Strike force 1.80 Mac Build
Haroun completed the Mac build, more mirrors will come shortly.

For more info about the mod, see their About Strike Force page and sidebar links but here's their general description.

About Strike Force - A Hardcore Mod for Unreal Tournament
Strike Force is a modification for Unreal Tournamnet. This means you have to have the full UT game in order to run our FREE mod. Strike Force brings a real world tactical sim to the UT engine. Strike Force puts terrorist against counter terrorist in real world environments. Strike Force has four varied game types, each with its own objectives. You can rescue hostages, escape from the enemy, work as a team in TDM or play fast and frantic DM. Each character is specialized with his own weapon, health, speed and accuracy. You will also find that each team has its own weapons."

There's bot support for those who would like to practice before going online. Earlier this year I had posted links to previous versions, but the strike force center URL for the mac installers back then doesn't work now.

" Apple Computer next week will announce a plan to charge for upgrades to some of the company's highly acclaimed "digital hub" software, a move that could anger customers accustomed to receiving free updates.... Apple is expected to announce at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco Tuesday that consumers will have to pay for new versions of iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie, which will be sold together as a bundle "

Maybe it's just rumor-mongering, but time will tell. After the .mac cost/no Jag upgrade discount announcements at MWNY last summer, I really wince at the response that any more fee based items (that were free) will bring. Maybe they're wrong about this...
But if true, my question is how much it will cost and what improvements (new features/capabilities, etc.) will be included in future updates. I'd gladly pay $50 for a version of iDVD that had external DVD recorder drive support for example.

BTW - A reader sent a reminder than iMovie2 wasn't free either ($49.xx unless you bought a new Mac, or OS X) and I remember that shortly after the iMovie2 release, the free (OS 9) iMovie1 download was removed as well. (iDVD2 also cost $19.xx for those that didn't get it with a new Mac or buy OS X.) Maybe this will be a repeat of that - where there's a charge for the next major release (iMovie3, iDVD3?) for existing users . I guess we'll know for sure next week at MWSF.

I don't know if this is a factor on the iCal/iSync problems readers have reported, but one reader suggested that perhaps the time zone of a sync'd device may be a factor. (My older Palm M100 for instance doesn't have a time zone option, only date/time/country, although later models and other devices may have one.)

" Hey Mike,
I think a lot of the readers that are having problems with doubling of events, or moving of events on their Palm or other mobile devices after using the new versions of iSync and iCal have not set their time zones correctly. (for the device) I had this problem on my T68i and once I reset the time zone everything synced perfectly.
Shawn
(he later wrote)
Yes, I believe at least some of the problem has to do with the time zone being correctly set on the device itself. Since the time zone is set on the mac, it must also be set correctly on the device in order for the appointments to be displayed correctly. As far as Palm devices, I know that on the newer Palm devices there is a time zone option under the preferences > time and date. "

If anyone that had a problem can verify this was a cause, let me know.

" i have an ibook 16mb vram and g3 700mhz, i installed on virtualpc6 windows2000 professional without any problem but when it finished the installation and i tried to use windows, vpc unexpectedly closed. when i reopen it closed again and the ibook didn't responded anymore to any of my commands, i have had to reboot! i make you notice that i never used full-screen visual but just screen in a window. i use macosx 10.2.3 and 384mb of ram.
i'll try to reinstall virtualpc 5 and boot from the same diskimage, i don't have enough time now.
Franzo "

The first reader report on the problem impled that tech support knew this was an issue that would be fixed in an update, but I've written a contact at Connectix to get her take on this - here's her reply:

" Hi Mike,
Thanks for contacting me. We have been able to track down a problem where Virtual PC may unexpectedly quit when being restarted while in full screen mode. The problem seems to only exist for users running Virtual PC 6 on a G3.

We plan to have a fix for this by the end of the month. (We'll post the free Virtual PC 6.0.1 updater on our web site as soon as it is available.) As a temporary workaround users should be in windowed mode before restarting or shutting down their PC.

Please let me know if you need additional information or if there are additional reports of problems we should look into.
Best regards,
Teresa "

I've forwarded her the reader email (iBook owner above) that noted a problem w/o running full-screen mode. (Not all iBook owners had VPC6 problems however - is there any universal truths to OS X problems? After the last year I wonder...)

" Confirming another Hawaii user found the calendar times moved to the previous day, but not at the right time, when using iSync with a Palm.
What a nightmare.
Bruce L. "

I asked Bruce if his Palm had any timezone settings (my M100 doesn't). A reader mail (see above) indicated that device timezone settings may be a factor but I don't know if that's true of all those that had a problem like this.

" Aloha Mike,
Just FYI, the iCal update is having major problems in Hawaii Standard time. It moves all the dates around and shows the date as December 3 instead of January 3. I had to reinstall the original iCal to get it back to normal.
Rick "

" Not sure if anyone would have pointed this out yet - but the iCal 1.0.1 update is terrible. It messes up all the times and dates of previous appointments. Each time you restart iCal it messes them up even more.
If people are going to install the update, they probably should make a backup of ~/Library/Calendars/ first.
Lots of people on the Apple discussion boards are reporting this.
Matt. "

" Definite problem with iCal 1.01 and non-Continental US time zone. I live in Hawaii (poor me ;0) and iCal displays "today" in the Month display as 3 December 2002 and all the events are skewed back a day. Switch to California time zone in the System Preferences, refresh subscribed US Holidays calendar, and everything is fine. I have seen reports from someone else in Hawaii and another in Australia that have seen the same problem. My date and time are correct and network synced to time.apple.com. I even attempted a fresh install, deleting all preferences, Calendars folder, iCal application, and iCal.pkg receipt. I also updated to iSync 1.0 to start as well and after I reinstalled iCal 1.0 with iSync 1.0 installed, the iCal application crashes on startup. So it looks like you need both.
-P. "

There's also a forum thread here that noted some problems as well such as this one.

