Hi dude. To be honest its hard to find servers running any kind of Quake - let alone custom maps - at least, servers with people on them. Perhaps its different over there, there's not much action in Australia though. 

Isabel Keep it hard all night long and two Wolf-women; then the Fox-bear witch, with her red eyes

Female hard-ons + fairy tales? E-mail spam is getting more and more creative. 

which gets translated into garbage text for my pleasure. I assume it was originally chinese or something... 

Anyone know of the console command in UT2k3 for playing a CD track? I searched at PlanetUnreal and it says it is: cdtrack # except this doesn't work.. and I'd assume it would work in the (Mac) demo too... or perhaps it doesn't? 

hey dude, how are you?
yeah i cant seem to find a good custom maps server anywhere... what game has everyone moved on to? anyone still around from the old ramshackle/ggh days?

easy,

odd 

You're like 3 generations of #qboarders behind, now. This is 2003, everyone is speedmapping, using custom engines, and playing Max Payne 2. QW? Forget it! 

...for a change, I've written something potentially interesting at http://teamshambler.telefragged.com/ - about The Problem with RTS and RPG games. Go read. 

would be fun to make a tally, how many people frequenting this board was around during the ramshackle days? bonus points if you posted on the original qboard. 

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/Singularity3.03.zip

Some info here : http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/Forum2/HTML/007831.html?00005 

If you were around BEFORE the QBoard, i.e. the days of Frib's Fishboard and #dmmaps or whatever it was called... 

are u still working on that 2 map q1sp you had pics of up at your site? You know the one using your base textures with lots of funky buttresses and rockwork. 

collabaration between binyarshi and munyul :

http://www.planetquake.com/binaryshi/lvlq3_painfromspain.htm

Havent checked it playwise as the layout looks slightly confusing but it is thick with atmosphere and originality. 

But Smabs were you around in the days of Jonah Bishop's Duke3D FAQ?? 

....that looks like a gothic map with some lava in.

And RPG: No. 

I read QBoard, never posted though (I was scared-ed-ded). Before that I never really had 'enough access' (as it were) to take part in forums and shiznat, I remember that Duke3D FAQ though :)

Personally, I don't consider myself the slightest bit 'old-skool'. 

(And that should probably be scared-ded-ed) 

And in response to your article Sham... I'll mail you (I was going to post here, but I need time to organise my thoughts (stylisation/overall vs individual/etc), and I can't discuss RTS/RPG graphics and Hume at the same time :)

(Yes, I'm aware I just triple posted, I apologise) 

Yeah, I posted there. Do I get a prize or something?

Anyway, it's strange that the years have gone by so... quickly. I'd like to see what has happened to the people who used to post, but then just disappeared, left, retired, etc. Combined with an article about the Quake mapping "eras", I think it'd be interesting.

Of course, I'd really like to see the idea expanded upon, just so that the more recent mappers (and players) could discover what has lead to this day. Starting from Doom, covering what each (major) game has added to the possibilities of custom mapping. 

qmunnity history site would be nice 

indeed be nice. But you're talking proper journalism. Who's up to it? 

I started reading the first Qmap when headshot put it up. Before then, I had always just checked headshot/retinal/ztn's sites, sometimes refreshing multiple times if they were promising a new map soon. 

that should be 'Qboard' not 'Qmap' :D 

hehe, yeah. I remember refreshing headshot's depot over and over the night he promised qboard to go live.

Suddenly it did, and five minutes later I was the bitter, jaded exoskeleton of misguided rage I am today. 

shambler should do it. he's one of the best writers here, so he should at the very least head it up. maybe gracefully accept the assistance of willing contributors.

then elope with the paypal-provided funding, hoping on a flight to mexico, live of the interest and lead a life of "those who can never go back". that's the life were you become best buddies with Jose Cuervo and Ms. Long Island Ice Tea, snorting cocaine off the tits of escort ladies.

aah, yes. shambler should do that.