Everyone playin outlaws multiplayer has 1 primary objective other than killin' ppl... That's high frame rates! FPS! The more the merrier! Well unless yer willin' ta spend $100 on a voodoo card, then ya can simply install tha MGL Drivers from yer OL cd #1 or download it from pale's! It sounds all good an' easy, an' it does it's job of gettin' ya some higher PFS by about 20% or 30%. And at tha lowest resolution, which I've used for the longest, and get about 275 FPS! That's swell and all but the only prob with that is that you cant see what yer shootin'! and your gun looks like ice cream in the Sahara desert! The only way I've found to succeed like that is to shoot anything that's blurry an movin'!! I have been usin MGL drivers for about 2 months now just fer the higher framerates. Now since I obviously don't have VooDoo, but I have been playin against people with VooDoo (needless to say I've been gettin' massacred!) I have been tyin to squeeze evey last frame out of my system. And when I use MGL drivers, I notice somethin'!! Now everyone knows that its really hard fer people with WINDOWS 98 to join a game on the ZONE. Well, it's even worse with MGL! If you can't connect to the game, guess what? You gotta reboot!!! This gets REALLY annoying cause MGL tends to lock up more what Direct Draw which would let you use the Ctrl + Alt +Del tactic to exit (also called "exiting illeagally"). However, if ya try an pull this stunt with MGL, you see whatever screen you saw as you lock up and you can hear your computer workin in the background cause it IS! But MGL wont update your display and let you see whats goin on! Therefore, you gotta press Ctrl +Alt + Del 2 times or hit the little RESET button. THis has happened to me at least 30 times in the last 2 months and it gets REALLY annoying. So I have switched back to Direct Draw drivers. Although I only get 50 FPS, i dont have to reset every other time I join a game! I get into 90% of all games with Direct draw while I get into 50% with MGL. I for one don't think it's worth having to wair 3 minutes for your comp to reboot and do that SCANDISK which takes a minute or two if ya do have errors. Anyway, I have stopped using MGL and I plan to get VooDoo3 which will put a stop to all my problems with FPS and freezing up (hopefully).

Tombstone's Homepage All-German site by this Austrian outlaw, fortunately you kin get a translated version through Babelfish. A bit heavy on the ripped graphics, animations and Java stuff but there are a few things of interest like the snippets of movie Westerns to download, some fan news, odd music mp3's to download and an account of Tombstone's Outlaws history.

	Boothill Bob's Outlaws Page Sets out to do things a bit differently and succeeds. With things like best excuses for losing, signs you're addicted to Outlaws and tall tales from Outlaws battles, Boothill's put together one entertaining site which also benefits from handsome design.
	Jake Big Chinn's Page Very brief singlepager though the energetic rough and ready presentation sort of makes up for the lack of anything really useful to download, etc. Plain fun.
	Kickyerarse's Homepage Sort of a lot of stuff, mostly cheesy graphics, thrown together across several pages. Hard to make out anything really worth the trip except for the Shania Twain page—just seeing someone tie his obsession with her in to Outlaws is rather impressive.

I have created a Co-op level for Outlaws and its all done...but Im having problems runnung the level. I tested it on mutli-player and it worked a few times, but after playing it 2-3 times the level dosnt load again and I have to re-publish the level in order to run it again...I dont know whats wrong, I was thinking maby there was a file I need to create special for co-ops or if just certain ITMs just dont work in multiplayer. If anyone out there who has made co-op levels can help, please write to [removed]. Appreciate any help I can get!

Mytie Mause's Outlaws Page Cute site with thorough game info, tips, some handy files (Mause's own Outlaws WinAmp skin), sporadically updated news, chat quotes and jokes. Sometimes hard to read but a good bit of fun and useful info to boot.

This one is a biggy ,no doubt its going to take some time to play and to make.Just got the lay out started and 6 big gun towers,tons of cells,four big outside court yards.Plan on making this high security prison a night mare to get out of. If you live through the guards that will be looking to take you out in this coup shot out.Far from done but as I see it some heavy fire arms will be here and a few tricks will be imported in this map.So when the big doors close on you it will be every man for him self.

