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New stuff ^

by Paul - Sunday 13 June 1999 @ 09:53

Here are a few reviews. I would have had more but I'm busy with the other site for the time being. Wanna take a look? Go here =).

Another site has dropped in here at PQ. Its Wiebo's Quake Stuff which funnily enough is run by Wiebo de Wit. Hes a Quake 2 mapper so if that your thing go pop by and take a look at the 7 or maps hes made.

The qboard has now been upgraded into its second incarnation. Seems more streamlined now and Headshot has done an excellent job on improving it.

ztn is interviewed over at the Quake 3 Centre... sorry Center. Daft american spelling. Color. Whack. Colour. Favor. Crunch. Favour. Zee. ZED! Ick!

This is a little message to ProdigyXL. I did email you but you didn't reply. First off I'm not pissed off with you anymore, I was at the time of the post. When I saw it I was annoyed, what you were saying just seemed very daft and completely over the top. Now though, I'm not. Secondly I will review XL1DM4. You've tried your best to keep me away from the thing so I'm expecting something special when it finally arrives.

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Double review posting ^

by Paul - Friday 11 June 1999 @ 09:49

Heres a couple of reviews. Due to my crapness though, one of the reviews is a review of a map thats already been reviewed, if you see what I mean. The lower grade in the second review should really please the author. We also have our first Your Review by Skythe. Its of a Quake 2 map called Crying Souls.

Now about yesterdays Quake map review. Just to clear things up.
1. The map is real and it is Preacher's first map.
2. The review is intended as a joke! Just read it and look at the daft screen shots.
3. You can't get it anywhere. Its not downloadable at all!!! The download link is to a text file Mr Shambler wrote.
4. PLEASE DON'T PESTER PREACHER FOR IT!

More site movement! Aardappel,.Mr Clean and Ninja are now here at PQ. I also noticed Vondur sneaked in as well. The little monkey kept that quiet. Also The Fat Controller looks like he'll be moving as well. He gives a very good explanation on the qboard as to his situation:
OK, let's come clean here. I WILL move to PQ (nice people to ask) once Swamp is finished and released, and I've got the New Look down.

Now SHUT UP.
Straight to the point =). So I'll get back to updating the links page... Also have you noticed that I've actually updated everyday this week. Ick!

Now since Mr Pingu mentioned Inspection I suppose I should as well. Inspection is indeed similar to Ramshackle in that it focusses on Quake and Quake 2 (and Quake 3 Arena) maps which we think are the best out. Currently the situation stands like this. I'm awaiting a reply from tech support at PQ regarding hosting. The reviewers are almost in place (just need a Quake 2 reviewer). I'm ironing out things in HTML so it works perfectly in Nutscroat, erm... Nutscrape... Netscape.

I have a read of the Dear Mynx column every so often and it just so happened that this week its done by John Romero. Its extremely funny this week and even if some of the emails just have to me made up (I'm sorry but some of them are too stupid to be real) its still worth a look!

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Escher reviews for MPQ! ^

by Paul - Thursday 10 June 1999 @ 09:49

Second Update
Here we have review by Escher. Top marks here to the map author for such an excellent map!

Also Excessus and Renegade have now moved to PlanetQuake. Wrath now has his site sorted. Thats 7 sites moving over to PQ so far this week. Mr Aardappel is also in the process of setting his site up here. Will there be anymore? Yes, but I can't tell you yet =P.

First Update
I have a request. I'm in the process of starting up a new website which is dedicated to creating indepth reviews with a twist for Quake, Quake 2 and eventually Quake 3 Arena. Now I *need* another reviewer for the site. Ideally someone that likes Quake 2. If you're interested please email me so we can discuss things further.

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2 New Interviews are up ^

by Paul - Wednesday 09 June 1999 @ 09:48

Here are two more Featured Author interviews. Thank you to Biggus and Slayer for taking part. Now according to the original schedule I put up this should have been the last lot, but they are not. I have two more which are by Vondur and Bal, which I will put up next week.

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PQ overload ^

by Paul - Tuesday 08 June 1999 @ 09:47

Well some of those sites I mentioned yesterday are now here at PQ. I'm gonna have to update the links page again.... Anyway here are the new peeps at PQ : SleepWalker,.Wrath (not quite up yet) and Tyrann.

Kaiser has just released a new Quake map called The Sweetest Way To Die (221Kb). Very cool, it looks familiar but has some nice twists.

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PQ owns the world ^

by Paul - Monday 07 June 1999 @ 09:46

Just a little news update. In case you didn't visit yesterday there are reviews.