" Installed and a lot of problems now...
First I used the iSync uninstall(to remove the beta), then installed iCal 1.01 after that iSync 1.0 and iSync palm afterward.
Everything looked fine until I sync!!!
Problems after the first sync:

Everything in my iCal as well as my Palm "date book" were doubled past and future events...

More than half of my email addresses in my AddressBook (Mac) moved from"home" to "work"
BoudahXL "

" i've discovered one important thing to keep in mind when hooking up your mac and pc.
when you reboot either machine, it's a good idea to sever the connection between them (and possibly reboot them both at the same time). here's why:

for whatever reason, my mac and pc fight it out on bootup over who controls what device. for instance, my setup looks like this:

mac - fw chain 1 - cdrw - 120 gig hd - scanner
pc - fw chain 1 - cdrw

chain 2 on both is the connection between them (they're wired directly together).

for the past few weeks, it's been a comedy of errors at my house. i'd fire up nero on my pc, and the cd drawer on my mac's desk would open up. i'd try to write to the 120 gig drive, but couldn't mount it (the pc had it open over there with a "?" over the drive). actually, i blame all of that for my having to reformat it this morning (insert a cavalcade of curse words here).

it got to the point where my mac was controlling all of the firewire devices, except the scanner - which xp decided to grab (note that it's at the end of the chain on the mac... weird). a few days later, my mac had the pc cdrw, while the pc had the mac's. grrr.

anyway, now i reboot both of them at the same time when needed - and sever the connection (unplug the cable) until i've logged into both machines. in that way, my devices keep their affinity to the correct machine. this feels like scsi on crack.
however, 400 b/s is worth every bit of hassle...
best,
-t "

CompactFlash Reader Reports:
• Firewire Buslink MFW-40DB (Hard drive/CF reader combo) used w/8500 (OS X) (listed under "other" brands)
  
  DVD-R DVD Recorder Drive Reports:
• IDE Pioneer DVR-105 in Dual G4 (OS X)
• IDE Pioneer DVR-A05U (actually DVR-105) in G4 AGP (OS X)
• IDE Pioneer DVR-A05 (actually DVR-105) in G4 AGP (OS X)
  (OS 9.x modified authoring support file in the FAQ here)
• IDE Cendyne Boxed Pioneer DVR-105 in Dual G4 (OS X)
  (listed under "other" brands)
• IDE Cendyne Boxed Pioneer DVR-105 in G4 AGP (OS X)
  (listed under "other" brands)
  
  IDE CDRW Drive Reports:
• Plextor PX-48/24/48A (48x24x48x) in G4 AGP (OS X)
  (noted modified plugin for itunes burn support didn't work for him)
  (FYI - Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers G4 towers up to the Digital Audio Model, Beige G3 MT, B&W G3 and 8600/9600 Macs.)
  
  Firewire CDRW Drive Reports:
• Lite-On 48x24x48x from OWC (in FW case) used w/9500 (OS 9.1)
• Philips PCRW4816 (48x16x48x) in OWC FW case used w/G4 AGP (OS X)
  (using modified plugin for itunes burn support)
  
  USB CDRW Drive Reports:
• (USB 2.0) Iomega (48x24x48x) used w/G4 no AGP (OS 9)
  (Problems noted with software)
  
  SCSI CDRW Drive Reports:
• Ricoh RW7060S (6x4x24x) in 73-7600 (OS X)
  
  IDE Hard Drive Reports:
• IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB in G4 no AGP (yikes) (OS 9.2)
  (noted drive failure)
  (Illustrated guide to adding a 2nd HD here in B&W G3 rev2 and G4 towers up to the QuickSilver models - for a guide to adding two more drives w/IDE card, see this page)
• Western Digital WD800JB (8MB cache) in Beige G3 (OS 9.2)
  (Beige G3 MT illustrated HD upgrade guide here)
• Seagate ST380021A 80GB in G4 Cube (OS X)
  
  Firewire Hard Drive Reports:
• Buslink MFW-40DB (Hard drive/CF reader combo) used w/8500 (OS X) (listed under "other" brands)

You can find full owner reports (latest shown first) by searching the database by drive/brand/interface/mac models (the latest reports are shown first in searches). For guides to installing CD/CDRW/DVD drives or Hard drives in many mac models, see the IDE Articles page. The Firewire articles page also has guides on case kits, installing drives, etc.
If you've added a IDE, SCSI, Firewire or USB hard drive, CDRW, tape drive, etc. make sure you add a report to the database. [If you post an updated entry - make sure you use the same name, etc. as you did before so I can find your past entry. Thanks.]
(Entries today will be added the following newsday. Incomplete entries are deleted. Do not post questions in the database, it's for drive reports not questions on what drive to buy - for that try searching the database for reports from owners of your mac model on the drive type/brand/interface, etc. you're interested in.)

• Sonnet G4 800 in G4/350 AGP (rated 9)

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