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Well, it's been almost a week...
Sorry everyone, I had personal business to take care of this past week, and the bad news is that there will be no news for a another week starting Thursday as I will be moving... Sorry

Update: 1.5 of Sentinels of Ceth
HONOLULU, HAWAII - 23 April 1998 - Stick Man Games, Inc. today announced the availability of Sentinels of Ceth v1.5 for MacOS.

WHAT IS SENTINELS OF CETH?

Sentinels of Ceth is a fast paced arcade blaster. Use your ship to protect your Gems from being stolen. You will need a bit of planning to purchase the right equipment for the job. Brains and skill are the only requirements to play. Are you up to the challenge?

You are the Sentinel of Ceth. Your enemy, the Doltres race, wants to plunder the Ceth Temple and you are their only obstacle. Your task is to prevent the Doltres from stealing the 12 Gems of Ceth, the lifeblood of the temple.

As you destroy wave after wave of Doltres ships, the Goddess Ceth will bestow blessings upon you. These blessings can be spent at the Temple Gift Shop. The gift shop carries everything that a Sentinel could ask for (guided missiles, energy mines, engine upgrades, etc.).

Sentinels of Ceth is fast-paced and frenetic. If you blink, you die.

WHAT HAS CHANGED IN VERSION 1.5

• Tweaked the game play. Reworked everything to give the game a better balance.
• Added tons of new graphical special effects.
• Threw in a cool sound track to drive the destruction.
• Killed a couple of bugs.
• Improved performance.
• Knocked 5 bucks off the price.

QuakeWorld b2
Westlake Interactive has released beta 2 of the unsupported Quake internet client, you can download the client here

Shadow Warrior Demo Update
An update for the Shadow Warrior Demo (normal, not 3Dfx) is now available. This fixes just a couple minor bugs, one dealing with VOC files and one about color depth being reset on quit. Click here to download.

Mac Unreal Update
Westlake Interactive recently post the following update to the progress of Mac Unreal:
Great news for Mac Unreal, we've discovered a performance bottleneck in the OS that was eating up tons of our CPU time. As a result of some new optimizations, Mac Unreal is now running 3 times faster than previously.

Its still too early to tell what final performance will be, but we think we're still on track to have the Mac version run as well or better than the PC on similar hardware, and G3 Mac's should really scream!

Mac Diablo: $34.99!
I thought I should let everyone know, that mrcdrom has Mac Diablo for the low low price of only $34.99, cheaper than the MGL's "Exclusive deal" : ) To get Mac Diablo for $34.99 go to: http://www.mrcdrom.com/index.cfm?AID=19&ref=i721256

QuakeFinder 1.5.1 Released
QuakeFinder, the quickest and easiest way to find and play Quake multiplayer over the internet has been updated to 1.5.1. New Features/Fixes in 1.5.1 include:

• Default command-line parameters for Quake to use at startup can be specified
• The number of attempts on a server before timing out can be set
• A maximum of 4 server info windows will be opened in one hit to guard against accidental double-clicks with many servers selected.

QuakeFinder 1.5.1 is a free upgrade for registered users. QuakeFinder is US$15 shareware and is available from http://www.curtin.edu.au/~scott/macquake/

Mac Unreal Update
Westalke Interactive recently posted an update to the progress of Mac Unreal:
We're keeping the Mac version up to date with the PC (which is progressing very nicely), and adding more Mac specific features steadily.

We now have cross platform network games working (Mac<->PC) with TCP/IP, and are working on the options setup interface (all nice and Mac standard with a beautiful grayscale appearance).

You all may have noticed a lack of updates on the site lately, there is a very good reason for this, I've been very busy as I'm moving at the end of the Month and between packing and an excess of other unrelated work I haven't had the time to keep the site as updated as I would like. Other bad news is that I have to go to Boston for a week in the middle of May... SO unfortunatly the updates won't return to normal until the end of May. I really feel bad about this!

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MacDiablo Requirments

• Power PC 601 or better processor.
• 16 MB RAM for Single player games / 32 MB RAM for Network or Battle.net games
• 2x or faster CD ROM drive
• Keyboard and Mouse
• System 7.5 or later

Source: Tikkabik

Escape Velocity: Overdrive!:
EV: Overdrive is not a sequel to Escape Velocity, but it's pretty damn close! Overdrive is a complete overhaul of the EV universe, there will be over 300 systems, 5 major alien races and countless minor ones, and 25 new flyable ships! For more info scope out Ambrosia SW's home page

No updates this weekend or Monday due to the Easter Holiday. Check back Tuesday for extra coverage!

Quake 1.09 Released!
Yesterday afternoon Westlake Interactive and MacSoft released the long awaited 1.09 Quake update, this update fixes numerous bugs and in the 3Dfx version brings the GL Quake code up the PC par with .97. As usual there are 3 diferent updates to download:

• Quake 1.09 Normal Update (456k)
• Quake 1.09 3Dfx Update (453k)
• Quake 1.09 RAVE Update (489k)

Quake GL.97 Almost Done
In a recent update by Westlake Interactive, they reported the following:
The GLQuake .97 patch is nearly finished, we're just doing some extra testing to make sure it all works. Nearly all the .97 changes from the PC are in, and several minor bug fixes to both normal Quake Mac and GLQuake Mac are also in the new 1.09 update. Keep checking back for updates!

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Nanoaur Released!
Pangea's much anticapted Nanoaur 3D dinosaur game has been released. It requires a ATi 3D card, it will not work with the Power3D, the file is 12.6 mb and you can download it here

New Review
Take a look at our new review of the Carmageddon add-on Splat Pack, this add-on adds all new cars, peds, and tracks. You can find the review here

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