The global domination for PQ is now entering its final stages. Cheshire and Damaul has just moved aboard and the list for others is pretty big as well. Wrath, Tyrann, Renegade (maybe) as well as others.

A quick look on Frib's site revealed Biggus has just released a new Quake map, Rest in Pieces (256Kb).

Some new TNT have been released. Apparently they cause the q3test to crash now, can't say I've had that problem. If you haven't updated to the new v1.88 Detonator drivers then pop here to get them.

Ever wondered what Bruce Lewis the programmer behind the now defunct GLDoom is up to now? No, oh well bloody sod you then. Anyway, he has now opened up his own site which contains some interesting pieces of code. Worth a look if like that sort of thing.

Quote of the day
<Shambler> okay time to go: need p00, sh0wer, b00k, sleep, in that order

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Mixed bag of Quake maps ^

by Paul - Sunday 06 June 1999 @ 09:45

Here are reviews. Its an interesting batch this week ranging from the good. the bad and the plain ugly =).

I was thinking about starting a regular feature called Quake 2 idiot of the week, but for obvious reasons decided against it. I had a really good one lined up as well, but my sensible side kicked in and said not to go ahead with. I think it was when I thought the site might end up on Geocities or Xoom I changed my mind.

Two updates a week leaves me with little news to go on about. John Carmack has stopped updating his .plan file and checking his email for a while because someone mail bombed him. He was probably bombed because of his last .plan update which included this line:
* 250 msec minimum time between landing and jumping again I hate having players bouncing around all the time...
I for one am glad he did this. I absololutely hate those people who hop up and down like raving mad luntics. The only skill it shows is that the must have very limp wrists to keep hitting the space bar so much, if you see what I mean.

I got an email from a nice bloke called Yogi. Since I'm a lazy ass I'll cut and paste part of the email I got from him to best explain things.
We go by the name of Fresh Team and we make deathmatch maps for quake 2 and we try to keep our standards high. <snip> We also have a few good mappers on board ( De Raven, hot cakes ) who both got high marks on your site.
I had a peek and they've got some extremely cool maps up there. So go visit the Fresh Team =).

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New Interviews ^

by Paul - Wednesday 02 June 1999 @ 09:44

As promised here are two new Featured Interviews by Escher and Paradies. Cauterizer has also dropped in with some reviews.

There are times when people astound as to how stupid they are. As regular visitors to the site know, and people I talk in #terrrafusion will know I've been get a trickle of Quake 2 emails in much to my annoyance. Most of them understand as to what is going on after one email, but others do not and the bare face cheek to tell me to remove all references to Quake 2 from the site because we aren't talking in new reviews! Not to mention any names, *cough* Gordon White *cough*, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! HUH? WOULD YOU LIKE TO RUN THE SITE? ITS NOT LIKE I HAVEN'T DESCRIBED THE SITUATION SEVERAL FLIPPING TIMES IN PLENTY OF DETAIL! I MEAN WHAT THE CHUFFING ELSE I AM MEANT TO DO! PIN A NOTICE TO YOUR HEAD WITH A NAILGUN? WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DO THAT!

Anyway, on the page I've added a page which explains the problem... again! (I did have some swearing in that above bit, but as not to cause problems, I changed it).

Some interesting news in the last couple of days. id has been cracking down on those add-on pak files. It was only a matter of time though till they did because the license agreement for the q3test is pretty strict. Also Brian Hook has left id to work elsewhere. Its meant to be a good job and we'll find out what it is later on this week, There has been alot of speculation on the messageboard at the 'Shack as to what it may be.

I tried all my Playstation games with bleem! and got some interesting results. Some games ran extremely fast (almost too fast, even with the limit game speed option on) whilst others ran very very slow. Graphically its a mixed bag, sprites seemed knacked in all games. I looked at the help docs and all the solutions they have don't seem to work =(.

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Boo! ^

by Paul - Saturday 29 May 1999 @ 09:30

No Quake reviews this weekend. I'm taking a little break this weekend if you don't mind =). I've add this page to the site, basically its how I go about reviewing maps. Also, I may have some Quake 2 stuff up soon though. I've changed the news ticker to a different one. Some people have had problems with it and this one seems a little more reliable.

There have certainly been some wacky goings on this weekend. What with XLProdigy closing his site and effectively leaving the mapping scene and Zan spamming the Qboard and making a mess. If you're going to take a peek at the Qboard just be prepared to encounter a shed load of bitchy comments. Looks like everyones in a strop this week. Must be something in the water...

