| MONDAY, JULY 5, 1999 |
I
use a Wacom digital tablet. It's around US$250, and worth every cent.
Illiad
*SIGH*.... Enjoy... LAGGED OUT
* Comic Later
This Eve... (1:15 PM, EST)
After a day of amusement
at a waterpark, eating killer Indian food and whatnot with a beautiful
chick I found myself too drained to complete the comic, it should be up
by this evening.... The Indian restaurant rocked, they ignored the lady
since women are shunned in their society and only talked to me, when we
asked for more iced tea (which is AWESOME) they brought me a glass, and
not her... I was laughing my ass of... FYI, Indian food make look like
baby poo, but it tastes great :)
* Evil Has A Website
Fadz had this link posted
the other day, and upon following it I found the most disturbing and twisted
website I have EVER seen. It is a religious fanatic page reviewing the
South Park movie. A snip or two:
*South
Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut* (R) -- WARNING! This analysis is
blunt.
*South Park* is another movie straight from the smoking pits of Hell.
*South
Park* is an *incredibly dangerous* movie for those who do not
understand
or are developing an understanding of the Gospel .......
INCREDIBLY
dangerous.
131
uses of the most foul of the foul words by children
119
uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary by children
I emailed the bossman a long and educated list of reasons why he and his group are truly twisted and that they make children warped little monsters.... You can too... : http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm And hit their main page for other reviews... The Matrix review is funny too ;) I added this site to my Humor inks....
* Ingava
A website dedicated to:
...the best downloadable freeware and online games. No gimmicks. No misleading links. Just the best... free fun games. Period!
Sounds good to me. http://www.ingava.com/
* Seperated At
Birth (Rine)
Gamecenter has posted another
funny seperated at birth list about video game characters and creators...
Can you say Pac-Man and Mike Tyson?
http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Separated/
* TaskInfo
If you're a hardcore gamer
(I am) you want your box running at maximum capacity for your games, so
you close all kinds of utilities to free RAM, and leave open those who
claim they 'use little or no RAM'. This utility shows realtime memory/CPU
consumption of each proggy that is currently running, then you can close
all offending proggies for maximum gaming. W00T!
http://www.iarsn.com/
* Giants Screenshots
If you haven't heard of
Giants shame on you. This is the game which has a main character that is
a topless female... Interested now? :) Here's a couple few screenshots
showing some action, numbers three and four show our topless heroin in
action :)
http://www.riva3d.com/giants/1.jpg
http://www.riva3d.com/giants/2.jpg
http://www.riva3d.com/giants/3.jpg
http://www.riva3d.com/giants/4.jpg
* CDex 1.20 Beta
v.5
This kickazz CD ripper has
a new version. Features:
*
Direct recording of multiple tracks
*
Read track information from cdplayer.ini file
*
Read track information from local/remote CDDB
*
Jitter correction
*
Indicates track progress and jitter control
*
Normalization of audio signal
*
Supports multiple drives
*
Conversion of external WAV files
*
Support for M3U and PLS play list files
*
Best of all, it's free
Get it: http://members.tripod.com/%7Ecd2mp3/index.htm
* A Brief History
Of South Park
Not up on your South Park
history, this sums it up, especially in how South Park became a hit online
long before it ever hit TV. I saw The Spirit Of Christmas close to a year
before South Park hit TV from some dude who had a crappy copy on video
in Morgantown during my WVU days... Ahhh memories...
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/southpark/
* #126 REALLY
OBESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO SHIRTLESS
Shivering at the memory
of the fat family at the water park.....
* LINK OF THE
DAY
Satan.com
For you Christian freaks...
| SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1999 |
| Command-Line Option | Description |
| basedir | sets location of "main" directory if not ./ |
| cddir | sets location of files on the game CDRom |
| dedicated | sets the game in dedicated server mode |
| in_initjoy | set to 0 to disable joystick initialization |
| in_initmouse | set to 0 to disable mouse initialization |
| noipx | disable ipx network protocol support |
| noudp | disable udp tcp/ip network protocol support |
An example batch file would be: kingpin.exe +set developer 1 +set in_initjoy 0
* Carmack On K7
And More Fixes
AMD
K7 cpus are very fast.
