Monday, May 29, 2000

Rendition Interview -- 6:26 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's an interview with Jay Eisenlohr, Director of Business Development for the Integrated Products Group at Micron, over on Chick's Hardware. Basically, it states that Rendition, now known as the IPG group of Micron, is out of the graphics chipset business. No surprise to anyone out there.

Both A.T. and I owned Rendition chipset boards in the past, and while they were very functional and cheap for their time, Rendition would have had a hard time catching up with 3dfx, or now Nvidia in performance and features.

A.T. Hun comments: The article also proves that just because you are a "chick" it doesn't mean that you have a better grasp of the English language than anybody else. This passage at the end is very peculiar:

Rendition may not be in the 3d graphics market, but they are still making technology that will blow you away.

Namely what? Ever since Micron bought them, they have succeeded in bringing absolutely nothing to market.

U.S. Memorial Day -- 1:47 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Today is the day in the United States that we remember our servicemen and women who gave their lives in defense of their country. Without their heroism, we would not have all the freedoms we enjoy today. I am very thankful that my generation has never had to face a draft or the cataclysmic world wars that our grandparents did. It's high time that we recognize the sacrifices they made for us to have a better life.

The Master comments: I myself am very thankful we have this day for rememberance of those who died so that we could be free. To those who have fought, and those who have died, Thank You.

New wHeretic release -- 12:04 pm CST, Update by The Master

Over on the wHeretic page, there's a new release of the wHeretic Windows version of Heretic based on the released source code from Raven.

Heretic is still one of my favorite FPSes, it has so much more character over the other FPSes on the market before and after it.

History today -- 11:57 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1790: Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1848: Wisconsin becomes the 30th State in the Union.
• 1914: the British liner Empress of Ireland carrying 1,477 passengers and crew collided with the Norwegian freighter Storstadt in the St. Lawrence River in Canada. At least 1,012 people died.
• 1917: John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, MA.
• 1932: WW I Veterans begin arriving in Washington DC to demand their pay bonuses that were not scheduled to be received for another 13 years.
• 1940: German forces captured Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France.
• 1943: Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1944: a German submarine sank the Block Island, a U.S. aircraft carrier, near Madeira. She was the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic in World War II.
• 1953: Climbers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to climb to the peak of Mount Everest.
• 1973: Tom Bradley is elected to be the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
• 1999: The space shuttle Discovery completed the first-ever docking with the international space station.

Sunday, May 28, 2000

Memory $ on the rise -- 10:42 am CST, Update by The Master

Once again, Micron is planning to jack up their memory prices again. Whee. I bet all those companies that got out of the memory business are kicking themselves right now.

New Q3A Jailbreak -- 10:31 am CST, Update by The Master

The Jailbreak page has been updated with a new beta 2 of the Quake 3 version of Jailbreak. JB is a teamplay mod where team members are taken to jail when killed, and when a whole team is captured in jail, they can be wiped out for a bonus.

A.T. Hun comments: Actually, this is the second part of the beta 2 to be released. The first part was released last week (story). Part 2 contains five maps, three of which are brand new.

Gamespy interviews Looking Glass -- 9:51 am CST, Update by The Master

Gamespy has posted an interview with Tim "EvilSpirit" Stellmach, a former game designer from Looking Glass. The article has an explaination for the sudden closing of Looking Glass, makers of the popular Thief games.

History today -- 9:49 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1533: The Archbishop of England declares King Henry VII's marriage to Anne Boleyn valid.
• 1863: The first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War.
• 1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
• 1940: The Belgian Army surrenders to German forces.
• 1977: 165 people are killed in a fire that swept through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, KY.
• 1982: British forces retake Port Darwin and Goose Green from Argentinian forces in the Falklands War. At least 1,400 prisoners were taken.
• 1984: President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetary for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (The remains were later exhumed and identified as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blaise, and sent home for burial).
• 1985: David Jacobson, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later).
• 1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year old German pilot, lands his private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
• 1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad with a keynote address stating if Israel were to deploy nuclear or chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with "weapons of mass destruction."
• 1995: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Russian town of Neftegorsk, killing at least 2,000 people and devistating the town.

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