The Marathon Open Source page has put up another update, this time on the progress of Carbonization and the addition of networking:
Mitb at the Forerunners.org hotline server pointed out to us a news post by Mutha Flictka at Marathon.bungie.org with several updates: a renovation of the Marathon 2 terminal texts at the Marathon's Story page (still a joy after all these years), some more new 3d models for Aleph One at source.bungie.org, and even more updates at the
Matt Soell posted on Bungie.net last week that the venerable Bungie shooter Marathon has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast in the form of Aleph One for Dreamcast.
David Candyman Candland of Bungie has posted to Bungie.net that Team Unpfhorgiven has released a demo of their much anticipated Marathon TC for Unreal Tournament, Marathon: Resurrection. From the release notes of M:R 1.2:
Yeoren has posted at bungie.net that after the Bungie Store sold out of Mac Action Sacks, they found another stack of Sack CDs without sacks, which are now being sold for $10.
Strolled over to the Marathon Open Source project page and saw that the Macintosh version of Aleph One was updated earlier today. Although it's dated February 20, there is no news item that lists the latest changes. At any rate, be sure to download the latest build if Aleph One is your thing.
Come one, frag all! Team Unpfhorgiven is pleased to announce the first ever Marathon: Resurrection internet tournament. This event will mark the first ever Marathon-related tournament held over the internet.
When and where do I sign up?
Entries will be taken starting from January 16th to the 29th. Tournament play will commence on February 6th. Games will be played on weekdays after 6PM PST.
To sign up, go to this page and fill in the blanks
There is a nifty screenshot over at Marathon Open Source that shows the Warthog from Halo rendered within Marathon. Funny, I don't remember it being those colors.
The mod-based Unreal Tournament site called Mod Squad has reviewed Marathon Resurrection version 1.1.1. The Marathon-based mod scored 9.4 out of 10, which is extremely well.
Marathon Resurrection is in public beta and can be downloaded at Team Unphorgiven's website.
MacGamer's Corey Tamas is reporting that version 1.1.1 of the Unreal Tournament mod Marathon: Resurrection is now available, including a number of bug fixes and other improvements.
Scott at OrbitalArm has posted a new netmap called Don't Disturb the King in their netmaps section.
Anybody remember the 2d, avatar-based graphical chat environment The Palace?
It was supposed to be the next killer app, supplant text-based email and impersonal web pages, put a personal face on the Internet, and allow everyone to run their own online community.
Lophan at Myth.bungie.org noticed a recent update at the Marathon Open Source page that hosts the Aleph One project-- namely, that someone's put a Soulless 3d model in, taking advantage of the recently added model support. The result is interesting, to say the least.
Eric Trautmann answered a few questions over at HBO about the upcoming Halo prequel novel-- among the tidbits was the fact that Cortana will be one of four points of view presented in the book. The identity of at least some of the other three apparently constitutes a spoiler. Oh, yeah... and there might be one or two Marathon references...
