MPQInput... ^
by Paul - Thursday 15 April 1999 @ 09:11
Good morning, 2am infact. I've not disappeared, I've just been very busy working and stuff. Now I mentioned a while ago a program I was working on, well if you go here you can see some screen shots of it. It also proves that I am actually working on some reviews. The maps shown are the ones which will be in the next update, which should be Saturday, hopefully! Apologies to all authors who submitted maps.
In my little break a fair bit seems to have happened. Ztn has moved from Terrafusion to PlanetQuake. Unsure as to why but he has. Ramshackle is now updated daily and if you visit there you'll probably find no need to read the rest of my update =). Headshot seems to have got out the hammer and nails and redone his site. Very smooth and all you Netscape users beware!
Yesterdays POTD on PQ is pretty funny. Must have been a bit of a ball ache creating the picture. A previous POTD was Gensurf which looks like a very interesting program. You can make curvy surfaces which look, to an extent, realistic. If only they'd make a version for Quake!
Also spotted a new map editor called Tread. Everything works well until I try to make something or import a map file. The program then falls over.
Theres an article on the old days of Quake which is well worth a read. Its a long article and I would have liked a zipped version of it but then thats just me.
A site that was mentioned on Terrafusion a while ago was the Mappers Monastery. Interesting site. There are reviews for what seems like the majority of Quake engined games out there. Looks like they've got their work cut out in keeping up with everything!
QuArK is now up to version 5.9. I had a little hand in that what with finding some bugs in the beta of it.
The Half-Life TeamFortress Classic patch was released not so long back. The amount of problems I had downloading it was unbelievable! I tried to download it on the day it was released and to no avail. I tried every link Planet Half-Life had and no luck. I finally got the patch 4 days later on the Sunday. Was it worth the 21Mb download? Well, yes it was... from what I've played it was a real blast. Also since they've released the SDK as well we'll hopefully start to see some bots.
Peej is on the fourth version of Strafin6 which I'm looking forward to. Also of note is that he's had a little Q&A with id software's Paul Jaquays. Peej asked some good questions and what I found funny was that it was on stuff that has not been asked before.
Gonzo has updated with some really cool pictures of a map hes working on. I hope he finishes it!
F^&£$!G network!!! I got hold of the lovely 3com OfficeConnect Network kit. Installing the cards in the 3 machines and connecting them to the hub was easy, but the real problem seems to be Windows 98 inability to recognise other machines. The cards are set up just fine and hub seems to know the cards are there. When Windows boots the little traffic lights on the hub flash but when Windows loads nothing happens. Dead. The Network Neighbour seems to knackered as well. I'm really annoyed and would like suggestions on what to do. Destroying the equipment is not an option =).
