First a bit of news. As most of you undoubtedly know I am now working at the AHLMD. I am also now working an ungodly amount of hours at my real life job, which is obviously going to cut into my free time. I am not sure at this point what the relationship between the 2 sites will be. I'll post more on this at a later date.

Ok I am putting up the much awaited hospital map clinic1 from Promagnon. I also have Bulletbait's new map bbcity.

Please note linux hates uppercase filenames so please have all filenames in the zip in lowercase.

Thanks

Woohoo, Oddjob finally made a showing at the lan I co-host. Got to see Krycheck beat him to a bloody pulp too. Have to give him some credit though, he was playing on my machine, with a trackball, and as an lpb for the first time. We spent quite a bit of time playing AHL beta 3 and a good time was had by all. For anybody who lans out there I do want to pass on this tidbit, The internet connection sharing program that ships with Win98 second edition is pretty damn hot. Once you have it set up it will act as a DHCP (automatic ip's) server for the lan. If you have a spare system it's well worth setting up for a lan, it improved network performance tremendously.

I noticed this morning that Bartender had madee a pretty positive post about beta 2.5 on the BS board. Since this was his first time playing AHL, that was good to hear. It seems more and more old timers are trickling over from AQ and I predict with the release of Beta 3, Action Half-life will convert even more players over.

I do have a new map for you guys in the form of bxht from BunnyX. I actually got it sometime last week, but I have just been to preoccupied with other things.

that's all for today

HolyGoat has asked that I post the dojobeta map so that he can get some more feedback.

Hadn't realized it had been this long since I updated. Well I want to take care of some actual news before I get on to the new maps. There are apparently some problems at the site I was using to store my AQ2 maps and well the mirror I had setup, isn't there. Not quite sure what's gonna happen, but it may be awhile until I find another server to house the maps. Following this topic a bit farther along, I will also be taking the unofficial maps down due to a lack of space. Anything on the unofficial list that you need feel free to email me and I will send it to you.

The lack of space is due in part to the growing number of AHL maps. (which we should be seeing even more of soon) I have also recently encountered the Great Conflict, ie. finding a balance between gaming, school and work. Notice I did not include sleep. It also turns out that I am paying a bit more attention in class (at 14 grand a year you can be damn sure I am going to pay attention.)

Last week KaRRiLLioN, gave me and many others a chance to help beta test his new map Actrail, and I gotta say this map kicks ass, and uh Karr, HURRY UP. heheh. Since I have also spent a fair amount of time playing innercity2 I can say this about it... it huge, easily one of the biggest maps I have ever played. I can see a whole bunch of possibilities for this maps when goals are included in Beta3.

I'm going to go ahead an put ahl_metro (by Lodo) up for download, one thing with this map is that the tfc wad is required to play it. If you don't know already this is the first map made available with the goals activated, its uses he rule set from the "hunted" scenarios for TFC.

I have also added a map that has actually been out for awhile and is just now reaching the Mapzone... 110ThSt by Zebedee. I also just had hotel2 sent to me by DrumDude.

One last thing before I finish up for tonight; Hal9k has asked me to pass on some very important info to the mappers out there. When creating your zip files, make sure the bsp's are in lower case, Linux users have a problem with uppercase letters so he would appreciate it if you would comply with this.

enjoy

Just got innercity2 from the Octave Doctor. Wish I had time to say more, but I have to take off for school, and then I get to spend 8 fun filled hours at work after that. Isn't life grand.

Today we have the release of bxtrain3 from BunnyX.

Now as further proof that Georgia Tech AHL is where it's at; AtomicZZ9PZA, the server-op, has put some of the newest maps in rotation. (first OP that I know of to do so) Further more, anybody who plays on the server with the sole purpose of being a TK'er is the worst sort of scum to exsist. I don't need to name names, the scum know who they are. Fortunatly most of the players on GT rock.

Till the next map...

OK, both onslaught and slayn1 have been updated and now work properly. I have also received the map hotel from Drumdude. I also re-packed asylum22 into a zip format with the proper paths.

Well at this point it looks like I am going to have to institute some minor maptesting. This only going to be a very basic test, ie. does it work, and is it suitable for Action. I will also be testing directory structure. ie. sprites to /sprites, bsps to /maps.

Well this should hold you guys over until the next update.

Well guys, it looks like that new map doen't work. As soon as Kar can get me an updated version I will have it up.

I need to send my apologies out to anybody who has tried to contact me over the last few days, I ummmm, for got to pay my isp and they cut me off. It really sucked because I was cut off in the middle of a conversation.

Anyways, there is a new map: onslaught, from KaRRiLLoN. I may have some opinions on it soon as I am about to set it up for a lan that I am at tonight.

Later guys. Time to rack up some frags.

Due to rather unfortunate circumstances the map slayn1 is being recalled. Apparently the author still has more work to do on the map. As soon as an updated version is available you can be sure that I will have it here.

Today's maps come to you from Bulletbait and HolyGoat in the form of nightshift11 and the updated version of asylum2. If you have't already please switch over to the new version of asylum, trust me it's much cooler.

Update
10.20.99

Time for the first set of AHL maps. 3 of the maps have been around for awhile, and the other I just received. The newest map is a remake of the infamous Action Q2 map Dirt, titled slayn1. The other 3 maps are dwcave, innercity, and teamjungle, made by Dan Watts, The Octave Doctor!, and SithManiac&timm respectively.

Right now it's hard to say when I will be getting the rest of the AQ2 maps up. But they should show up eventually.

Well back to fraggin. Btw I just wanted to say hi to all the guys that play on Georgia Tech server, that seems to be where its at right now.

Ok, well it looks like I am going to be taking an active interest in the site again. As most of you can see the site has changed its look, some of you will recall that this is the original layout. I thnk I am going to be keeping it this way for awhile.

Archives are way the hell out of date, and due to the abundance of maps in the last 4 months, its going to take me some time to get all the updates in.

Primary focus in the next few days will be setting up an AHL map section. My goal is to set up a reliable place to download maps, nothing more, nothing less. Submission rules will be the same as with the AQ2 maps. Like before, I will not be doing any testing and any comments will be based off of my personal opinion.

I apologize to all of you who have sent me maps in the last few months, I have just been occupied on other projects. I should be able to begin updateing regularly once again.