	RaW: Rebels and Warriors Fast text-only layout, very nicely done. As long as webmaster Hoder keeps th' news a comin' they're top notch in my book.
	Mad Austrian Desperados High points for genuine Outlaws style, points off for lack of content, but still ya gotta love that font and those backgrounds.
	SBD - Silent But Deadly Truffle brings another OL domain name, sbdclan.com. Decent layout to this posse but fonts get a bit confusing and aside from history and roster of the SDB posse there isn't a whole lot here.
	The Outlaws Hideout News, some game info, posse list, links, etc on this general Outlaws site. Framed layout doesn't quite work right in my crusty old browser. Truffle makes the most of his domain name by offering URL redirection (yourname.olhideout.com) and email (yourname@olhideout.com).
	TRH Web-based casino games, a little java saloon and some ripped Outlaws graphics can't entirely make up for the uneven layout, missing images and poor (and often crass) writing. There's a lot of energy here but the sketchy presentation and lack of useful content (not even a mention of what their posse prefix stands for, for instance) leaves a lot to be desired.
	TLL: The Last Lawmen History of the posse (used to be TLG), a few maps for download, game cheats. If you can stand it, the MIDI background tunes are actually kind of decent (if loud).

	OKP: Outlaws killing posse German Outlaws posse site. I don't sprechen zie Deutsch but it appears to have news, members list, map reviews/downloads, guestbook, forum, links. Also cheezy animations: the universal language?
	Sh-t Outta Luck Well, the spelling on the site isn't quite like that... I guess I'm getting sensitive in my dotage. Almost nothing here yet except for slasher photos of the webmaster's sister. Not that that's a bad thing mind you... oh nevermind.

TPR: The Psychopathic Rydas Minimalist framework of a new posse site. Loads fast, layout fairly consistent. Not much here yet.

Hi there... BigHeist WOULD have been done for Saturday morning, and would have been tested then, and probably released Sunday, but now my Lawmaker has stopped working... And I don't know why. I have attached pix of the 2 errors I get. I am thinking of re-installing Windows, and think this is a hacker problem... Maybe you can just out it out there, and maybe someone knows exactly how to fix this without reinstallin windows. I have already reinstalled OL, and Lawmaker. and rebooted at least 50 times. I re-downladed lawmaker as many times as I re-installed it. c ya
 
Chet
 
PS- The first error is when I open lawmaker, the second is when I hit TEST. I made the quality poor so you didn't have a large download... they are still readable I think.

Macoo.com Supposed to be some kind of gang member list or something here, doesn't seem to work in any version of Netscape. Can see some ugly ripped cowboy animations and hear some annoying sounds over and over, however, so that's something anyway.

Actually, the end is in sight. The first two maps are complete and the third is well underway. I've been able to get things written so that it will be a Historical Mission along the lines of "Marshall Training". You will be able to randomly select one of the three missions at your office and upon completion it will tally up your score for Gold, Kills, Wounds, Bounty, Level Score, and Game Score then return you to the office. Not that the score means anything. In the level for Dynamite Dick there are plenty of bad guys to earn enough points to go from Deputy to Marshall. But it sure will give your mouse a workout shootin' 'em all!

Hardgrave's Pattern Rigor Mortis had several consistency errors and a low FPS. The first thing I did was eliminate Hargrove's Pattern Repair from the map. The only thing left in the map from Hargrove's is the fence. Deleting Hargrove's not only increased FPS but it also removed most of the consistency errors. It seems that the original Hargrove's map has several consistency errors (and I thought they were mine). I deleted most of the sound bites to make the zip file smaller. However, I included two new sound bites in the LAB file for taunt use. Sneaky.wav and Sucker.wav are from the movie Johnny Dangerously and I thought they would make nice taunts during game play... For CTF I only put in two flag positions on the map in order to ensure a good flag dispersal.

    I'm looking for a new logo for the Tournament page. So I'm calling out all you fine graphics designers to submit one that will be suitable to have the honor to fly over the website. I'm also considering providing an Outlaws_players Tournament jacket to the Champion of the Grand Event. If the logo is spectacular it will also be worn by the Illustrious Champion with "Graphics by yer nick" on the jacket. ;)
     Submit yer entries to [removed] and I will make a page to show them off and have the OL community vote to see who will have the honors.
     Don't forget we have a Tourney this Sunday and the Champions playoff coming soon.
     For more information visit www.outlaws.simplenet.com

Young shouts of moneyed voices in Clive Kempthorpe's rooms. Palefaces: they hold their ribs with laughter, one clasping another. O, I shall expire! Break the news to her gently, Aubrey! I shall die! With slit ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles round the table, with trousers down at heels, chased by Ades of Magdalen with the tailor's shears. A scared calf's face gilded with marmalade. I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy ox with me!

OLHideout Attractive framework for a general Outlaws site. Some files and links and a message board there now, layout also has spots for maps and news.

BDO: Best Dang Outlaws Homepage List of members, entertaining analyses of weapons and characters and err rap music to read by. Fast layout.

