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(6/10/97) Want a taste of Quake WonderLANd? ok. :)

Everyone go get ICQ. My UIN is 1527897.

SeRaPH took 2nd in TOP3 on DM6 with 43 frags! Cool. Go check it out.

(6/9/97) hi. W0W, i haven't updated forever. This summer i will be opening 2 cool new websites: Quake WonderLANd and Mind Breakers II (name subject to change).

Hopefully, i will have help from the guy who runs the LAN Party Connexion page for Quake WonderLANd. Mind Breakers: The Quickening (see, told ya the name could change at any time and i'm sure it'll change again) will be based on the original Mind Breakers site.

(4/17/97) CTF 4 is out and it rocks. Also go to sCary's and check out some of those demos. They're cool.

(4/10/97) w00. Just got a new cdrom and 3dfx card. They're awesome! 3dfx quake is so cool! So is 3dfx tombraider, whiplash, mech2, vr soccer, and descent2. :)

(4/3/97) id has put out 2 new 32 player levels called death32 and base32 designed for the new quakeworld.

The amd K6 chip is OUT. but currently only in systems :( i read some reviews of it here and there, and it sounds great. There's one thing that gets me thinking, tho.
Excerpt from Tom's Hardware Guide K6 Page:

(3/24/96) id level designer Tim Willits just got himself a nice car.

(3/23/97) i just installed Red Hat Linux. It's good and the installation process was a long and frustrating one.

(3/21/97) Doh. Sorry C][pher but here's a llama patch including new model. Damn.

We should have a LAN party next weekend. We need one bad cause we're so out of practice. i know i am. Hmmm, maybe i'll try running a linux server. :)

(3/20/97) I got a very cool new deathmatch camera patch called KasCam. It floats around until it finds someone, then it locks in on them and enters follow mode and shows the status (health, armor, ammo) of the targetted player. I can't wait to make some LAN demos with this. Also, i got Scourge of Armagon. It's great.

(3/18/97) Check out this k-rad demo of PoLiSh vs. Redw00d on dm3. These guys are *expert* deathmatchers.

Check out this neeto mouse.

(3/10/97) Hey guys, welcome to (what is the beginning of) our new improved site. See where it says "news" up at the top? Hover the cursor over it, then take the cursor off. Nifty special effects, eh? It's called javascript. Don't ask me how i figured it out, because i'm actually still in the process. ;) The site will get better, too. This is just kind of something i did (took me a while out of my demo watching and tetrinetting time, btw) to show c][pher that he is working on all those cool graphics for a reason. So he loses his touch with the actual game of Quake so we can beat him down at LAN parties. i'm kidding of course. Say that reminds me, i'm getting a little rusty with my game and after watching some awesome demos of assorted winners of reaper contests, i know i have much room for improvement. i sometimes have a hard time keeping up with Seraph, a certified KEYBOARDER for gosh sakes. My land! i gots to go practice my game. Btw, scourge of armagon by hipnotic kicks major ass and in my opinion, most of the levels in the pack are better than the original id ones. And sCary's working for them! i read somewhere (must have been in pointcast) about 3d game creator's starting salaries and it said artists start at over $30,000/year , level/gameplay designers make $50,000-70,000/year (that's sCary) , and programmers make over $100,000. And i'm sure Carmack gets much more than that. He has 4 ferraris! Oh yeah, i'm leaving now. And maybe i should change the textcolor to yellow-orange. :)

(2/26/97): Vacation came and went and we had a 4way lan and a 2 way lan. it was good. Plus, checkout our spiffy new background graphic. i tell you, our clan artist just keeps getting better and better. (Rumor has it he's even reading the Corel Draw help files now. wow!) Plus, he made a skin for the crackwhores as if you didn't already know. Hopefully he wins so he can bring the "undergarment" to lan parties. Now, we just need a better banner graphic, among others. Egads that banner looks ugly now in contrast.

(2/26/97)Check out the quake rally demo and winquake .992

Vacation will be here by the time any of you read this, most likely, so that's good. LAN party (5 way please???) at C][pher's starting saturday after jazz band which gets done at noon and we'll keep playing straight until too many people have collapsed for a decent game. ;) We'll hafta play with CTF, the severed patch, and maybe team fortress too. CTF fricking rocks so get idctf1 by Tim Willits of id and koc1 by Zoid.

We need to revamp this site. It's got some good stuff and actually i could expand and put more like a how-to LAN page and a page for the art of Tweak Foo perhaps, but we'll need some leet graphics from C][pher because my s00per leet words and html can only go so far. Also, we need to get the pics from the first LAN at The_Kemp's that Behemoth took with his cheap ass $2 camera. He claims that only 3 actually came out! Hot damn that's gotta be a record for crappiest roll of film ever! He even got money refunded to him because they felt sorry for him.

30 frags is my best so far for Top3 on DM6. i'll keep trying, as you all should.

Ok, i'm an idiot, what can i say? i uploaded a 2 way demo between The_Kemp and Seraph on kndycity (2 keyboarders going at it is an ugly thing ;) and i claimed that it was a three way. Oops. Well i found the real 3 way demo and kndybase so have a look if you dare. Player is Seraph, as i recall.

