this weekend, but you know how THAT goes. Thanks VoodooExtreme.

History today -- 9:46 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1865: General Stand Watie surrenders Confederate forces in the Indian Territory (today's Oklahoma) at Doaksville.
• 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer."
• 1888: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first black candidate nominated for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
• 1912: Alan Turing laid the groundwork for the field of artificial intelligence. At age twenty-four, Turing suggested a theoretical calculating device that could carry out step-by-step mathematical operations based on a program. The "Turing Machine" became the theoretical model for work on digital computers in the 1940s. In his later work, he argued that computers would one day think like humans. He devised a test to measure this capacity, called the "Turing test."
• 1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
• 1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
• 1940: Adolf Hitler surveys notable sites in the French capital, now German-occupied territory.
• 1947: The Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
• 1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
• 1967: President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.
• 1969: Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief U.S. justice by his predecessor, Earl Warren.
• 1972: President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon's resignation in 1974.)
• 1985: All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 died when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.
• 1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine against polio, died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 80.

Thursday, June 22, 2000

Bleh -- 8:29 am CST, Update by The Master

Okay, I have a question for the drivers in the crowd (I don't drive-so I guess I wouldn't know). Why in the **** can't people get out of the way of emergency vehicles on the friggin highway? My wife was driving me to work today, and here's this cop on the other side with lights on desperately trying to get down the highway and here's a line of 6 or 7 idiots driving in the left-hand lane RIGHT NEXT to cars in the right, so the cop can't pass. And NOBODY got out of his way.

My solution? A REALLY large weapon system in the emergency vehicle. Someone gets in the way, someone gets vaporized. Grrrr...

History today -- 8:13 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
• 1868: Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
• 1870: Congress created the Department of Justice.
• 1911: Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1934: Ferdinand Porsche contracted with the Automobile Manufacturers Association of Germany (RDA) to build three prototype "people’s cars" over a ten-month period. The contract was a direct result of Hitler’s personal request to Porsche, and the result was the Volkswagen.
• 1941: Operation Barbarossa--the German invasion of the U.S.S.R.--began with scores of German divisions storming across the Soviet Union’s 1,800-mile-long border.
• 1944: President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights.
• 1945: The battle for Okinawa officially ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 81-day campaign.
• 1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
• 1970, President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

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