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April 2000 Archived News |
| April 28, 2000, 10:17 am Friday night, got tears in my eyes... |
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Oni Oni Central's got news of a nice little PS2 preview for Oni. Good to see! Pathways Into Darkness A mystery nobody ever noticed before! Wow. There's gold in them thar hills. Halo Help, finally, for those suffering from SETI psychosis!
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| April 28, 2000, 2:07 am BoomBoomBoomBoom Marathon... |
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Marathon Orbital Arm posts updates about Trojan for M2/Win, a Big House inmate... and makes a request. The Big House is also home to Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge... as some 3500 of you seem to already know. bungie.org has served over 40 gigs worth of this scenario in the past 4 days... a new record for us. By a long shot. If you're enjoying it... let us know! New maps at the Archives... have we no common sense? (We just regained a bit of our bandwidth...) The best Bungie game ever made? The Story page has the lowdown... Aleph One plows on to version 0.10 (that's zero point ten, not zero point one zero), with some cool XML stuff, and Steve Israelson pops back on the scene... you gotta go to the Source! Pathways Into Darkness What does Firesign Theatre have to do with Stanley Kubrick? Only the dead know. Myth You've got about 61 hours before the Mill Contest ends... are you ready?
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| April 26, 2000, 8:57 am It's the game that just won't die! |
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Marathon More Marathon Scenario News than you can shake a stick at. Alien CDs and Red Hot Faith, all at the Marathon's Story page Pathways Into Darkness Undocumented features? Bungie? No way. |
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| April 26, 2000, 9:57 am Careless? Us? NEVER! |
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Seems we missed a ton of news in our roundup last night. Guess we're gonna try and atone for that now. Marathon Marathon's Story page comes back from its Easter break with guns blazing. New trash term speculation, new Iain Banks info, more of those pesky sevens, and hey-maybe Bungie wants to hire poena.dare? Over at the Source, you got a new saved game editor, more artwork, and news of a mailing list switch. Oh, yeah, and Marathon's been updated to support T&L. Oh, wait, I'm mixing up my Marathon and Halo news. Never mind. Gates of Fenris, a Big House inmate, has updated its screenshots section. Couple of new monster shots... I LIKE that Swarm one. Myth Myth@Bungie.org has news of a new total conversion... take a look, if the standard fare is getting stale for you! Pathways Into Darkness More ways to cheat. Hehe.
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| April 26, 2000, 12:57 am Ooh... that feels better |
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Now that we can breathe again (a few mirrors have been found for Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, and our network connections aren't stretched to their maxima any more), we can bring you some other news. Oni Oni Central scored a nice interview with Marty O'Donnell, of Total Audio, about that company's role in the music of Oni. Go read it! |
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| April 24, 2000, 12:47 pm ActionTrip, eh? |
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Oni
Tired of Halo info? Oni Central's got the lowdown on Oni, courtesy of a new preview! Check it out. |
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| April 24, 2000, 12:37 am It's one big mutha |
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Marathon
Just in case you were feeling like two major scenario releases in two weeks wasn't enough for you... Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, a total conversion for Marathon Infinity that's been in the works for three years now (and a Big House inmate), has officially been released. 31 or 42 megs (depending on the format you choose to download) of pulse-pounding pleasure is yours for the snagging... if you can get to it. (Anyone willing to mirror this puppy... SEND US MAIL!) Trust me... this one's worth it. |
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| April 22, 2000, 10:57 am Santa Claus is comin' to town... |
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Marathon
The Story page closes up shop for Easter... go check out the latest news! XML support in Marathon? Cool! Get the news from the Source. Myth Mythmaster Central updated again... and an interesting tidbit over at the Townhall. Myth III? Hmm... Halo Another rash of art production, and some new sites around the net. Worth a look! Pathways Into Darkness Just in time for Easter... Easter Eggs! (Well, one, anyway.) |
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| April 21, 2000, 10:17 pm The storm's a'coming! |
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bungie.org
Just as a quick note of explanation... we're in the middle of a pretty bad lightning storm here in the northeast. It killed most of b.org's connectivity for a couple of hours this evening... thanks to the local telco, though, the line's back up now. No guarantee there won't be glitches through the night... just wanted to warn everyone. You do everything you can to make sure your power doesn't go out... and the dang phone line gets hit by lightning! You can't win. |
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| April 21, 2000, 7:07 pm Uh, uh, uh, uh, stayin' alive... |
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Marathon
New Open Source maps at the Archives... and more to come. The Marathon resurgence continues!
