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News - April 2000 |
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| Thursday
- April 27, 2000 <11:00 PM CST> |
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Site
Updates
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
Pretty dead today... Not much going down, Thursday, as usual :). Although
I did hear from Colin MacDonald today, turns out he and lots of other
former DMA employees are going to Rage...
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| Wednesday
- April 26, 2000 <10:30 PM CST> |
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Mapster
Opens
<10:30
PM CST - schu>
TheShit has just opened his new GTA/GTA2 map site called Mapster, here is
the announcement:
"Hello
people, two weeks ago I started a map site called 'mapster'. I hope
it becomes the one and only site for FULL maps for gta and gta2. You
can send all your maps for gta and gta2 to godofgta@niteshade.net
or you can visit the site and download current maps. The url is gtaplus.com/mapster."
Community
News
<10:30
PM CST - schu>
- GTA
World 2000
"What can I say, my site is doing better than I thought it would!
Now that my site is in the 1500 visitors area (almost), it is time to
reveal my logo. I set a goal for myself when I put the site on the air,
saying that once I get to 1500 visitors I would find a logo. Well here
it is! (Curtains Please!):

This
logo will be visible on my starting page.
gtaworld.gtaplus.com
gta_hawaii@hotmail.com
P.S- I have not received any ferries yet! I hope that is a good
thing!!"
Site
Updates
<10:30
PM CST - schu>
Not much going on today although my shift at KCOU went pretty good, thanks
to everyone who tuned in. Check it out next week if you missed this weeks
show.
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| Tuesday
- April 25, 2000 <10:30 PM CST> |
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On
The Air
<10:30
PM CST - schu>
Just thought I'd post a message about KCOU's new website. KCOU is
the college radio station I do a shift at and recently we've posted our
new website and we are testing our Internet broadcast server. If you
are interested, I do a show every Wednesday from 11am to 1pm CST.
That is:
9am - 11am PST (West Coast)
10am - 12pm MST (Mountain)
12pm - 2pm EST (East Coast)
17:00 - 19:00 GMT (I think anyway)
I mostly
play techno type music. It is not GTA related at all. My roommate
Sean does the show just before mine from 9am to 11am and my other roommate
Zac does the 6am to 9am show :). I'm not really sure what they play
because I'm in class most of that time. Either way most KCOU djs
play pretty obscure stuff you won't hear on top 40 stations and each dj
plays pretty much whatever they want on their shift. Anyway,
if you get a chance, check out the show and don't laugh too hard when
I screw up :). KCOU's website can be found at kcou.mu.org
and our zine's website is at snocone.mu.org.
We are currently encoding for the Windows Media Player, mainly because
its free and Real Networks charges out the ass. That may change
in the future but right now we are just testing it out.
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| Monday
- April 24, 2000 <10:00 PM CST> |
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SkinZilla
Winner
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
Aqutiv posted a message on BBZilla
a few days back announcing that Gunther's Monster skin won the SkinZilla
competition. Check out the SkinZilla
page to see all the results.
Virus
Warning
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
JH4C sent out a general virus warning about an email virus that seems
to be making its way around the GTA scene. People using Outlook
and Outlook Express are particularly susceptible. Check GTA:
Get That Azzhole? for more details:
ATTENTION
ALL GTA FANS AND SITE WEBMASTERS:-
sW@Nukez.com has been infected with the WScript KakWorm email virus.
This is a DoS virus that installs itself as your default OE signature
and then sets up a link in the Startup folder to to deny you computer
access on specific days of the month.
Norton
didn't catch it until I scanned the file manually, MacAfee seems unable
to catch it in your email box. Once installed it should presumable be
possible to remove it by changing your email signature and/or converting
your send-message type to plain text only. The you will need to check
for "kak.hta" in your Startup folder and deleting it.
If you
have any fears, or you don't have a virus killer installed (bad, bad
boy/girl) go to www.nai.com and use the MacAfee online virus scanner.
This email
will be posted on GTAzz's Message Board and has been sent to SW himself
- sorry you have to find out this way old chap but this is too urgent
to piss about with pleasantries!
