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CTP MAC IS OUT
(13 January 2000, 18:40 EST) On our forums and on the newsgroups, the first happy civers :) report the purchase of CTP for Macintosh.
Doing a search from prices, we found it listed on Buy.com($37.95), Computers4Sure($39.99), pcWonders.com($37.63), Software BuyLine($39.95) and McGlen($43.60).Still, in none of them was it in stock :(
If you got it, please report where you found it on the forums -MarkG
DEMO OF CTP FOR BEOS
(13 January 2000, 18:19 EST) Some (a bit old) news for BeOS users who are waiting for CTP to arrive in stores: A 33 MB demo is available from Wildcard Design. One notable things is that the BeOS post include the changes, improvements and fixes of the 1.2 PC patch. By the way, if you're certain you're going to buy it, you can preorder at the official site for $49.95 -MarkG
COLUMN #91; BY IAIN LINDLEY
(12 January 2000, 22:41 EST) It seems as though Iain is worried about what will become of him with his forum addiction in his article entitled "Have The Forums Taken Over Me?". -DanQ
COLUMN #90; BY DARTHVEDA
(8 January 2000, 22:02 EST) This weekend's Column is by DarthVeda, entitled "It's All About The Customization", marking the 90th installment in "The Column" series. -DanQ
SMACX BUG LIST
(11 January 2000, 4:03 EST) A bug list is organized on our AC-General forum. Please help in it's creation! Before reporting anything, see the so far mentioned bugs. -MarkG
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LOKI DOES SMAC LINUX PORT
LOKI TO PORT SMAC INTO LINUX!
(11 January 2000, 19:41 EST) According to Slasdot.org, Loki is going to porting SMAC to the Linux OS. Loki has already made the Linux port of CTP among many other games. Thanks to Spoe for posting about it on our forums -MarkG
CONFIRMED: LOKI IS DOING SMAC, SMACX!
(12 January 2000, 14:02 EST) We asked for confirmation about yesterday's slashdot news item and Scott Draeker, President of
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Loki Entertainment Software was kind enough to reply to us:
"The Slashdot article came from a reader who saw a bunch of new titles listed on a retailer's site. We haven't announced anything.
That said, I can confirm that we are doing SMAC and SimCity 3K. We are
also doing the Alien Crossfire expansion. We hope to release these in Q1 of 2000"
An official press release is expected quite soon. -MarkG
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ALIEN CROSSFIRE V2.0 PATCH
ALIEN CROSSFIRE PATCH, NOW!
(7 January 2000, 17:07 EST) Tim Train finally announced on our forums the release of the patch for Alien Crossfire. There are lots of fixes, as expected, visit the Firaxis page for the full list and to download, or download it now from our server. Size is 3.69MB. Gives us your impressions in the forums -MarkG
PROBLEM IN SMAC-X PATCH
(8 January 2000, 16:08 EST) Jeff Morris mailed us about the following problem with the SMAC-X patch:
"We've found out that the updated copy protection scheme used on SMACX v2's exe (and it's supporting files) is not backwards compatible with the copy protection scheme used on the retail CD. So, if you try to run SMAC 'classic', the copy protection fatals. We'll be making the v4 exe from the v4 patch available for download to correct this problem (it's not copy protected whatsoever and thus avoids the problem)"
In a second mail, Jeff clarified that if someone had installed v4 previously, he would have no problems. We have the v4 exe(only)
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now available. A bit more info on the forums -MarkG
"SILENT" REVISION IN SMACX V2
(11 January 2000, 11:45 EST) Firaxis has made a small update on the Alien Crossfire v2 patch(now available on our server). In Jeff Morris' own words:
"Most of you won't need to redownload the patch, but just so you know, the only changes to the patch are:
1) A note explaining you need to install the patch into the same directory as SMAC/SMACX (duh, but it's been an issue).
2) A un-write protect scheme we used on SMAC v4 foreign language versions. Some people are reporting FacEdit is write protected and causing the install to abort. This solves that problem.
3) Includes the non-copy protected v4 exe, so as to prevent the SMAC Classic fatal.
4) Includes the alphax.txt, which allows TECHSTEAL to work."
The file is now bigger, 5MB, as it includes v4 exe. More info on our forums. Obviously, you should ignore the "Problem in SMAC-X patch" news item below. -MarkG
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