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DC-Con Registration
The registration for DC-Con 97, is underway on the DC-Con page. DC-Con will take place January 16-18 in the Washington DC area, and there is room for 500 attendees, 450 with computers.

Jedi Knight: First Level Editor, New Patch Launcher

• ForceBuilder 1.0 Preview Release 1 Build 631 (790 KB) by Mattias Welander, is the first level editor for Jedi Knight, has been released on the ForceBuilder homepage. More information on the program is readily available in The Official ForceBuilder FAQ. Thanks Spart (Jedi Nights).
• Version 1.2.0.7 of the Jedi Knight Patch launcher (225 KB) has been released, replacing the version from the other day that inadvertently included some debugging code. Thanks JediKnight.Net.

Linux QW Server Browser
There is a new program for Linux users to find QuakeWorld servers called LQWSpy, which, as far as I know has no affiliation with QuakeSpy (GameSpy). More information, and the download can be found on the official LQWSpy homepage.

Voodoo 2 FAQ
There is now a Voodoo 2 FAQ being maintained on Operation 3Dfx (though they omit the most frequently asked: "when can I get one?"). Thanks Anaxagoras.

Java TEN
According to this article in the AVault, TEN has announced version 2.0 of their interface which will be Java based. Thanks Hanif.

Interview
Cal Jones, Reviews Editor at PC Gaming World, and winner of Siren's Sexiest female player poll is interviewed on Focus on Quake.

Competition
AVault is giving away a whole boatload of stuff in their 12 days of Christmas giveaway. Thanks Hanif.

Reviews

• Part VII of 3D The Hype The Hope The Reality has been posted on PCME comparing three new video card offerings, Canopus' RIVA 128-based Total3D128V, the 3Dfx Rush-based Flash AT 3D Rush, and Diamond's Rendition v2100-based Stealth II. Thanks Prophet.
• Similarly, Diamonds are Forever compares two Diamond Multimedia cards, the Viper and the Monster 3D. Thanks Maelstrom.
• Inside 3D has a review of Deathnmatch eXtras.

.plans

• id Software's Barrett "Bear" Alexander made a .plan update, as did Disruptor announcing id's DS3 is partially online, and that as the routes settle in, pings to id's servers should considerably improve. Disruptor details that Satan has replaced Inferno (the Satanic reverences that have been removed from the games apparently finding their way into the network), and provides new addresses for servers currently running at id:

Death32      192.246.40.37:27000
Deathmatch32 192.246.40.37:27002 (DM2 through DM6)
Episodes32    192.246.40.37:27003 (The episode levels)

• Brian Hook posted more of his worklog, as did John Cash (who has taken possession of his M3).
• George Broussard updated his .plan on the 3Dfx Shadow Warrior patch: "...I think we are finally done..." detailing where the project has been lately.
• Mike Werckle (Chaos), made another .plan update, following up on his recent review follow-ups to point out that while he was being honest about his own criticisms of his own company, he did not want to give the mistaken impression that this meant he was down on Raven or Hexen II. The following is from an email that Chaos sent along that summarizes what happened:

I think some people got the wrong idea about my finger from the two previous days. I wasn't clear enough in expressing my thoughts. I took for granted that people knew how dedicated I am to Raven and how great I thought Hexen2 was. My .plan made it seem like there is dissention at Raven, when this just isn't the case. I also made it sound like I was unhappy with Hexen2 and with the people I work with at Raven. This is also, most emphatically, not the  case! I take full responsibility for any misunderstandings there might have been.

For the record, I love working at Raven, and we did a fantastic job with Hexen2. I just thought that by talking about our shortcomings, we could learn, and perhaps grow as a developer.

Departments

• Lan Parties: Those interested in attending Fragstock 97, the UK's largest LAN party, are urged to contact kelbv@shootnsurf.co.uk ASAP with your registration info, as there just a few spots left.
• Want Ads: Hot damn people are actually snagging paying jobs in gaming through this department! That's pretty cool, huh?