Time to
get those virus killers working - whaddaya mean you don't have one?!
www.cai.com/antivirus/personal
is the homepage of a full free virus
killer, or you could try www.nai.com
- home of MacAfee, where they
have an online scanner.
Fake Updates
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
Uhh.. I seem to be receiving a wealth of fake updates all sent from the
same server... Just a few suggestions to whomever is doing it...
If you are
going to spoof a message from a Hotmail account you should at least tack
the standard Hotmail sig on the end of the email.
Sending 4
messages of questionable nature all in a row and all from originating
from freeservers.com doesn't help the believability of your hoax.
Next time you might want to try sending them one by one on separate days
;).
You might
want to try sending and receiving an email from the DMA webmaster before
trying to fake one of his emails.
Artur's writing
style is different than yours, might want to try sending/receiving an
email from him before you try faking an email from him as well.
Lastly, Klamy
doesn't have net access at the moment, so him sending a message from a
BT account that doesn't exist anymore is pretty damn hard.
GTaEdit
Opens
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
Andinator and Rincewind recently opened a new GTA editing site called
GTaEdit, hosted
by GTA Zone.
The site is in German and currently features map editing tutorials and
scripts. They have plans to test maps, add more tutorials, and add
more editing features in the future. Click on the banner below and
check the site out. Just like GTA Zone it looks really sharp.

Announcements
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
- Johan's
GTA ezine has been delays for one month due to computer problems.
He seems to have everything cleared up now so he can hopefully get back
to work on it.
Project News <10:00
PM CST - schu>
- Waterworld
Site Online
Black Mechanic has opened a site for the Waterworld project:
"The
waterworld site is now up, with an estimated release date, some
progress reports and some new shots. It is available from back.to/SGC.
I am also applying for another mission scripter. I am looking
at around 25 or more missions for Waterworld and Aquitiv feels that
this is too much for him alone, so we need another team member for
the Waterworld team. Also anyone with any ideas for missions that
they would like to see please write to me."
Community News
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
- God
of GTA
"Hello people, I have been gone for a week and I thought I had
left my site perfectly on its own... I made a fault the last day
and the site wasn't accessible for a whole week. I am sorry for
that. I asked somebody to update the news and he hasn't done that
either! Sorry news will be updated. Click
Here To Visit.
Site Updates
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
Yet another update/study
on violence in videogames.. Although I do agree with one statement in
the article:
"We also
found that amount of time spent playing video games in the past was
associated with lower academic grades in college."
My GPA has
that statement written all over it :) ...
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| Friday
- April 21, 2000 <2:15 PM CST> |
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GTAPL!!!
<2:15
PM CST - schu>
GTAPL's new and improved
look will not only rock your world but is also guaranteed to help you grow
hair, lose weight, make money, gain fame, be more confident, make friends,
train small rodents to do your bidding, become a better GTA player, cure
Cancer, defeat Frieza, obtain unlimited supplies of cheese whiz, get government
funding for your small business, increase your sexual appeal, make Altoids
in your own home, claim the mineral rights to any asteroid of your choice,
build a mobile suit, become immortal, make Chemical X, build your own GTA
site for pennies on the dollar, get rid of bad breath, build a high performance
computer using only tape and paper clips, find Atlantis, generate random
electric fields, split atoms in your spare time, bend spoons, make power
bands using your own byproducts, discover the secrets of Area 51, burn down
the Disco, change your name to S. Baldrick, raise a people's army and seize
control of the state, and last but not least find out why the damn UPS guy
hasn't shown up with my 40 gig hard drive yet, BASTARDS!!!
Artur Lion
wasn't quite satisfied with my update on GTAPL the other day so I thought
I'd make it up to him with today's update. Even if you can't speak
Polish its still worth a look, and if it does even half of what I mentioned
above its well worth a visit. Get over to www.gtapl.w.pl
and take a look.
GTA
Hawaii Update
<2:15
PM CST - schu>
Bramus! sent word that the GTA
Hawaii site has been updated with a screenshot of a car that Sjors
J. is working on. You can view the new car in the Screenshots section
there under "Work In Progress". Bramus! also mentioned that the
GTA Hawaii forum is up and running if you care join in on the discussion.