NNO: No Nonsense Outlaws Interesting layout in a posse site by Chet. He's still working on it but you can find a good deal of info on the NNO posse, a selection of top maps for download and a fun "chat show" between Chet and fellow NNO Manco, among other goodies.

From fairly recent chats with various insiders at certain companies (sorry, but I can't name names), I was told that a sequel to Outlaws was on the cards at Lucas Land. No hint of when, although I'd be surprised if there weren't quite a few juicy announcements by the team at E3 this year (beginning of May).

BloodEye's Outlaws Page Layout is a bit roomy but the graphics are compact and attractive. Short selection of maps for download, list of cheats, links, message board and a lil' news section on the front page.

    Well i got to thinking... Ya know how LEC released those unfinished levels? Like the one Taco made into Taco Falls. Well, I realized i had a few unfinished levels that weren't tooooo bad. Some of them have a just a few rooms done, some of them are near completion, but either way they are maps I didn't want to finish. So I figured I would release them to the Outlaws community, and maybe someone would pick them up and finish one of 'em. I am also kinda curious if they are gonna turn out anything like I had visioned them to. I am asking that anyone who is going to finish these levels give me the credit for starting them, but that is the only catch. The following is an outline of what I wanted these levels to be like...
     Chalet: Believe it or not the Outlaws had a Country Club! Not much here, Pool, Tennis Court, a Well, a Porch, and some kinda shelter.
     River Rat: This level is almost completed. Pretty much all that remains is some texturing, item placement and whatever else...a CTF map.
     PlayIRC: Started as a shamless plug for IRC that I had SIR_Sling help me with for ideas (seeing as he is such a sorry lawmaker : P.) The idea behind this one was to pretty much ignore a believable environment, and concentrate on strategy. It is completely semitrical, hopefully enough to confuse which way you're supposed to go. Lots of little bullet shields, a little place in the middle for sniping and 2 opposing bases that allow you to see the whole field. This map is almost completely finished, and I'm really not sure why I'm releasing it, but my loss is your gain right?
     Freight: Was supposed to be a freight station or something like that. The switch (non-functional at this point) was going to open and close a door to some passing tracks. All that is there now is the basic station building, and a terrible texture job :P
     Canyon Oasis: Kinda stole the name from Jedi Knight, but if ya look at the level it's pretty self explainatory, a Canyon...a Waterfall, James Anderson's best wet dream. :P
     Seaboard: Well I pretty much forget what this was supposed to be. It's open to your ideas.
     That's it! Hope someone finds something they like in here.

ANV Rebel's Page Nothing here yet but placeholder images. Stay tuned.

We can't forget multiplayer either. While LucasArts unfortunately decided to sign on with the Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone, you could at least get to play for free and with up to seven other people in both night and day missions. You could even pick your own character, and while they didn't have wildly different stats, it gave the game just that little extra spice and personality. You could literally have cowboy vs. Indian battles.

    I was thinking the other day. I know I shouldn't, because it REALLY gives me a headache, but sometimes I just can't help myself. Anyway, I was thinking, what would a game like Everquest or Asheron's Call be like if it had a Western theme - you know - like Outlaws? Maybe they could call it "WestWorld" or "EverWest" or something. At first the idea seemed kind of silly, but the more I thought about it the more I began to come up with ideas that seemed both possible - and fun!
     I know there are those in the OL community (including myself) that have been hoping and writing and pushing for Lucas Arts to make a sequel to that lovable (but dated) old shooter, but maybe that's not the answer. Maybe... just maybe, the answer is a complete overhaul that will both satisfy the old OL crowd AND bring in a whole new group of players willing to ante up $10 a month to live (and DIE) in the Old West. Imagine: A wide-open country - chock-full of dangerous man-eating animals, ruthless Mexican Banditos, and more Indian tribes than you can shake a stick at. NPC's (that's non-player characters) would serve as lawmen inside the towns: ensuring all residents and travelers a safe haven. Outside the towns, however, would be a different story...

The New GDO In terms of plain web-craftsmanship this site has real issues. Gratuitous Java and cursors, among other things, make browsing quite a pain. If you can find 'em there are recent levels for download, and a short list of members. Fortunately this is a work in progress.

The Ultimate Guide to Outlaws Informative site by Oze where he's gathered together info from a number of other OL sites as well as some of his own stuff. In-depth descriptions of the game elements, posse list, cheats, tactics and video tips can all be found here in a pretty easy to navigate interface.

