Yeh… I fixed my game problem 😀 !!! HL, Q3, DS, and Unreal engines, as well as other games, all run now w/ absolutely no locking or blipping. None. How is this possible? Fuckin AGP-4x and shit, yo 😮 .

I just changed my BIOS’ AGP Mode from 4x to 2x (or, disabled 4x)… cause Snake and I’s NorthBridge chipsets don’t support 4x well at all. I had actually thought bout this before, but since it never posed a problem on my GF2 GTS, and enabling it, VIA 4X, and FastWrites w/ NVMax never did either, I hadn’t thought of it. But I figured that it couldn’t be a problem w/ my only-19-month-old mobo, and I knew games worked w/ Snake’s ViperII… so the mobo wasn’t the problem. So yeh… I kinda wasted $324 on a GF4 Ti4600 and $40 on new RAM (though the best video card available in the entire world isn’t exactly a “waste” to have 😛 )… and I won’t even bother to tell u all the other things I tried to get my games to work unsuccessfully.

So anyway, I’m back on the gaming scene. No more lockups @ Surges, and I can play any game in existence. This couldn’t’ve happened at a better time, either, since I just got my new 80GB HDD for unlimited game space 8) .

To initiate my gaming, I finished (almost) up an HL MOD I got off of the latest PCG disc called Half-Quake. It takes you through an insane asylum, and has some really int elements I’ve never seen in HL before. The menu screen text is all changed, so u have to basically guess as to what does what. “Die on…” is load game, “downstairs” is resume game, “internal error” is ok, and I forget the rest. There’s things like having to crowbar through 20 pieces of glass, maps where gunshots and creature sounds echo (making it quite scary if you’ve ever played a marines game like Opposing Force), and jumping through portals leading you to your seemingly imminent death. But above all was a level that made you the camera, onlooking a Barney guard (you) at a distance (modified 3rd person). You can still turn, move and jump… but you’re far away… it’s really int.

Problem is, if u save during this level and reload, u’re back to 1st person view until u leave a room 😕 . Well, out…

Where’s Loogie been?, u ask? Well, I’ve just been chillin, not doin much cept workin and gettin 1337 new parts for The Wad2 (no, not 1,337 parts; it means leet, or “elite”, llama 😀 )… cause I can’t play games now w/out lockin… not sure why, pretty sure it’s my POS mobo… and me yesterday upgradin to WinXP Corp helped a bit… and KAZAA AND WINMX ARE THE BEST P2PS!!! Whatever, I need to start typing in structure before this sounds like a gandalf post 😛 .

Speaking of WinXP Corp, I just had a very intlol session @ snake’s house where we tried to install his queer modems 😮 under XP! Yeh… we tried for 5 hours, through loads of driver and IRQ errors, and snake finally got it…

“Boom”
-Snake, creator of Boom

Revision (12:30AM, 7/1/02): Notice my Tony Hawk 3 demo in the ticker above 8) .

All the boys at S&L have been playing a fucking load of Age of Kings, lately; in particular, the expansion, The Conquerors. It’s just too much fun building up your civilization and then kicking ass (usually Loog’s 😛 ). I’ve also made a couple of maps that should be available soon on the site. One was quite int and lead to a four hour free-for-all between Que, Loog, and myself. I call that map “Atolls” but I believe it deserves the subtitle of “Find that last Goddamn Villager!”. I’ve notice a trend in all of our recent AOK games, though: I always win. 😀 (Except when you set the AI to moderate on an island map.) Screenage:

Now, about the JaguarPC business: S&L is changing its web host to Jaguar, the same host that Gr-Dragon uses for his site on playing RPGs with cards (I’d give you a link but that shit is for overly-nerdy simps 😀 ). Either way, expect the site to be in a rather int state for a few days. We’ll still be at S–L.com, though!

As for Sectorlink, I hope they go out of business. They really did fuck me royally. It just took me a while to notice cause it was such a slow affair. A glimpse at what we can offer with JaguarPC: subdomains (surge.s–l.com), anonymous FTP, PHP w/ MySQL databases (may mean a recoding of the entire Demoboard, Glossary, etc.), and much more space (200MB) to give you even more of that S&L taste you love. 😉 Not only that but it costs less, so now I can get…

DSL! That’s right, Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Lines are becoming available in this rat hole! 😮 I dunno about the surrounding towns getting DSLAMs but who gives a fuck about them when you can download shit at least ten times faster! 😀

“Int”
-Loogie, creator of Int

As you may have already seen from the ticker, I reviewed Dungeon Siege. It’s one of the few demos that I have given a 10, and it really deserved it. Check out the review here. Of course, there’s only 3 sshot slots in the reviews, so here’s some additional eye candy for you to suck on: