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Myth Demo Is Out!
This is it, the big day, the Myth Demo is out! It's about 45 megabytes and has reportedly taken 4.5 hours to download. And the great part is that you can play the demo on Bungie's Battle.net with the 1 included net map. Go to Bungie's Web Site and download it NOW!

This News is the only news I could find for today...

Looking for 3Dfx and RAVE games?
You might want ot check this site, it has a very lengthy list of 3Dfx and RAVE games, you can find the site here

source MGL

NetGridz almost ready!
Green Dragon Creations is just finishing off the networkable version of Gridz, NetGridz. NetGridz will support Appletalk and Internet play, check the NetGridz page for more info

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Quake Update
A recent post to the comp.sys.mac.games.action newsgroup let everyone in on the current Quake isssues, here it is:

1) Quake v. 1.08.4 will be ready in the next few days and will be up on the website by next Monday (let me hedge my bets here by saying "hopefully by next Monday"). 1.08.4 will fix the gfx.wad thing so you can name your directory anything you want and not worry, and modem support will finally be in there. We are really sorry about any inconvenience the lack of modem support caused. It was simple oversight in the final stages of the testing. One line gets omitted from a testing checklist, and...
2) Quakeworld is not a dead issue. We have been letting Bruce get the modem working before we even begin to look at this. We are discussing the matter internally and that's about it right now, but we do want to get it out, most likely as shareware. We will try to keep the community posted on this as regularly as is possible. At the moment we are working very hard on other projects, so please bear with us. We have many products to keep track of (36 active products and 7 in development) and despite how much we like Quake, we also have to devote time to these other products.

Thanks, everyone, for your continued support, interest, and patience

Nate Birkholz Technical Coordinator, MacSoft

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Riven officially releases today; updater already posted!
The sequel to Myst, Riven, is offically released. To play Riven you must have: System 7.5 or higher, 90 MHz PowerPC or faster, 9 MB free RAM, and a 640x480 (13") display capable of showing thousands of colors. In an unusual twist, the first Riven updater to version 1.01 was released today also. This updater fixes several things including some Quicktime movie problems... Download the updater (722 K) here

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OpenGL Mac 1.1 released
Connix Graphics has released OpenGL 1.1 for Mac. OpenGL is a graphics engine use in many workstations and PC's for 3D graphics. With the release of OpenGL develops can now more easily create intense 3D games for the Mac

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QuakeFinder Released
QuakeFinder, the Quake server browser, has been released. QuakeFinder is the easiest and fastest program for finding, and joining, Internet multiplayer Quake servers.

Galapagos updated to version 1.1
Anark's Galapagos has been updated to 1.1, Version 1.1 adds an "easy mode" which allows you to save anywhere. You can find it at Anark's Web site

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Starfleet Academy 3Dfx patch coming
Interplay/MacPlay spokesperson Meghan Jenks indicated in a recent usenet newsgroup posting that their new PC/Mac title Starfleet Academy will indeed have 3Dfx support. The title is shipping without support for 3Dfx-based cards out of the box, but a patch should be available that will add 3Dfx support. Here are Meghan's comments:

Official word is that the game shipped without 3dfx support and it is being included in a patch that's in the works. That's all the info I have; when I get a date for the patch I will post it!

source Tikkabik

Our Riven Review is Released!
The MGA's review of riven has just been released, you can find it here

Magic the Gathering coming to the Mac!
According to the MGL, Micropose has told some people that Magic the Gathering will be ported to the Macintosh, no publisher or other important info was given.

Starfleet Out?
I've heard a lot of people saying that Starfleet Academy Mac has been released, can anyone out there confirm this? if you can please e-mail me, ddreyer@sprynet.com