Some timedemo numbers (a new demo, not comparable to previous scores):
Run
at 640*480*16 bit color to emphasise the cpu/driver performance rather
than the hardware fill rate.
| K7-600 | K7-550 | PIII-500 | |
| TNT2 ultra 16 bit | 73.9 | 68.5 | 53.8 |
| Voodoo3 3000 16 bit | 70.5 | 65.2 | 46.0 |
This is with K7 optimized drivers vs seperate PIII optimized drivers.
There is still wiggle room there in that it is possible that more effort was expended to make the AMD drivers perform better. That is perfectly valid from a consumer's point of view, but muddies the technical CPU comparison.
On identical code run on the systems, there was some more interesting data:
On my map processing tools, the K7 was faster than the PIII, but only slightly more so than the reletive clock rate increase. I would guess that this is due to larger data sets that don't fit in cache as well.
On the matrox OpenGL drivers, which have not been optimized very much and (to my knowledge) contain no PIII specific code, the K7 was a LOT faster.
The bottom line is that I feel comfortable standing behind the statement that the K7 is faster than the PIII. I will have to wait for some stuff to come out of NDA to provide a more detailed technical analysis.
Architectural cleverness is all well and good, but if AMD can't keep the clock speed up with intel, they will still fall behind. A 700 mhz PIII would probably find a lot of applications (especially integer apps) where it would outperform a 600 mhz K7.
*
stabilized cg_showfps
*
added append support to module file opening
*
automatic logging of game scores to games.log
*
fixed guantlet firing action
*
force a vid_restart on WM_DISPLAYCHANGE messages
*
fixed sticking on stairs on very fast framerates
*
fixed sticking on stair when jumping
*
fixed sticking in corner while falling physics bug
*
fixed slide down steep slope physics bug
*
r_showimages texture use debugging tool
*
cg_freezeDemo cvar
*
cg_drawSnapshot cvar
*
fixed warnings after demo playback
*
changed "stopdemo" to "stoprecord"
*
fixed phantom windows on task bar after exit
*
check for unset player animation
*
fixed the snap-down-look-up bug with very high sensitivities
*
reduce inflicted damage by handicap
*
all pmove results as events for proper demo playback
* Kingpin Linux
Server And Load Times
Bout
time laddies..... lawd knows real servers ops only run Linux.....
First, the response to Kingpin Deathmatch and Teamplay (BagMan) has been great. However, this has caused a severe shortage of servers, so I have been working feverishly on the linux dedicated server port, which I'm happy to say is ready for small-scale testing.
So, the first six server ops running Linux glibc 2.1 to come forward willing to test out this early build, will be put on my short beta testing list. Hopefully this first stage of testing will go smoothly and if so, the linux server will be just a few days away.
And on LOOOOOONG load times:
Now,
another "possible" solution to the long CD loads (again, I can't test these
out,
since
none of our machines exhibit the problem). This courtesy of <a href="http://www.rcook.com">Randy
Cook</a>.
1) Save your current game in the Save Game menu.
2) Exit Kingpin
3) Put the Kingpin CD in the tray, but leave the tray open.
4) Start Kingpin
5) At the main menu, select "Game" then "Load Game". Do not start game yet.
6) Close the CD tray.
7) Select your saved game, and begin playing.
Hopefully this will help things out, but again, I have no idea if this will work.
* Linux vs. Windows
2000
This
ZDNet article compares the two, but I'll skip to the verdict:
The Verdict
If Windows 2000 meets its goals, it will be a big step forward for operating systems. But development delays have put it months away from hitting the shelves.
Meanwhile,
Linux is reliable and available now-- although usability snags and limited
support make it a better server than desktop OS. As big-name software vendors
and support continue to emerge,
Linux
will remain a serious contender.
Read: http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/showtell/jump/0,3658,2276590,00.html
* U.S. Marine
Corps announces new "Geek Corps" (Fraggy)
This
rocks, it's a total slam on the government bs about video game combat simulators...
"You don't learn to be an effective killer just by sitting in front of your damn computer pushin' some candy-ass piece of beige plastic around. Without the right equipment and the correct training, these fine games aren't going to qualify you for combat any better than Windows freakin' Solitaire."
Read: http://www.dansdata.com/usmgc.htm
* #125 WHINERS
NEVER WIN
Whining
gets you nowhere, but a shallow grave.... for being annoying....
* LINK OF THE
DAY (Rine)
This
one is a ftp, but the content is worth it, thousands of anime pics. AnimeUnderground
