I don't think this can really be answered until John. C. has anything to revealing to disclose regarding it... 

Yeah, if you don't buy shitty hardware this setup should work pretty well.

I'd go for a 2.5 GHz with 800MHz FSB and some fast, 400 MHz, DDR RAM. The Radeon 9700 is more powerful then the 9600 altho the price difference may not be worth it, I for myself went for the 9600. 

I ran your post through babelfish and it still didn't make any sense!! 

he means:

I don't think this question can be answered properly until John C. reveals any more about the DooM engine.

cheers, dudes! :) 

Yeah, that should run it, I've run the leak on a similar system (albeit with a worse graphics card) perfectly fine. 

You didn't list FitzQuake at your QExpo booth! 

good point.

i'll do that tonight.

Otherwise i'd have to release it during qexpo!!!! 

Battle Mech will be released tomorrow, so anyone who wants their map included in the official release, please, please have it ready and uploaded somewhere (not my e-mail) so I can download it around noon tomorrow and put it in the zip.

If you have a mapshot for your map (for MHquake, which will be in the release), please include that too (btw, metlslime, please send me the mapshots for bmech01-03, I can't find them anymore).

I won't be able to test your maps to check quality, I just don't have the time. :( So, I suppose that means I'll be including any and all maps that are submitted.

By the way, I got powerups added. They use the original powerup names so those of you including powerups in your maps won't have to worry about not knowing what the classnames are. They are:

Invulnerability
Invisibility
Super Damage
Infinite Ammo (replaces the biosuit)


Also, here's the infiltration map my bro submitted. It's pretty good quality, but probably slow too:
http://www.qexpo.com/uploaded/45/Cast2.zip

Please get those maps submitted soon. However, if you don't make it on time, I can later add your map to the qexpo page or Battle Mech page, and will gladly do so. 

I don't know what to say, other than cheaphack rubs your computer the wrong way. Try MHQuake, which works fine with battle mech (though it lacks transparency).

I hope and hope galactix isn't messed up for other people. :o 

btw, metlslime, please send me the mapshots for bmech01-03, I can't find them anymore

You must be thinking of some other metlslime; i didn't make those maps, nor did i make mapshots for them. 

http://www.cursesandepithets.com/quake1/bmech/shots.zip 

I mixed you to up. Last night I woke up realizing that...

Thanks pushplay. 

Battle Mech has finally been released. The overhead mech game includes 7 Deathmatch maps and one Capture The Flag map. You can play Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, Instant Kill Deathmatch, Rambo Match, and other game modes. It also includes frikbots for your fighting pleasure.

Those of you who didn't get your maps completed on time can still submit them in the future, and I will provide links on my website.

Download: http://www.qexpo.com/booths/Wazat/
Description: http://mods.moddb.com/1023/
Screenshots: http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023/ 

Here's something Xsniper said:

Wazat, the black screen issue is an issue in newer quake engines spawned from tomaz quake in most cases. Anyway it can be fixed by updating your video drivers and directx in most cases.

Hopefully that helps. 

ill update all my drivers later 

Speedmapping session 41 took place last night and fun was had by all.

It went on longer than the original 100 minutes in most cases, but I think it was worth it, as the result is a huge 11 maps being produced!

Download the pack here (2.7mb)
http://www.qexpo.com/uploaded/10/sm41.zip

Definitely worth getting; there's some great work in this pack. 

L33t! But why do you have a path for the files in the zip? 

thanks, should be fixed now 

http://scampie.spawnpoint.org/maps/twist.zip

Twisty column built with gyro-elongated hexagons. weeee 

Downloading now.

BTW, someone should post news that QExpo is over, and say congratulations to all those who participated etc. 

I've just installed winxp and was wondering whether there's an equivalent control like Msconfig in win98 to choose what stuff to load at startup? 

I think msconfig is still there? I'm pretty sure it works for me at home. Perhaps it depends which version of winxp you have, whether it is installed or not... at any rate, if you didn't already try it, try start>run>msconfig and see if its there. 

Anyone know of any modified quake engines which will load Q2 character models? 

http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/Symmetry/VSLive2001/FutureOfLanguage.html

http://www.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/Symmetry/GCSE2000/GCSEOOSym.html

...thought I'd share. 

Blizzard Founders Depart VU Games

The ongoing saga revolving around the sale of VU Games took a turn yesterday, as the co-founders of Blizzard announced their departure from the company.
Blizzard North co-founders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer and David Brevik, and VP Bill Roper departed the company on Monday.

These individuals were critical to the development of one of the best-selling PC game series of all times, Diablo. The four cited uncertainties surrounding the fate of Blizzard and VU Games -- that Vivendi was not communicating with them about the company's future plans.

In an interview with Chris Roper of CNN/Money, Bill Roper said that Blizzard management "...wanted to be able to have that level of participation and communication with Vivendi and to be able to offer some insight and some knowledge in what they're thinking about in terms of a sale, particularly with Blizzard. And for the four of us, that opportunity wasn't going to be made available."

The four are starting a new game studio, as yet unnamed.