Looks like the Mill is back up and running... gotta watch them cached pages. |
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| April 21, 2000, 07:07 am Thank God it's Friday! |
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Minotaur
Mike Sheley (aka Blackbeard) wins the Minotaur competition. Hopefully Mike will start work on his Minotaur page... soon!
Warning don't read the PID page today unless you are a hardcore fan!
The Story page gets tough with Mr. T. Orbital Arm to merge with the 10/5 Mapmaker's Group to form THE Win M2 resource.
Our Myth page reports that Darth Maul is alive and well and has set up a Myth mapmaking group called They Might Be Mapmakers (TMBM). Planned projects include SWAT TC and Star Wars TC. No doubt this time round Darth gets to win! ;) |
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| April 20, 2000, 17:17 pm The Hills are Alive... |
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Oni
Dead tree press, and a new poll... Oni Central's the place to go! Halo Ack. Dead dead trees. |
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| April 20, 2000, 7:07 am Brought to you By Committee |
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Myth
Win a copy of Halo in the Fearful Creations Plugin Contest. Create the most outrageous, destructive, humorous, messy, or just plain weird plugin, following the Rules to the letter, and send it in. The creator of the best plugin will win a free, preordered copy of HALO! Contest deadline is May 1st, 2000. Get cracking! |
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| April 19, 2000, 5:47 pm Carnage for the Rest of Us |
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Marathon
The Big House is proud to announce a new inmate: Trojan for M2/Windows. Here's the press release... or just go check out the cool site! On the advice of Dean Dunakin, we've added a date field to the Recruits page entries. Now you can tell how long folks have been asking for! (Sorry, I don't have dates for projects already on the page.) |
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| April 19, 2000, 1:57 am Mill, Mill, where's the Mill? |
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Myth
Guess you shoulda heard it from us sooner... but hey. We were busy with new Marathon maps. Seems The Mill is down... server trouble. They're working on it, though... should be back up soon. The contest deadline has been postponed until the 30th in compensation. Keep working!
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| April 19, 2000, 12:07:07 am Marathon will never die... |
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Marathon
A bunch of new Evil netmaps to be had at the Archives... that Nick Mason guy is pretty prolific! The Scenario That Must Not Be Named has been named. Oops.
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| April 19, 2000, 10:57 am Free the Soul! |
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Oni
Power of Seven talk! Good thing, too... we were about to start with the fingernails. Marathon Zeram, the movie, or Zieram, the animated series? More details to be had at the Marathon's Story page. Halo Interesting results in the latest poll. Where did YOU get your start?
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| April 18, 2000, 11:47 pm In 13 minutes, I turn into a pumpkin. |
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Myth
Wow. ancrik.com got a full makeover. Reminds, me... gotta get my nails done. Them Myth boyz are keepin' on top of it... Marathon Source says... grab that new copy of Aleph One! Pepper spray didn't stop that Scenario News guy from telling us about The Scenario That Must Not Be Named...
Zeram? Is the whole Marathon's Story mythos a sham, stolen from an early 90's schlock film? Tune in next week for more details! (Well, tune in tomorrow, but don't expect more details about this...) There's big things a'happenin' over at the Big House... stay tuned. Halo More art... some folks just keep drawing. We love it! Pathways Into Darkness Excuses for the Cubans... they don't NEED no stinkin' excuses! Oni Oni? News? There ain't no Oni news... Oni's just a hoax. Well, okay, maybe it's real. There's no news today, anyway.