To Whom it may concern: Swift Arrows outlaw depot will be discontinued. No one cares about it and no one emails me anything, news or nothing. It may be saved if people came to it, read it, AND SENT HIM SOME FREAKIN' NEWS. But people are to caught up in other sites to notice. If you, whoever this goes to, cares about this site, tell everyone to drop him a note with some news or Swift Arrow will die. He is being held up.
         Ransom Note,
          Not signed

Outnet for mIRC Official home page for lindow's amazingly easy program that makes joining and hosting Outlaws TCP/IP games through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) a breeze. News, FAQ, and of course the latest versions of all the software you need.

I was just told by a recent completer of The Waddy Gang, that the new versions of Outlaws are being released with a small difference. Something to do with the single player maps having to have an rca extention instead of rcs. I don't know if this is accurate, buy my informant said that The Waddy Gang did not work until he changed the extension to rca. Has anyone heard anything about this?

If news is ever slow, could you make a small post thanking everyone who has e-mailed me lately. I have had a band of outlaws that have been giving me tips, help, and ideas for The Waddy Gang 2 over the last few months. Well, all of their help and advice is greatly appriciated. We have been working on this for a bit and were planning on it being kept quite secret. Well, my computer crashed and everything was lost. Sorry everyone, but The Waddy Gang 2 is all gone. I am kinda bummed. Maybe I will start it again some time, but as RAF pointed out, motivation is all gone. Anyway, there is still The Waddy Gang 1. Also, since this recent interest in single player missions, I have been getting a bunch more e-mail from people who have claimed to beat The Waddy Gang on the Ugly setting. The total is up to like 10 (i did not think it would get that high, maybe i will post their names on my site when it is finished). The number of people playing single player missions is really skyrocketing.

Since my re-entry to the world of Outlaws, I have noticed that CTF has become very popular. I was wondering if there was enough interest in it for a CTF Ladder? What ya think? I've been out of the ladder picture for a while but if there is enough interest, I'd be more than glad to give it another go around. I was wondering if you would post something about this on your news site and see what type of feedback you get. The ladder would be either 2v2 or 3v3. I am leaning towards 2v2 because it is hard to get 6 people to meet at one certain time. Maybe it could be 3v3 but you could have a team of 4 to 5 players where in case your best 3 couldn't show you would have 1-2 backups? I dunno, I would have to give it alot of thought and there isn't any sense in putting that much thought into it if there isn't enough interest :). Maybe you could put an online poll or something on the news site asking if they would be interested.

KinGs Homeppage Nice grahics by Savior on this posse site. Not much here yet but webmaster Notorious swears in his royal purple font that more is coming. Small tips section for newbies and V3 tweaking, a few files.

I've read on your site about so many people are building SP levels and I've been planning one for about a month now (writing maps on paper) and asking questions. I've gathered all my info and finally ready to start building and will be done in about 2 months. So be prepared for my SP map called "Hostage". Which will hopefully (if it works) have more painful civilians (kill you if you shoot them ones).

