While browsing the articles on MacWEEK, I stumbled on this article about developer support for the G4's AltiVec unit, aka. the Velocity Engine. Lo and behold, Bungie Software is in that list.
Later in the article can be found some notes regarding OpenGL on AltiVec, though how much Halo benefits from this will depend on how Bungie supports OpenGL. Material for the FAQ, that's for sure...
Many thanks to Ricardo, who scanned and passed along this clip from a recent issue of PCGamer UK. Fortunately for them, their glowing praise of Halo at least partly makes up for their typo. Alas, that may not be enough to save them when the revolution comes...
Kudos to the several readers who pointed out this undeniably interesting Halo sighting. I don't think many of us will ever be fortunate enough to see Halo on our own 22 LCD display, but hey, we can pretend.
But that goes without saying. As expected, Apple announced their new PowerMac G4 line at Seybold today. I'd fawn a bit more about them, but I'll spare you any further off topic raving... MacOS Rumors has some excellent info on them, just in case you managed to miss the news during the day...
Halo Central has an item on a new Halo newsletter, for all you faithful out there who can't be bothered to occaisionally scan the news circuits. Worth checking out, and if you're interested in recieving it, contact Giles at bed_sub@hotmail.com.
You folks kick ass. Not only is Halo now the most anticipated action game at the PC Paradox poll, but it is almost a full percent above its closest rival. Quite the climb from one percent of the vote, eh?
May this be only the first web poll we as a community rise up and strike down! Vive la revolution!
After sitting on the old files for a few weeks, I've finally gone and converted the old news archive files into data files for the news updater, which means the script should be archiving them as I post this. I hope... if you've any interest in such things, the News Archive is as up to date as it'll ever be (unless I decide to covert the Myth Codex news archives, that is).
Well folks, Halo has surged forward in the past two days, and now sits ominously in second place at the PC Paradox poll. Only 0.7% of the vote behind Duke Nukem Forever.
Now is our first chance to strike a blow against the heathen hordes! Those of you who haven't voted, rise up and be counted among your peers! Let's drive Halo into first place and do a convincing job of it!
By many accounts, several of the prominent bungie.org sites are back in their usual places, including halo.bungie.org, mill.bungie.org, and oni.bungie.org. Alas, it doesn't seem to have propogated to my DNS yet, so no nice domain names for me...