Site
Updates
<2:15
PM CST - schu>
Not much going on today, just waiting for the UPS man to show up and I
think I'm going to hit the GTA Webring and send out that email and work
on some general maintenance. I did find a minor problem with the
frames and no frames version of the webring page, for some reason Shatscape
4.7 decided to ignore the fact that I've specified the size of a table
cell and lets the webring form push it around. The form works fine,
it just fux up my table alignment... Internet Exploder doesn't seem
to have a problem with it...
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| Wednesday
- April 19, 2000 <7:30 PM CST> |
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Still
Offline
<7:30
PM CST - schu>
Grr... After a healthy bitch session with the web host I got the accounting
problem cleared and the site taken off of suspension. Unfortunately
someone forgot to actually put the damn thing back online. Looks like
I'll be making some more calls tomorrow to sort this out again. The
strange thing is that I was able to view the site from the radio station
I was doing my shift at so I figured it was all sorted out. Then I
get home only to find out it still not online. I'm not sure what that
was about but hopefully I'll find out tomorrow. Aqutiv mentioned on
BBZilla that at times yesterday he could see the site and even read the
update I posted yesterday, although I'm not sure why. Oh well, not
much going on anyway, just me talking to myself, posting updates on a site
that isn't even online. Actually I do have a few things to post but
I don't see much point posting it today when no one can read it anyway...
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| Tuesday
- April 18, 2000 <9:30 PM CST> |
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Offline?
<9:30
PM CST - schu>
G! was offline most of the day today due to some billing complications.
If you are reading this it means its probably Wednesday and I've got
everything straightened out with the host. If you aren't reading this
then it means I'm explaining all this to myself :) .
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| Monday
- April 17, 2000 <4:30 PM CST> |
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Klamy
- Alive & Well
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
I'm not sure about the "well" part, but Klamy is alive and without Internet
access. Mugwum was recently contacted by everyone's favorite GTAer
missing in action. I'm not sure if he intends on returning to
the GTA scene anytime soon but when I know more I'll post something. I'm
just glad to hear he is doin ok...
GTA
Mission Guide Released
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
Nathan West, Maxime Bargiel and Tristan Beard have released their GTA
Mission Guide. You can get the latest version at skidmarks.niteshade.net.
Here is the full update from Nathan:
I have
finally released what we (Nathan West, Maxime Bargiel and Tristan Beard)
have done so far. There are about ten or so missions missing, but they
will be added at a later date. It weighs a massive 82Kb, larger than
the text FAQ. It can be downloaded, as well as the FAQ, at skidmarks.niteshade.net.
GTA
Oz Update
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
I recently
spoke with Byron who has taken a break for GTA Oz for a bit, but he plans
to resume work on it as soon as his holiday starts (thankfully that is
pretty soon :) ).
GTA
World 2000
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
GTA World 2k is on the move again, but hopefully this is that last URL
change for awhile:
GTA WORLD
HAS NEW HOME!
"GTA
world 2000!!, has moved once more, for the final time. The tripod site
will still be available but not updated anymore. My site is now the
5th site to be host at WARPED! My new url is gtaworld.gtaplus.com.
I also have a new e-mail(gtaworld@gtaplus.com)
My site
has gone through a total conversion, new design, and new sections. Like:
Daily News, Files, GTA Polls."
GTA World Reanimation Plan
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
Artur Lion recently posted this on Warped
and Benjamin asked that I post it here as well. Benjamin has already
responded to Artur's post an announced the creation of GTADK (GTA Denmark):
GTA
World Reanimation Plan
"It's big word for that, but many times I thought about that.
All over the world are many people who have access to Internet and GTA
(1 or 2). Look for example on GTAzz forum. There are not
many people who REALLY LOVE GTA (like me ;-P): Azz, Lingster, Henrik
Larrson, JH4C, Aqutiv and much more... But maximum about there
are 100 people in GTA scene (still, w/o breaks). But all over the world
are many people who have GTA and can do new cars, maps and much more
things into GTA scene...
So I asked
some my GTA friends on ICQ are there in theirs countries some GTA pages
in theirs languages. And the answers are: "No, nothing" ; "yes, but
very lame, only with tips, cheats" ; "No, sometime was one". I
could also answered "No, only one" about 5 months ago on this question
about my country - Poland but NOW I can answer "Yes, about 5-7 sites".
