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. 

It works fine for 5 years(!)

uwf: I also think it's a windows problem, not a HDD crash, just re-install windows 

You can now grab a map editor for XIII over here: http://www.gamershell.com/news_BXIIIBMapEditor.shtml . 

May want to check your video card perhaps - I had to swap mine with the modem slot so the new (then, 56k) modem would fit in a PCI slot and ever since I will sometimes, not often, get glitchy characters right before Win loads. 

OK, first things first: the Front Computer can't see the CD-ROM drive under Win95 - it simply doesn't appear. Boot from a floppy, there it is. Try reinstalling Win95, it won't accept the product ID.

Q: Will installing Win98 cause the hard drive to be reformatted? I don't wanna lose the data, but we *really* need the CD-ROM to load drivers for their new digital camera onto it. It's the only one with USB ports.

OK, second slightly related question:

Let's say I replace the Back Computer's network card with a USB hub card, and hook up the cable modem to it via USB. Now, could I then plug the Front Computer into the modem as well, via the Ethernet port, thus sharing the modem? 

Someone obviously needs to correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that USB stuff wouldn't work under Win95 anyway. 

I don't believe it will reformat your drive (not 100% certain tho). Hmmm is your drive Fat32? If so all should be good, I think you can just update windows and it keeps all your settings. As for the other question, I have no idea.

But wait for someone who knows what there on about first methinks. 

While it's often recommended that you install windows with a fresh start, I always upgrade. My xp install is an upgrade of an me install which I think was an upgrade of 98 which I think was an upgrade of 95. Not that I've kept the same HD for that long, but I always do an image copy instead of reinstalling everything.

I don't know what a USB hub card is. But when a computer has two ethernet cards it can act as a gateway for a second computer to access the internet. The computer with the two cards must be on for the other to see the net though. 

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What this catalogue here refers to as a "USB hub" card is one with multiple USB ports in it. The thought I had was: One port for the modem, another for the camera, cheap fix, everything's jake.

(As it turns out, there's no room in the Back Computer for another PCI card!)

I believe the Front Computer's formatted FAT16, so I'm understandably nervous. Oh well, I've got the relatively important data files backed up. I'll sic '98 on it anyhoo. 

that if you put win98 on it will require fat32 and therefore would format your drive to be fat32. I recommend you backup everything you need or is important. 

Michael Jackson found to be in relation to a child pornography ring....

http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=1553084&nav=7k76JVsb 

Just a friendly, final reminder, Speedmap events will now be annouced only in The Speedmap Thread. I just annouced sm60 in my latest post. 

/me stares in shock and horror 

Yep true, but for some strange reason I drifted to this site and wanted to say hello. Maybe its the underground network news that Bal might release a map! or maybe not ... 

Speedmap events will now be annouced only in The Speedmap Thread. I just annouced sm60 in my latest post.

So... the event is announced in the speedmap thread, but then you announce the annoucement in here...

Cunning. 

...this http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/fantasy/reality.html provoked some thought. The word "map" here has interesting resonances. 

nonentity: Thanks for the subjective reading. That's the last time it'll ever be mentioned here, plus this week is the first week it's been annouced there. Someone would be sure to miss it and cry to me afterwards if I didn't. 

http://www.naked-i.com/flash/winter/create.html

The resemblence between me and my snowman ( http://www.cursesandepithets.com/photos/snowman.jpg ) is incredible.