In all the time before the change of settings I had managed to join a game in progress ONCE ever on the zone. Since the change, I have tried to join 8 games in progress and failed twice, but one of those may have been just a little quick givin up and the other (tonight) it tried to start, but had the same kind of probs that I sometimes have in just starting games, where it just doesn't load due to hittin bad ping. Bottom line, for me and my sys, it is an unqualified success. I was thinking that sys might have somethin to do with it: 233 P2 v90 modem which hits at 31200 almost always, IE4 and W98 , with all the upgrades and patches. That last might be a big factor. Billy G has a service at his page that tells when "critical" updates are out, as well as other patches. I have no idea how many of your respondents take advantage of this.

    Q3 can run networked player movement in either an asynchronous or synchronous manner. The default mode is to allow all client movement to be done asynchronously with the servers advancement of time.
     The primary reason is to allow player movement to be predicted on the client side. The primary drawback is that while your movement is smooth, the other players that you see running around in the world move with a jerkiness that is relative to their framerate and network connection quality. It is NOT necessarily relative to their ping - a player on a fast system with a clean modem connection can move smoothly. If you see a player stuttering around, either they have a bad franerate, or the network connection between them and the server or you and the server is poor. The amount of stuttering is sort of the sum of the dropped or variable packets on BOTH connections.
     You can force Q3 to run all clients synchronously by setting "g_synchronousClients 1" on the server. This will make Q3 behave similar to Q1 for networking. All movement will be lagged except view angles, which are still short-circuited immediately.
     Some people claim to prefer synchronous movement when everyone had a very good ping, but I don't personally think it is ever a play benefit. It makes leading players a bit easier, but I think the crisp movement control of client side prediction is a much better tradeoff.

	The BOK Homepage Looks decent, if a little inconsistent. A bit of info on the BOK gang, level section focussing on BOK-made maps, some rather annoyingly jazzy Morricone-esque MIDI background music.
	THEE 2002 version 2.0 website If you're looking for Outlaws stuff here you won't find much. Focused mostly on Rainbow6, they threw in links to download the Outlaws patches. You can enjoy a multimedia web onslaught while you download.

SciTech MGL is A toolkit for creating games and other interactive graphics applications. SciTech MGL's full screen OpenGL API support provides programmers with a 3D API that can scale from software-only (using low-resolution graphics modes), all the way up to full 3D hardware geometry acceleration. SciTech MGL allows developers to create applications using the OpenGL API in either a window or full screen mode (rendering to VGA, VESA VBE or DirectDraw surfaces) in the Windows or DOS environments.

Voodoo Outlaws Site Somewhat high-bandwidth, a good deal of missing images but generally well organized with pictures of the gang, posse news and an extensive tourney section.

	The Official Homepage of the KOA Posse Site for the "Kickin' All Outlaws" posse. Ouch, don't kick me! Not much here right yet except fer some big bold text on Outlaws-ish backgrounds, but presumably they'll be updating it with KOA gang info stuff. Oh yeah there's MIDI, get ready for "Hotel California" over and over. ;)
	Ace's Outlaws Levels So okay, it's just one page of a large, non-Outlaws specific site with an elegant framed layout. Still this is obviously the first place to find Lawmaker Ace's new maps, as well as a small selection of other folks' levels.
	Static Outlaws It's a rare pleasure to find a site with an actual sense of web-appropriate style. StATiC_CoWbOy1's site has this in spades, what it doesn't have is content since, as the StATiC posse has disbanded, there isn't a whole lot goin' on. Still worth a look if you wanna see how to create a simple yet stylish site design.

	Wildbills' Outlaws Bar Large site with a unique MIDI theme for each page; starts with "Johnny Be Good" and goes from there. Colorful, high bandwidth and sort of just plain fun. Also informative, with lots of individual info on members of the AR posse, a good selection of files and maps for download and a reprint of a good essay on the original Wild Bill Hickok.
	Pitz Pit Home of Pitbullet. Tons of MIDI, animation and whatnot in an extremely inconsistent layout. Lots of valuable nuggets tucked away amongst assorted web junk. Hey, it's Da Pitz. :P
	Matt's Outlaws Levels A little table with LawMaker Matt's Outlaws maps available for download.
	BMG Hideout Kodia's put together a nice little site with a good amount of tips for new players as well as some info in the Brotherhood of Mediocre Gunfighters posse.