In about October were only one GTA page in Poland (now it's GTA VAULT
[gta.gry.pl] with new webmaster), but I decided to reanimate it.
I posted some news there and something happened on our Polish GTA world.
Slowly, slowly new GTA pages in Poland were made, new carmakers started
to do new cars (like Artur Lion [me, haha], Fan Anf, Kan, Przybysz,
7olik) and some new TC projects. And in about 4 months our GTA scene
reanimate to its now size. I think if in other countrys do something
like in Poland will "appear" more new good (not always ;-P) carmakers,
TCmakers or whatever else.
So I chatted
with BJay (from GTA+/WARPED). He's Dannish and said in his country is
only some GTA pages with tips and cheats. So for reanimate Dannish GTA
scene/world he will do GTADK page (GTA DENMARK). And also some other
persons (like Arnout from Netherlands ; GTANL) can do the same things
in theirs country. And then You will be member of GTAINT (GTA INTERNATIONAL).
So Ur countrys
GTA site MUST BE/HAVE:
- in country's
national language !!!
- cars
page, only this country's carmakers !!! with awards, group for ex.
for 20 cars per group
- national
GTA 1 or 2 (or both) MULTIPLAYER LEAGUE
- needs
files, like a GTACARS, editors etc. with description in of course
national language
- and
some needs information about GTA
- name
site like this:
GTAXX, where XX is name of Your country in short, like PL for Poland,
UK for United Kingdom, IL for Israel, all like in domains...
Then You
will be member of GTAINT (it will be in English) and then we can do
international cups with best GTA multiplayer players from each country
for (maybe in future official) name GTA 1 (or 2) MULTIPLAYER WORLD CHAMPION.
About that I wrote last time. I think better is separated cups in GTA
1 and GTA 2. And then will be 2 matches between 2 players - one in CN
(cannonball) and one in DM (deathmatch). Rules I can send when I rewrote
it and translate into English.
OK! It's
only IDEA but BJay, Arnout and some 2 guys (cosmos from Israel and Graham
Wolski from Canada) what's to do it. Maybe it will reanimate GTA scenes
on whole world. Maybe some carmakers will appear when they will see
[******] cars first carmakers in theirs countries.
PLS Write
to me about that. We will do international league and GTAINT if some
people want to reanimate GTA scene in theirs countries...
[sorry
about grammar mistake, what U can guess I'm Polish, so I don't know
English well]
SO PLS
FEEDBACK THAT IN COMMENTS (lion@bydgoszcz.com)"
Site Update
<4:30
PM CST - schu>
"I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you... FAYYAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
|
| Friday
- April 14, 2000 <11:30 PM CST> |
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Announcements
<11:30
PM CST - schu>
- The AskGTA
site has been updated with new content including updates to the news
page, a guestbook, and a new poll.
Community News
<11:30
PM CST - schu>
- GTA2
More Extreme
Things
are still going very well with GTA2 More Extreme, its still the site
with the most and best GTA2 content on the WWW, and I'm still damn proud
of it! For those who never heard of GTA2 More Extreme, its got;
- A lot,
and I mean a lot of sections which contain information about everything
you ever wanted to know about GTA2.
- The
biggest New Maps section available with reviews of the latest maps.
- The
daily GTA2 news updates, with exclusive headlines once in a while.
- Recently
over the 40.000 visitors since August 1999.
- Lots
and lots more... which keeps growing and growing.
So many
things to read and so many things to see... hours of exploring! I'm
really looking forward to your visit, so don't be afraid.. Step
right in.
- GTA
Custom Message Center
Due to technical problems with my computer (harddisk crash), and due
to my hard work to get me a new and better job (the previous was a pure
junkjob), the first edition of the mag will be postponed two months.
So instead of showing next to nothing in the first edition I'll try
to find some more information, so if you have any news of interest regarding
GTA, GTA2, GTA3D, GTA4 then send 'em in to me. The first edition will
be at hand the 15:th June.
Utilities:
On hold, I'll grab Delphi IV in April. I will get me a newer computer
under the year.
