http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm59_pack.zip 

You bitches did see this on Blues, right?? If not...

http://digital-eel.com/blog/ob.htm

Looks....mildly interesting by 1997 standards. And no more. Some amusing comments too:

Oblivion is somewhat noteworthy in a couple of ways. It has no floor. Instead, a damage inflicting zone kills the player's character instantly if he falls into it.

Somewhat like Hipdm1 then, perhaps?? Or any other void maps around.

It presents disconnected platforms at different heights as floating "sky islands," something which was novel then. It presaged Quake 3 Arena's space levels by about two years.

And presaged HL's Xen levels by a considerably shorter time. Hell, they might have been in development first. 

Who care if it's not out for release. It's just boring attention whoring. 

Hope he releases it; that would be swell. 

Thanks, downloading.

I may not contribute to the Speedmapping events, but I do thoroughly enjoy their results. 

All mappers are attention whores.

The upside-down lava with fireballs shooting down looks like the most interesting part of it. 

The fact that Blue's News never mentions new quake map releases, but did mention this, a map that is not only not new, but not released, is absurd. 

i would imagine whoever is responsible for the "news" at blues news, is not even aware new maps are still being made for quake 1.

but they should be.

maybe i should email them. 

If Blue started covering new map releases for every game as old as Quake no one would ever bother to read down as far as the real news. This is more like a human interest story than an anouncement about a map. 

i think Pushplay is right, as much as i'd like to get angry for quake being under-represented. It's acceptable to see huge releases for a game being noted though, like the ut2003 community pack. I'm not sure if Nehahra got linked there, but that probably deserved it, if we're talking quake releases. 

i could not release some maps, too! that would make a great story! 

my complaint is that he did cover this, not that he doesn't cover other maps. 

This map was going to be OFFICIAL! It was going to be a PROFESSIONAL RELEASE. Can you even comprehend that!? My loins tingle just thinking how the world could be differant if this map had made it into a honest to goodness retail game! 

Let them know about Rubicon 2 right away. 

ehehehe.

You said 'loins'

eheheeheh. 

Arrr the light, I cannot stand it anymore... 

Hi sock. I have this strange feeling--it's like you don't come around anymore. How odd. 

It would have been funnier if I had submitted it before reliezing I typed it as 'lions'. 

Blues has always posted the news I submitted. Battle Mech, Jeht, Galactix, etc - they all got tiny little entries in the news, but news nonetheless. 

I'll have to try that with future releases, Wazat. Gotta p1mp the work for all it's worth.

Whenever I've submitted a map release to PQ, they've posted about it; however, PQ is oriented towards the games I map for, and also they don't usually have much news to post. 

you don't need to submit map news to PQ... just submit it here and they'll pick it up a day later. 

Ah-ha! Bals plan is obviously to get himself in the news at Blues for (not) releasing bal3dm5.

It'll never work Bal! Just release it now kthx :) 

Yes but I don't like to take my chances. With IGN buying GSI, they're probably now forbidden from lurking on community forums.

Hmm... that wasn't as funny as it was supposed to be. 

my PC has started displying random letters/characters all over the screen when it boots up.

Once windows actually gets going everything is fine and their seems to be no effect on performance or stability.

But still its kind of weird, its never done that before in the 2 years i have had it and i am worried it might be a sign of somethign bad building up, eg hard drive crash?

any suggestions? 

[quote]But still its kind of weird, its never done that before in the 2 years i have had it[/quote]

Having windows run on a system for 2 years is not going to do wonders for your system consistency. Over time windows has a tendency to b0rk itself up; don't worry about your display, but be on the look out for more problems that may creep up.