I'm about to get broadband at home too, so theres no escaping the constant barrage of babble. I'll have to make a website too.

Spirit, can I go on Quaddicted, once I've built the thing? 

i had very little to do with quoth2, it was all kell and preach (and anyone else who helped). :)

i shall also be honest and admit i haven't even played it yet, let alone all the map releases that have happened in the last few months... i have such a backlog of quake stuff to get through when i have some free time. :(

but yet, thank you to everyone releasing stuff, even though i haven't been able to play it yet. :) 

Scary eh?!?!

necros - at least you listened to my heavy metal! 

still have those 2 clips on my HDD. ;) 

Sure, unless you want a database. :) 

And the odd MP3 probably.

I'll just knock up some crappy html page wid a few 'pegs and stuff. And I dont mind linking to mediafire for downloads. I just think it'd be cool to be a rickyt23.quaddicted.com !

I'll let you know when its constructed ;-P 

Spirits site - should he keep the pink?

(Hell yes!) 

I would kill you for doing that. 

for my maps. But what if I end up with a load of music? Gah! I havent even built the damn thing yet... 

but it hasnt been released yet has it? 

SleepwalkR is working on an SDL version of Fitzquake. Not really a new version but may become the new Fitzquake codebase.

Download:
http://www.kristianduske.com/fitzquake/

Thread:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60172&start=43 

SDL + OpenGL? 

Yes It is a replacement of the old one.
It was a hell lot of work finding textures with the same name but different look ;) 

Hard drive crashed, reinstalled quake through steam. when I try to run my screen is a tangled mess of neon green squares. Probably a simple fix but I'm two steps away from being a ludite. Any tips? 

This is probably completely unrelated, but when I moved to Vista+ATI card/drivers my screen was totally corrupt in Quake.

It took me a while to find the solution - seems that I had set gl_ztrick 1 years ago for a bit of a performance increase, but the new card/driver combo was pretty unhappy about that. It was all fixed when I set the variable back to 0 (which is the default anyway).

Just throwing that out there on the slim chance that you or anyone else experiences this problem. 

ATI card in THIS office computer doesnt like AguirRe's engine, as I mentioned before. I've tried changing the drivers, and it used to work fine. Probably the card is becoming fucked!

I was getting weird particles on the screen which wouldnt go away.

My tip - Check your drivers, download the most up to date/most effective drivers, make sure they are installed. When you re-installed your OS did you check your drivers for you video hardware?

(OK, so it might be a bit of an obvious one, but...... ho-hum) 

some of the more uptodate drivers stuff up older games, espeially with all this changing of opengl stuff.

I always keep the install file of an older set that I know works.

And frib, I've had that too, not with the current card or drivers but on my old video card gl_ztrick did really funny things in all quake/q2 engine games 

defaults to 1 in the original GLQuake AFAIK. I think it's supposed to improve performance on older cards at the expense of visuals. I always have it set to 0 to avoid z-fighting.

In some engines, it defaults to 0 (e.g. NehQuake) or cannot be set at all (e.g. Fitz, Tomaz). 

http://play.tm/wire/click/1782737

Unlike the last time I posted a link to these shots, these are actual images rather than scans from magazines.

Also I just read that (part of?) the game is set on the Sulaco after Ripley gets ejected towards fury 151. And apparently there will be no HUD.

Cool! 

http://www.gamegrep.com/showimage.php?pos=5&newsid=7752

About fucking time they made an aliens game that looked like *this* :) VERY HAPPY

I really really hope its not too consoley.... fucking consoles :( VERY UN-HAPPY 

Maybe that's the problem... 

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=14 

....you never did say what card you have, but if you look around there you'll probably find a driver which works (?) 

boosted performance by not clearing the zbuffer between frames. The only quality decrease is that the depth buffer had less precision, but I'm not sure that it was a noticable difference.

As a performance feature, it's really only relevant to performance on really old cards, AFAIK. 

Agreed! I know you love Aliens as much as I do :D

Really exciting stuff... bet it's gonna be scary too. I'm fully prepared to crap my trousers when it comes out.