Shut
up and shoot:
On hold for the moment. I need to recapture ALL the stuff from scratch.
New GTA Sites
<11:30
PM CST - schu>
- Majesty
Online
"Features GTA news and music news and a way to get signed to record
label just by sending us a sample of your music."
|
| Thursday
- April 13, 2000 <10:35 PM CST> |
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GTA
Wave Tutorial & Printable GTA Maps
<10:35
PM CST - schu>
Adrian has posted an excellent tutorial for the GTA Wave 3.0 sound utility.
Check the GTA
Wave site for more information on this great utility and to read the
tutorial. Adrian also mentioned that the collection of printable GTA
maps there has been updated, here is Adrian's announcement:
"A
comprehensive tutorial for GTA Wave 3.0 can now be found at gta.telefragged.com/gtawave
along with the updated printable maps for GTA, now in color!"
New GTA Sites <10:35
PM CST - schu>
JFish's
GTA Page
Site Updates
<10:35
PM CST - schu>
Woo... A Thursday with an actual update :) ... Not a lot, but a lot better
than nothing...
|
| Wednesday
- April 12, 2000 <10:00 PM CST> |
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Announcements
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
- The GTA
FunPack site has been updated with a new look. Check it out at come.to/gtafunpack
and send your feedback to gtafunpack@swipnet.se.
- Not much
going on, and if Thursday is the same as it always is tomorrow won't
be much different...
|
| Tuesday
- April 11, 2000 <9:00 PM CST> |
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GTA2
DC This Month
<9:00
PM CST - schu>
The Dreamcast version of GTA2 should be out sometime this month. dc.ign.com
posted a small
article on the DC games of April and GTA2 was among them. I also saw
a short article in the May/June 2000 issue of the Official Sega DC magazine.
From everything I read GTA2 should be almost an exact port, but will not
include multiplayer support.
|
| Monday
- April 10, 2000 <11:00 PM CST> |
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GTA
For Free!
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
In case you hadn't noticed, Freeloader.com
has gone live and you can now download GTA for free. Well sort of.
From what I can tell, Freeloader works off of a credit system where you
earn credits by viewing advertisements and answering questions. Each
game you download cost a set number of credits. Its not a bad system,
but I don't think GTA is exactly the full version because they seem to have
it split up into different episodes. Either way its still got to be
better than the demo if you are still a holdout who hasn't bought it yet.
New
GTA2 Map
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
The Voice has created a new map for GTA2 entitled, My
Map (v.99b) (202k). I haven't
installed the map yet so I'm not sure what to expect just yet. The
readme is in German so you might want to translate it using Babelfish
over on Altavista. The translation is rather rough but its mainly
installation instructions. Basically just copy all the files to
their appropriate directories and make sure to backup any files before
you overwrite them.
The
GTA Newsletter
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
Paul is cornering the GTA new email market :) , check out his announcement:
I have
just taken control of HinGTA's GTA Newsletter and egp4's GTA2 Newsletter.
If you would like to subscribe can you send an e-mail to gta_news@hotmail.com
and gta2_news@hotmail.com
respectively please. Also use these if you want to unsubscribe or change
your e-mail addy use them address's.
Announcements
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
- GTA -
The Jobs has been redesigned and Sjors is looking for some feedback
on it. You can check out the site at www.gtaxtreme.net/jobs
and if you have any comments on it, send em to sjorsj@hotmail.com.
Community News
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
- GTA
Tanks / WAP GTA
WAP GTA News:- In response to new competition I've totally revamped
my site, WAP GTA News, I gave myself a three-hour crash course in WML
and have managed to come up with a much tidier site, go to go.to/gta_tanks
(WAP) to have a look at it. Also, if people want to look at WAP sites
but don't want to download WinWap, they can go to www.gelon.net
where there is a great online WAP emulator.
GTA Tanks:- There was a massive update on my site on Thursday, including
a new Tankwatch initiative and a chance to vote for the colour of my
visited links, which are apparently impossible to see at the moment.
New address:-
I've omitted the underscore ( _ ) from the GTA Tanks address so it
is now go.to/gtatanks,
the old address still works but the underscore must be a right pain
to type into a mobile phone, that's why I changed it.