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There's a look at the concept of the force-feedback mouse in this bootNET blurb. Thanks [DK]Assman ... There's a game project underway called BlackOps that currently is using the Quake engine, with plans to segue to Microsoft & Monolith's DirectEngine ... MacQuake Universe is open for business: the site's purpose clearly enough stated in its name ... Happy Birthday to, um, me (please, no need to send email: though money, etc., are always appreciated) ...

Passed QuakeCast
Oops, meant to post this earlier. In case you were wondering, there's some sort of posh party at the Pseudo studios tonight, causing QuakeCast to be canceled.

CD-Tron
There's an article called CD-TRON on ZDNet that takes a look at three dozen 3D games from the recent past or near future. The 3D Shooter category includes Quake II, Daikatana, Hexen II, and Half-Life, as well as games that skirt the genre like MDK and Postal, though omitting Sin, Duke Forever, Jedi Knight, Prey, and Unreal. Thanks Frans P. de Vries (3D Action Gamers').

Jedi Knight Strategy Guides
There is a helpful Jedi Knight strategy guide on PC Games covering both single player and deathmatch. Thanks Prophet. There is also a JK Strategy Guide on GameSpot that is even more comprehensive, giving a walkthough for each level including all the secrets.

3D Card Roundup
PC Magazine Online has posted a look at 32 affordable 3D cards. Thanks CoDeGoD.

Doom Movie
The long-rumored Doom movie is not dead according to Ain't It Cool News who are reporting that Tri-Star has just acquired the Doom film rights. Thanks loonyboi.

TeamFortress Sniper Doohicky
Buzzkill's Quake Page, home of Quake for the Microsoft Intellimouse (the one with the wheel doohicky), now has perhaps the ultimate application of the Intellimouse: a config for TeamFortress Snipers to allow variable zooming with the doohicky.

Requiem Servers
The Server page on the Requiem page has been updated with a bunch of Requiem servers.

Interview
There is an interview with Patrick "Void" Cupka, ex-Void webmaster, and current PlanetQuake news dude on Profile.

.plans

• John Cash updated his .plan with his updated worklog and a deep thought.
• Brian Hook posted his opinion piece on opinions, quoting the Onion quoting the DEA.
• Crack dot Com's Carly Staehlin-Taylor updated her .plan revealing that American McGee has had her working on sounds for Quake II. Congrats to her on her imminent degree as well.
• Jeff "Mad Samoan" Wand updated his .plan putting out the call for 2D/Photoshop artists "...really good with medieval themes...".
• Embrionic Pete updated his .plan with word on the first Malice Clan, as well as the IP's of several MaliceWorld servers.
• In an interesting twist, Mike "Chaos" Werckle updated his .plan with criticism of a recent review of Hexen II by PC Games' Grumpy Gamer (following up his .plan yesterday on the same topic). Rather than by saying the game is above reproach, he proceeds to list some of his own criticisms.

Competitions

• Battle of the Atlantic is an attempt to organize a US versus UK QuakeWorld Capture the Flag competition. Latest word there is they're entertaining the idea of using the newly released All-Star CTF for the competition.
• Congrats to Unforgiven, winners of the high-ping division of the ClanRing;'s T3 tournament. There are now demos of the high-ping finals up on the T3 Website.
• Adriano 'Escher' Lorenzini has won the Impulse 97 map contest with his tactical map The Messy Base, as well as second place with Ultra Violence. The third place map was Creep 2 by Nihil. All three will be used in Impulse 97, participants can find them here.

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It is with sadness that I report that crash's Single Player Quake has been updated with the news that crash will no longer have time to update his site. I know I'm not alone in thanking him for all his effort running one of the best level review sites around. Thanks Tolwyn ... On the SPQ scene, Level Island has opened up. planning on being a level review site in its own right (you can send your levels for review: he has none posted yet) ... You can vote for your choice for 1997 game of the year at the Games Domain Review. Thanks Prophet ... PC Magazine has posted their Technical Excellence: Components award winner for 1997: Intel's MMX Technology. As of now there are 18 reader responses at the bottom that are all negative. Thanks Scott Wasson ...

