I don't know if this site has been linked before, but I found it when trying to track down some bots to test my map with.

http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/botarea51/main/default.asp

Still updated. Run by Mephisto - someone from inside3d?

Anyway, it has reviews of all the most popular Quake bots, and a few short articles all wrapped up in a pleasant site design.

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its me, but I notice a quicker load time on func.

if so, cheers metlslime. 

No it's definitely running fast -- like lightning fast. Good work metl 

it seems to vary, at times it is noticably quicker but at other times it is as slow as normal :(

Still, an improvement is noticed, so GG :) 

i didn't actually do anything so it must be a hardware change or something on the host machine. 

get into irc, i miss you 

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I've loaded this as a dual_boot with XP. It worked first time and everything looks superb.

Only problem is that when I first switch on, I don't get the dual-boot option, I just get a blank black screen. I have to Alt_Ctrl_Del to get an immediate re-boot and then, magically, I get the option to use XP or Vista. But apart from that, it's really pretty.

Anyone else tried it yet? 

Anything noteworthy about it as an upgrade for winXP? I've not really kept up with Vista news... 

The most noteworthy thing I can say so far is that everything works... so far, and it worked straight out of the box! Oh, beware, it is a 3gig download.

Wireless network worked OK, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro worked OK, BspEditor worked OK, all Quake engines worked OK, all drives are OK, IE7 is OK,Media Player 11 is OK etc.

All of the security measures are OK and you get a six month free trial of PC-cillin into the bargain.

But as this is a dual_boot system, I haven't gone so far as to reinstall all software (Office, Photoshop etc) as I have installed Vista on a 100gig partition and I could fill that with second copies of everything that is already loaded under XP. Ther's no point in doing that at this stage. Vista takes up 8gig.

I will carry on playing with it (it's free until June 2007) and if I find everything is still OK, I will make the big step and migrate.

But it is pretty and it's fun playing with a new toy. 

is the user interface any different to xp or win2k? 

esp. about the Quake engines. There was concern about plans to have opengl abstracted into a directx based wrapper that would screw up the performance of OpenGL based applications. I guess whetever method MS did works out fine then. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tentaclemonkey/136423744/ 

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3772/desktop2kf.jpg
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/6906/desktop21wg.jpg

The first just shows a desktop view.
The second shows desktop with an open window and a thumnail of the current IE window. As you hover over the item on the taskbar, you get a thumbnail open up.

Also notice the see-through edges of the windows. These screenshots don't do it justice.

The most obvious change is the move away from pastel and towards primary, and plenty of 'glass' buttons. The start button on Media Player shows this:-
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3073/desktop30ue.jpg


Anyway, I'm not after converting the world here but it does look pretty.

I have also just logged onto Steam and run Half Life2 without any problem: no set-up or changes to make, no disc to insert - it just ran straight away.

Yup, I'm hooked and I've only been using it for about three hours! 

So what you're saying is that we're getting an all new OS, and the only difference is that it looks better? 

Gonna shell the money to have squandered media rights? 

Vigil - I haven't got a clue what's under the bonnet but that has never stopped me admiring body styling :-)

Phait - any existing media works fine, and don't worry, Microsoft doesn't control the world. As for the future... que sera sera!

By the way, as I said earlier, Vista is free until June 2007. So I will continue to play with it before I decide anything other than I like the way it looks. Be serious, if the man down the car lot says that I can use that brand new Merc, BMW, Jaguar (whatever) for 12 months before I decide to buy it, I gonna take up the offer and leave my four year old Honda in the garage. There are no strings attached. 

No, Vista will still play your pirate MP3 files as well as your DIVX/XVID. Don't believe everything you read on Slashdot. By the way, "squandered media rights" is something that can be used to describe a system without DRM, because on such a system you can only play DRM-free content. A system/OS supporting DRM actually allows you to play more content as it can play both free and DRM'ed content. 

DONT SELL OUT TO THE MAN

THE RETIRED MAN I MEAN 

Greetings from Japan, suckers! Iwakuni's been nice, flying to Okinawa tomorrow 8=) 

I sent you a demo 10 days ago (with some delay I know... :P ...), and you didn't reply.
Do you have issues with you mailbox ? 

I expect some mappage by the time I return :) 

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