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September 1999 Archived News
News September 30 1999
Also from the story page... some interesting comparisons between the Halo SAM launcher and a weapons system developed by the US Army. Curiouser and curiouser... (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
4 development teams at Bungie? The Marathon's Story page has more... (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
The first Halo page casualty... Halo Legacy now returns a 404 error. RIP. Possibly dead as well is Milita: Armies for Halo... page returns no data. And so they go... (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 29 1999
Jon Chang, who sent in those 4 new screens, sends word of his own Halo site, DEHc-3 HALO, which will focus on the links between Halo and Iain M. Banks. It still needs fleshing out, but he's also put up his screens. :) (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Due to the overwhelming response to the new Halo screenshots, we've added a mirror of the screenshots page. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Major kudos to Steve Campbell for passing along a scan of the Halo article from the most recent edition of Next Generation magazine (125K) . No new screenshots though. :( (Scan was done by Clem Freeman.) (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Haloniac a Halo site hosted by PC Paradox. Warning graphically intense. May crash your browser. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Kudos to Ian and Colin Jackson of Total Halo for allowing us to add some of their fan art to our misc. art page. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 28 1999
"Pre-halo training: Announcing the Pax Nimbus" says Noctavis. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Nathan Bitner's "Island Four" pseudonym sourced? See the Marathon's Story for the tru7h. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo Screenshots at Halo.Org. Halo.Org? Yes according to Inside Mac Games. ;) Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 27 1999
WOO-HOO! Major Kudos to Jon Chang, who sent in 4 new screenshots, scanned in from the new Computer Gaming World. Way to go, Jon! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
"I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag..." says Nathan Bitner on our Forums. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Wedf of Halo. A Halo clan site lead by Lewis Weston. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 26 1999
As of 7:07 PM CST today, the Bungie SETI Team has 1725 results, 31346 hours, and the Halo Team has 1737 results, 36008 hours. Way to go, guys! (Thanks, especially, to Revelation, whose 158 results made a big difference.) (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
An interesting graphic added to our Miscellaneous Art page... author unknown. Pallusvhalo, anyone? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
The first German language Halo page came online this weekend... go check out mamabaer's Halopage! (Thanks, CU.) Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Dispatcher sends word of HAL5's Project HALO page. Bungie competition? ;) (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Nathan Bitner comments on Musings on the Nathan Interview. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Yet more Halo wallpaper. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Island Four posts for sale, cheap. ;) (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 25 1999
HaloNews opens with a Nathan Bitner interview. Great scoop! (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: the darkside closes its doors. HaloNews to take up the slack. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Nathan exposed on the Core? Is he really Island Four and what has he revealed in the past? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Funny Art of HALO. A new Halo page from Robert Cox (aka MacSniper). Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 24 1999
Loren Petrich reports that Sega's Dreamcast will be supporting the OpenGL API, making a Halo port quite believable. Read about it on our forums. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 23 1999
Wallpaper page updated with new credits. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie may have better computers but the Halo SETI team is gaining says mad.max on our forums. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 22 1999
Ricardo Constante Rosado sends in another translation of the PC Games article, and accompanies it with a very nicely done makeover of the original scan (in English this time). Thanks, Ricardo! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
MIK, inspired by the demo trailer, submits two very cool desktops to our Wallpaper page. Thanks, MIK! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Alex sends notice that halo'tech" is live. Interesting layout, as well... Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Blayne Welsh sends word of a new Halo Mailing list called Halo-fans. You can get basic info (and subscribe) here. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Jason Fowler submits "the highest resolution Halo logo yet." Wallpaper page updated. Thanks, Jason! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 21 1999
Hey, we're not the Marathon's Story page, and we don't wanna be... but just this once we'll post a reader-submitted Halo-like logo sighting, because it's cool. Thanks, Dispatcher. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Kudos to Harry Al-Shakarchi and Christoph Schmidt, who both sent in translations for the PC Games Halo Preview. Thanks! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
