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Marathon The Marathon's Story Page has more references to Cortana, The Halo Ring page posts new information and a call for a Java Minotaur. Myth updates, The Mill starts to come back online and some interesting info at the MMMC. Well, this page speaks for itself. It's continuing trek to take over the Seti lead and great information on some new movies.
Yes, even the PID page has been updated with new posts as you travel down towards the bottom of the pyramid.
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MWSF Movies These have been available for a week now, but we've finally put up a web page for them. Go and grab the movies Miguel Chavez (aka Freewill)
recorded at MacWorld a few weeks ago!
Our Myth page has word of a new mapping group, Notio Mortus. Go read about it.
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Marathon While on #bungie this evening, I overheard Bo Lindbergh visiting about his efforts to get a working copy of the Marathon 2 Source Code. So as it is, here is a link to grab his latest build. He has posted the following on A.G.M. No obvious bugs left. One non-obvious bug, a few seconds after switching to a new level, assert(queue->read_index!=queue->write_index) in line 355 > of player.c fails. Weird. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marathon Late update, John Zero wrote in last night concerning his latest update over at the Orphanage. A good update with some
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Marathon Some interesting images have been sent into The Marathon's Story Page. Although it might be wild speculation, it's still something. At least for all
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Marathon More references to Blam are posted this morning. The Oni,
Halo and Story Page all have
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Bungie Org Hotline Special thanks to Peter Cooner(petri@bungie.org) for another, all new, Bungie Org HotLine Server. Late yesterday evening I decided that it was time
to put up another HL Server. This was mainly due to the need for disk space and the need to specialize. Within two hours, Pete had the new
server up and running and within 15 minutes Claude(errera@bungie.org) had the name plugged into the DNS. Bungie Org Hotline Server 1 - hl.bungie.orgIf you are new to Hotline, I suggest you go here to snatch up a client. Once you have the client, click on the connect button and type in hl.bungie.org, or hl2.bungie.org and then hit connect. Both of the servers are linked together, so if you are on one or the other, you will be able to talk to others on either server. Special thanks to Pete for his work and to Claude for his help. Marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MacWorld Movies
Kudos to Freewill, who has released the movies he made while at MacWorld San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
The subject matter is pretty wide-ranging... but some of it's quite good! (Check out the Marty O'Donnell interview
especially.) They're all available via ftp here, and should be available on either of the two b.org hotline servers (hl.bungie.org or hl2.bungie.org) by morning. Enjoy!
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Marathon The release of the Source Code has definitely started the Marathon Community buzzing again. The possibility of a port
over to Linux is in the works along with more and more "remarks" being found in the code. Go see what it's all about. The Oni page has posted a link to another Oni web site that has appeared on the web. While you are there, check out the forums. The idea of a
"traffic" system in Oni is posing some interesting questions. The Myth page has some interesting comments about some Myth sites. Updates on some tournaments along with
some more news on MMC are all posted this morning. Catch the Halo forum? That seems to be the main topic these days. If you're not careful, you could miss a whole thread of posts. The amount of
posting that is happening is quite unusual for a game that is still pretty far away from release. The Halo page has also posted Halo art and a brand new Halo fiction section. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marathon More Source Code information then you can shake a stick at. The Marathon's Story Page
has the best
information concerning this new toy released by Bungie. You won't want to miss the new development list server that
has already been set up to field/answer questions concerning this latest find. I am currently working on permission to post it at the Bungie Org Hotline Server. Hopefully
today I can provide a mirror. Halo sites everywhere. I am constantly amazed at the number of Halo sites that are sprouting up on the web. The Halo
page this morning has news concerning more sites and what they might contain very soon. The Myth page has two more MMC updates. Make sure to check out the films and catch up on where everyone stands. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marathon The Marathon
2 Source Code? Well, yes, but in a unique way. Go grab it and
let us know what you The Halo page has had some problems recently due to the high volume of visitors. It looks as if all is fixed for now
but make sure to check out all their listed mirrors. Halo sites are still coming up all over the net and the crew has the latest
info. The Marathon's Story Page has some very cool news items today. Everything from a conception of the Halo floor to news concering Cortana. The Oni page comes up with another webreview today. There are two new screenshots, although one looks very familiar.
