It seems that barefoot, not content to sit on his laurels after being banned from the EIS forums, has now started Giving his infinite wisdom on the SWATH forums. Thanks to Mac The Knife, who should consider either releasing the Unix version of swath in the next ten years or give me a free copy of the win95 version, for the news.

r00t made an announcement that SWATH will be using DirectX for it’s graphical map. After This, every fanboy over at slashdot came over and said, “Linux rox, dood!” (If your not up to speed on your programming lingo, DirectX can only be run on Windows while OpenGL can be run on Linux and Windows. They both do practically the same thing.)

Well, if you had bothered to actually read the actual page, “SWATH for Unix is purely text based.” Call me crazy, but I don’t think it will have a graphical map. Besides, programing OpenGL when you don’t know what your doing is not easy. In fact, not easy is an understatement. It’s a lot like watching Battlefield Earth 3 times in a row and then having a scientologist explain to you the cultural impact the movie will make. Besides, it’s not like you need the Quake 3 engine for a graphical map.

What is it with these nonstop tournaments? Ever since the first Battle of the Elite two years ago, every server known to man has had at least one “tournament.” Recently, Intergate announced it’s Summer Heat “Tournament” which suspiciously looks like a regular Tradewars game but with the word “Tournament” tacked on. Here are a few of the things planned for this gam-uh, “Tournament:”

A) Low Turns
B) there will be some heavy hitting ships in the game along with some edited planets with fast advancing citadels.

In case you haven’t played at the Home Sector since it… I don’t know… HAS BEEN ONLINE, this probably would be a new thing to you. But as far as I know, there’s only one person who hasn’t played there.

C) Backstabbing, corp jumping..etc..will be part of this game

Hell, if I wanted to experience that, I’d just play at Notorious BBS.

But unlike some people, I’m not afraid of change. Therefore, I will now say “tournament” every time instead of “game.”

Much like a premature ejaculation, the time between someone asking for barefoot to be banned and when he was actually banned was extremely short. Unfortunatelly, this leaves me in a bad position: I no longer have anyone left to make fun of.

For Godsakes sign it already!

Game opened May 27th, 2000.

More Ph4t l33t will given to the winners of this year’s Battle of The Elite thanks to yours truely. I will be adding my Tic Tac Toe program written in C++ for Solaris to the prize pool. (Est. Retail Price: $29.99) This will be given to the winners. Here’s a few screenshots:

For a week or two, I thought that Barefoot might become aware that he is an asshole and might stop being one. High Hopes are shattered easier than low ones. Sigh.

I thought about replying to his latest holier than thou fest, but decided against it. He’s going to be banned anyway so there is really no point.

The Battle of the Elite’s website can now be found at https://tradewars.fament.com/bote2000.html Two traders you may be familiar with will be the gameops, Hosem and Monday.

One of the prizes already announced is a free copy of SWATH for the winners. But ATTAC and EIS are also supporting, which could mean even more free l00t. All software authors are asked to help contribute, which includes myself. Look for my prize to be announced soon!

The Home sector has made a new script written in pearl to help you sysops figure out who the dupes are! Get it at https://twgs.tradewars.org/dupecatch.zip

I’d post something new that’s happening, except nothing is.

Did I also mention it’s finals week here at UL? Did I also mention I had to take a hard test? I certainly know I didn’t say that I also slept 16 hours yesterday.