More Halo quote insights on the Marathon's Story page. Can you dig it? (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
"Halo-zinationen"... Christoph Schmidt sends along a scan of a German newspaper article about Halo. He suggests Babelfish as a decent translator. Anyone care to submit a full translation? (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 20 1999
Noddy99 sends word of a new Halo site, Halo Command. The graphics make it hard on modem connections, but there is good basic info here. Check it out! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
DeathGuru submits another nice Halo scene to our Miscellaneous Art page. Thanks, DG! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Ballistically Insane submits two new desktop pics to our Wallpaper page. Thanks, Eric! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Does SC stand for SolCore? See the Marathon's Story page. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
A new submission for our Miscellaneous Art page. Halo's inspiring devotion pretty early on! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 19 1999
Marathon's Story page four years old today! Halo section updated. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Very nice rendition of the Halo Ring on our Miscellaneous Art page. Thanks, Joseph. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Cortana missing in action from Bungie's SETI team says Zach Stroum. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 18 1999
Alex sends news of a new Halo Site, Halo'Tech". Not much yet, but keep checking back. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo reference spotted in Marathon music tracks seven and ten says Marathon's Story. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie's Tug of War Trophy stolen says Marathon's Story. See the evidence for yourself. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Congratulations to Clan Plaid #CP# for making the SETI Top 100 clubs list. Total CPU time = 14.31 years! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 17 1999
StrobeShock sends word that the Darkside is contemplating a new page devoted to multiplayer gaming strategy, if there's enough interest. Hop over, take a look, and let him know if you think it's a worthwhile endeavor! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie's alien art revealed! Thanks to Ian and Colin Jackson of Total Halo for painstakingly piecing together the background pattern in the letters of the Halo logo. See our misc. art page for the graphic. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
As pointed out by the Marathon's Story page the Tug of War Halo team pic is called blam.gif and not halo.gif. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Check out the Bungie Picnic Madness says Freewill. Halo team gets third place in Bungie Tug of War! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 16 1999
Halo: the darkside to merge with HaloNews to form "killer site" says Kevin Fry (StrobeShock). (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo confirmed for Playstation2 according to Next Generation listing. Good news for PS2 owners. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Catching Bungie? mad.max calls on your support for the Halo SETI team. Enlist today! (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Paris Expo gets same Halo run-through as shown in New York according to MacWeek news article. Thanks mad.max. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 15 1999
Halo demo pics from the Paris Apple Expo courtesy of the Macintosh News Network can be seen here and here. Demo sure looks the same. Thanks Anaphiel. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Jason's in Paris? Hmm... was the demo the same as the MWNY one, we wonder? (Thanks, Max.) Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Our theories page returns. Thanks to the back-up Gods. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
A strange submission for our Miscellaneous Art page. You be the judge. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 14 1999
"When people play HALO, one of the first things they'll notice is our insane attention to graphics detail." says Bungie's Jason Jones in a Sharkey Extreme article. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Aliens? They're out there! The Halo SETI team clocks up a total CPU time of 2.19 years but can they catch the Bungie team? Join the crusade to beat Bungie! ;) Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Is Halo movie fever spreading or what? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Screenshots page finally updated with the latest Halo screenshots. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Yes Wirehead hosed our Theories page and nobody noticed. Anyone got a backup? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 13 1999
3Dfx is making a new compression technology available for free in an effort to answer S3's S4 compression methods, giving Halo yet another rendering possibility when the time comes. Thanks, Steve, for the tip to this IGN PC story. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Forums are finally moved to a bigger machine. 250 posts on the main page, and the Archived Messages link works now. Enjoy! (Let us know about any bugs you find... there were a couple of glitches in the move.) (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 12 1999
