Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Shogo/SiN Release Dates -- 8:01 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

While I was gone at conference, Linux Games announced that the distributor for Hyperion's ports of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and SiN to Linux, Titan Computer has announced release dates for these two titles. Here's the news:

The distributors of the new Linux titles being ported by Hyperion Software have announced that the expected release dates for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and Sin will be august and september respectively. Tux Games has announced availability of pre-order facilities for both Sin and Shogo.

Methinks that I may need to get in touch with Hyperion's Thomas Frieden (check out my interview with him on the The Haus of Shogo) to see if I can get my mitts on a review copy!

FWIW, the preorder page for Shogo is here and the preorder page for SiN is here. Both games will be going for a very reasonable $27. No affiliation, yadda, yadda.

Mozilla M16 Under Linux -- 7:50 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I downloaded and installed Mozilla M16 for Linux today. All I can say is WOW! It displays pages faster and more accurately the Netscape 4.73. The pages look like they should, instead of the mess that Linux browsers can sometime make of them. If you run Linux you owe it to yourself to download Mozilla M16!

One caveat, I downloaded the i386 installer first, but the installer didn't want to work on my system. So I just downloaded the i386 tarball and everything's good.

SiN Soon for Linux -- 7:46 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linux Games is reporting that Hyperion software has updated their progress report on their port of SiN to Linux. The game should be going into beta very soon. More gaming goodness for Penguinistas!

Win32 Q3A Under Linux, Revisited -- 10:55 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I followed the instructions for getting the Win32 version of Quake III Arena working under Linux (story). Actually I feel pretty stupid now. I should have known that the Linux executable would be included with the Linux 1.17 patch since it is included with the Win32 patch. At any rate, it works great! With the .93 NVIDIA XFree 4.0 drivers, my framerate is exactly the same under Linux as it is under Windows 98. The "jittery mouse" problem I experienced with the demo is not there with the full 1.17 version.

Now I just have to figure out which of the mods I have use QVMs and try them under Linux! I'm one step closer to being M$-free!

History today -- 8:16 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1788: New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.
• 1813: At Vitoria, Spain a massive allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish force under British General Arthur Wellesley defeated the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean Jourdan, effectively ending the Peninsula War.
• 1916: The controversial U.S. military expedition against Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa brought the U.S. and Mexico closer to war when Mexican government troops attacked U.S. Brigadier General John J. Pershing's force at Carrizal, Mexico.
• 1942: General Erwin Rommel turns his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk, Libya, into victory, as his panzer division occupies the North African port.
• 1948: A tiny experimental computer, lacking a keyboard or printer, successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England. The system, based on a cathode-ray tube, could store programs, whereas previous electronic computers had to be rewired to execute each new type of problem.
• 1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
• 1985: Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Another MOO3 Interview -- 3:05 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's another MOO3 interview with Greg Masters, lead programmer of MOO3, over on The Atrium. Some minor stuff in there, but to be honest, I think Hasbro and Quicksilver are just getting started on the design of Masters of Orion 3, so there really isn't much to say right now.

Q3A Beta Map Review -- 1:09 pm CST, Update by The Master

Last night, Steve put up some snaps of a ton of maps from the Beta build of Q3A that he took but never posted. Today he has a cross-reference of his pictures to snaps of the final Q3A maps. Interesting to look and see how things changed. Thankfully that stone texture has been VIOLENTLY reduced from the beta :-)

Gas Prices SUCK -- 1:07 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's an article over on Yahoo! indicating that "White House Wants Better Explanation for Gas Prices". Now, I know a LOT of our readership is out of the country, and live with insane gas prices (I've read that prices in France get up to $5/gal-WOW). But in the Midwestern US (where The Haus is located) we're paying 40 cents more on the average than the rest of the US for gasoline. I personally think this sucks-especially considering that the supposed "stricter air polution laws" are just as prevalent in California, where gas prices AREN'T insane.

Like I've always said-gross profit is king. The customer does NOT matter. Gotta love it :-/

J.t.Qbe comments: I hear that they're even worse in Wisconsin than they are here in Minnesota--yikes! I too would like a better explanation why gas prices go up $.50/gallon over two weeks, and why they only go up and up. As you said, though, the customer doesn't matter. We're only sheep who produce money which can be harvested at greater and greater rates at the whim of the corporate overlords. Gotta love it.

Eidos up for Bid? -- 1:00 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to Yohoo! News, "Lara Croft Has Potential Suitor", which indicates that Eidos could be up for sale. Wow. I remember back a few when Eidos was all that, and Ion was so happy to be with their strong new publishing partner. Guess the times they are a'changin'.

History today -- 8:29 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1756: A group of British soldiers were imprisoned in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the "Black Hole of Calcutta"; most died.
• 1778: After learning of the British evacuation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Army under General George Washington marched out of its winter quarters at Valley Forge to intercept the British force on its way to New York City.
• 1782: Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1837: Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
• 1863: West Virginia became the 35th state.
• 1893: A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1898: During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. cruiser Charleston captured the Spanish-ruled island of Guam.
• 1900: The German ambassador in Peking, Baron von Ketteler, was assassinated by Chinese troops, setting off the Boxer Rebellion, which sought to remove foreign influence in China.
• 1923: Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated on his farm.
• 1943: Race riots erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in two days later to quell the violence that resulted in more than 30 deaths.
• 1944: The battle of the Philippine Sea ended with Japan losing almost all its remaining trained pilots and at least 4,000 seamen.
• 1947: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead at the Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the order of mob associates.
• 1963: The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a "hot line" between the two superpowers.

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