Half-Life Playable Demo
There is an update on Sierra's Half-Life page following up their recent announcement that Half-Life's expected release date is currently mid-April with word that we can expect the playable demo some 30-45 days before that:

As previously announced, Half-Life's release date was recently bumped into the first quarter. Expect Half-Life to hit store shelves sometime in April. A downloadable playable demo will be available approximately 30-45 days prior to game release.

Levelord
Durn I keep forgetting to mention the baby picture of Levelord serenely standing in a pasture in his Profile on Siren's page. Also, a couple of readers questioned the seriousness of my report that Richelieu du Leveliere Fantastique had turned 90 on the occasion of his recent birthday. Of course I was kidding, he's actually only 75.

VRGames
A press release has been issued announcing the opening of VRGN, or Virtual Reality Games Network, dedicated to providing free gaming on their impressive hardware (and it really is impressive, I got to see it at The FRAG). They are already running four computers with up to 36 multi-player Netserver games with the potential to serve 1152 players simultaneously. Here's an excerpt from the release:

VRGN, or Virtual Reality Games Network, or http://www.vrgames.net is the totally FREE broadband Internet gaming site and it is up and online and ready for play.

VRGN is the first completely dedicated, full-pipe, T3 bandwidth, NO USER ACCOUNTS, non-ISP, in your face Internet multi-player game server site on the Internet.

If it ain't games, it ain't on VRGN!

....and if you can't believe me when we say we have the power to run this many servers, take a look at this........
http://209.39.134.2/servers/bigbox.html

HexMaker
The HexMaker Site is now on line, showcasing the upcoming Hexen II level editor from Virtus, creators of the Deathmatchmaker Quake level editor.

Jedi Knight Patch Launcher, Native PowerVR Support
Couple of Jedi Knight goodies:

• Michael B. Klein has created a program called Jedi Knight Patch Commander (229k) that greatly simplifies the process of running patches in JK. Thanks JediKnight.Net.
• OGR has reported that a PowerVR native version of Jedi Knight is in the works. Thanks Spart (Jedi Nights).
  

H3D Eyewear
Looks like the cool H3D stereo glasses that have been demonstrated at the last couple of LAN events (QuakeCon, The FRAG) are going to be available soon. The H3D website has been updated, and there's a blurb in Next-Generation Online (thanks Hanif) detailing H3D's newly-inked distribution deal with Electronic Arts.

DemTool
The Quake Done Quick team have released DemTool (30 KB), on this page (thanks Hanif). DemTool, one of the utilities developed to help them with their remarkable project, is described as:

"...little feature-packed utility by Stefan Schwoon that handles most of the processing and tidying jobs we need to do to our demos in the course of a movie production (apart from the refilming, which is handled by ReMaic.)"

New Pure3D Drivers
Version 1.20.02 of the Pure3D Windows drivers (1.5 MB) have been released on the Canopus Pure 3D Support page. The new version adds support for Glide 2.43. Thanks Ken.

Competitions

• TeamGameSpy is holding a sounds contest with over $300.00 in cash prizes.
• The results of the map contest at WolfeN's LaiR have been posted.

Interview
There is an interview with Monolith's Craig Hubbard at Revolt, the Riot Information Center.

.plans

• Ritual's new level designer Charlie Wiederhold made his first .plan update talking about his background.
• Raven's Eric Biessman mentions he's interested in seeing user-designed Hexen II levels in his .plan update.
• Jack "Any 3D Port in a Storm" Mathews updated his .plan observing that Voodoo 2 is one of this hits of Comdex, a sentiment echoed by this Next Generation article (there is another Voodoo 2 story there, as Next-Gen describes plans for a 3D Blaster Voodoo 2). Thanks Hanif. Jack also provides a parable that illustrates why you should have data backed up, especially when it's on a brand-new hard drive.
• RBR's Landon Montgomery's .plan   file talks about games he's been fooling around with, and includes a rave mini-review of Malice for Quake. There is also a rtave review of Malice on Frag.com.
• id's Brian hook made a pair of updates, a small rant follow-up, and a worklog. He was going to post an opinion piece about opinion pieces, but time constraints reared their ugly heads (if constraints have heads, I'm sure they're ugly).
• Zoid made a .plan update confessing to a little booboo in Linux Q2Test:

Please note that I accidently left a little debugging code in Linux Q2Test. When you fire it up and it says, "waiting...", just hit [ENTER].