    First and topmost were the three flags and the three supreme generals who served them: a triumvirate consecrated and anointed, a constellation remote as planets in their immutability, powerful as archbishops in their trinity, splendid as cardinals in their retinues and myriad as Brahmins in their blind followers; next were the three thousand lesser generals who were their deacons and priests and the hierarchate of their households, their acolytes and bearers of monstrance and host and censer: the colonels and majors who were in charge of the portfolios and maps and memoranda, the captains and the subalterns who were in charge of the communications and errands which kept the portfolios and maps up to date, and the sergeants and corporals who actually carried the portfolios and mapcases and protected them with their lives and answered the telephone and ran the errands, and the privates who sat at the flickering switchboards at two and three and four o'clock in the morning and rode the motorcycles in the rain and snow and drove the starred and pennoned cards and cooked the food for the generals and colonels and majors and captains and subalterns and made their beds and shaved them and cut their hair and polished their boots and brass; and the inferior and nethermost even in that braided inviolate hierarchate: so crowded was the city with generals of high rank and their splendid and shining staffs that not only were subalterns and captains and even majors and colonels nothing, distinguishable from civilians only because they wore uniforms, there was even a nadir among these: men who had actually been in, come out of, the battle zone, as high in rank as majors and even colonels sometime, strayed into the glittering and gunless city through nobody knew what bizarre convulsion of that military metabolism which does everything to a man but loses him, which learns nothing and forgets nothing and loses nothing at all whatever and forever—no scrap of paper, no unfinished record or uncompleted memorandum no matter how inconsequential or trivial; a few of them were always there, not many but enough: platoon or section leaders and company commanders and battalion seconds stained with the filth of front lines who amid that thronged pomp and glitter of stars and crossed batons and braid and brass and scarlet tabs moved diffident and bewildered and ignored with the lost air of oafish peasants smelling of field and stable summoned to the castle, the Great House, for an accounting or a punishment: a wounded man armless, legless or eyeless, was stared at with the same aghast distasteful revoltive pity and shock and outrage as a man in an epileptic seizure at high noon on a busy downtown corner; then the civilians: Antipas his friends and their friends, merchant and prince and bishop, administrator clacquer and absolver to ministrate the attempt and applaud the intention and absolve the failed result, and all the nephews and godsons of Tiberius in far Rome and their friends and the friends of the wives and the husbands of their friends come to dine with the generals and sell to the generals' governments the shells and guns and aircraft and beef and shoes for the generals to expend against the enemy, and their secretaries and couriers and chauffeurs who had got military deferment because the briefcases had to be carried and the motorcars driven, and those who actually dwelled as paterfamiliae among the city's boulevards and avenues and even less base streets already before the city entered its four-year apotheosis and while apotheosis obtained and would still (so they hoped) after apotheosis had ceased and been forgotten—mayor and burgher, doctor attorney director inspector and judge who held no particular letter from Tiberius in Rome yet whose contacts were still among generals and colonels and not captains and subalterns even if they were restricted to drawing rooms and dining tables, publican and smith and baker and grocer and wright whose contacts were not with captains nor subalterns nor with sergeants and corporals and privates neither since it was their wives who knitted behind the zinc bars and weighed and exchanges sous for the bread and greens and beat the underwear on the river's margin stones; and the women who were not the wives of directors or bakers, who traded not in war but because of war and who in a sense two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven of the generals were just one general were all one woman too whether staff colonels stood when they entered rooms or whether they lived on the same floor in modest pensions with Service Corps captains or boiled the soup of communications corporals or, troops themselves, received their partners in what is called love and perhaps even is from a sergeant's roll-call as a soldier receives his iron ration or boots and no need for that partner to put back on his tunic or greatcoat before going on into the lines because the sergeant who checked him into and out of that love which perhaps had never let him take either off, so that as often as not she carried into sleep with her that night a dead man's still warm and living seed; and then and last even anonymity's absolute whose nameless faceless mass cluttered old Jerusalem and then Rome too while from time to time governor and caesar flung them bread or a circus as in the old snowy pantomime the fleeing shepherd casts back to the pursuing wolves fragments of his lunch, a garment, and as a last resort the lamb itself—the laborers who owned today only the spending of what they earned yesterday, the beggars and thieves who did not always understand that what they did was beggary and theft, the lepers beneath city gate and temple door who did not even know they were not whole, who belonged neither to the military nor to the merchants and princes and bishops, who neither derived nor hoped for any benefit from army contracts nor battened by simply existing, breathing coeval with the prodigality and waste concomitant with a nation's mortal agony, that strange and constant few who each time are denied any opportunity whatever to share in the rich carnival or their country's wasting lifeblood, whose luck is out always with no kin nor friends who have kin or friends who have powerful kin or friends or patrons, who owned nothing in fact save a reversion in endurance without hope of betterment nor any spur of pride—a capacity for endurance which even after four years of existence as tolerated and rightless aliens on their own land and in their own city still enabled them without hope or pride even in the endurance to endure, asking or expecting no more than permission to exercise it, like a sort of immortality.

Outlaws Clan Ladder Very thorough design for a ladder site meant for posse vs posse battles. Some of the text is a bit confusing but there doesn't look to be anything preventing this from rising to the top rung of Outlaws ladder sites.

The reason more single player maps are not made are that :
     1) It takes a lot longer to make a single player map, and for what? You get nothing in return. There is little motivation. You can not play your maps because you can just walk through them. One example of lack of motivation was I kept saying Crossed Identity will be here in a couple of months, I released it a year later.
     2) Decent SP maps need INF scripting, there is little reference material for INF scripting, I was lucky I had help off the INF master Dean Wermer until he went missin! (actualy overcome with work).
     What made me make a SP campaign (Crossed Identity) was the fact that there were no SP maps even 1.5 years after the game was released. Now almost 3 years later we are slightly better off but here comes part 3
     3) The OL engine is out of date and it is hard to use Lawmaker in comparison with newer engines and their editors. You try a do things you can not do in OL which is standard in other games. Lawmaker has a big bug, maps can have both 3DF/X problems and non-3DF/X problems, map makers on a big project like an SP map are more likly to suffer from this, and it does not help the motivation.