Well, we can't expect miracles, I guess. Our mailserver is down till tomorrow, so this comes from the Core: A new Halo website is on the streets, goes by the name of Hola Halo Communications. It's early yet... Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
What's going on? In the last 24 hours, the Halo SETI Team has submitted 39 units... but the Bungie team has dropped in 104! (Of course, someone new just joined their team... but that's no excuse!) Come on, people... we won't catch them that way... (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 11 1999
I'm really sorry... I updated this yesterday, but forgot to mention it here. Aaron Davies submitted new desktops for your perusal... Wallpaper page updated. Sorry, Aaron. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Eek. Sometime since our last SETI update, the Bungie SETI Team pulled away from the Halo SETI Team... 1264 units to 878. (The Halo team picked up a bunch of new members, though... they're up to 42 now, to Bungie's 24, so things might happen soon.) Keep it going! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Not too much going on, yet... enjoy the weekend. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 10 1999
One thing that continued on without our intervention was our forum. Traffic has picked up, though... and now posts are rolling off faster than most people can keep up with them. The current machine hosting the forum can't handle more posts on the main page... and has choked completely on the 3000+ posts in the archive, so we'll be moving it to a more robust machine soon. The upside will be more posts available... the downside will be the loss of cookies. Sorry. More info as it becomes available. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Lots of stuff happening while we were gone... Total Halo released a home-grown movie (pretty fun, actually)... The Darkside and Halocination together worked on a hoax that had people going about a new vehicle, halo.bungie.com was down, then up, then down, then up, and has two new screenshots for the masses... busy week. Sorry we missed it. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Goodness. Abducted by aliens, all of us. Yeah, that's it. We're back, though... we think. Very sorry for the downtime. (What are these little knobs coming out of our necks?) (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 5 1999
Mark Levin turned in this pretty interesting analysis of those PC Gamer screenshots to our forum... (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Updates at Halam, Halo Central, Myth Townhall, the new Halo-Net (including a spiffy new forum)... the Halo world is coming alive once more. Is something up? Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Darkside has redone its format yet again... news on the front page now. Keep an eye on this site... it's religiously updated. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Wow... we take part of the weekend off, and look what happens! The Core has been going crazy with news and speculation, fueled by some scanned-in screenshots from the PC Gamer article... hop over and read about it! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 4 1999
Bad news when the Core gets to our forum before we do... Alan Stott reports that HALO-NET should go live in a few days. Fun bit of javascript there now. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Turns out the new fan art on the Miscellaneous Art page is Hippieman's. Sorry about the confusion. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 3 1999
Thanks, Hippie, for the heads-up about the Halo fan art dropped at the bungie.org hotline server. Miscellaneous Art page updated. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Slow day... but you never know. (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 2 1999
The market's taking a beating... and so is Take-Two. Down 5/16 (-3.50%) to 8 5/8. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
We got a submitted conversation with the Soul a few days ago... since Hamish is on vacation, it can't go to the Marathon's Story page, so you can read it here. (Thanks, Mike.) (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Thresh's Firing Squad has a new article on the GeForce256, too (see yesterday's news). Bob Colayco writes, "Halo was the one game out of the three shown that left the room breathless." No screenshots, unfortunately... You can see his writeup on Halo here. Thanks, Bob! (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
News September 1 1999
Tweak3D.net reviews the new NVIDIA GeForce 256 card, which looks to be impressive. Buried on page 10 of the review is this passage:
"The huge list of developers that have already committed to the product is impressive. I, for one, am very happy to know that we will actually see these new features be put to work on productive titles such as Messiah (when it comes out...) and Halo, which I actually had a chance to see at NVIDIA. Needless to say, I was impressed."
Lots and lots of chipsets supported, it seems. (Thanks, Thomas.) (Louis Wu 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Halo SETI Team is still churning out results... another 25 today! Nice going. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Ferrex found a new Cortana message hidden on his Myth disc! Go read about it at the Core. Pax. (Crux Fidelis 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
Myst? MYST? Read this, then vent your wrath on PCGamer UK. Thanks, Ricardo. (Wirehead 00:00:01 UTC) (permalink)
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