If you are using GL on a 3DFX, make sure to kill the gpm process or you won't have mouse support (gpm doesn't give it up when the 3DFX goes into operation).

Overall, looks like a good release. Anyone running it with 2.1 Linux Kernels? If so, does sound work? Drop me a note.

Departments

• Lan Parties: The current article by Liger in TechWeb is a lengthy discussion of the LAN Party phenomenon, with a lot of discussion of the PQ beatdowns. New on the schedule is Quakefest 3 in Raleigh, NC. Also, Fragapalooza '98 has been announced, a sequel to this years huge Canadian LAN party. The date is TBD, but there's a FP98 Poll up to help get feedback on how this should go. Finally, the new Perry, Ohio LAN DeathFest has been announced, which will also serve as a final beta test of CTF+2.0 and they will also be testing the new CTF+3.0 maps.
• MailBag: Two more reactions to the EULA issue, one on each side.

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The NZ Quake Rally Site is now open for business ... The QuakeEasel is a showcase for R.Patel's artwork. He's willing to to free logos for clans/quakepages/quakeplayers ... The results of the latest international march between the UK and Sweden can be found on the Swedish National Quake Team News, though the UK's crushing can apparently be partially attributed to server problems   ... The Dank and Scud newspage has a little graphic to commeorate Michael's completion of, um, Riven? Huh? Blue pages, what? ... The EnterMedia network has announced a merger with the QuestGate network, with QuestGate sites becoming EnterMedia affiliates ... On the subject of networks, I've received a couple of questions about the implications of my new IGN affiliation. The answer is that this will have no effect on the content of this site, but it has brought the dreaded advertisement in a frame, which has generated some negative comments. I understand the sentiment, as the goal here has always been to present as much information on your browser as possible. The frame is the only way to work this for the next month or so (the good news is that this should eliminate those nasty script errors), but as other options become available, this will be re-examined. I know this will still put some people off, and all I can do is apologize for that, and thank everyone, as always, for their tremendous support ...

ION Freebies
Word on ION's Daily Informant is that ION Storm is giving away free shit (their word) for participants in their latest survey. Up for grabs is a lifetime supply of ION Storm games. Thanks Zep (Eye on ION).

New All-Star CTF
Version 0.91 of All-Star CTF has been released on the All-Star CTF page. The new release, in addition to squashing a few bugs, also adds four new levels to the collection, including the release of the Xenocide Flag Academy map by  Jim Molinets of Rogue Entertainment.

IGN
Blue's News is now part of the Imagine Games Network. I'd like to thank them for welcoming me aboard, in addition to thanking OGR for their hard work.

MaliceWorld
Malice for QuakeWorld has arrived in the form of a mqwprogs.zip (89 KB) and a skin (30 KB). Here's the word from Embrionic Pete:

Here's the official MaliceWold progs version 1.00. Server Admins... just drop this file in your \quake\malice directory..

Then run:
    \quake\qwsv +gamedir malice

We are still tweeking the installer. All it does is allow you to use the Malice palette with QuakeWorld. This will be resolved in the next day or two.  In the meantime, search for those MaliceWorld servers and jump on =)

The first official server is at:

    208.129.23.5:27500

The pcx must go in your quake\malice\skins directory.

If you're running a server (or have a question) contact us at servers@qa.com

New QuakeFinder
Version 1.1 of QuakeFinder, the Internet Quake server finder for the Macintosh has been released on Scott's MacQuake Utilities. The new features are listed in this release. Here's the MacBinary (350 KB) and the BinHex (475 KB).

Interview
New Ritual level designer Charlie Wiederhold is interviewed in Words Like Violence on UnrealNation. Thanks Maarten Goldstein (The Ultimate SiN).

DC-Con The date has been finalized for DC-Con 4, which will be at University College at the University of Maryland in College Park, on January 16-18, 1998. There is space for 500 people and registration begins this Friday, November 21 at the DC-Con webpage.