The aforementioned page has a cool ongoing reaper raping league type thing called Top3 so go see it and be sure to exec their script sometime during your demo.

(2/11/97) i found a page that is up to date on all the quake related contests that are going on. It's called Skillz.

(2/10/97) Here's the demo we made at The_Kemp's house. i'll make no guarantees on the quality of this demo :)
Also, i need to link to the ctf bot page sometime. Oh, i just did.

(2/8/10) Get this for easy file transfer on the LAN: ipxfer

(2/7/97) It doesn't look like we'll be able to play LAN this weekend unless it's at C][pher's sunday after we get back from Big Rock. Oh well, we'll have plenty of time over february vacation in a week. Ok, now for the actual news. Winquake (version .99) is here, for one and i guess that's good. Another thing: dammit, my cpu isn't here yet. That sucks. Iv'e been playing some ctf lately and i put the scores up on the lag page. I beat Behemoth's ass at dm2 AND dm4 on thursday, and that was kinda fun. Kandyman is working on a new level that is as yet unnamed but you gotta check out his levels page. He's looking for a four letter word that has a watery theme and is cool for the new level. No, not PISS, that is not acceptable ;) i updated that page that has my .rc file on it, so c][pher can leave me alone about it now. Ok, ok. Now for the real news: sCary's got a new demo contest! It's on dm4 vs a skill 3 reaper timelimit 4 and fraglimit 20. Ah, but there's a twist! You must kill the bot at least once in the demo with each of weapons 5-8. That's right, you can't just score every frag with your rocket launcher. Sure sCary, as if getting 20-0 vs a skill 3 reaper bot isn't tough enough, now we gotta use the grenade launcher on it? Ouch. I'll take a shot at it.

(1/24/97)Behemoth and i just got done playing some LAN Quake on Kandy Base. Yes, we made a demo (3.4mb). For a full 10 page review, refer to the newly opened empyrean LAN page.

Looking for an easy to use and simple map editor? It won't get any easier than this. You design the map with ascii text in edit! Wow.

Yay! Midterms are done. Now i can sleep... ok, not really, because it's time to LAN! me and Behemoth are gonna play some 2-way net Quake tonight (maybe we'll record a .dem or two...) and then hopefully we can play 4-way at The_Kemp's place on sunday. That'l be cool. I'll be the server, i think, and guess what? Next week i'll have that nice new p200. Cool, but too bad it didn't come today.

(1/19/97) Guys, read the reasons to be happy section, please. There's some good stuff in there. Also, i'm thinking of putting up a marquee (java perhaps?) to have the latest clan news or cool stuff on it at the top of the page. What do you think? And i think i'll shrink some of C][pher's graphics, cause this page takes too long to load on a 28.8

You'd never guess what i just got done doing. Hey, don't be sick! ;> i was playing Doom2! 3-way no less! It was so awesome! Man, if you have played a lot of Quake, you probably forgot by now what it fells like to play lag free. Let me tell you, it f*cking rocks. This makes me look forward to the LAN even more. BTW, i won 35-13-11 and for half of it, it was 2 on 1 (me being the 1). And it was on a pwad i had never played before. And i hadn't played since hmmm, last July maybe? That was a great game. But enough about me, let's talk about the LAN. I've got some news. I have the drivers working great (see pic below) but we need some cables and for that i'll have to order through the mail. Yeah, i know, it's sad, but hopefully we'll get the stuff for next weekend. We can only hope. Plus, i'm gonna retire my faithful old drink-stained falling apart mouse pad for a brand new one just in time for LANning. Yippie. Bids will be accepted on the old one starting at $666. Now a message from The_Kemp: "Use condoms and don't do drugs." heheh

FragNet revived!
Catch me on irc and i'll dcc you the necessary software.

i *spanked* Zeek (the kid who knows c++) saturday on e1m1 19 - 4. It was fun. What makes it even better is he was the server (14.4 modem) and i had like 340 ms of lag. i feel worthy right now. =P

Must study for midterms. Ugh.

Never fear, i shall figure out the network stuff. As those little C&C guys would say... "i'm on it!" btw, the cables may be slightly more expensive than i originally thought. Oh well, it's money well spent says i.

Here are some deathmatch tips from the QuakeLab, heheh. If you hear him yelp after tapping his head with a rocket, chase him down and fire constantly. The noise and near misses will cause him great distress and destroy any chance of his making a good on-the-fly tactical decision. Chop to shreds and serve crisped or chilled. Always know that your opponents suck. Simple as that. They're all Lame-O's. You know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it too. So stop worrying about your safety, hoist that Rocket Launcher, and the hell with where he is. Shark mode. No stopping. Always swimming. You'll find him. And always take the high ground. Kamikaze all the way. The meek may inherit the earth, but is that really fun? Weapons and health first. Roast 'em and toast 'em, baby. No fear. <gasp> We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

(1/17/96) Midterms are approaching. Damn. Oh yeah. The cards are here. Yay. Too bad we can't play till next weekend, but i'll be messing around trying some stuff with it till then. =)

There was another Quakecast last night at 8:30, and i listened to it (well, kind of. quite choppy) while on the official server and channel. it was cool except at the end they asked a trivia question which just about everyone in the room answered and then they said "oh, well, noone could figure it out, so we won't give away this free cd of additional music for quake. better luck next week. and that was the end of the broadcast :[ Their irc person was lagged really bad (worse even than a lot a of us 28.8'ers!)

