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Myth Bungie Org news.

... well, not really THAT personal. However, Ducain at HIH did go into an awful lot of detail in his questioning of yours truly and Louis Wu at HBO, and the resulting fountain of verbiage is now duly formatted and posted for the benefit of those wit intestinal fortitude to spare and time to waste.

To open PrintMusic files, get the free FinaleNotepad program. Versions are available for Windows and Mac OS X. It opens PrintMusic files, as well as imports and exports MIDI.

To download the free program, the Finale website will require you to register a free account with them. Be sure to check the opt-in marketing settings at the bottom of the form if you don't want them to email you or give your contact information to their partners.

After the last tutorial on how to download sheet music files there were some requests on how to upload files to the site for other readers to see.

If you've transcribed some music from Halo or any other Bungie or Wideload game and would like to share it with the community here through Rampancy's sheet music section, first you need to have an account, confirm that account, and be logged in. All of those steps are covered in the tutorial on How To Download Sheet Music Files. After you've followed those steps, come back here.

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Every so often readers have some trouble obtaining access to the sheet music files on Rampancy.net. Below is a short tutorial to help you out.

The short answer is that these files are freely available to anyone. All I ask in return is that you register an account first. Registration is free. I don't give out your email address to anyone, and the site will not mail you anything unless you ask.

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Those of us steeped in Halo 3 and Bungie Breakaway news might be forgiven momentarily for forgetting that online communities for Bungie's Mac and PC RTS games, Myth, are still hanging in there a decade after the game was released.

Unfortunately one of them, PlayMyth, has now shut down. Server administrator Blades, apparently posting as elusivemind, says he no longer has the time or energy to keep up with it.

Those looking for their online Myth multiplayer fix can still visit Mariusnet, and if you need Myth related files, including updates to Myth 2, visit Project Magma.

Thanks Gholsbane at MBO.

InsideMacGaming notes that the Myth World Cup 2007 website has launched with a fan-produced promotional video. More details are "coming soon".

For Halo fans unfamiliar with the game, Myth is a fantastic real-time tactical combat game that eschews resource management and focuses solely on managing troops in battle. It was released for Macs and PCs, and the fan community has kept the games updated for running on modern operating systems. Two online communities exist at PlayMyth and MariusNet.

If you really don't know what Myth is, this page at ProjectMagma will tell you; if that sparks your interest, you can get a demo of Myth 2: Soulblighter.

Myth II: Soulblighter.

Myth: The Fallen Lords.

Promotional video for Myth: The Fallen Lords.

Version 1.6 of Myth II, for which a public beta was available last summer, has now finally been officially released for Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Windows. It's available in the Myth II Updates section of the recently-launched The Tain, an archive for Myth-related files.

From ProjectMagma.net:

Myth II version 1.6, adds native MacOS X map making tools along with a Universal Binary for OS X. Not to be left out the Windows version received some modernization that drastically cut down startup times, allows the game to be played in a window, and shares the CPU better with other tasks.

This update will be of specific interest to Myth fans running Mac OS X as this update makes the game a Universal Binary, good for play on PPC and Intel machines.

Registration will open February 12 for the 5x5 Proelium Standards Myth vTFL tournament, part of the events scheduled this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bungie's Mac and PC RTS game, Myth: The Fallen Lords.

Thanks to Zandervix at Myth.Bungie.Org for the news.

The Power Of Ten is a simple idea: make a Myth map using only ten monster tags. Check their site for official rules. Thanks to PlayMyth for the announcement.

Okay, this is a little obscure, but I thought it worth posting anyway.

Mumbo Jumbo is a company that does so-called "casual games". Mobile phone games, Flash games, puzzle games, game show conversions, card games. Some of it's on Xbox Live Arcade. However, the name "Mumbo Jumbo" wasn't always associated with such games. At one point, they were chosen by Take Two, who used to own 19.9% of Bungie Software, to develop Myth 3: The Wolf Age, the sequel to Bungie's accolade-adorned series of real-time strategy (or real-time tactics, for purists) games on the Mac and PC. When Microsoft bought Bungie, Take Two got the Myth and Oni franchises as part of the compensation; Microsoft and Bungie held on to Marathon and Halo.

Oni, it seems, has been left on the shelf. Mumbo Jumbo tapped members of the active Myth development community to make their game, and updated the Myth 2 engine to use fully 3D models. However, the game was received poorly by the Bungie faithful, and shortly after release, the team that developed it was let go. Today, Bungie's earlier Myth games are still more popular and better-supported than the orphaned Myth 3.

It was after this that Mumbo Jumbo, now just a name, became associated with casual gaming. Still, it's interesting to note that MJ has now acquired Ritual Entertainment, developer of shooters. Mumbo Jumbo itself was founded by a Ritual alum, and was formed by employees split off from 3D Realms. They developed mission packs for Quake, and most recently worked on SiN Episodes.

In 2001, Mumbo Jumbo split off from Ritual, at the same time announcing that their first title would be Myth 3.

MJ's website contains no reference whatsoever to Myth 3, or to its prior incarnation before the focus on casual and mobile gaming.