QWF Year in Review
You can vote for your choices for things like the year's best levels, TC's, designers, and news sites (hey!), in the Quake Women's Forum's year-in-review. Votes must be cast by December 31.

PGL in Print
The PGL is certainly generating a lot of interest from the mainstream press, here's a Sacramento Bee article on Thresh and the PGL. Thanks Lance Webster. There is also apparently a profile of Thresh and the PGL in the new print edition of Forbes. Thanks CiDcO.

Daikatana FAQ
Missed an update to the Daikatana FAQ which is now up to version 0.2. Thanks Frans P. de Vries of 3D Action Gamers'.

Competitions

• Rorshach's Journal has word of a new skincomp (this time "for the ladies").
• CTF for Charity: There is a CTF tourney this weekend at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, called The Breach where the proceeds of the $5.00 admission are said to benefit the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
• Info on the next planned HeadHunters Quake tournament is available here.
• PC Gamer is looking for levels with a "PC Gamer theme" (?) using their logo and the Imagine Media logo. They are looking for entries from as many first person shooters as possible. No compensation (other than glory) is mentioned, and the deadline for entries is November 30. Thanks Zapf [PTB].

Linux Q2Test
The Linux version of Q2Test (10.9 MB) has been released on id's FTP Site. Thanks Ken "Page Fault" Alverson, and Redwood. Here's the skinny, from Zoid's .plan:

Quake2 Test for Linux is now available at ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/unix/q2test-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

It supports SVGALib console, X11 and MesaGL w/3DFX VooDoo rendering.
I hope all Linux users will enjoy this test release.

I you find any Linux specific bugs (that are not mentioned in the included readme.linux file), please email me at zoid@idsoftware.com.

Download sites (11,469,812 bytes): Local (Blue's News); id Software; Stomped; Operation 3Dfx; Ritual.

.plans

• Jeff "Mad Samoan" Wand updated ghis .plan with the news that he is leaving ION Storm's Dallas office to join Warren Spector's ex-Looking Glass team in Austin, TX to work on a new game.
• John Cash, the Diet Meister has more of his worklog in his .plan.
• John Cash rants about airbags and Brian Hook, picking up the theme talks about parenthood.
• Brian hook posted his worklog, pointing out he was going to spend the remainder of the day playtesting.
• Paul Steed updated talking about how to turn off texture smoothing in GL Quake II, the final boss' "Jackie Chan" animation and doing a little more of the Australian lingo thing.
• Paul Jaquays shows why level designers don't post their worklogs.
• Disruptor shares the patch for NT users to prevent being plagued by the "Teardrop" exploit in his .plan.

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The November "issue" of Darkness Falls, an online magazine for Dark Forces/Jedi Knight fans is out. Thanks Spart of Jedi Nights ... TEN is now available in Australia through MultiPlay ... Okay there are more options for high speed connections in Canada: check here or here for more info (thanks Dennis Gorrie) ... Today marks the one-year anniversary of Abbadon's New Zealand Quake News Page ... Also on the international scene, Utumno covers Quake from the Dutch perspective. Thanks Alchemyst ...

Prey Update - Screenshots
The 3D Realms/Apogee News page has a Prey update from Project Leader Paul Schuytema that includes a couple of new screenshots. Saw that on PreyStation.

Quake II Anticipation
Contrasting id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead's .plan update reiterating that there's no firm way of knowing when Quake II will be appearing on store shelves, Activision's Kevin Kraff sends along word that Electronics Boutique is offering $20.00 off the purchase of a Gamer 3D (3Dfx) graphics card for customers who pre-order Quake II, and Babbages is offering a free, limited edition Quake II poster to the first 15 customers who pre-order Quake II.

QuakeWorld Ports: Malice and Macintosh

• MGL's Mac Game Industry News has a blurb saying that MacQuakeWorld is around the corner (thank Lordslippy):

Regarding Quakeworld, they are looking to get it out as shareware fairly soon. The Quakeworld licensing is the main hold-up currently.

• Also, Embrionic Pete made a .plan update saying Malice QuakeWorld should be released tomorrow.

Sega Quake Chat
Sega is holding a chat session tomorrow night starting at 5:00 PM Pacific time with Steve Hutchins, producer of Quake for the Saturn.