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| April 18, 2000, 8:27 am The bells, the bells! |
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Myth
The National Myth League Tourney has ended. Wanna know more? In other news, Third Coil, a group currently developing Core, has found new digs over at ancrik.com. Marathon Pfhortran, that new scripting language with the nasty name, has had its plans updated again. Check the Source. Looks like Beyond Aurora (a Big House inmate) is looking for some music help... check out the Recruits page, and sign up, soldier! Halo Physics and Art... they go together, like shoo-bop-shoo-wadda-wadda somethingsomethingsomething... |
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| April 17, 2000, 3:37 pm Them dang sevens... |
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Marathon
Interesting speculations about body parts over on the Story page... that guy gets around. Halo FBI activity has increased in New Orleans recently... some think it has something to do with the University of New Orleans' computing department takeover by the mystery man known only as Banzif. Check the Halo SETI Marine stats for more info. |
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| April 17, 2000, 1:07 pm Who says we're slacking? |
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Oni
Matt Soell has some interesting things to say about Oni at E3... read about it at Oni Central! |
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| April 17, 2000, 07:07 am Updated daily or else! |
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Marathon
Marathon contest: Simplici7y Bungie.org is pleased to announce perhaps the coolest Marathon map making competition to date - Simplici7y. It's quite "simple," you must create a level for Marathon 2 / Marathon Infinity that uses exactly seven polygons. No more, no less. Hey, you, in the back, quit your whining; some of the best maps we've played use fewer polygons than that. The idea here is to encourage creativity, so be original. The best maps can win some really cool prizes, including a grand prize of a sealed Marathon Trilogy Box Set, and a copy of Super Marathon for the Pippen! And even if you don't win all that neat stuff, you could be one of six runners up to receive a stylin' Oni mousepad. All the information, including a full list of contest rules, judges for the contest, and a full list of prizes, can be found at the Simplici7y contest page: Head on over there right now and soak up all the information. Remember, making a seven-poly map takes hardly any time and effort. Making it good, now there's the challenge. Are you up to it? |
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| April 16, 2000, 10:34 pm The janitor is on duty... |
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Marathon
The Story Page has desktop pictures, PC Accelerator preview info and some talk on the Marathon to Unreal project. Simulacrum menu?? InputSprocket support for Aleph One, go get it now!! Halo New poll up at halo.bungie.org along with a new wallpaper and other news. Pathways into Darkness A new version of Torch (the Pathways Map Editor) now available. Myth The Mill is down, but Fm is working on it. Some news on the contest available. Oni Oni Central's latest poll asks how you will play Oni. Go vote! |
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| April 13, 2000, 9:30 a.m. 60 hours between updates... FIRE HIM!!! |
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Marathon
Lots of Marathon news in the last couple of days, but the big stuff is at The Big House. Pfh'Joueur, a scenario in the works for a year or two, is DONE! Wait... didn't you hear me? IT'S DONE! Go check it out... or just grab it at the Archives, if you're in too much of a hurry. And while you're there... there's some slick new info about the Muerte Machine. New ideas brewing, also, at the Open Source site. Look at all these people thinking! Do you smell something burning? Fell, Eternal, and more... Scenario News is hopping. The Story page has been going great guns, even if we DON'T update this front page enough... cool news today about Bungie.net happenings. Good thing at least ONE person's still working here! Pathways into Darkness Level rearrangements, sevens... and Cubans that beat Special Forces guys. What's going on? Halo Wow, when Matt decides to be eloquent... watch out!
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| April 10, 2000, 9:00 p.m. Good lord... who's doing this job? |
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Marathon
More Marathon news than you can shake a pfhorstaff at. (Put that back in your pants!) Open Source has word of a level editor for Aleph One in progress. Go, Simon! Tired of your old sound file in netgames? The Archives might have the answer. Then again, it might not.) John Sumner vids another nasty set of maps. Hope you teenagers are paying attention... that guy's in his forties, and he'll whip your ass. Gates of Fenris is looking for mapmakers... sign up, before they get booted out of the Big House for non-completion! Hunters, Jjaro, Latin... when does it stop? Simplici7y... do you have what it takes? Less is more. (Info coming soon. Wait for it, vidboi.)
