• Miracle Maker Updated

A new version of the Miracle Maker mission.ini editor has been released...  Check out the MM site at www.angelfire.com/yt/gta for the latest.

• Knight Rider TC - Help Needed

TeKnoSHaFT sent in the latest update on the Knight Rider TC, check it out:
 
TeKnoSHaFT here; I need someone who can animate GIFs or any other format for a short intro for my TC to be converted by me into a smack movie, I have all tha tools I just need someone to make a kool Anime for me so I can convert it to SMK format for tha game, the animator can get beta testing benefits too... Other news we also have a new team member and author of our upcoming web page Hughesie of Hughesies Hut, Welcome Aboard.

• Spam City 2 Update & Zero's Map/Mission Service

Zero mentioned that Spam City 2 is progressing nicely and should be out sometime soon.  Zero also mentioned that he is thinking about starting his own custom map/mission service for people.  It would allow people to write in and get a map with missions within 2/4 weeks.  If you have any thoughts on this idea, please send your comments to Zero @ zero1001@mail.ru. 

He recently had some problems with some hackers who broke into his email account, but was able to swiftly deal with them an reclaim his account.  If you sent anything to him within the last day or so you might want to resend it...

• GTA Austin Powers TC

The Austin Powers TC web site is now online at drive.to/austinpowerstc...

• GTA Canada

GTA Canada is now back! we are now located at http://gta-canada.com . The GTAC TC is still on. We are having some map problems with the Toronto map. If anyone knows a lot about the errors you get when creating a map please email me. Here is the error we are currently receiving 

Error 134,142 : Railway Track Is Invalid
If you think that you could fix this please download the latest version of the map at gta-canada.com/toronto.cmp (433 KB) and email me back a copy to mstanley@idirect.ca if you fix it. Thanks a lot. We will try to repay you in some way. 

Plus we still need help with GTAOttawa part of GTACanada mission pack 1

GTA Canada have a few vacancies on the project and are looking for someone to fill those positions.  We currently need the following: 
 

• Two Car Editors 
• Two Mission.ini Editors 
• and One Map editor 


Please send an email along with a sample of your work if you would like to help out.  All inquiries should be directed to GJWilliams@Freenet.co.uk.  For more information on GTA Canada, please visit the GTA Canada site or Turbo Kings GTA Rage Page

• GTA Scrapyard

I've finally got a test version of The GTA Scrapyard up and running. There's only a news page at the moment, but I'm working on it :) If you have any cars or whatever, send them to SpannaHeed@Hotmail.com or catch me on ICQ (26160247)

Thanks to everyone for their support, especially Hughsie & RobertB for helping with ideas etc!

• GTA2 Mainframe
  GTA2 News
  Well people I've grabbed every bit I can and its really getting tough, with only 4 GTA2 sites around there isn't much of a GTA2 community together sharing news. I have talked with the web masters at G2 (aka GTA2 DOT COM), Zaibusta2 etc... but not much is happening so if any of you here anything please email me with it. I have already been sent some cars from the screen shots but they are not excellent quality so if anyone else wants a try please do so and send me your finished results. 

GTA2 contest
Okay then for all you GTA2 fans out there here's a little something for you. I will be holding a contest for the best GTA2 fan art. The contest is open to anyone who wants to enter. All's that you have to do is design a logo, banner, image... anything at all related to GTA2 and the best will get it added to the pictures page, receive an award and the image will be on my next GTA2 wallpaper. Start sending your pictures in now!!! It all ends on September 10.. jordan@fenetre.co.uk



< my example is above people... go on you can beat that!!! >  good luck...

For anyone that hasn't seen GTA2 Mainframe this is whats on offer!!!
 

• 40 high quality screen shots of the game including PSX version.
• The latest up to date news.
• Pages and Pages of information which includes the release dates and all review sites.
• Full descriptions of the game.
• My very own preview which many people have complemented me on.
• All the GTA2 movies (Real player version and Quicktime).
• The first and only GTA2 Desktop wallpaper (by me).
• All information about the 7 mean gangs in the game (INC Screen shots).
• Preview of some of the featured cars in the game.
• Description of the map and areas you drive in.
• All known GTA2 sites links and developers links
• GTA2 Fan Art section which any one can send stuff into
• And lots more so take a look at http://www.gta-2.freeserve.co.uk

Hi to u all from GTA2 Mainframe, I need you all to help me out. My uncle is going to give me my own domain. It has to be something good because I will be able to give all you lot free email addresses and maybe even connection. It has to be something .co.uk and at first I thought of www.GO.co.uk so that any email you have or web address with be www.go.co.uk/gta or myname@go.uk but Ican't have Go.co.uk because its taken. If any of you have any good suggestion which aren't related with GTA (because I will be doing web design as well) then please tell me, it has to be something GOOD, EASY TO WRITE, EASY TO REMEMBER etc.... Thankx

"Rockstar isn't releasing much on the Nintendo 64 version of Grand Theft Auto, except to say that it's not the sequel or an add-on pack. IGN64 has learned that the game, though essentially a port of the PlayStation original, will feature significant additions in the vein of souped-up graphics and added levels and characteristics."

