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Date: Sep 18 1999 20:15:38 EDT
From: "Apolyton Announcements (Apolyton Civilization Site)"
Subject: Apolyton&Friends News 10-16/September/99


Greetings everyone,
these are the news of the week(10-16/August), a day late, as we had a
flood of news yesterday... :)

On Apolyton, the big news were the restart of Scenario League, lots of new
civ2 scenarios in CSC(who is nearing 100 scenarios!), lots of new CTP
files and some cool looking early SMACX art

In the "Friends" part of the newsletter, news only from Fantastic Worlds:
Jorrit's Civilization II Site and Dustin Dunn's Civ2 Page. If you have a
civ2, ctp or smac site and want your news included here, mail Dustin Dunn
at dustind@home.com


And now, in detail
=========The news from Apolyton=========
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**Civilization II Section

THE COLUMN: A BUBBA'S EYE RATES SMAC(Part II)
Roger Oepkes writes about the failures of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

THE COLUMN: MULTIPLAYER CIV...
Die hard multi-player advocate Kwang quits


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**Civilization: Call to Power Section

11 FILES, 8 MB
(September 11) New and updated files in our Database: Meet the Challenge,
Ultimate CTP Combo MOD v1.5(the best add-ons for CD's mod combined), and
the Harlan's WW2 Units(64 of them!), as well as a new version of Medieval
Mod(1.2). Also 3 Maps for multiplayer games, and a new map of Europe. In
the Modification section, a Huscarl units, and Harlan Thompson's WW2 Units
in "raw" format(4MB), plus the latest version of EasyMod Utility(v3.2).
Also in the Modification, we have two lists with all the variables and
functions of SLIC. And this is not the end! 1.21 Hack, which fixes some
problems of the 1.2 patch, the French Add-on for 1.2 Patch the easy way to
use th enelgish 1.2 patch in the French version of CTP. Yes, that's a
total of 8MB of files. Enough for you? :)

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**Alpha Centauri Section

Early SMAC-X Art
--(September 13 1999) A user by the nickname "I'm Not Ugly" sent us some
early Alien Crossfire art -- yes, the leader picture to the right of you.
If this was what was being developed during the first phase of SMAC-X, the
final product is looking more than promising.
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire is the highly anticipated add-on to Sid
Meier's Alpha Centauri, which is expected to be released sometime this
fall; no exact date has yet been confirmed.


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**Spanish Civ II Site(hosted site)

--(Sep 14) Spanish Pride, Iberian Pride updated!(Version 4.2)


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**Civilization Scenario Collection(hosted site)

--(Sep 16) New scenario in XX Century, The Second Reich, by Michael
Jeszenka(Scenario #19 in this section, #97 in the site)

--(Sep 15) New scenario in XX Century, Guerra Civil, by Guillermo
L?pez(Scenario #18 in this section, #96 in the site)

--(Sep 13) New scenario in Middle Ages, The Four Sea Republics, by Paul
Hanti(Scenario #21 in this section, #95 in the site)

--(Sep 11) New scenario in Ancient: Hannibal, by Simon de Bree (Scenario
#13 in this section, #94 in the site)


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**Scenario League(hosted site)

"SLeague Forms Republic!"(In other words, we have a new government)
--(September 13, 1999) Our monthly staff changes are getting pretty
regular around here, but hopefully things should quiet down for a while.
Stepping out is Nick Clark, who will be working on other projects. We wish
him the best.
The new editorial staff is as follows:
Editor-in-Chief: Blackclove(blackclove.geo@yahoo.com)
Tips Web Editor: Cam Hills(c.hills@bigpond.com)
Associate Editor: Mark Laanen (laanen@xs4all.nl)
In addition, Mr. Temba will serve as our Web Partisan (checking links).

New Content
--(September 13, 1999) SLeague reopens! The great update fury begins
today. We expect to work off some of the backlog of old reviews and
changes in the next few weeks.
Cam has added five new tips to the tips page
Our sister site, HAC, has the contest entries for contest #2 available for
download.


=========Apolyton's Friends News=========

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Fantastic Worlds: Jorrit's Civilization II Site

--(09/15/99) I have 1 new scenario and 2 new modpacks (5 files) for you.

--(09/13/99) Sorry, no new downloads yet. I corrected the old URL's to the
new civ2.sidgames.com in the readme files of my maps (damn, I thought I
had done that earlier). I've been thinking about a new look for my
CivilizationII site, have a look at it and vote!


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Dustin Dunn's Civ2 Page

09/15/99
- Cleaned up links page- added 16 links, updated 5, moved 14 to dead links
section. Also updated some descriptions.
- Anyone who wants to have their site in here, just email me with your
update information(email=dustind@home.com). Even if you can't send me the
email with the update info every time, I always check the site before
sending the section off. I won't put your site in here unless you email
me asking me to add it, and also recommend that when you do send me update
info that you have it shown as you do on your page(and make it findable on
your page as well :-)). So if you think having your site in this is a big
commitment, it isn't really.



That was all for this week ladies and gentlemen,

Until next time
Markos Giannopoulos - markg@apolyton.net
Apolyton Civilization Site - apolyton.net