News & Views
30th December 2000 - Jaruzel
A bucketload of site fixes tonight...
Netscape fixes: Flash Intro, Challenge page, Clan members pages, Server query page.
Generic Fixes: Cookies now remember your name & email in the forum.
20th December 2000 - Jaruzel
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
This update brings a change in our forum system. After having two unreliable off-site systems I have decided to spend some time and develop our very own forum. It's still got a few teething bugs (It keeps forgetting your Name & Email, but it's late and I want to goto bed...) but basically it works. Please make me feel warm and fuzzy and post some useful stuff into it. You can find it via the 'Public Forum' link on the NaviBar.
17th November 2000 - Jaruzel Minor site update. Under 'Community' on the sidebar I have added 'IRC Chat'.
This uses the new irc:// protocol included in the latest version of mIRC.
Once you have that installed you can click on the link and it will automatically launch
mIRC and connect you to our IRC channel. Hopefully the other major chat
clients will include this wonderful feature in the near future. For those of you who don't want to
install mIRC, we can be found on irc.barrysworld.com, channel #foghat.
27th October 2000 - Eag1E The new Barrysworld season is nearly upon is and were in both the DM & CTF leagues again this year. Although with clan approval i have opted for a 2 division drop in CTF, div2 was just too hot for us to handle, so we should have a lot more fun this time round. Dust off those headsets and install the lastest ver. of Battlecom in preperation. Two new custom maps make an appearance CTF-Terra & CTF-Bollwerk (1.05), click the links to download, and get practising. Only a few days to go now till the semi-official Assault Bonus Pack is released. U thought Assault was dead in the water ?, ppl rocket jumping, impact jumping and using map bugs to win..alas no more. This pack includes a mutator that fixes all the Epic map bugs and it also includes another 7 awesome Assault maps. Server ops can set spawn protection, anti-jump measures and loads more. Full info here. Its gonna rock ! 25th October 2000 - Jaruzel THE SERVER QUERY has been updated, not only does it now show what team players are on, it also shows it in four glorious colours! That's not all though, added to the server page is an input box that allows you to query any server you like! So don't delay, click on the LIVE server Query option on the sidebar of this page, and get querying. Moves are afoot to get the UK server back up and running. Unfortunately it will be costing us a little bit to run our own UK server, and although I have buy-in from one other FOG member, any more donations (cash only, I can't trade in vital organs) would be very gratefully received. Send me a mail if you think you can help. Other things I have planned for FOG, just you keep you all abreast of whats going on in my head. I will probably be converting a Quake 2 map that has been dubbed 'Death Gazebo' to Unreal Tournament for the sheer hell of doing a map, this will happen in the next few weeks. Also there are some site changes needed, such as an easier news update system, and a 'slight' change to Bob. (Who is Bob? well he's looking right at you ;-). 13th October 2000 - Jaruzel We are happy to announce that FOG has recruited two new members, [FOG]Barbie and [FOG]FR()G, So if you see them on the servers please give a warm welcome. On the subject of members, it would seem that we have two clansmen MIA, [FOG]Flasheart and [FOG]Channel0. Please contact us guys, and let us know that you are not stuck behind enemy lines. We ARE Still looking for more CTF players, if you are intrested and between clans at the moment then please let us know. It looks like that our US server is back up, I will be adding it back to the servers page over the weekend. We continue our quest to find another UK Server that we can call home, if anyone can help here, it would be apprciated. Hot News, for those who do not know already, Epic recently unveiled their new Unreal Technology Engine. It has some amazing features such as fully posable players, facial animations and large outdoor terrain support. If you can stomach the large download for the movie, I can guarantee it will blow you away! 5th October 2000 - Jaruzel If you had Flash installed, you should have seen the new intro on the front of the site, if you haven't got Flash installed (why not?) then bad luck. If you have got Flash installed and you didn't see the intro, please tell me. I can't fix it, if I don't know about it. 12th September 