Bungie has upped Day 4 of bTV to their archives, and we've hacked out the Halo footage for those who can't handle the 277 meg download. We also have a page of screens from
the file, in case you want to see what you're getting. Head on over and check it out!
Unbeknownst to us, our mirror of the Marathon Spoiler Guide has been broken for a while... we've finally fixed it up. Need hints? We've got 'em!
Oni
Oni Central reports about a development update, straight from the horse's mouth. Read it for yourself!
Myth
Mac Voodoo3 owners can finally play MythII! The 1.3.1 patch is out. Go read about it!
Thanks to Alex Vallens, who sent in three new Marathon films from the National Macintosh Gaming Championships,
and corrected some mistakes in the original readme. If you haven't grabbed the films yet, the entire set (old and new)
can be found at the original locations (2.3 MB):
Full Pack Site 1 Full Pack Site 2
If you DID grab them already, and don't care about the readme errors, you can snag just the new films (650k):
New Films Site 1 New Films Site 2
Enjoy!
There are now 6 mirrors for the 15-megabyte Halo clip from bTV's Day 3 broadcast. This is good... because Day 4 was just posted at the bTV archive, and as
soon as we can get the 280 megabyte monster downloaded and hacked up, we'll put up the Halo footage. I wonder how Akamai is doing?
On the heels of the last update I just made comes Orbital Arm with brand new files. For all the Win95
Marathon junkies out there, I have been notified that these files will be a great addition to your map levels.
The Archives once again has received and posted some great files.
Marathon 2, Marathon 2 for Win, whatever you are looking for, we have them!
The Oni page has had some problems lately. We have been experiencing
some "files do not exist" errors on the Oni Central Archives page. Thanks to some swift work, these errors have
now been corrected. Some updated news this morning over at the Marathon Scenario News page. A few updates on some ongoing projects along with some
comments from project leaders. The Marathon's Story Page has posted news concerning the members of the Halo team. Bungie Net III?
The Oni Forum board seems to have taken off recently. Topics ranging from net play to character development have been
the latest threads. More webreviews concerning Oni and MacWorld have been found, although most contain the same info.
Jump over and grab the "new" Halo movie. While not new, it is still new footage.
The Myth page has posted an update to The Myth Master Challenge. For those that are involved in this contest make sure to check out the latest films.
Huge Thanks to both Mac3D.com and Double Exposure for their help in obtaining the films to the Marathon
finals and semifinals of the National Macintosh Gaming Championships 2000 Series. There are several films, and the archive is
a bit under 2 megabytes, so we've put them on two servers:
Enjoy! (The Myth II films should be ready in the next couple of days.)
Our last images from MacWorld are now posted. Be warned, although the images on the page are only 20K, it
takes a while for it to download. This was sent into the Bungie Org Hotline Server. Take from it as you wish.
The latest Oni news on the Oni page is the
Oni door poster. It looks like Matt is back at it already getting in on a thread over
at our forum page. (that's sure a lot of Oni's in a row)
Matt Soell was cornered into answering a few questions from roving reporter Claude Errera at MacWorld
last week, and the Bungie.org Hotline crew threw in a few questions of their own.
Please don't blame Matt. He wasn't entirely sober.
MacWorld is over but we still have MacWorld images for you. Due to some
difficulties, we weren't able to put them up yesterday. Make sure to be checking our
MacWorld page today for the latest. Many many updates this morning over at The Marathon's Story Page. Too numerous to list, but
some good reading to say the least. The latest in Halo information concerning new Halo sites, new Halo
web information and new Halo comments straight from the forums. The Oni forums are full of new posts concerning Underwater play to the latest with the exiting of Brent Pease. More links
to Oni thoughts and remarks concerning MacWorld are listed for your curiosity. Thanks to Darian Drake,
Director of Operations for Mac3D dot
com, for
straightening out the miscommunication yesterday regarding competition
films (and their distribution). He has facilitated the recovery of many
(or possibly all) of the films, and wanted to make it clear that any
problems getting these was due to misunderstanding, not malice. (Once again,
the problem came from a Double Exposure employee, and it was probably
a result of a misimpression that we were trying to scoop Mac3D.com on what
is rightfully their coverage.)