GameCenter's Voodoo 2 First Look
After the minor uproar caused by their recent refusal to do hands-off testing of 3Dfx's under-construction video chipset, GameCenter has posted their first impressions of the Voodoo 2 upon getting a hold of one on the floor at Comdex.

Prey Music
Word on PreyStation is that alternative band KMFDM has been signed by Apogee/3DRealms to provide the original music for Prey.

New GL Setup Guide
Brett "Three Fingers" Jacobs sent along version 1.12 of his extensive GLQuake/GLQuakeWorld setup guide (40 KB). The 32 page document, in Microsoft Word format, has been updated upon the release of GL Quake 0.97, and now contains more information to aid GLQuake and QW players.

RIVA 128 Alpha Open GL
The eagerly anticipated Alpha Open GL support (1.0 MB) for NVIDIA's RIVA 128 chipset has been released on the R.U.G. (RIVA User's Group), and Zone 128. The file comes with some strong warnings in the read me, which should be carefully pondered before installing. Thanks Reverb. Installing this involves replacing your card's default display driver, and will eliminate some of your card's native functions. I played with this briefly, and it is not Voodoo fast (the read me says "Performance on this driver is decent and expected to improve."), but it was pretty playable on a PPro 200 (~30 FPS). Another note, you can place the Opengl32.dll in your Quake directory, rather than, as the instructions suggest, in your \windows\system\ directory, just be sure to back up your existing Opengl32.dll, if you already have one. Here's a summary of those strong warnings:

1. Drivers are alpha level and provided with no support. By installing these drivers you agree to subject your system to potential system-level corruption and hold NVIDIA harmless in that process.

2. These drivers are provided for RIVA 128 users who wish to evaluate a pre-release version of NVIDIA Win95/Quake ICD driver. Though they will run most applications, this driver is not guaranteed to run Windows, D3D or DirectDraw applications without fault. That means you may experience bugs in applications that you do not see with production drivers released by your  board manufacturer.

3. Installing these drivers WILL DISABLE SOME PRODUCT FEATURES and/or UTILITIES implemented by the board manufacturer. If you cannot live without these features/utilities DO NOT INSTALL THE DRIVERS. You will have to re-install the board manufacturer drivers to re-enable these features. DO NOT INSTALL THESE DRIVERS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES.

4. NVIDIA does not provide technical support; please do not contact us with bug reports on these non-released drivers.

5. Final release of a Quake/OpenGL driver will be performed by NVIDIA's
board manufacturer customers. NVIDIA expects to release final code for these
drivers to our customers before the end of this year.

New Stingray 128/3D VESA Extensions
Version V4.35 Build 13 of the VESA 2.0 BIOS extensions have been released on the Hercules Stingray 128/3D Driver Library. Thanks Ken "Page Fault" Alverson.

QW CTF Server Mod
The QuakeWorld CTF Competition Server mod version 0.10 beta has been released on the New Dogg Order page, providing what's described as a ClanRing Mod-type functionality to QuakeWorld CTF.

Interview
There is an interview on Mania.com with Paul Kallis, Senior Vice President of Marvel Interactive, discussing the X-Men TC. Thanks John Callaham. Too bad all of us that attended the FRAG missed the Quag.

Reviews
A few more Malice for Quake reviews:

• Focus on Quake from The Mining Company is an interesting new site that currently profiles Malice in an ongoing series of Quake conversion reviews.
• Malice is also reviewed on John Callaham's Home Page.
• Finally, Malice is reviewed on Skillz. Thanks Prophet.

.plans
Missed a couple over the weekend, here's a recap:

• Brian Hook talks more about Athletics / Cyber-Athletics, and posted another worklog (it looks pretty busy, but he claims it proves he was a bum that day). He also reveals the workaround he's using to circumvent the MS Visual C++ errors he recently detailed.
• Paul Steed has made one, two, three, four  more updates about Aussie slang.
• John Cash also updated his worklog once again.