(1/14/ 97) i'm fixing blec up a little so now it lists not only your bsp's but ::gasp:: optionally your dem's as well! Believe me, it was quite a simple change, and i didn't need that foolish directory list box anyway. ;)

C][pher made some leet skins for us! Check them out! i submitted one to be reviewed at the Clan Fashion Page and they put it up on the clan skins section with the following description:"Give me the ring my sssweetie...er...well I guess there's a little Gollum in all o' us, right? Lotsa knives and armor on this dude. Btw, did you know that Gandalf has actually moved to Mora?" Ok. I don't think that was a bad comment. They aren't Tolkien-impaired (to coin a phrase) at least. =) We'll just have to wait for the full review when it's skin of the month... 00ps! C][pher i'm real sorry about them listing me as the designer and i have already emailed them with the correction. BTW, gonads are for boys as well as girls, even on starfish. ;)

LAN news: It is now friday. The cards were supposed to be here on monday, dammit! i just called in and they said the cards are out of stock! doh! Now we probably won't be able to play until after midterms. Ah well... there's always skiing.

Another very cool thing, i talked to Kandyman tonight on efnet irc just minutes after he had uploaded the final version of kndycity to his clan's geocities account (the version we had was an earlier pre-release version.) It went fairly well considering the 29 seconds of lag between us. He recognized my name from the 2 or 3 emails we traded a couple months ago, w00. i learned a few things from/about him like his clan (gib Disco), the url (see the link), the compile time of kndycity.bsp (approx 3 hours, 16 min total, wow.), that he lives in Vienna, Austria, that his next level, kndyforg(e), based on a single Quake][ screenshot (maybe one of you remembers seeing it, i know i did, it's the one with the silver metal and it almost looks like part of moonbase.bsp, if you've seen that, but anyway there's a 640x480 screenshot of it at the gib Disco site) wow, where was i? oh yeah, kndyforg is but a few hours from completion so we may see a copy of that out this weekend. Cool. Hmmm, other stuff we talked about... Oh yeah, i suggested that he record a demo of the secrets/tricks/traps in kndycity, such a complex level, and he said it was a good idea and he'd record one and post it on his clan site this weekend. wewp. Finally, when i asked him what level editor he uses and recommends, he said quest, by far, and so i may just give up on worldcraft (although it's cool) and go with quest cause if it's good enough for the Kandyman it's gotta be good. ok, i gotta go to sleep now. btw, i played a skill 3 reaper on dm4 today and got my ass kicked extremely bad. Ouch, need practice.

(1/6/97) Me and Behemoth are going to take a stab at making our own BSP's for Quake. Yeah, it brings back fond memories of making sectors and linedefs in DEU. Actually, when you get used to it, it seems like 3d editing for quake may end up being easier than editing doom WADs was. Cool. We downloaded Worldcraft because it seems to be everyone's favorite, and it kicks ass. I love playing with it, and i have so much to learn.

About the clan LAN: We've ordered the ethernet cards last week ($104 for 4 cards, S&H is a bitch) and they should be here today! (monday, ugh) W00! It's too bad they didn't come in last friday, cause then we would have had the weekend to play, but oh well, we'll be playing all day next saturday, so that should be mad phun. Also, i'm working on the layout of the LANquake page (feel free to try to think up a cool alternate name for it) and i haven't decided whether or not i want to use frames.

(12/29/96) After hearing a lot around the internet about how quake runs so much better on a local network and LAN play is the way quake was meant to be played and, of course, experiencing how much playing on the internet with a 28.8 modem connection SUCKS, i started looking into how much one would cost for the five of us. Yes, all of our current members live in the same area. Coincidence? I think not. :) After doing some surfing around and talking to Colin Stewart (aka WolfRaven on efnet #quake) who is a very cool guy, i learned enough about LANs to pick out the hardware we'll need and found, much to my delight, that we can get 5 PCI cards for $95. Plus shipping and handling, of course. This great deal is brought to you by Nutrend Computers at 1-888- 482-6678. yay. Of course, it'll be a little extra for the cable, T adapters, and terminators, but not too bad. Oh yea, when i was scouring the web for info on setting up a lan for quake and the costs and instructions and all that stuff, i found very few sites that had good information. There were like four, as i recall, so maybe i can offer something to quake players everywhere that are as f*cking sick of lag as we the members of clan empyrean. i might set up a page with info about how to choose, buy, set up, and run your very own quake LAN for you and your friends. This is just an idea, and it may never happen due to my lazyness. Oh well, being lazy does have some drawbacks, i guess. btw, the midi playing if you have ie3.0+ is closer by nin and um, i think it's kind of relavant because it's closer as in "you get me closer to god" and we're supposed to be a clan of gods and stuff. Also, members should see the stuff page.