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.