GOO Gang Layout is ugly and inefficient, content is for the most part the usual brash new posse stuff. But "Gang of Outlaws" site creator _Billy_Kid_ actually went and put up his opinions of the weapons and characters which are terse but mostly pretty much to the point; my favorite is his view of the pros and cons of the sawed-off shotgun: "Good: SUCKS Bad: REALLY SUCKS." A fine economy of words.

I play Zone outlaws with a voodoo card equipped computer. I find I oftentimes have Outlaws hang up when playing on the Zone, especially when the game ends, usually with me down about 20 kills :( Then I have to control-alt-delete to abort the Outlaws application. This works, however, when I get back into the next game, the game will often lock on start-up with a black screen with a small white hourglass. I think this is some problem with the voodoo card and the problem can be fixed with a computer re-boot. However, re-booting the 'puter all the time can be a real hassle. I have found that I can fix this problem without a re-boot by simply opening the "Display" icon in the Control Panel. I just open the 3DFx tab that appears on the "Display Properties" window and then just hit the "OK" button without making any changes at all. Just simply opening the 3DFx tab does the trick. For me, this always corrects the "black screen at start-up" problem without re-booting the machine, which improves my disposition considerably.

Regulators Pretty standard posse site possibly distinguished by extra Western graphical touches which make some text a bit hard to read. Fast loading, easy navigation, info on gang history and guidelines.

     Well with temp and nighty on vacation for 2 weeks i decided that i would host this weeks tourney. It was all the same blind 2 on 2 to 30 kills went fairly smooth. Helped i had 3 people helping me run it GS_O_Gunslinger done the winners and losers and my lil sister drew the teams and matches for each round well the teams once and the brackets till it was done. The people who participated in the tourney were Team 1 (BMG)Blood,BT_Justice Team 2 JOE-Badd,GS_Wizard Team 3 Spur,GoJo Team 4 OZ_Hagen,GS_IbBad Team 5 GS_O_Gunslinger,St_Mental Team 6 (BMG)StanleyJr,SIR_Kohna Team 7 (BMG)Swan,Vicous_Quigs Team 8 WAC_Golylero,GS_Karrde
     all games went really well if there was really any major lag they done a rematch which did seem to prove very well come the semifinals when one player clearly couldnt be killed. The finals came down to Sir_Kohna (BMG)StanleyJr vs GS_Karrde WAC_Goly was a hard fought battle game ended Goly and karrde 30 and me and kohna 20. The whole tourney was full of tough battles didnt seem like anyone was handed a victory the semi finals were some of the hardest battle fought throughout the tourney. But to all who participated i wanna say thank you and congradulations for a great tourney and maybe I'll get another chance to host one and it'll go smooth the same as this one did.

    All you have to do is install ICQ Plus which works with any version of ICQ and then unzip into it's own folder in the Skins folder in ICQ. Start ICQ and select the yellow plus icon and select outlaws folder and you're all set.     I'm working on some different backgrounds and different buttons. You can change backgrounds or buttons from within ICQ and you'll find a somewhat risque background pic if you change the name of the background pic from veegator5 to just plain veegator. I should have renamed that file to outlawsback or something like that I suppose.     Lots of other skins are available from ICQ Plus links. www.ICQplus.com.

