Saturday, January 5, 2002

NFL Week #17 Picks -- 10:22 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, kids, here it is. The last week of the regular season. And my Lions were mathematically eliminated in October. Ahh. At any rate, here are the picks: Broncos, Cowboys, Redskins, Packers, Bears, Steelers, Patriots, Titans, Saints, Rams, Dolphins, Seahawks, Raiders, Bucs, Ravens.

The Master comments: Eeyore's picks: Titans, Saints, Jaguars, Cowboys, Packers, Patriots, Steelers, Redskins, Broncos, Rams, Chiefs, Raiders, Dolphins, Eagles, Ravens.

Friday, January 4, 2002

RH7.2 and Emu10k1 Problem Solved -- 9:14 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 7.2, I've had problems with weird distortion through my SoundBlaster Live! Some times it would just be minorly annoying. Other times it would be awful. After perusing the emu10k1 chip's Bugzilla database (the emu10k1 is the brains behind the SB Live!), someone reported that using the i586 RPM for the kernel instead of the i686 one fixed the problem. Lo and behold, it does. I haven't noticed any other problems yet. It's a good thing too . . . I was almost considering Windows again *shudder*.

Congress and CD Copy-Protection -- 7:22 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) is asking the RIAA to explain why it is adding copy-protection to CDs, while still collecting royalties on blank media. This would appear to be in violation of 1992's Audio Home Recording Act. Ooooh, if only the RIAA would become open to lawsuits over this . . . Thanks Slashdot.

Unreal Tournament 2 Announced -- 7:04 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Blue's News got word from Infogrames confirming that Unreal Tournament 2 is in production by Digital Extremes. Here's the announcement:

Infogrames confirms Unreal Tournament 2 in the making by Digital Extremes. As rumored all week online, the co-creators of Unreal and Unreal Tournament are currently working on the sequel to the infamous 1999 Game of the Year.

Late next week, in conjunction with the February issue of PC Gamer, Infogrames will officially announce the game and detail all the news currently available at this point in development. The cover story includes an in-depth interview with the development team at Digital Extremes, specifics about the gameplay and globally exclusive artwork to be seen only in PC Gamer.

OSX Q3A 1.31 Beta Patch -- 3:30 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

id's Graeme Devine updated his .plan with word that there is a beta version of the 1.31 patch for Quake III Arena / Team Arena available for the Mac OS X. You need to have 1.30 installed already. Here's a list of the fixes:

• stereo sound
• works every time on powerbooks
• mouse stays accelerated when you quit
• some dual monitor stuff

You can snag it from id's FTP site (975K).

UPDATE! He just updated his .plan again with news of a newer build, which you can download from id's FTP site.

NV-25 Next Month -- 2:24 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Gamespot UK got confirmation from NVIDIA that their new GPU, code-named NV-25, will be announced in about a month. Here's some guesses at what the new chip might bring to the table:

NV-25 may move to six pixel pipelines, up from the four of the NV-20, which would boost overall performance. The clock speed of the core and memory are also expected to be boosted, also adding to performance.

Nvidia may be planning to add a second vertex processing unit, a device which boosts the realism of 3D objects; the Xbox GPU already has two such units. Nvidia officials have said that the PC GPUs will outstrip Xbox's performance in the first half of this year.

Thanks Evil Avatar.

Serious Sam SE == Gold -- 2:15 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Blue got word that Croteam's new shooter, Serious Sam: Second Encounter, has gone gold. For my money, the best part of the Serious Sam games is the ability to play them all the way through in co-op mode. It give me flashbacks of co-op Doom back in the day. Now if I only had a machine fast enough to run it decently . . .

Oh yeah, there's also a bunch of new screenshots for your gazing delight.

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