Fred Baube
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:17:20 -0700
................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:03:55 +0100 From: "Danny O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NTK now <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NTK now, 2001-08-10 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-Excuse1: *reboot!* X-Excuse2: b-but i can't get Ballmer out of X-Excuse3: *reboot plum and get _out_ of there chrisy* X-Excuse4: but - AAAAAARGGHH AIEEE AGGRH X-Excuse5: GIVE IT UP FOR ME! GIVE IT UP FOR .... _ _ _____ _ __ <*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk> | \ | |_ _| |/ / _ __ __2001-08-10_ o join! mail an empty message to | \| | | | | ' / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / o [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |\ | | | | . \ | | | | (_) \ v v / o website (+ archive) lives at: |_| \_| |_| |_|\_\|_| |_|\___/ \_/\_/ o http://www.ntk.net/ >> TRACKING << sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering This will be, I swear, the second-to-last Elite nostalgia piece that NTK runs. The New Kind, the reverse-engineered C reimplementation of the original 6502 BBC Micro game has hit v1.0. It runs under Windows and Linux (using the giftware Allegro graphics library), and fair brings a tear to your eye - and that's just paging through the source. But even if the stark beauty of assembly-based-C code doesn't appeal, the homages to every iteration of the game - including rock hermits, witchspace ambushes and the fabled Cougar will win anyone who still gives a toss over, I'm sure. http://www.newkind.co.uk/ - Darkness Falls is so much better (albeit less accurate) than "Attack of the Clones" http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/07/i_ba.04.html - Braben on CNN: kids should be *flying* around and shooting http://www.phink.net/elite/ - now with graphics. on WAP