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THE BOOK IS OUT
(11 January 2000, 16:46 EST) It's out. The comic book Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri : Power of the Mind Worms has been released and is now available from Amazon.COM at a cost of $7.61US, 15% off the cover price, and usually ships within a day of ordering. -DanQ
DATABASE UPDATE
(9 January 2000, 9:11 EST) 12 new files have been entered into the DB today bringing the total to 357 files. As always we have an interesting mix of all kinds of files: 5 maps, 1 scenario, 3 mods, 2 patches and one interesting special, the scenario converter.
River Scene 1
River Scene 2
Vulcan
Landy
Phil's World
CivConverter
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Communism Patch
Dominion
Jewels
Units SP
World War 2 -Sven
DATABASE HELPERS WANTED
(10 January 2000, 7:36 EST) It has come the time for one more call for people to help on the civ2 database
http://apolyton.net/civ2/db
Requirements:
-Owning Civ2, Newer versions(FW, MGE, ToT) would be best
-Familiarity with taking screenshots and using PSP or other similar tool
-Ease in downloading lots of files
-Love for civ2
Please mail MarkG (markg@apolyton.net) only if you're really interested about it -MarkG
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Apolyton
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January
2000
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NEW SECTION: MISCELLANEOUS
(12 January 2000, 22:45 EST) On behalf of the staff and administration of Apolyton CS, welcome to our new Miscellaneous section. This is where the various features around the site that do not fall into any other category reside. Already considerable in size, we hope that its usefulness and popularity will increase over time.
If you have any comments/questions concerns about what you see in our Misc. area, please get in touch with us. Enjoy! :) -DanQ
1.2 PATCH FOR LINUX IS COMING
(12 January 2000, 14:59 EST) We had contacted Scott Draeker of Loki about the Linux port of SMAC, and we took the opportunity to ask him about the 1.2 patch for CTP, when it is coming and what it will contain. He kindly replied:
The 1.2 patch has been in development for quite some time. We've discovered that doing patches is extremely time intensive, similar to doing a small port. The patch will be released this week or next.
In the patch, we are fixing all known crashing bugs and all known compatibility bugs (networking, save games, scenarios). We are not fixing things that would break network compatibility, and we are not adding features or enhancements beyond those in already in 1.2"
Be sure that when the patch is out you'll find it here! :) -MarkG
ALTERNATIVE COLORS, CURSOR
(13 January 2000, 18:02 EST) Two of the several new files waiting to be posted were added just now, buth from Nordicus: Alternative Cursor(a dagger with a golden handle) and 32 Civ Colors.txt(colors00.txt especially created for use with 32 civs). More in the following days. -MarkG
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FELL WRAITHS: BUG AND SOLUTION
(12 January 2000, 9:21 EST) tobyr found the bug in ToT concerning Fell Wraiths. The solution came straight from Mick Uhl, a couple days later. Check the thread in out ToT forum for more details on both the problem and the way to solve it. -MarkG
GALACTIC CIVS OFFICIAL SITE
(11 January 2000, 15:53 EST) The official site for Galactic Civilizations is now up and running. As Brad Wardell
of Stardock announced on the newsgroups
"The design philosophy and game mechanics are showing up and we've put up a development log so you can track where we're at.
There is also a news group for discussion at news://news.stardock.com"
Galactic Civilizations is a strategy game in which players must guide humanity through the future ages. -MarkG
ONE AWARD NOT WANTED ANYWAY
(8 January 2000, 14:58 EST) In GameSpot's "The Best & Worst of 1999", C:CTP was nominated for Most Disappointing Game, but "lost out" to Ultima IX: Ascension. This is one award that is surely not a joy for the winner. -DanQ
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FORUMS THREADS ARCHIVED/DELETED
(12 January 2000, 14:45 EST) Yesterday and today it was "maintenance days" for the forums. Numbers speak better: 176 threads with 3733 posts of the S&D forum were archived, 268 threads with 4026 posts from the OT were deleted and 66 threads with 3113 posts from the same forum were archived. Finally, 299 threads with 4603 threads from the CTP-General forum were archived, as well as 130 threads with 738 posts from the Civ3-General forum in the new archive for it.
This kind of maintenance is needed in order to avoid speed issues duirng high traffic hours. -MarkG
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ALL SECTIONS NEWS ARCHIVE
(11 January 2000, 20:43 EST) Where you were seeing the Full News page, you can also now find the archive of the news for all our sections and hosted sites(actually only HAC which uses the news script). For now there are only the news since the installation of the news script(about a montth ago), but soon we will also have all the other news archives from our various sections. And since the news pages have their own search engine, you will be able to search our entire news archive from one place. Sounds good? -MarkG
NEWS MENU IN FORUMS
(10 January 2000, 18:17 EST) In the thread summary for each forum you can now see a "News@Apolyton" drop down menu, with all our news headlines.
Usefull? -MarkG
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