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April 22nd, 1999DP 1.0 release date?Okay, I've been bugged about this enough. NO, there is no set release date.  All I can say is, that I AM working on it with my spare time, which has been cut down this week.Nutiket should be sending out an update pack for DP soon, containing new environment maps, new maps, and a few minor corrections.
Burst Fire on TCA?Okay, I've looked at the code, speculated as to the cause, and come up with a valid hypothesis. TCA is a Linux server. I thought that the problem was specific to the linux build, but now I realize that was wrong.  There is NOTHING I can do about burst fire, other than talk to the operator of TCA Paintball.  It seems to be server specific, so thats that.
April 16th, 1999DPFinal TestingAlthough not even halfway done with DP v1.0, I'd like to get some testing out of the way concerning some of the features requiring multiple clients.  Heres an excerpt from my todo list.

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  Unchecked Modifications/Additions
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[Fx006] Grenades dont kill people when landing on top of em
[Ax016] Idle check. (Force to observer after 60 seconds of idling)
[Fx018] Jail Chasecam bug
[Fx019] Extra Point @ Round end
[Fx020] Sounds from dead people
[Ax021] Standard Log Support
[Mx030] Standardized death msgs

As well as these things, just a general sort of mish-mash test will be conducted.  This is to flush out any weird bugs that occur as a result of the modifications.  If you'd like to help, be on the gamenode irc network (ri.gamenode.net) at around 9:00 pm tomorrow.  (Show up in #paintball... i'll direct you where to go).  If you show up, I expect you to follow directions when they're given on the server.  If the server locks up, be able to tell me EXACTLY what you last did. (it may take a few seconds for you to notice the lockup, so be able to report in detail anything that might have caused the crash).  Thats basically the outline. I'll try to have a stable server lined up for this.  Thanks.
April 10th, 1999Polling - DP changesOkay, basically I want to put forth a few ideas I have, and have people send thier comments.  I could just change some of these things, but I figure I might as well ask you guys.

#1:  Change all death msgs to a standard format. EXAMPLE
    Calrathan (PGP) elimininated Fryth (AutoCocker)
    Fembot (PaintGren) elimininated Jitspoe (Trracer)

#2:  I forget
#3:  If I forgot #2, there is no way i'll remember #3, so stop bugging me already.
New 3rd Party Maps!From Pearl's Paint Zone comes word of 3 new DP maps:

Here are the 3 new maps that were released today. Passage and Superball are Grim's new maps, and Bogwood is a conversion that Fryth just finished(remember Bogwood by Bogleg from QI Pball1 days? Well it's back! :).

These and other Digital Paint maps can be found over in the new section to Pearl's Paint Zone, Map Central.
Pearl's Paint Zone unveils Map for a Day!Pearl's Paint Zone has just announced its Map for a Day plans. Each day Pearlslam will pick a map and then feature it on one of his servers. The first map featured was Dropzone, and then yesterday Icecap. He has also announced plans to open up a new section to his site entitled Map Central where he will offer 3rd Party map files for download to the community. If you haven't checked out Pearl's Paint Zone yet I suggest yah head on over!
April 7th, 1999New Websites!An ultimate sign of activity in a mod is new websites to support it. This week we have seen several new websites pop up for Digital Paint. The first is Pearlslam's Paint Zone which is a site devoted to his servers. The next is the Paint Stop a news site, as well as the return of the Paintball Player News. Also new this week is Digital Demos and the World Paintball League. All of these sites plus many more, including clan webpages can be found in the Links section.
Site UpdatesI did some work on the site today, including updating several pages. I added more links to the links section as well as added Smokeya's Digital Paint #1 server back to the server list. I also updated the DPcon list of attendees. If you would like to attend DPcon please head on over to the DPcon page and sign up so I can get an idea of how many people will be able to come.
April 3rd, 1999Splatcon Pics Found!Splatcon was the first Paintball Quake Lan party held back on July 3rd-5th last year. With the breakup of Splat the pictures from the event were lost. However with the recent announcement of DPcon2, Mallrat a former Splat member was reminded that he had the Splatcon pictures on his computer and has emailed them to me. Since Splatcon is part of the history of the current DPcon, I have added them to the DPcon page. Most the pictures seem to have a problem with quality however you can see pictures from the same field that we will play at for DPcon2. Click here for a glimpse at the past.
New Servers!Recently I have been emailed by a few new server admins, and returning server admins. I updated the Servers.txt and Servers.html today to include all the latest servers. We are now back up to 15 servers again. Hopefully we can still get more, but at the moment we atleast have enough to fully support the mod again
Digital Paint Booth!Recently as the Indoor Championship, Pursuit Support provided a small lan for Paintball players to experience the Digital version of their loved game. I am told the response was overwhelming and it was one of the biggest attractions. The booth is mentioned in the most recent publication of Paintball News. Here is the word from the organizer of the event.


Digital Paint was the buzz of the whole Indoor Championships. We were set up so that the tournament games were being played right in front of you while you played DP. There were 15 to 20 people crowded around the PC's the entire time, and all of our sponsors are highly interested in using DP as a tool. More people were at the DP setup than at any other booth. We could have sold 100 CD's of DP if we had had 'em. We didn't charge anything for the people to play, and players were coming off the field and challenging each other to a DP game with their actual paintball gear still on! There are a couple paragraphs about it in the latest issue of the magazine Paintball News.  I write for them too by the way.


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