Due to some colossal unfriendliness on the part of (some of) the staff
As mentioned last night, I am still waiting on more from MacWorld. Clem did send
4 shots to me last night before his camera batteries bit the dust. Jump on over and
take a look. Link 1 Link 2 More Oni shots coming in this morning. Late
last night, there was an update with the new Halo/Oni shots that are featured over
at Gamespot UK. The Oni screens were shown yesterday but the Halo community now has
something new to look at. The Halo page has all the links posted to
the latest screens as mentioned above. Friday, the end of week and as usual some great "reads" over at The
Marathon's Story Page. Make sure you take the time to read Freewill's post over
at the core. (Hamish has a link)
It looks like our second MacWorld report is going to be a little bit late today.
So make sure to check back later on or early tomorrow morning. I have reposted our
link to our first day coverage again for any that need it. Link
1 Link 2 Oni news? We seem to be overflowing with it tonight. It is nice to have so much
that we just keep posting almost every two hours. An "unofficial" Oni movie
has been found along with some more general comments on Oni gameplay. Make sure to
check the Oni page. The Halo forum is full of new posts this
evening and even though Oni seems to be the MacWorld main attraction, there are reports
of new Halo shots along with some new Halo art.
Make sure not to miss our own Bungie Org report from MacWorld. I am providing
two links to help some with the bandwidth. Link
1 Link 2
Bungie Org at MacWorld.
Special thanks to Claude Errera , Clem
Freeman,Harry Al-Shakarchi!
MacWorld has started with a bang, and we here at Bungie Org will only be reporting
on MacWorld and Bungie Games. Our first report is in and at this time I am compiling,
getting some approval's and waiting on the last images before it goes up. Check back
in a couple of hours for the latest Bungie Org MacWorld report. In the meantime,
Harry has been busy burning up the local internet stops and visiting with his MacWorld
ties to bring you the latest concerning Oni. I will make note here that there is
a report on the Inside Mac Games web site that states that Oni followers might be
a bit dissapointed due to a late 2000 release. I was just contacted by a very good
source in Bungie with this: Please regard the post at IMG concerning Oni as pure speculation.
You will probably notice that most of our pages have gone a bit stale these last
two days. This is primarily due to the members of Bungie Org that are at MacWorld.
I will start receiving images and news this evening, so make sure to check back later
tonight for our first MacWorld update. The Marathon's Story Page has some
updates this morning for all of us that are eager to hear the keynote. Thanks to
Hamish for providing direct links to the correct page over at Apple. There is also
the note of Bungie picking up the tab for FreeWill's get together. The Mill is having some temporary problems
right now. We ask for your patience as some of the bugs in the transfer get worked
out. It should be back up and running full steam very soon. A few more Halo sightings around the web
today along with some good forum posts.
Well it seems that Bungie dot Com is now back
up. The Bungie Tv page is now back online as well. Go take a look!
Well it seems that Bungie dot Com is back
online. But nothing new as of yet. : (
Thanks to everyone who wrote in concerning the Bungie TV press announcement. For
the full release I suggest you go to The
Marathon's Story page. Some Oni updates along with an Alex Okita
home page update. This page does have a bit of Oni information. You might have to
search, but it's there. I missed it last night but thanks to "bloodhound"
Tomeone's eagle eyes, we now know there is some Oni news there.
Thanks to Pfhor for the heads up on this. Bungie
TV is supposed to go live this week. Make sure to check out the link and for
a related link, go here. Wednesday, January 5th--1:00 to 1:30pm PST Thursday, January 6th--10 to 10:30am PST Friday, January 7th--10 to 10:30am PST Saturday, January 8th--10 to 10:30am PST
The Marathon's Story Page just
posted some more news from Bungie's #1 fan, Miguel Chavez. You lucky few that will
be at MacWorld make sure to take some time to visit the "gathering".
Three hundred dollars to the winner? ($300) Make sure to check out the grand prize
in the Mill contest that has just been announced.
The Myth page has a new Myth Master Challenge
posted along with some news concerning new projects.
The Archives at Bungie org has just updated
with some new files. A nice shapes addition along with a new net map.
The Oni page has just received an email from
former project lead of Oni. Worth a read to say the least.
The Halo page has been updated with a few
new tidbits of information, but, more then that, a new look? Take a look and let
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