Departments

• Lan Parties: A gathering a week from today announced in Bolton, England; MansaCon '97 will be in Milwaukee, WI; added a the website for New Zealand's Welly LAN 3. Finally, voting is open for the University Quake League awards, which will be issued at the upcoming FragStock.
• Want Ads: Nice work if you can get it.

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If you are having trouble reaching GameWire, you can use the IP address (192.41.3.133) till the DNS entry is updated ... There is information on this page about how ADSL connections are available in certain areas of Canada. Thanks Rambo[CtF] ... Belated Happy Birthdays to Levelord who turned 90 on Saturday (thanks Dr Sleep), to Whaleboy who turned 21 yesterday (I told him I have shirts older than that), and finally PMS-Ivy's B'day was last Thursday, cheers to all ...

TF Bot Project (Updated)
This post originally had the TF Bot's contact wrong, sorry about that. Here's the correct info: The following post on the TeamFortress Bot page reveals the author Wolfgang Lehrach is looking to pass along the reigns (thanks Felix Harris):

November 16
Its time for me to stop...

Enough is enough. I'm looking for someone/group to take over this project... someone/group who can give it a semi-fresh start with more enthusiasm and most importantly more free time then I have had recently. Anybody seriously interested just e-mail me. I'll be considering people as they come in. Anybody/group taking over this project will also get this web-space and the homepage. I may still hang around as co-author, but the main responsiblity has to move to someone else. To tell the truth, I've had enough of QuakeC! 8-)

Thanks for all the letters of support from the TF communitee. The reason I'm stopping is that this bot is going nowhere at the moment and I'm doing nobody any favours by hanging on to it.

Newer Turok Demo
A newer version of the Direct3D Turok: Dinossaur Hunter demo (10.7 MB)  has been released by Acclaim. The date and filesize on the archive have changed, but there is no word on what's different from the version released the other day, so it is uncertain if there is any reason to download the new one if you have it already. Thanks Frans P. de Vries of 3D Action Gamers'.

KeyGrip 1.0
Version 1.0 of KeyGrip (888 KB) the first non-beta version of the Quake demo editor has been released on the KeyGrip for Quake page. The new version, which requires WinQuake for proper operation,  has been re-written from scratch and is said to be over 1000% faster than the original.

Hover Released
The first beta of Hover has been released on the Means Of Destruction. Hover is described as a fast paced 3D virtual reality racing shoot-em-up. There is word there on where to find Hover servers, and a list of things that are already slated to be changed in the next release.

New FAQ Proxy
Version 1.0 of the FAQ Proxy for Quake and QuakeWorld has been released on the FAQ Proxy Homepage. Thanks Miccox. The proxy is an intermediate between a client and a Quake server that provides demo recording, an observer mode, packet filtering, and a view offset. The QuakeWorld version features:

• Start and stop demo recording while you are playing. No need for reconnecting.
• Can also automatically start a new demo at levelchange (v1.0).
• Let others observe through your eyes. No observer limit. (Much improved in 1.0)
• Increase your lag. Real lag, not fake. (packet loss simulator added in v1.0)
• Limit access to some features with passwords. (v1.0 saves passwords in password.cfg)
• Client-to-server packet filtering. (To get more clients through a slow link. Can also be used to get rid of NET_SendPacket errors.)
• Tells you who is sending fake messages (there's a bug in qwcl that lets you send anonymous messages).
• Powerup timer.
• Report your armor/health/weapon/ammo/location/powerups/visible_players with one command.
• Certain messages can be used to trigger sounds.
• Automatically detects pmodel/emodel cheaters.

More on the Hexen II EULA
There is a feature article on HexenWorld further discussing the Hexen II end-user license agreement. The author, though not a lawyer, has worked in the legal department of a publishing company for over three years, registering copyrights.

Jedi Hook
The first grappling hook patch (2 KB) for Jedi Knight has been released. Patch author James Hollenbeck says he plans to improve the hook's look and action in future versions. Thanks JediKnight.Net.

New (Final?) HeadHunters Server
Version 3.1 of the HeadHunters server has been released on the HeadHunters Quake page. Thanks Lars Hugentobler. Here's the scoop:

"...Many bug fixes and new altar locations for many maps has been included, along with support for the DaPak maps and many others. This will probably be the final version of Headhunters, and is totally bug-free. Enjoy it. And if you haven't already, be sure to check out the new strategy guide for a complete Headhunters strategtic primer."