WAP GTA Tanks:- You're playing on Grand Theft Auto, happily shooting
cops and hijacking cars, you're just about to answer the phone for
your next mission when suddenly something happens. You break out in
a sweat, you begin to feel weak and desperate, you...can't...go..on
much longer, you desperately need an explosion, and you need one fast.
In your tankless fever you have an brilliant idea! You lunge for you
mobile phone, your life ebbing away as your clammy fingers punch in
go.to/gta_tanks,
just a few clicks away and there you have it, the golden coordinates
of the nearest tank. Yes that's right, GTA Tanks is now available
to WAP mobile phones @ go.to/gtatanks.
|
| Friday
- April 7, 2000 <7:00 PM CST> |
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Site
Updates
<7:00
PM CST - schu>
Not much going on today either... I've done some minor tweaking
to the site so it fits together better in Netscape 4 and the preview release
of Netscape 6. Mainly it was just some minor spacing issues. Also
I did read a pretty good article
on AVault about Digital Anvil. Digital Anvil is developing a game
called Loose Cannon. Judging by the screens and the description, Loose
Cannon could be some stiff competition for GTA3D whenever it comes out.
Although I don't think I'll ever be totally satisfied with any 3D
GTA type game if I can't run down random pedestrians :) .
|
| Thursday
- April 6, 2000 <10:00 PM CST> |
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Thursday...
Again...
<10:00
PM CST - schu>
Dead,
as usual... Nothing really going on at the moment but being Thursday, I
really didn't expect much. Although I was able to download everything off
of the GOURANGA! server and back it up to CDRW. One interesting note on
the download was that the web provider's stat program logged 500 MB worth
of stats! 500 MB of just html documents. Hell, the site itself, including
files, is only 100 MB.
|
| Wednesday
- April 5, 2000 <11:00 PM CST> |
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Announcements
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
- No Fear
is working on his new project/website/something and has posted a rather
cryptic Flash message at www.fear-nothing.com.
Community
News
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
- GTA
City Center
"Hi this is CaMDoG1999 and I run GTA City Center.
First
off THUG has left the scene. If you don't know who he was, he was
a great Car Maker and just as good of a web designer. Well he left
and I took over GTA CC.
GTA CC
is updating almost everyday by me or Elbazo.
GTA CC
has a car center called Max Paint this is where all you great car
makers can send us your cars. Send your cars to MaxPaint@niteshade.net
GTA CC
has a car storage is a place were you guys can store your cars for
downloads and shit.
GTA CC
also has a GTA Forum. You guys can just talk or get help on websites
or help on GTA editing. I encourage all of you to come bye and become
a registered user. Its great for newbies trying to get themselves
heard.
GTA CC
has all other kinds of great shit so come by.
Follow
this link gta.niteshade.net
If you have any suggestions for the site or anything else e-mail me
at CaMDoG1999@excite.com"
|
| Tuesday
- April 4, 2000 <7:00 PM CST> |
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SkinZilla
Voting
<7:00
PM CST - schu>
The skins are in and voting has begun on the BBZilla redesign. If
you still want to submit a BBZilla skin, feel free but you better move quick.
Here is the full update from Aqutiv:
BBZilla
(gta.gameforum.com)
is to be redesigned soon. Who's redesigning it? You lot
are! The submissions have been submitted, It's time for voting...
So please, It's takes only a second to vote. Just choose the SkinZilla
you like carefully, because this is what'll be used. There are only
4 skins, but you can submit more if you wish! Be quick, though.
The sooner you do so, the more votes you'll get, depending how good
it is, of course. ;)
What ya waiting for, vote at:
busted.niteshade.net/SkinZilla
GTA
Pulp Fiction
<7:00
PM CST - schu>
Yesterday's update on GTA Pulp Fiction had a bad link to the Miracle Maker
site. I noticed the link was wrong in the email from <miracle
maker> but I forgot to change it. Anyway, go to www.miraclemaker.tsx.org
to download GTA Pulp Fiction and for more information.
