Monday, June 21, 2004

Sweeney Interview -- 9:15 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Beyond3D posted an interview with Epic's Tim Sweeney about the Unreal Engine 3, which is still a couple of years in the future. Just a warning: reading Sweeney interviews is like reading an interview with id's John Carmack. Your hair will get about three new parts, depending on how much of the programming/graphics lingo you understand. Still, it's an interesting look at what's in store for Unreal Tournament 2008*. Thanks Beyond Unreal.

* No, nothing has been announced. You may calm down now.

First Private Spaceflight Completed -- 1:20 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

SpaceShipOne, funded by Paul Allen, completed a trip into space and back again today. They have until January 1 to get the craft prepared for an attempt at the Ansari X Prize and the $10 million that comes with it. I've always wanted to go into space. Maybe my dream might just be a reality in my lifetime.

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Happy Father's Day! -- 9:34 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A big happy Father's day goes out to all you dads out there, especially J.t., The Master, and J!

New Skins/Models in UT2K4 Bonus Pack? -- 6:12 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The System/XPlayers.int file in the new Unreal Tournament 2004 patch gives some hints as to new models/skins in the forthcoming Epic Bonus Pack. They include a Necris, Metal Guard, and Cybernetic Skaarj. Check the end of that file for the details. No word on when the pack will be released. I know a lot of folks will just be goofy over the Necris. I'll probably check the CyberSkaarj.

IE Development to Restart? -- 5:08 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

It appears that MS is finally getting off their rear ends of restarting development of Internet Explorer. It's about freakin' time! The things I want are what most webmasters want: PNG alpha transparency support and complete (and proper!) CSS1-3 support. I'd love to remove the hacks I have on this site and others to get them to display properly in IE. Maybe Mozilla is having an impact after all? We can only hope! Thanks Slashdot.

Mac UT2K4 3236 Patch -- 4:58 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ryan "icculus" Gordon is keeping himself busy today! Now there's also a 3236 patch for Mac users of Unreal Tournament 2004. For some reason, MacSoft seems in no particular hurry to OK these things. At any rate, Mac users can now enjoy all the creamy goodness of the patch.

Linux UT2K4 3236.1 Patch -- 11:38 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ryan "icculus" Gordon released a 3236.1 patch for the Linux version of Unreal Tournament 2004. This fixes the bug introduced in 3236 that caused map load times to skyrocket. With 3236 BR-Slaughterhouse took almost five minutes to load with no bots. With 3236.1 it's back down to 37 seconds. Much better. If you play UT2K4 in Linux or run a dedicated server in Linux, you want this patch.

Update! Now there's also a mirror at Beyond Unreal.

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