what about czg02?

Surely you could use that as an example of collabation etc? I'm sure companies are keen on mappers who can map with other people's stuff too. 

Good lookin HL sp stuff

http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.com/php/generic.php?page=misc/interviews/nightwatchshots.generic 

metl. your portfolio blew me! of course many of the chaps here have abundance of games experience so fatty, i hope you can make something like that. basically, nobody cares if you put the quake dir in your cd and run it from there. i dont think there are gonna be any "slowness" probs or legal problems just for an interview. go ahead and do it!!

from experience with my interviews (in automotive industry: not the same but you still bring along designs, renderings, bits and bobs you made in workshop...) i always take as much as i can and then see what the guys want. if they like doing aptitude tests that's fine. if they want to see your innovation show them your shower-cum-coffemachine-cum-bed etc...

oh. why do you still have a crappy pc!!!! get a job at the petrol station or whatever. and YES, grab a video even if it's with your dads 20 yr old vid cam. adjust the contrast though!!! and the crt refresh will make those lovely frame flickers...lol 

dunno if you all checked ALL the screenies. they are ab fab! wish he had time to make a couple more q1dm maps...

bel lavoro mark. in gamba! 

refers to post #119

And here one is trying to make nice Q1 sceneries...need a beer or five..

oh well, any ways, portfolio looks great metlslime! 

i'm not suggesting that you install quake at the company's office during the inteview -- i'm suggesting that you put the installed game onto the CD and play it from there. Loading might be slower, but the game will run just as fast.

As far as how "kosher" it is ... it's totally legal! You own a license to play the game, and if you're at some company's office playing it then that means you're not at home playing it at the same time. As for mailing the CD to people, or giving them the CD at the end of the interview, that's not such a good idea, though maybe you can get away with it. 

Is possible, I've done it. Be sure to have everything right, maybe even shortcuts setup to work at the CDR root level (including engine options). Note, for others wanting this for more fun purposes, there will be no savegame or options saving, although the latter at least produces no error messages.

BTW, the Winquake windowed mode pixel doubling uses the following sequence to turn off ( ;) ):
vid_stretch_by_2 0
vid_forcemode 2 

i've been using the same 'install' of quake since two years ago. and i've had to change hds twice, and survive a mobo crash once. i just copy the entire quake dir into a zip, then toss it off onto a cd. this game doesn't have any reg keys or anything to worry about, so 'installing' isn't even necessary (you could just copy the files right off the cd).

not sure if this is what you meant. 

OK, so I get carte blanche to buy a CD burner, and I screw the thing in and plug it all up...

FUCKING BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH. EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPT.

Take out the old CD-ROM, rewire, try again: BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

Lessee... got enough memory, reasonably fast processor, wires are plugged in the right way, sufficient hard drive space free. Why does this fargnaxing thing keep crashing!?

Gods. Why am I even bothering? 

do you have the sucker set up for master/slave properly? mine cddrive is always a slave, but sometimes i get a drive which is set as master, and it fucks up the comp when i start it up without checking... it's worth a look...

beyond that... what os are you running, when is the bsod happening, etc... 

It was causing some sort of b0rkage, so I removed it, now everything's jake.

Should've looked at Ahead's webby first, eh?

It's just that this is a big step for me, and a shitload of money.

Now I have a free CD-ROM drive, which I may try to insert into the Compaq, if I can figure out how...

Heh. Yesterday, the shelf above the Compaq fell on top of it. Mercifully, my essay survived, and if you'll ex-squeeze me, I have to shift some files... 

2 cd drives is always cool for multi cd. play something and have the music. oh, wait. on a slow comp put the music cd in your hi-fi system. sorry... didnt mean to hurt your feelings....

in my celeron 500 in italy 2 cd and cdr drives conflicted (even when changing slave/master bla bla). it just used to crash once in 3 times. the cdr is a LG, so i't better than the original drive at READING cds so i just used the other in another pc (no, i dont have 6 pc. just my dad has an old one. 

new discussion topics posts have to be given the go ahead by the admin. how organized. it's a useful tool anyway...

i await in despair...no wait, that should read patiently 

Fatty, what is it you're trying to get, since I could do videos of your maps and upload them for you if you want.

If it's just CD burning I'm less help :) 

what are you talking about? 

Im looking to buy a graphics card for my PC, at the moment I have a GF4mx 64mb card, which is pretty crappy.

I'm looking to spend roughly �140, what would you recommend, GeForce ti 4200 128mb or a Radeon alternative?

Which is best for games? 

radeon has some problems with older games but it is faster. So if you're mostly into newer stuff, go the radeon. 

maybe clicking on the thread name show all new posts rather than all of them. I think the old qmap did this? 

The company's actually still in startup mode. Currently, they're thinking of doing simple web-based games, in order to establish themselves, before moving along to more ambitious stuff.

"What's this? An investment banker, an ad-man and an ex-US Ranger? Can't you read? No posing fer jokes this side on even dates!"

Looks like I now have to mull it over, recover from their hospitality, and let them know if I'm still game. The bastards got their hooks into me, so...

(No, seriously, it does, doesn't it? "There was this banker, an ad-man and an ex-Ranger..." 

Ask me in a week or 3, just installed Radeon 9000 pro ~$140 in the old can but ended up with problems in both hig res. Quake and OpenGl gaming. I guess its fixable but its a an aditional pain in my already sore as right now.. 

I've already decided now, I'm gunna get the Geforce4 ti 4200 128mb with goldensample. It's by Gainward and it's only �139.99 

Is anyone else having problems connecting to any GameSpy site? (fileplanet, planetquake, planethalflife, etc...) 

Been having trouble with Q3W for several hours. Just tried PQ out of curiosity and got the same thing.

Several unrelated sites seem to be out too e.g. BBC News, so it may be some sort of massive DNS cock up. 

http://65.61.157.176/ Console #4!??

Believe it or not, someone is going for it....Check this one out as it is rather interesting....compared to the rest of the console systems.. 

The most hilarious thing being claimed about the Phantom is that they're saying it's going to launch with 32,000 titles available. Now, even assuming that figure's all PC games, which I doubt, I suspect that roughly half of those are old DOS games that won't remotely run on a modern PC without extensive fucking about with boot floppies and shit like that. If the figure isn't all PC games, what are they on? Even if they can make it work, it will be interesting to see how many publishers will actually make a deal to go on the service. Unless this company can very quickly establish a credible image, I'm guessing not many will be interested.

I was initially extremely skeptical about the whole thing - the website is half finished, the only 'photo' of the hardware is blatantly a render, and it's called 'The Phantom' for God's sake! I'm still not entirely convinced and half expect it will turn out to be some sort of absurd sting advertising campaign for one of the other consoles, or just someone out to make a point... So far we've seen nothing that a few guys with a couple of hundred dollars couldn't achieve.

PS The internet seems to be better now.