AutoCam
The AutoCam page has a new camera patch that will automatically output a script for ReMaic (Reshoot Existing Movie, Altering Its Camera) based on suggested camera angles, allowing you to create an automated cameraman to reshoot an existing demo. More information can be found on the homepages of both programs. Thanks Prophet.

Interview
There is an interview with Sumaleth from the Impact team on The Pitstop, your dedicated QuakeRally news page.

Review
There is a review of Malice for Quake on QuakeNews '77.

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CTF Scoreboard and League of Capture have merged, part of perhaps a growing trend towards a unification of portions of the CTF community ... I've gotten about 50 emails today about Quake being in today's Dilbert, please see yesterday's news ...

More John Carmack on Mission Pack/Trinity
moth mailed John Carmack suggesting that id have an outside company create mission packs for Quake II (like Rogue and Hipnotic/Ritual did for Quake) to free id up to work on Trinity, and was kind enough to send along Mr. Carmack's response:

We are doing one, and another company is doing another one.

The idea is that Brian and I will not be doing any work on the mission pack, so we can be doing the tools for trinity.

Daikatana Shots
There are new shots of the three heroes of Daikatana: Hiro, Mikiko, and, Superfly, on ION Storm's site. In a related story, ION texture artist Andrew Collins is interviewed on Daikatana Just In Time. Thanks Prophet.

PGL News
A few news bits from the AMD Pro Gamer's League: More than 1,000 players signed up in the league's first week. The league has also disqualified their first player for an undisclosed infraction, and finally, highlights from the PGL launch at 3COM Park are available on the PGL Website in RealVideo format.

New Future versus Fantasy Quake
Version 3.91 of Future versus Fantasy Quake for registered users has been released on the FvF page, featuring a load of user-requested tweaks to the monsters.

New Viper 330 Drivers
New drivers for the Viper 330 (version: 4.10.01.0015 for Windows 95 and version 4.00.1381.0223 for NT) have been released on Diamond's website. Thanks Cory.

Bot Review
There is a preview of the soon-to-be-released Omnicron Bot up on Ramshackle.

Riot Screenshots
There are a half-dozen new screenshots up on the freshly redesigned Riot: Mobile Armor site.

IRC Marriage
Blitz passes along word that in a show of unity, irc.Quake2.com has linked up with irc.Unreal.org.

Print Stuff

• Apparently John Carmack and Brian hook are prominently featured in yet another article about Direct3D versus OpenGL in December's Boot Magazine. Thanks Frank Sugino.
• The Norritt passes along word that PC Format magazine has a Quake II preview and an interview with John Romero in their December edition.
• Finally, Eric Rose passed along news that Sunday's Dilbert comic mentions Quake, and EA.Cecil.EA passes along a web link for the comic.

Departments

• Articles: The third in loonyboi's series of controller reviews looks at a radical game input device, the mouse in: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen.
• Mailbag: Activision's Steve Smith's side of the Hexen II End-User License Agreement controversy.
• Want Ads: More, more, more!
• Lan Parties: More of those too.

.plans

• Brian Hook updated his .plan with another go at the cyberathletes, and a later update that includes his worklog.
• John Cash's .plan based worklog has been updated again. He's also apparently under the weather (hope you feel better John).
• Christian "Dusruptor" Antkow updated his .plan with a weather report (what's next, hell freezing over?).
• Paul Steed ran his .plan through a Paul Hogan meta-filter in honor of his upcoming road trip to OZ. At least he didn't say shrimp on the barbie.
• Rick Johnson may be onto something. Gamers against spam, hmmmmmmm.

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Log parser of the Day is GibStats which now supports the Orange patch (?). They are also eager for beta testers, more details on the GibStats page ... Inside3D has announced their first hosted site: Quadulem Entertainment, and, similarly JKAT - Jedi Knight Addon Team has popped up at JediKnight.Net ... Jagged's Quake Movie Reviews has been redesigned for easier navigation ...