Does not really qualify as news (it is a "beta") so I post this sick detailed q3 map here:
http://mxl.zastavka.cz/category/q3maps (School)

You might need a higher com_hunkmegs, like 256. 

I always used Qizmo, but my virus scanner is convinced it's a trojan and rendered the program unusable on my computer. 

Then either it is a trojan or you should kick that stupid virusscanner off your harddisk.
I guess ezQuake can load qwz by itself. 

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3149/screen1y.jpg

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5570/fitz0000.jpg

1: Switched the PC on this morning and this is what my desktop looks like (note the vertical bars in the taskbar area, and the pattern of blocks in the widget area)

2: This is what FQ85 looks like - more vertical bars that seem to x-ray things

There are also 16 horizonal bars that follow the mouse pointer around the screen.

Media Player has vertical, dashed lines all over the playing area of the window in a regular pattern.

In the previous day's session no new programs, updates, registry tweaks, uninstalls; in other words I ran the same programs I normally do, doing the same things I normally do and all virus checker and firewalls were untouched and operational.

I have since downloaded the latest ATI drivers for the Radeon Pro 9700, which has been running OK prior to this but it still looks the same.

Two things strike me: SyncMaster 930BF monitor problem or general RAM problem. Can't test the monitor on another computer as everything else I have is not DVI.

Any suggestions? 

Speaking from experience, I started getting odd graphic fragmentations similar to that when my NVidia 7900 started to go. It only got worse as time went on. Not trying to alarm you, but it could be that your video card is sick with inoperable cancer, and is going to die. 

I said similar graphical corruption in windows before my 8800 died :( 

I replaced the power box, er, sorry anything more technical alludes my cranium at the moment, fan, chord hook up area, well anyway. I replaced that and everything was swell from there on forward. 

Graphics card: I'll have to see if I can borrow one from somewhere and try that

Monitor: I'll get one of My Babies to take it to work and test it there

Could always make this the excuse to buy a new, more modern, computer? 

I thought buying a new, more modern computer was the excuse to buy a new, more modern computer. 

You are quite right - I wasn't thinking straight. Pish and be damned, a new computer it is then. 

I suggest a non-ATI (ie NVIDIA), especially if you are into Quake. But I guess that you already considered that obvious now, heh. 

What country are you in Mike? 

Pretty sure it's a video-card dying. I had the same thing when my video memory got messed up. Sometimes unavoidable, sometimes due to overheating, from what I remember. 

I have always been an ATI fan and this is the first problem I have encountered - excluding settings and figuring them out.

It's just that everytime I bone up on the latest cards, ATI impresses me more. Part of the problem is that I am a tinkerer and always build my own. Perhaps I just need to walk into a store and say, "Gimme that one before I change my mind", and accept whatever I get.

RickyT123: I am English but spend time in US and Scandinavia (especially in the skiing season - Colorado was good in January, and Sweden and Norway are both looking good at the moment) 

I used to own an ATI 9500 Pro, and it was a great card until it just became outdated. Then I got my 7900 which was a great card until it died. Now my 9800 GTX is fantastic and I would love to get SLI.

I would really love to build another rig just so I can play with the new ATI cards (I hear they are quite good for the price.) 

http://www.pcoption.co.uk/pcbaseunits/index5.htm

Pros: Cheep. Very nice and cheep. You can pick your own mobo and build it from there and they build it for you :) They gave me a 750watt PSU and I only paid for a 450watt one.

Cons: They use budget carriage and mine got here busted. The heat sink was broken and had come off the mobo and was dangling inside. Nothing else seems to have been broken though. They sent me a replacement heat sink free of charge but I managed to fix the stock intel one.

Pay by Direct Debit, lets not go there :|

Must admit that ATI do have some very attractive features at the moment : DirectX 10.1 is ATI only. So you need ATI if you want directX 10.1.

But the GTX285 and GTX295 do both look very sexy. 

but about six months ago I got so tired of not being able to blame my computer problems on tech support drones, I decided to order a prebuild and just carry out a few simple upgrades. Best decision I ever made. Prebuilds are a lot more reliable and a lot more customisable than they were a decade ago.

I might even buy a console one day. HAHAHAHA. 

i updated the "active" status of review sites to include dates.

also, talon's strike link now works (goes to archive.org) 

What about the MPQ archive?

http://mpqarchive.pauked.com/ 

yeah, i should add that. 

Having a talk with a friend of mine about compile times, the subject of quake 1 level compile times come up. Anyone know what the record compile time is for a level on a fairly modern machine? 

What machine was it again JPL? 

Yeah !
CDA has still (AFAIK) the world record for the evil-ish worst fullvis runtime ever: 1218 hours / 50 days and 18 hours. You need to be patient man :P
It was on an AMD Athlon 2600+ with 768MB RAM... that I still currently using ;)
I used aguirRe's vis tool v2.30 

interesting article on lovecraft and the cthulhu mythos:

http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS04/hplnf3.htm 

That's the standard understanding - Derleth was good for bringing Lovecraft's work more into the mainstream but his understanding of the concept was basically flawed.

He missed the whole nihilistic aspect that was Lovecraft's strongest theme.