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Dirk Destiny and Pumpkinetics have just uploaded their collaboration, The Tower of Doom, in which you are sent to rescue R2-D2 from an Imperial base beneath the level's namesake tower. After you've downloaded the mission, stop by the forums to talk with the authors.

In addition, lucius has released Alpha Demo 1 of his program DarkXL. Builds are being updated fairly frequently so you can find the most recent version here. Make sure to read lucius's introduction to the demo so you'll know what to look for, and take the time to give him some feedback!

For the past two weeks, lucius has kept the forums buzzing over DarkXL, a program he's building from scratch that will, to say the very least, graphically enhance Dark Forces. As he posted here:

The point of this project is to allow people to play Dark Forces in high resolution, on Windows in either "classic" mode (no new features) or "extended" mode. All modes will benefit from newer control methods like mouse look, and high resolutions and color depth. The extended version will get new features such as real-time lighting, slopes, dual adjoins, vertical adjoins, better model support (md2 and/or md3) and more.

And he has some pretty substantial screenshots and coding to show for his work. Check out lucius's progress in the new DarkXL forum.

Patrick Haslow has released The Dark Tide: Beyond the Ancient, a collection of bonus material including artwork, sounds and levels, from the work done for the Dark Tide series by himself, Matt Hallaron & Barry Brien.

It weighs in at 31 MB, so get your download going right away!

Apparently our project script (easyhost.cgi) was killing the server and using 3.3GB of RAM! It has been turned off for now, although the project pages are still available authors will not be able to log in to them.

We are planning an alternative approach to projects which will materialise shortly.

Paul

We have now moved to a brand new server hosted by Dixie Systems.

Everything seems to be in working order. Please note that the forums are no longer at forums.df-21.net but are to be found at www.df-21.net/phpbb. The projects database has also been restored and that section should be working as normal.

So, what have I missed?

There are probably a few broken links or missing uploads dotted around - let me know what needs fixing.

Thanks,

Paul/Fenwar

As mentioned in the forums, I have now set up a Paypal account for those wonderful shiny people amongst you who would like to donate money towards the cost of running this site.

To make a donation, select the cryptically-named "Make a Donation" button on the left, or see this page for more information and options.

Please let me know if you have any difficulty using the Paypal site, or if you have any ideas/suggestions.

Thanks!

Paul/Fenwar

PS - This weekend (16-17th November) I will be moving the site to a new, cheaper host. The site might therefore be inaccessible for a short time over the weekend as the nameservers change; apologies in advance.

Is out.

Barry Brien is in the hot seat for this episode, and if his Coruscant is anything like his Nar Shaddaa, then you're in for a treat.

Download it here: http://df-21.net/downloads/missions/dtide4.zip

See what others have said, and post your own review here: http://www.df-21.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1138

Geoffrey Simpson has uploaded Mantell, a mission he worked on in 2001. There are no enemies here and very little INF, but there is a good deal of quality architecture (as also seen in Imperial Station B-24).

Geoffrey has also invited anyone who's interested in further editing the level to feel free to do so.

Which was my fault for leaving the default database location as "localhost" in a phpbb config file, instead of changing it to 127.0.0.1 as our hosts tell you to in their hosting FAQs. :-O

Apologies to anyone who couldn't log on during the last 24 hours, the forums are once again fully operational (witness their power etc).

I'm a bit slow on the draw with this one, but it's a development that's definitely front page news: Barry Brien has posted nearly three dozen new shots from the Xizor's Web, the fourth installment in the Dark Tide series.

Head on over to the forums to check them out.