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.