I thought I'd try & get the fps up a bit in Abandonded , I moved a few adjoined walls about & got rid of a few others . You'd never know unless you looked at the plan in Lawmaker , seemed to help a lot in places but did little in others , map looks just the same as the original in that regard . Stiched up all the unstitched textures . ( wasn't sure about that when I did the first Abandoned ) Lowered the tank stand & bed so you can't get underneath them anymore . Added just two more canteens , a pistol & rifle are now where the ammo boxes on the tank were & a pistol in the back bedroom , also the bushes are intangible so you don't get caught up on them , TNT on the cliff is now in a box , the crate up there had to go to help fps . err.... the hay bales are lower to keep play speedy & repositioned a bit to help fps , hmmm , think thats about it , Snake wanted me to take the double out , but thats my fave weapon hehe Hope ya don't think I've ruined it , Twobitt & myself played a couple of marathon sessions to test it all right out , made a few changes along the way , seemed ok by us .

Leigon Of Death Hey, I jus' copy these names, I don't make 'em up. This site kind of made my eyes hurt what with all th' funky backgrounds, animations and font colors, but th' info hiding in th' crude text (top players, member bios, stuff like that) redeems it a bit.

    Of the 1st person shooters, I liked Outlaws the best because there were no super weapons, you had to reload, it had mostly realistic setting, and you could play different characters. Sure its a bit dated, but I put game play above appearance any time. Yesterday I played the HALFLIFE demo that came with CGW.... I gotta say I was impressed....no super weapons, realistic setting, smooth game play. Did I mention realisitc setting? I'm really tired of surreal art-deco Hell. I'll still be playing Outlaws, but I may have to spring for the complete HalfLife.
     Would Outlaws have as strong a following if there had been sequels? I don't think as many Maps would have been created if the original game had been replaced say after a only a year.
     How many Outlaws know about the Deadlands RPG? Screw Star Wars, who else is excited about the WIld, Wild West movie!

Cash's head turns slowly as we approach, his pale empty sad composed and questioning face following the red and empty curve; beside the back wheel Jewel sits the horse, gazing straight ahead.
 

from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

    the Channel operator good old *DontKnow* has introduced a new thing it is that if your in the channel you may just type in !level and he will give you a list of every level their is and you can download them right there! no to mention TAUNT PACKS, PATCHES,DRIVERS. very cool and DK is on their 23 hours a day. all in IRC no other programs (besides WINZIP of course) Which makes me wonder WHY DO PEOPLE PLAY ON THE ZONE!!?!?!?!?!!!!
     also I have new little page not an official page of #outlaws_players but may be someday it will be http://www.angelfire.com/tx/DryGulch/irc.html tells you instructions to get on IRC gaming most people get scared of IRC it's not that difficult :) actually alot of Zoners I talk to don't know what it is :)