2000 - [FOG]Orsos It's been a quiet time here in FOG recently with many people away on hols or busy with Work. But now that we had our Summer, when it was I can't remember - must have blinked, maybe we'll have more people ready to play. We've dropped out of Savage CTF games as we're more interested in DM these days, and we're taking the league schedule easy. But we're still up for friendlies if anybody is interested. Once again post us a message on the message board, or join us on #FOGHAT on IRC (barrysworld.com). We have some bad news unfortunately. Our clan server is being moved to a smaller bandwidth connection, so unfortunately our server will be disappearing. I'm sure we'll get something setup in it's place in the meantime. But until then it most likely won't be worth while connecting. 6th September 2000 - [FOG]Eag1E I musta played over a 100 DM & 20 AS custom maps over the weekend and after much deliberation the Map review page is up. I havent bothered giving them a score, these maps either rock or they wouldnt be on there, so there. 1st September 2000 - Jaruzel I'm releasing UTZappy v1.0 for your enjoyment, please take time to read the release notes. Its far from a complete product, but it will make connecting to those clan matches easier. 25th August 2000 - [FOG]Eag1E After our recent poor showings in CTF games, we finally get a respite as the Barrysworld Season 3 DM league kicks off again. We came 3rd in Division 2 last season and we stand a good change of coming near the top again. Our golden 4 plyr DM team is under pressure from within as Wiseguy improves game by game and some recent good performances by Drew & SatMan (whose on cable now, git ;-) ) show that a game place cant be guaranteed for anyone. /me feels a playoff coming. On the website front Ive been playing around with flash (oo er) and the FOG intro (IE Users) is under way. 16th August 2000 - Jaruzel I've (finally) updated the server pages to match the rest of the site. I shall be looking at moving both servers to the same page sometime in the future. Which brings me onto a little nuggin I've been thinking of... Our Server pages are so cool, wouldn't it be great if any clan could use them for their own site, with their own look and feel and the server of their choice listed? I think it's a winner, So I will be doing serious scripting this week to see if I can pull it off. Lastly, I Quit FOG. It was wrong for me to play in a clan, as it's not my style - team games really don't suit me. So my leaving should pave the way for a more experienced and skilled player. I'll still do the Website (as thats a separate issue), but you won't see me playing. 4th August 2000 - [FOG]Eag1E The fixture list for Barrysworld Season 3 is up, remember to keep Monday nights free for CTF. The DM tourny is a knockout cup this season, we get a bye into round 2 due to our previous good performances and come up against HSC in our first game. On the UT front Patch 4.25 is out, grab it and the *cough* crack from the files page. Also worth checking out is the new version of Rocket Arena if u fancy some good 1-on-1 challenges. Keep practising and if anyone out there likes what they see and wants to join, just drop us mail or post in the forum. Were a friendly bunch ;-)
23rd July 2000 - Jaruzel Oh Look. New Design... Well what do you think? I'm so knackered now from this amount of creativity, that I need a lie down. There are might be a few pages that are broken or look odd, please let me know the moment you find one - and I will fix it. Comments (good or bad) about the redesign should be placed in the Public forum for open discussion. (As of this update, I still have to rewrite the server pages, so they will look a bit odd for a few days, sorry about that) Oh yes. Forums. They may look odd for a few days while EaglE sorts out the templates, so bear with us on that. Ultimately we may be changing out forum system in the near future anyway. Now we have a smart site, we are going to try and keep it that way! Website/Server Admins: please check the members forum for my post. 2nd July 2000 - Jaruzel Hi all! Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I am still alive and kicking, and so is the redesign. Yes, yes... I know it's been promised umpteen times before, but I've actually got a week off work (between contracts y'see) and I'm going to be dedicating some home-time to the revamp. I have a few ideas knocking around, and I am also hoping to shake up the forums a tad, and give fogchat a quick lick of paint as well. So don't give up hope, it's gonna happen!
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