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April 2003 Archive

20 April 2003 - Massive Killing Capacity

Now this may be of little interest to any non-MKC players, but I really wanted the old Quake 2 site to be available for nostalgia's sake, since it was the best clan I ever played in, and gave me all my best memories of the game, and on top of that I made some great friends playing for them until I stopped active play at the end of 2001.

I've resurrected the whole site with the exception of the demos. I intend to find some of the best MKC demos and upload them, but for now I've just uploaded perhaps MKC's proudest achievement, which was a rare win over Clan Stealth in the UKCCL Season 7 Free Cup. Download here. Other wins over Rv on Q2DM6, and the Free Cup final games with Suicide Squad are likely contenders for future upload.

Anyway, for anyone who's interested in this great old-school Quake 2 clan, which over its long life featured top players like Blaze, Evil Santa, Tribal, Axe, kD, DocGonzo, Moneypenny, Kerensky, Nicotine, Ticktoc, Sgt. Simmo, WorldEater, Snakebite, Caldazar, Spiritos, Prophet, Luprachan, Ruven, Sativa, Zipgun, Dachande, Kaa, Toadkilla, Warchild and yours truly, here's the link.

19 April 2003 - Demos Available - Happy Easter!

Just a quick note to say that I've now uploaded all my missing demos to SavageDemos. I also spotted a couple of my old ones on Q2Central so linked those too!! Everything should now be available again. I somehow doubt that either of those two sites will fold on me so I should be OK this time :). Also, I've uploaded a new demo of a great duel on The Rage (ztn2dm3).

Also, though I know the broadbanders out there won't care, I've compressed all the HTML on this site using a great free utility called, rather unimaginatively, HTML Compress. It should make the pages load a little quicker anyway.

18 April 2003 - Memories of Old-School Quake 2 Clans

When I started work on my history last year I also intended to produce a write-up on many of the old clans. I got as far as writing the following pieces and planned to expand on them before publishing them here. I was also a bit nervous of some details being wrong since it's all from memory. Anyway, I never got round to doing that so thought it was time to show them. Sorry if I've made mistakes or misjudged anyone, but I'm telling it purely as I remember things as a fringe player. If you're old-school like me you'll hopefully enjoy a few memories anyway.

Removed from column - This now has its own page

15 April 2003 - Railing against the Tide

Haven't checked this site since the last time and Quake 2 has really suffered in the meantime. I couldn't find a UK server to play on anywhere and couldn't get on the Jolt RA2 server for some reason. Also, the best Quake 2 demo site ever, 3D-Demos, seems to have gone for good - shame it couldn't have been left inactive, but then I guess it cost something to keep hosted.

A lot of my old demos were on there and I had linked their files to free up my space, so now several of my demo downloads don't work. However, I've started to transfer some of them to SavageDemos instead, working from newest to oldest and highest rank to lowest, and will hopefully get them all done soon. On a 33.6K modem connection it's a bit of a nightmare!

One of the last demos I got from there was an NDML semi-final match between Sweden and Finland, which was a classic and very, very close match. I have the final demos as well, featuring Germany and Sweden so I'll upload those next. Download it on the demos page if you haven't seen it. I've also tidied some links. The clan sites chart is probably redundant now but I've left it for now. Other than that everything should be OK, but let me know of any major problems.

Anyway, it's not all bad news because Q2Central has been ressurrected and is looking pretty active, with some plans to write some Quake 2 histories of their own and host some demos. Looking forward to comparing their history with mine, especially since my history is a bit flimsy on the Wireplay side of things, which their's should improve on. As far as my site goes, I won't be taking it down any time soon. Eventually I will probably ask someone to host it for me, but for now it stays put as my home on the net. Bye for now!

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