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GrandTheftAuto.com
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
Ok... Now I'm really confused... Alastair Grant (www.aggta.co.uk)
says grandtheftauto.com loads up fine for him. I'm going to try it
on a different connection and see what I can find out, but I think he might
just be hitting his cache file. The really weird thing is that the
provider says they took the server off-line because ASC didn't keep up with
their payment, so the server that houses the ASC Games site and GOURANGA!
should be off-line, unless ASC changed web providers. Anyway, I've
been given access to the server so I have some time to download everything
from GOURANGA! before the server is wiped. I also found out through
another source that ASC cleared out its office on Friday and their phone
numbers have all be disconnected. The strange thing is that they still
maintain the ascgames.com domain name, but they have changed the DNS entries.
It kind of makes me wonder if they still have plans to come back after they
finish doing whatever they are doing. Oh.. One more thing.. I noticed
that GTA in the ASC packaging is still on the shelves at EB and is only
$10. Then again, these days you might be able to track down the Director's
Cut for just a little more.
GTA
News On The Go
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
So you're sitting in traffic and you need a hit of GTA news to keep you
going, well GTA Tanks has you covered. Harry over at GTA Tanks is
launching his WAP GTA News site today. What's WAP you ask?
Well, I'm glad you asked, because I didn't know what it was either.
WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol and is used by mobile phones
to access the Internet. So if you want to check out WAP GTA News
you either need a phone capable of accessing the Internet or you can download
WinWAP if you want.
WAP GTA News and GTA Tanks both share the same URL, so if you type go.to/GTA_Tanks
in your HTML browser you'll get GTA Tanks, if you whip out your Nokia
7110 phone or another WAP capable device, WAP GTA News will pop up and
give you the latest. I talked this over with Harry awhile back and
he will be posting news from both GTA Tanks and from here at GOURANGA!
on WAP GTA News. Check out GTA
Tanks for more information on WAP GTA News.
"Zed's
Dead Baby. Zed's Dead."
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
<miracle maker> has released GTA Pulp Fiction! Apparently its
been on his hard drive for some time now but he never got a chance to
finish it off. Even though its not complete he mentions in his update
that there is still a lot there. Check out the Miracle
Maker site to download GTA Pulp Fiction and for more information.
While you're there, take a look at the progress on Miracle Maker
2.
GTA2
Tournament
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
Arnout and TheDroog are setting up a GTA2 multiplayer tournament called
the GTA2 World Championship. The catch is that you have to have
a cable connection or better if you want to participate. Check out
gta2.gtaplus.com
for more information.
Announcements
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
- Turns
out you can still get to Graham's site, GTA World 2000, through its
old URL graham253.tripod.com/gta_site.htm.
In fact I think he is going to drop the other URL since they insist
on adding that bs banner bar.
- The World
of GTA2 has been redesigned and also has a new URL. You can now
find it at gta2.gtaplus.com
or at its old URL, worldofgta2.cjb.net.
- Speaking
of redesigns, god of gta has just uploaded the new version of his GTA3D
site to its home at gta3d.gtaplus.com.
god of gta is also looking for someone to work on the cars section of
GTA2 site at godofgta.niteshade.net.
If you are interested in helping out, you can contact him at godofgta@niteshade.net.
- 360° Software
has parted ways with Angelfire and joined the army, the Gamers Army.
You can find the site at their new URL, 360.niteshade.net.
Be sure to check out their collection of GTA tile packs while you're
there.
- Johan
is making progress with the GTA
E-Zine and it should be online from April 15th to May 12th.
Project News <11:00
PM CST - schu>
- Shut
Up & Shoot
Johan sent in the latest
on his GTA clone, Shut Up & Shoot:
"The
graphics works great and I got a wicked idea to implement a cheat
mode that enables you to select the car that you wanna drive without
going to the garage to change the car. It also gives you the
cash you need and the gun you need. The cheat mode removes you from
the hiscore list but so what. You cheated."
Here
are some of the ordinary cars:
- Taxi
- Small
personal car
- Sport
car
Here
are some of the more wicked cars:
Site Updates
<11:00
PM CST - schu>
Ahh.. Another April Fools day passes and I'm fresh out of fake GTA headlines.
"Whose
motorcycle is this?"
"It's a chopper, baby."
"Whose chopper is this?"
"Zed's."
"Who's Zed?"
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
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