I got to thinking about a couple of the Lucas Arts maps last night and thought I'd toss in my two cents worth. Actually, I had Lawmaker up, looking at Forktongue's remake of Bunkers, and was busy comparing it to the original. He really did an incredible job with his remix, but it prompted me to take a closer look at a few of the maps we have come to refer to as "standard", by which I am basically referring to the multiplayer maps that came with the original Outlaws CD, and those included in the 2.0 patch. A closer inspection reveals, to a (moderately) trained eye, that all is not as it appears in Cowboyville. There are actually a good number of flaws in most of these maps, too many to list here. They're great fun to play, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure anyone's ever really pointed out how technically flawed a few of them really are. With over 600 custom-made maps available for download now from a handful of comprehensive sites, perhaps it's time for a closer look at a few of the levels that we've always assumed to be beyond critical review. In many areas of both Bunkers and Orleans, for example, texture stitching is almost nonexistent, both vertically and horizontally. In at least two areas of the latter map, an entire sector disappears completely when viewed from an angle that is not uncommon in multiplay. Lawmakers far superior to myself will be able to tell you why. Both of these elements, and more, would surely play negatively amongst Outlaws web masters, such as yourself, who offer critiques of selected maps. By way of contrast, take a close look at the stitched texturing work of Cutter in Gila Springs or Mining Company. Furthermore, the object placement in "The Granary" is appalling. Throughout a large section of the map, items are scattered in a thoughtless manner, completely inappropriate to their surroundings, and with a frequency and abundance that one typically associates with a Lawmaker's very first effort. The Granary was (like many of the initial multiplayer maps) modified from it's single-player format for on-line gaming. Somehow, one can't help but feel that it was still an ongoing project at time of release. When it comes to basic fps, I know of no custom map that plays as poorly as the legendary Thud Tower. It's easy to say that the current trend of video accelerator cards makes the fps here bearable, even playable, but despite having used the 3D engine from "Dark Forces", Outlaws was never truly programmed with the 3Dfx user in mind, and the frame rates I got on this map even with my previous Diamond Stealth 64 (which was considered pretty top of the line when OL was released in April of '97) were truly horrific. One of the flaws that is constant throughout ALL of the LEC maps, however, is the low vertical threshold of the sky, rendering the entire map invisible, albeit momentarily, when making a jump from one high point (a rooftop, perhaps) to another. This is especially noticeable in Pattern Repair and Sanctuary and, while it's a small point, it's easy to fix, and is certainly not something that the likes of Templar or Slater would settle for. In fact, the real strength of the Lucas Arts levels has always been in the basic overhead floor-plan and it's archaic authenticity. Architecturally, these maps maximize access to all areas of play with an accent on speed and fair play. The lack of tricky jumps, narrow corners and hidden areas promote fluent gaming here. Most of the levels are reasonably balanced for game play by all, catering for at least 4 of the 6 available characters in most cases and, with the possible exception of Orleans and Thud Tower, remain true to the old-west ideal in terms of setting, sound, and mood. All said, there is a more logical reason why the "standards" remain as popular today as ever despite the abundance of technically superior maps, and that is simply that everyone already has them. Few things are more irritating than having to wait for upwards of 15 minutes while player after player heads off to download the map being hosted. If there's a message to anyone whose designing a level for the first time, it's perhaps to not regard the Lucas Arts maps as the standard by which we are judged, for today's finer Lawmakers have learned the inconsistencies in these basic levels and are improving upon them. Let's not forget, after all, that Sanctuary, The Fort, Wilderness and others were programmed over two years ago. Sanctuary, by the way, was the winner BY A MILE of the "Favorite Map" survey over at the OGB site just last week! For the time being, however, I'll take Arizona Jim's Desert Oasis over Pattern Repair any day and, at LJP, we've devoted a good portion of our "Maps Page" to the work of three outstanding Lawmakers who, we believe, are pushing those limits even further. It's a slightly different approach that I wanted visitors to your site to be aware of. It's an exciting time to be playing Outlaws on-line, and I'm glad to be a part of it. There are so many classic lawmakers today, and I would encourage anyone who reads this email to download anything you can by Slater's_Dog, Templar, Cutter, Runaway Jim, Picante, Smo, Dean Wermer, Forktongue, GoJo and Gas.

     ...there is an interesting bit of news to report, and that is that here in Central Texas Outlaws can still be purchased at local Walmarts and software stores. Only costs about $15 a copy, and since it has two disks, you can outfit 8 LAN players for about $60 and have some Serious Killing.
     These copies of Outlaws also have the Fistful of Missions on them, so they had to have been made NLT about a year ago, when I thought Outlaws was out of production.
     For a while, there were no copies of Outlaws to be had in stores. I take their reappearance as a positive sign, especially since the price is still what it was as of a year ago. Heck, you can get Risk, Stratego, Axis and Allies AND Battleship in a $39 package, which is what each cost separately only three months ago. The fact that Outlaws is not a $5 Bonus Software Selection bodes well, I would hope.

Mean Bastard's Outlaws Site Fast, effortlessly stylish site—you gotta love that huge logo, an' th' way his menu perfectly apes Outlaws' own—by one darn stubborn guy. Features his favorite maps, files, links an' regular Mean Bastard commentary. This is living! Okay well anyhow it is at least one darn fine site.

