Friday, January 19, 2001

Bleh -- 10:41 pm CST, Update by The Master

I just finished playing through American McGee's Alice, and this is a fantastic game. Wonderful graphics, excellent gameplay, engrossing plot. Good stuff. The ending was a bit less than I could wish for, but I still think it was great. Course, the ending of ANY game tops the end of Half Life :-) Heck, solitare's ending is better than that.

New NVIDIA Linux drivers released -- 7:02 pm CST, Update by The Master

There are new version 0.9-6 Linux video drivers available for NVIDIA graphics cards. The readme and FAQ for this version is also available and has more detail on the download.

Updated UT render DLLs -- 7:00 pm CST, Update by The Master

The Unreal Technology Page has a set of new rendering .DLLs available for download-these are supposed to improve framerates through additions of new features, and the porting of the DirectX module to DX8. The OpenGL renderer has also been updated to be in line with the DX version.

New Unreal Fortress released -- 6:58 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new version of the Unreal Fortress mod (Build 390) available for download. New features include:

• New awards implemented
• In order for a sentry to detect a disguised sabo, the sentry must be upgraded and the sabo must be in sight of the armourers motion sensor.
• Default prematch time for public games increased from 10 to 20 seconds (allows more time for people to join at map change)
• Players given ability to climb ladders
• Caltrops no longer hurt team mates
• Bot gameplay drastically improved
• Shotgun Implemented
• Armourer given shotgun
• Spanner alt-fire freezing fixed
• Sniper rifle charge reset and shake without firing fixed
• Knife alt-fire hang fixed
• Smoke and fragments removed from frag grenade (possible cause of server crash)
• Only rangers of the same team can pick up a demolitionist's radio
• If sentry building fails the metal ammo is now returned
• Death during sentry building destroys sentry
• Death during detpack lay removes detpack Sentry removed from player list (possible cause of server crash)
• Dispenser removed from player list (possible cause of server crash)
• Sentry repair reduced to 10% per spanner hit
• Dispenser destroy message fixed
• Amount of metal in ammo packs increased
• Health display of mortar corrected (possible cause of server crash)
• Scoreboard revamped (works in resolutions from 512 to 1280)
• Ladders implemented
• Weather generator added allowing real rain and snow in maps
• Mappers can now restrict classes in their maps
• Slews of bugs fixed
• Map pack updated

Thursday, January 18, 2001

Quake the Movie Trailer -- 4:16 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

If you haven't snagged it yet, download the teaser for Quake The Movie. In case you've forgotten, QtM is a movie made entirely with Quake III Arena. Pretty cool stuff. I can't wait until the full movie is out. Thanks Evil Avatar for the reminder.

Speaking of which, 3D Action Planet posted an interview with Tritin Films, the folks behind the aforementioned movie.

Why Microsoft sucks -- 3:18 pm CST, Update by The Master

For the Visual Basic programmers in the crowd: VB.NOT, a description of what WON'T be happening in the Microsoft.NET version of Visual Basic. I can tell you in two words: gratuitous rewrites. Enjoy.

Jason Newsted leaves Metallica -- 2:41 pm CST, Update by The Master

My shocker news of the day: Jason Newsted leaves Metallica. This like totally sucks :-(

AMD Announces Athlon Extreme OC Processor -- 7:37 am CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: AMD has announced its plans for a new Athlon variant aimed at the overclocking crowd. The first CPUs, rated at 75MHz, can easily be overclocked to 10 times its rated speed, and a 50MHz chip is coming soon. Read all about it here.

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