Author Archives: Snake

I had some problems with uploads, so this was the only one I could get up so far: 11071108.exe

Well, after hours of waiting in line and trying tens of different servers I finally got my hands on a copy of CS 1.3 and HL 1.1.0.8. The new scoreboard on CS is pretty swooby, but I’m sure a lot of people will be disappointed with the removal of Bunny-Hopping (I heard it was a server variable?). Well, I’m gonna see if I can get a copy of the new CS and HL up for you guys to DL (an S&L exclusive, decent DL speed for the new CS!).

Oh my god, TweakFiles closed!!! 😡 I loved that site, it had everything that anyone could ever dream of downloading for tweaking. If you don’t wanna have to click the link, here’s their statement about why they closed:

Tweak Files is now officially closed… Our parent company, C|Net, has decided to close the doors to this website. The move is strictly due to the lack of money coming in from Internet advertising and the strong cost of ftp sites.

THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us through the years and we wish you all luck in finding another site to download from — We know it’s not going to be easy.
You are the weakest link, goodbye!

I’m in the process of making a Download Database. It should have links to download all of our favorite tweaks and other apps.

Also, if you live in a hole, Counter-Strike 1.3 is out, aswell as a Half-Life patch. I gotta redo the S&L timedemo, damnit!

As I said, Loogie and I engaged in some two-mouse split-screen Doom Legacy yesterday. It took about 10 minutes to set up the controls and sensitivity, but after that, it ran without a hitch for the two or more hours we played. We only played DM, starting off with Minge and then mostly the classic Addictive and Marines. Some time during X-Rivers in Addictive, Loogie claimed “this is the best gaming experience I’ve had in 10 years”. That’s probably an overstatement, but it certainly was goddamn fun, especially for people who are used to lagging so much. Here’s some screens I grabbed during X-Rivers:

Damnit all, I’m tired of this shit taking over all of the media. I haven’t gotten to watch Letterman all week because of this mass hysteria over the goddamn World Trade Center/Pentagon voodoo poodoo. I mean no disrespect to the thousands that died, but “Terrorists Win”. Just wait til next round and then “CounterTerrorists Win”. All they do most of the time is interview biatches that think they know shit…I need Dave, damnit!

Anyways, I got this drive benchmarked and while it smoked that old Western Digital POS, I thought the Burst Read Rate was still a little low for UDMA66. Maybe I’m wrong. Anyways, it’s a great drive. I found that even with the “Acoustic Management” turned off, there was still little seek noise. A millesecond of seek time was lost when the drive is set to no Acoustic Management (that’s a good thing, llamas). Here’s the benches:

I totally updated the Columns browser, so eveything (even partially finished stuff) should be there. I also made some charts and stuff for the next part of the VT6X4 Tweak Guide; look for an update to that soon.

Loog’s probably gonna chill over here tomorrow. We’re gonna try out the splitscreen mode of Doom Legacy…but, with two mice. My initial tests confirm that it works well, but it’s hard to play Deathmatch against yourself 😉

Snake out. Have a nice Day After the Day of Remembrance Day…or …ummm… …yeh…damnit

I forgot how much a pain in the ass it was to start over with a new format, but I went ahead with it anyways. I believe that being in the woods for a couple days washed away some of my tech knowledge, because I made a little mistake and nearly a huge one. The little mistake was formatting the previous 5.1GB WD drive before taking it out (forgot to copy my favorites…damnit!) and the close call was leaving the 4.3GB Maxtor slave hooked up while partitioning and whatnot. I nearly erased all my 1.7GB of backup data!
Currently, I’m downloading IE 6 and then will queue Half-Life 1107 full patch and Paint Shop Pro 7. I would have had all the patches and editing applications, but my backup CD-RW got seriously corrupt (never again am I buying a Creative burner). I should have AIM and MSN installed later tomorrow.
I haven’t even gotten to really bench this new thing, either. All I have is the logged startup time from UT. It used to be about 60 seconds…but check this out:

I don’t know about Infiltration, yet…I can’t get it to run, probably cause I’ve got v428 instead of v436 (again, another patch that got corrupted). I wanna get HDTach again tomorrow and compare it with the scores I got 3 days ago. I’ll also have a few DCam pics, but not until I get PSP.

Also, I saved a screenshot from a few days ago of my MBM systray temperature display. It got suprisingly low; and I believe that it was the lowest I’ve ever recorded the North Bridge at and in summer, too! Take a look.

I can’t get enough of that Lost World ][ map in Quake3. Luckily, I did have the 1.29g patch locally.

Happy Partitions!