    Hmm too big a job to jot down all the required cells for each character so I'll just give you what Bob uses as an example , you can easily work out the others from there once you get the general idea , it's quite straight forward , you could of course substitute those single player running cells in place of the walking ones that the multiplayer characters use , I guess lucasarts imagined players would be moving about slowly so used the walking cells . It would look like you were doing some kind of Michael Jackson moon walk if you did move slow with the runing cells .
     Also something worth noting is that these nwx were created before 3Dfx & so everything seems buried in the ground a bit , especially the dead bodies , these are easily raised as should all the other cells be , by adjusting the Y value with the editor . Also , & this is a good one , some of the LEC cells seem to be placed slightly left or right of centre Y axis for the side on cells , this makes it neccesary to lead the target a bit to actually hit the Characters physical mass as defined in the ITM . Possibly Lucasarts did this intentionally . I dunno as it is'nt consistent for all the characters . It is especially noticeable in the first group of side on Sanchez cells , maybe to make him harder to hit . The opposite 90 degree veiw is just a mirror image , yet they are placed dead centre , could have just been a Monday I guess ;) Anyhow I placed all mine so as that vertical line you see in the frames editor runs straight through the characters body .
     You could make your character cartwheel & fly through air the when killed if you liked by simply raising the Y value & rotating the image . All the cells for walking , standing , shooting etc . should be placed right above that horizontal line ( in the new version of the NWX editor) so the last line of pixels in your bitmap is touching the black line , any higher your character will appear to float , lower , the feet will be buried in the ground . The position of the body differs though & should be placed about 6-8 pixels below the line , only way to know is to load a map with your nwx in the OL dir & kill yerself . Also you will see an entry for particular cells listed twice in the frames editor , this is the mirror image for the opposite veiw & should have it's X & Y values adjusted as the first entry .
     These are the cells used for Multiplayer Bob
 
F= front S=side FS= front side (45deg) BS = back side (45deg) B= back

CROUCH
F   3
S   5
B   7
DIE
9 -13  (all front)
SHOOT
F   26-27-28
S   29-30-31
B   32-33-34
GET HIT
F   41
S   42
B   43
STANDING
F   73
FS   74
S   75
BS   76
B   77
WALK
F   78 - 81
FS   82 - 85
S   86 - 89
BS   90 - 93
B   94 - 97
PUNCHING ( also  used for  TNT  &  knife )
F   45 - 46
S   48 - 49
B   51 - 52

     Well thats it , all are similar , the cell numbers vary a bit from each character but it's easily worked out , hope it's of help to someone , OZ_Raptor of course worked all this out in the first place I'm just repeating what he explained to me.

    First of all, I take responsability for starting the witch hunt on St_Diky and St_Mental, after the tournament in the Zone, hosted by Tuff_Texan. I hereby take back anything i said, and apoligize to both St_Diky and St_Mental. I know that i can't undo what has done, but i will post this mail on every site and every messageboard in an attempt to clear their name.
     The reasons that i take everything back is that I can NOT prove, nor will i ATTEMPT to do so that their was any cheating going on in the game we played. The reason that we got such a beating ( 20 - 2 ) from them will be a combination of their superiority in playing, the size of the map, and all known zone problems all together. Furthermore, after seeing the other results of their matches, there is nothing that even remotely can put them under suspicion of cheating.
     I should have known better than accusing ppl without any prove or substantiated reasons, and i will refrein myself to do so in the future. I'm not even gona try to defend my actions, because i can't think of one that would give me an excuse of behaving this way ( appart from me being to hot-headed sometimes, and speaking without thinking first ).
     Everybody that knows me, know that I take responsibility for my actions, and I will admit errors I made, and believe me this is one of them.
     I hope St_Diky and St_Mental accept my apoligy, but i wont blame them if they don't.

	The Informative As you can mebbe tell from th' title, th' idea with this site by Techno is to keep people informed on important Outlaws stuff on what looks to be a weekly basis. Good idea, fast layout, an' some genuinely original content. It's just that easy!
	Tuff Texan's Outlaws Tournament Page Signup page for a 32-team 2-on-2 tourney. C'est tout! But some people like tourney's so here's where you can go to.. uhh... sign up.