• Rich Pyke on GTA2 Dot Com:
  I have only just uploaded GTA2 Dot Com (or G2 if you went there after I renamed it) and already I have a few f*cking stupid twats flaming it, telling me I cant do it, people complaining because I got all of the previews and interviews in one site and so on.  Well this should keep the lot of the bastards happy, I have decided NOT to make the site, I was just trying to help everyone out by having all of the previews etc. in one site to save you having to go to multiple sites to find out stuff. Well it wont be all under one roof now as it is closed.  Even though I NEVER said it was all MY OWN WORK and I gave full credit to the people who actually wrote the previews, but that just doesn't please everyone. I got alot of good comments about the site but only about 3 bad ones. I learned from my old site, not to bother getting started in any arguments as it only leads to more grief.  I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all who said my new site was good and a big FU*K YOU to all that said it was a quick fix for a good site.  Well you will never see GTA2 Dot Com ever again (unless some other poor bastard decides to name a GTA2 site that).
   
  I doubt I will ever have a GTA or GTA2 site again because the general attitude and atmosphere of the GTA site web masters is just not what it should be. Its only a few who spoil it for the rest of us. Most of the web masters are helpful but there are a few who just get too jealous and can't stand the competition.
   
    
• Anonymous AGGTA Member on GTA2 Dot Com:
  Richard Pyke has quit the GTA world once and for all. This comes after some unfortunate comments about him in the GTA newsgroup AGGTA by certain regulars towards him, as well as some scandalous comments on the Nice One site by Gamespy's Mugwum.
   
  While it is true that he has stolen site designs in the past, been egocentric about his own sites, and many other things which have not endeared him to the GTA playing masses, I for one will miss both him, the way in which he challenged the authority of AGGTA to my personal amusement, and his much maligned sites, which I have never thought were that bad, once he used his own design.
   
  Richard, we salute you.
   
  Anonymous AGGTA'er (I just know I'll get slagged off now)

• Support for the intro movie, character pics, in game audio, and special.fxt
• Ability to mix and match mods, ie use characters from one map in another
• Able to now add 2 maps with custom names at a time
• A built in CD Player - fills in a bit of space.

Rhys has already started work on a new util called the GTA Mod Installer.  The mod installer will unzip map zip files and install them for easy use with the GTA Mod Loader.
 
 
Austin Powers TC
Gold Phoenix sent word that the web site for the Austin Powers TC will be going live tomorrow at drive.to/austinpowerstc.  He also mentioned that the Austin Powers TC is still searching for a map maker, two mission editors, a car maker, and someone to record sounds.  If you are interested in helping out, please contact Gold Phoenix @ goldphoenix@cyberdude.com. 
   
 
Site Updates
Well, getting G! on the web was a lot harder than I thought possible...  First, my ISP decided that it just didn't want to let me connect to the server space, so I disconnected and dialed up on my BS university account that is slower than sh*t, but at least it let me get to the server.  I then uploaded the entire site, only to find that fu*king WS_FTP had decided to reset my remote directory, so I uploaded all of it to some directory that didn't even exist!!!  After a lot of cussing and door punching I finally started to upload it to the correct directory.  There are still some sections of G! that are under construction and this week will be more of a beta run than anything.  Oh well, now that its up I should be more motivated to get it completely up and running.

Just a few comments on different sections:

I just finished the GTA2 section which took a lot longer than I ever thought possible.  It includes every GTA2 screen shot I could get my hands on and summarizes a lot of the points mentioned in the different previews.  The GTA2 FAQ is out of date but will be updated soon.  Since I took so much time working on the GTA2 info section the GTA London section is still under construction, I'll probably devote a day to that section sometime this week.  The multiplayer listing CGI is done, but I want to add some anti-spam protection to it before it goes live.  Currently I have no plans on running a multiplayer list on this site, but hopefully the multiplayer game listings should cancel out the need for a list.  The chat section and message boards were dependent on the server details which I just got, so they are still in limbo at the moment, but I'll try and get everything online as quickly as possible.