Continuing the weird theme, we have this moron who has covered his computer in mineral oil then used some cooling apparatus to keep his machine at -40 C. So that when he overclocks it doesn't get hot. I've had an unusually large amount of wack emails this week. One was from a guy asking about maps but gave the impression he was trying to hit on me, you're weird!  Then there was the normal 1 per week Quake 2 review request... anyone know Polish?

The PQ peeps have had some interesting things up this week. The first thing is a Doom 2000 article (nabbed this link from Pingu) by Fragmaster which to me looks like a load of old bollocks, but hey what do I know. The second thing is about the changing of the content editor. Reason I looked at it is because the pictures are pretty funny.

Peej has updated with a monster update giving comments on all thats new and interesting.

Ever wondered what Taskmaster (the guy who started MPQ) is upto? Well go read this interview he did for BarrysWorld. Can some enlighten me as to whats happening with BarrysWolrd? The last thing I heard was that they were closing down.

The ever friendly Wrath put this ickle message up on his site, "Paul over at the always friendly MPQ has started multi-reviews." Thank you Wrath, no point in being a grumpy bastard is there =P.

Interesting article on John Carmack and John Romero article on MSNBC.

I forgot to mention I got my bleem! key cd earlier in the week. Was it worth the $40 (US) and 4 weeks of waiting. Erm... at the moment no. The 3D hardware support is abysmal. I have my system setup as it requires. Latest D3D drivers for both my TNT and Voodoo2. The V2 gives a really bad picture, well actually I wouldn't call it a picture, just green and yellow dots. The TNT does look cool but runs extremely slow and the graphics flicker so much its enough to give you a fit. The sound is jerky as well, as are the movies. I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't for the fact I've had to ball up some Windows settings to "try" to get to work. For example, turning off the Read-ahead on the cd drive. Now it runs extremely slow for anything but bleem! I'm hoping with future versions things will improve drastically. I'd ask for a refund but its not worth all the hassle.

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New Featured Author Interview ^

by Paul - Wednesday 26 May 1999 @ 09:29

Heres two new Featured Author Interviews. Thank you to Renegade and Junior for taking part. You may have noticed the news ticker just above this update. It gives details on the latest news here and by clicking on it, it will take you to the actual article mentioned. Tell me what you think of it.

Since everyone else has mentioned it I will to. John Carmack has changed the splash damage for the rockets. Wahoo! Heres the snippet from his .plan file.
* increased rocket damage radius from 120 to 150 units

I was messing around with the Dialectizer and put in the bit on my chat with the wall. See if you can make sense of it =).

Now ah's once agin a-gonna explain sumpin. Deja vu ennyone? ah's *hopin'* this hyar will be th' final time ah have t'do this. I've menshuned this hyar quite a few times an' it is clearly menshuned on th' submit levels page. WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING REVIEW REQUESTS FOR Quake 2 FOR THE TIME BEING. Now t'further explain, this hyar means at th' moment we does not be hankerin' review requests fo' Quake 2 send in, as enny fool kin plainly see. Not in enny shape o' fo'm, dawgone it. Thet said eff'n yo' kin getcher houn'dog t'talk th' requess to us, then thet'd be right fine. Ennyway, th' last bit means eventually we will be acceppin' agin an' ah will put a fuggin' trimenjus notice up in bright neon writin' t'say so. Ok. Shet mah mouth!.. unnerstood, cuss it all t' tarnation... acshully ah bet this hyar wall behind mah computer unnerstan's better than some of yo' varmints, yo' knows whut, I'll ax it...
Ebenezer : Hey wall, kin ah ax yo' a quesshun?
Wall : Sho'nuff thin', fire away.
Ebenezer : Ok, whut does th' phrase "We is not acceppin' review requests fo' Quake 2 fo' th' time bein'" mean t'yo'?
Wall : Wal ah reckon it means thet at th' moment yo' doesn't be hankerin' enny requests in whilst yo' git th' backlog cleared, cuss it all t' tarnation. Once thets done though yo' will be acceppin' them, dawgone it. Thet right?
Ebenezer : Spot on, as enny fool kin plainly see.
Wall : ah also reckon thet eff'n yo' did git enny, yo'd jest bin them, dawgone it.
Ebenezer : Yeap.
See whut yo' varmints haf done t'me, yo've driven me *MAD*. ah's talkin' t'inanimate objecks now... lock me up now... Oh an' one further thin', ah bet yo' type of varmints haf other problems, like wif corntrollin' yer bodily funckshuns. ah recommend yo' read this hyar page sevahal times, it c'd save yo' a whole lot of mess.

-Ebenezer...

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