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Matt's Halo Update - July 20, 2001

Recovering from illness and on the brink of lucidity once more, I bring you the regular Friday evening dose of Halo stuff.

- The Bear is in the midst of a complete vehicle physics overhaul; high- and low-level stuff that will make the vehicles work better than they have in recent builds.

- Most of Butcher's time is spent making life easier for the designers. In his copious spare time, he's worked on speeding up our framerate, reducing the AI's memory footprint and teaching the Marines to drive the warthog.

Sorry about the delay, but there are some technical difficulties going on over here that are preventing me from getting my Marathon Resurrection preview uploaded on the rampancy.net server in HTML format, so I did the next best thing. I have converted the content of the preview to PDF format, which means you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you haven't already. The plan is to get the PDF version released now and sometime soon get the HTML version online.

In accordance with the MacWorld Expo beginning, MacSoft has put up a website for Myth III. It's not very extensive and it doesn't offer any new information, as it is probably available for Expo visitors to find more information on the game. Check it out. Thanks, Monte.

This reminder just in from David Bricker:

Macworld begins tomorrow,†without a Bungie booth for the first time in several years. While some Macintosh users see Bungie's absence as an insult, Bungie insiders insist that the company simply has nothing to show to their Mac using patrons. If you'd like to watch Steve Jobs' keynote address on Wednesday, July 18, at 9:00 am EDT, tune into Quicktime TV:†

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwny01/