More shapes file delineation on the PID page.
New fan art and some speculation by PC Gamer. What more could you want?
A poll, LOTS of guns, silly rumors, and more... all here.
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| April 8, 2000, 7:07 a.m. Let's play catch up! |
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Minotaur
As reported on the Story page Max Hoberman (aka Yeroen) <max@bungie.com> (Bungie Software) is running a Minotaur competition. Answer three simple Minotaur questions and win a ton of prizes. The three questions?
Send your answers in a brown sealed envelope to Max at <max@bungie.com>. Only those who can answer need apply for the prestigious and officially sanctioned Minotaur webmaster job.
A helpful tip to avoid the final maze. New PID editing docs from Loren Petrich and a partial listing of the sprites in the PID shapes file. All on the PID page.
The Source reports improved OpenGL performance with the new OpenGL extensions included with Mac OS 9.0.4. However according to reports on a.g.m. there is a major reduction in speed with the latest Quicktime 4.1.1. :( What's up with the number 32767? And no Apple at E3? Forrest Cameranesi bails out! Welcome to the Orphanage. You know you can never leave!
Interview with the MaraMyth TC Development Team
New poll up.
Big ship screenshot. New Halo previews. More theories. More stats. More Halo.
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| April 5, 2000, 9:00 p.m. Life'll Kill Ya... then you're dead |
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Oni
New Oni Screens! And Text! Well, okay, it's in German... but it's translated! Dance a jig! Marathon If you're in the mood for smut, go read a Tower of Babel document serving two and twenty purposes. Eternally unfinished? Fix that! New Aleph One version over at Open Source. And it looks like you can blame Apple for Loren's problems! Cool! Halo They just can't seem to shut up about that GameStar movie. Geez... you'd think it was cool new footage or something. What? It is? Oh, man... GO GET IT! What? It's not available? Then what are they talking about it for? Oh, just go read the dang page... Myth More Myth Master stuff... seems folks are gettin' pretty good at that game. Can you beat 'em? Pathways into Darkness Twelve... Twelve... how does twelve relate to seven, anyway? |
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| April 4, 2000, 6:00 a.m. We're gonna have a party, yeah... all night long |
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| Bungie's Biggest Fan, Miguel Chavez (aka Freewill), has sent us word of a pretty cool gathering... aw, heck, I'll let him tell it. |
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| April 3, 2000, 9:00 p.m. Is it time yet? Is it time? |
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Oni
Them wacky Bungie West folks... what are they up to now? Marathon Marathon? Should we start calling this the Halo's Story site? Where's the marathon news? (Not that we don't like Halo, mind you... Halo Wow. New movies, new screenshots... you'd think this game was coming out soon. Whatever... GO SEE! It's to die for. Myth Dead maintainers, undead maintainers, dead news sites... we can't keep it all straight. They can, though. |
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| April 2, 2000, 11:00 a.m. Headlesses and Phantasms and Zombies, Oh My! |
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Pathways Into Darkness
Woohoo! As seen on the Marathon's Story page, someone's created a rudimentary PID Level Editor! GO GO GO! Marathon And while we're talking about editors, Loren Petrich has released v0.9 of Aleph One. Until the Marathon: Open Source page is updated, you can find it on Loren's AO page. |
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| April 1, 2000, 11:30 p.m. You know there's rumors flying 'round... |
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| Okay, lessee... there was here... and here... and here... and here (but it's gone now)... and here (this one's cool)... oh, yeah, and that big nasty one that bugged people... aren't you glad we're done? |
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| April 1, 2000, 4:30 p.m. Who's your fool, baby? |
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bungie.org
Wow... okay, with a couple of exceptions, we seem to be back to normal. I think. Geez. Thank goodness this only comes once a year. |
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| April 1, 2000, 9:00 a.m. The New Phone Books Are Here! The New Phone Books Are Here! |
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bungie.org
AAAAAAAAA! What happened? |
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