Hekate has put up a list of TWAR mirror sites. I would suggest going to any of those sites instead of the twar site for a faster download. (Since TW2002 is located in Texas, there's no point of me putting up a mirror since I live only a few hours from there.) Alien AI and Ship Export/Import not in v3.09 Looks like the Alien AI modules and Ship Import/Export utilites that were slated for v3.09 of TradeWars Door is delayed until v3.10. John Pritchett has said, "I have been focusing on getting a nearly flawless v3.09 out the door and have put [Import/Export] and the AI module dev kit on hold until v3.10"

TWAR for Windows is out now! Go Get it! *NOTE* If you have TwarWin100A.zip, you'll need to download the link above (Revision C) since it doesn't install correctly. I will have an alternate server from which to download TWAR for you people living in the southern US tommorrow. Hall of Shame Updated Unfortunatelly, there's been a new inductee into the Hall of Shame. I've also re-done the layout of HOS to a more palatable format. Tell me what you think!

First, the Real News: Home Sector relocates The Home sector has relocated to Pir8.net, update your bookmarks! Pir8.net Reset Pir8.net has reset. Nuff said. Tips.bbs Weasel has posted some information on why tipsbbs has gone down and what's in store for the future. Go Read it. TWAR released tommorrow TWAR for Windows has a tentatively set release date for tommorrow. So get your credit cards ready. I'll try to set up a mirror when it comes out. Now, the fake news: April fools comes six months early! I originally wanted to post these Thursday, but my C++ Compiler and my car had other plans. I therefore submit to you, these parodies: Nik to Sue Himself In breaking news today, Nik has announced that he will be suing himself. "I caught myself saying, 'Attac suxs,' and if anyone should be suing this person, it should be me." Will Smith, Nik's lawyer, has said to TWWU that, "This is a remarkable case that I think that has the potential of creating new paradigms in how law is done." With the expected money Nik is expecting to make with this case, he's told us that he's already making plans to port ATTAC to Machine Language. "I plan to forgo the limitations of Visual Basic, and intend to port ATTAC straight to Machine Language. This should cut the size of ATTAC from 7 Megs to 6, and is going to be made a reality by this impending lawsuit." Human Population to evolve before TWE's release Recent studies have given an interesting turn to TWEnhancer's development. The studies states that the Human population will evolve to a higher state of being before TWEnhancer will be released. "Even though humans will be living in a state of pure energy, I will still try to release TWEnhancer in case any would be aliens ever find out about Tradewars and need a good helper. That way, those Aliens would elevate me to god status, and then I'd make $$$ for the registrations." said Saluki. Saluki Enterprises is an invester in TWWU. Nik's 2002 Web Heaven Blasted.... Literally Late last night, Nik's 2002 Web Heaven's server was blasted by a Nuclear Missle. Fortunatelly, Both Nik and Earth had left 1 hour prior to the Missle's impact. The IP header retrieved on the Missle points to a band of Gypsies living in the country of Azi, located in North America. Ricardo Gin, the leader of Azi, has said, "This is absurd that we're being pointed to for this Attac. If we sent out this missle, it obviously would have been while Nik would have been AT the site! Think about it people!" Further investigations are being planned.

The Home Sector has just found a new way to get turbocom working under Win98. Also, HS will be moving to Pir8.net very shortly. TWAR BBS database Doug Underwood is trying to compile a list of BBSs that will show up on the dialing (telnet) directory when first installing the helper. If your interesting in getting your BBS in this, mail Doug Underwood NOW! Also, Doug has said that he won't be including "Message Log Posting" advertisements in the Windows version! Go Doug! 2 days to TWAR! Just wanted to remind you, only 2 days to October 2nd weekend, the weekend TWAR will be released! I won't have easy access to a computer this weekend, but I'll try to notify on here when it's released.

The date has been set for Outlaw's first game. It will be up on Friday, September 25 at 6:30 pm CST. telnet to outlaw.flash.net to set up your account now!

I got to talk to Saluki/Destroyer a bit about TWEnhancer's schedule, "Actually, Saturday and Sunday are really the only days I have a lot of time to work on it.. So, after trial error and fixxes, I cant report a whole lotta change.. but every little bit makes it closer to release..." More info linking Hacker to Nik In another post, Saluki did a little homework to get more info on the origins of where Hacker's post came from. As he said, "Make your own judgement." I should be getting a threatening letter from Nik about... Now.

In a recent Post, Hacker accused The War Room of being a fraud. However, Hekate has said that, "Everything said there I heard from Nik ... Nik gave me all that info before I read any post (day or 2 before)" While Hacker's IP doesn't match Nik's, something fishy is definatelly going on.

News may be kinda slow for a while. I've been sick since last update, and my dialup to earthlink is getting tons of static. (We had a tropical storm just pass through, giving 3 days of rain.) So I'm using the Workstations which are crashing more than often for now. Add a usual asortment of Papers and projects (I'm suprised I'm not writing this in binary) and I have a couple reasons to be lazy about updating. =) On another note, Old News is ready to be re-opened, but all the files are on my computer! (doh!) It'll take me a while to get them over to the workstation. Cruncher Gets more Pics Our Scapegoa-uh, I mean friend Cruncher has gotten new pictures, including Lord Chaos, Captncaveman, and Kujo. Visit it now, fool! TWAR Delayed to October Doug Underwood has made a post concerning why TWAR is not out yet. The Release date is now set for the October 2nd Weekend. Help for Wildcat Sysops John Pritchett has made a rather length post to help Wildcat Sysops get Tradewars working on their systems. There have been quite a few people requesting help on this, so you people can thank John. :) Budweiser gets his own BBS Budweisers's BBS is now online! (I believe it's called outlaw) Cost is $5/month for unlimented access. First game is set to rebang on the 22nd. Until then, a temporary game is up with some (heh) interesting settings. Telnet: Outlaw.flash.net

Hekate has started a new Webring called the Lost Trader's Tavern made for any page that a trader runs. See page for more info.

We have it, an Interview with "the man" himself, (no, Not Eleq) Doug Underwood, the creator of TWAR. Doug talks about TWAR's upcoming features, release date, opinions on other helpers, and favorite breakfast cereal. Access it here, or through the articles section. (Note: Articles section is back up, so if you want to read my article on ATTAC's password hacking, go ahead.) TWAR News For those of you who don't want to go searching through the interview, TWAR will be released (or at least the Beta) this week. If you want to see Screenshots of it, head to https://webhome.idirect.com/~twar/screens.htm Pir8.net back up. Pir8.net is back up after some (more) problems with their ISP. You can access it through a temporary IP at 205.198.217.20