Pingu attack! ^
by Paul - Sunday 24 January 1999 @ 07:35
reviews this week. No, I'm not being lazy. Thats all the reviews that I had to do. Pingu is back as is Peter Bisseker who made the excellent pdm1. I'm 1 review off doing 100 hundred reviews. 4 months isn't too bad, averages out as 25 a month. (300 maps a year!! argh...)
I working on a few of things for the site. The first is a proper Top 10. Basically the Top 10 maps reviewed here, probably do a seperate chart for Quake and Quake 2. The other thing I'm working on is an addition to the Archive section. Its a listing by author. You'll be able to click on an author name and get a list of all maps made by that author. Also in the archive clicking on the authors name will also bring up that page as well. Its similiar to whats on Ramshackle. Final thing is my Favourite Map. This will be the map I'm playing the most of at the moment.
Lots of stuff going on. sCary posted a damn cool article on Quake 3 Arena. Its 12 pages long!!!
Odd has released the first in series (172kb) of what will be a set of seriously cool maps. Odd's premise is simple, take the best bits of the original Quake maps and re-create them in seperate maps to create the best 1-on-1 maps you'll ever play. This map takes part of E1M5. You'll instantly recognise it. Its been a while since I played a map which constantly keeps you on edge, having to watch your back all the time. (Its a local copy of the file because I can't find the proper link for it.)
Some Quake 2 news for a change. MPQ regular, Thanatopsis, is working on a Quake 2 map pak with fellow author Killer. They are going to release a few maps to start of with. They'll then re-release these maps again in a pak file with some more new maps. They've released their first map, KTDM2 - Sandstone Crypt, (785kb) which (gulp!) I have to say its an extremely good map. For more info go pop by the KT-imPAKt site.
Sad news, Gen has stopped doing reviews on his site. Hes returned his site to an author site. Good news is hes working on 4 maps at once!!! One of those is GenDM3. Wahoo!
The all new Terrafusion site is being worked on. (Shows like a Scobby Doo show...) Anyway, Peej, Peek, Idoru and co are working their arses off to come up with something special.
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback over the last week. To repeat myself I'd like to know what you think of how this site is run and what you would like to see or not see. So if you have anything to say, email me.
HTML question. Why is it that the following code target="_blank" doesn't work in my browser? (IE4) For all external links I use target="_parent" which works fine. The first piece of code doesn't work though, clicking on a link does naff all. I get this on loads of sites, like Gonz-o-matic for example.
If, like Kable, you're an MP3 junkie, you'll be happy to hear that the peeps behind GameSpy have come up with MP3Spy. This little useful/annoying tool finds MP3 files. Oh joy! Personally I hate MP3's, they clogg up valuable disk space =P. Buy it legally on CD, and don't gimme the its a rare track rubbish. Its rare because its crap! *Cough* Anyway heres what Mark "Bastard" Surfas said about it:
Like GameSpy, MP3Spy is a server browser. Instead of finding the best game servers, though, MP3Spy hunts down Winamp SHOUTcast servers. That means you can stream .MP3 files right to your desktop and listen to music and stuff from all over the net! It also has a built-in chat client, so while you're listening to someone's music you can send requests to the DJ or just hang out and chat with people who share your same musical tastes.
MP3Spy is available from MP3Spy.com. You'll need an MP3 player for it to work, so stop by Winamp.com and download Winamp. (It's their awesome SHOUTcast technology that made this possible!) Then hop on MP3Spy, find some buddies, crank up the volume, and bask in the miracle of music on the net.
Want to start your own SHOUTcast server? we made it easy. Check out the step by step guide at:
http://www.mp3spy.com/server
There are even instructions for using the microphone to do your own talk show and everything: http://www.mp3spy.com/server/mic.shtml
We PHE4R what the citizens of the net will do with this power! :)
Not played much of anything this week. Currently stuck in Zelda. In the belly of some big whale. Very surreal.
I've had Uni presentations to do as well as some programming. Actually I got more work from the company I'm writing software for. Which is good, more cash =).
