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Posted by: eMCee
Interesting. I really wish I could play Infinity now.


Thats it! I 've had enough!! No more will people be opessed by their inability to get a copy of Marathon infinity!! I am going to write to the webmaster about this!!!!

More to the point, there is a lot of us here who want to see marathon infinity available for download, like m1a1 and marathon 2 is. Years ago I tried to make a alephone CD for download, but it never got off the ground. I propose we try do this again.

I'll start putting together a cd iso that contains aleph one, m1a1, marathon 2 and some good maps and senarios, and other objects of marathon goodness (for Mac and PC). When I am done, I'll seed it on bittorrent, and try find somewhere for it to be mirrored for http download (it will take me a few days to get this organised).

I'll also make a second version of the CD that contains marathon infinity, but I won't make that available until we are given the go ahead by the powers that be (or at least, made every humanly possible attempt to get the thumbs up). We would need to draft a letter from the bungie community, and when we are happy with it, send it off to bungie (email the webmaster, PM staff members, post it US Mail etc).

What do you guys think?

  • 10.13.2004 9:38 PM PDT
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Yes do it if you can legally. !!


Did anyone notice the smiley faces on the rockets? If you saw a rocket head on, it has a yellow smiley face. (means you're about to die).
this is M∞ and M:Evil only.

[Edited on 10/14/2004 7:41:56 AM]

  • 10.14.2004 7:40 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

I think there's a jab at Wal-Mart in there, too.

--Sgt. Smith doesn't doubt it.

  • 10.14.2004 8:40 AM PDT
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Backmarch - Legally is the plan, I wouldn' want to get stomped on my MS legal... :)

The smiley was cool, I remember when I first saw it playing a multiplayer game...

  • 10.14.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Cool thy jets..

I'm just making sure.
I'm all for it.

[Edited on 10/14/2004 2:11:22 PM]

  • 10.14.2004 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Smeeisqualityfoo

Thats it! I 've had enough!! No more will people be opessed by their inability to get a copy of Marathon infinity!! I am going to write to the webmaster about this!!!!

More to the point, there is a lot of us here who want to see marathon infinity available for download, like m1a1 and marathon 2 is. Years ago I tried to make a alephone CD for download, but it never got off the ground. I propose we try do this again.

I'll start putting together a cd iso that contains aleph one, m1a1, marathon 2 and some good maps and senarios, and other objects of marathon goodness (for Mac and PC). When I am done, I'll seed it on bittorrent, and try find somewhere for it to be mirrored for http download (it will take me a few days to get this organised).

I'll also make a second version of the CD that contains marathon infinity, but I won't make that available until we are given the go ahead by the powers that be (or at least, made every humanly possible attempt to get the thumbs up). We would need to draft a letter from the bungie community, and when we are happy with it, send it off to bungie (email the webmaster, PM staff members, post it US Mail etc).

What do you guys think?

I love you.

  • 10.14.2004 2:21 PM PDT
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Yes, if you could do that, Smee, you'd be my hero. Finally, the Marathon series would be in my proverbial hands! *evil, maniacal laughter* That would definitely be awesome.

-Baerdog7

  • 10.14.2004 2:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: eMCee
Interesting. I really wish I could play Infinity now.

From the way the level is described, it seems to be monotonous,
or it seems to tease you in a way. This could reflect the Cyborgs
feeling of frustration, trying to find the right path but not succeeding.
Maybe the unreachable teleporters are other paths, either failed
or paths that haven't been attempted yet.

My thought’s exactly, although I think your description better fits Whatever You Please, or perhaps Eat The Path.

Whatever You Please is a nightmare, for both the Marine and you: it’s a dreamworld of boiling lava, tiny shifting paths, and invisible enemies popping up on all sides. The Marine’s monolog also takes a somewhat more disconsolate tone, although all of his dream induced ramblings are pretty dark in nature; the constant pursuit of the men dressed in black, the pocketknife that’s more like a broadsword, etc.

Hanger 96 is definitely the most startling example of his habitual melancholy. Is this the Marine lamenting over his past deeds, perhaps reminiscing over the horror he has witnessed, indeed, created with his own gauntleted fist?

Seven hundred and sixty one armless and legless corpses float inconspicuously around the inside of hangar ninety six. I say that they are inconspicuous because it is their arms and legs which demand my attention. I did this, or I could have stopped it. Which is it? It doesn't matter now. I did this and could have stopped it, but nothing in nature ever follows a gaussian curve. Sure, they'll tell you that it does. They say that every five minutes someone dies in a car accident, but how often are there seven hundred and sixty one armless and legless corpses in one hangar?


I won’t ruin the rest of the Hanger 96 terminals for you, but, needless to say, they are very interesting.

  • 10.14.2004 4:11 PM PDT
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You know what? I think the Marathon symbol just looks really cool.

  • 10.15.2004 2:54 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Has this happened to anyone else? I got careless about how much oxygen I had in reserve, and therefore started to run low. I booked back to the nearest oxygen replenisher, only to die.... At the EXACT INSTANT I pressed "tab" to refill my suply... I started to say, "phew, I made it!" But no... no, istead I said, "phew.... Aaaaah, -blam!-!"

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Posted by: Shai Hulud
Has this happened to anyone else? I got careless about how much oxygen I had in reserve, and therefore started to run low. I booked back to the nearest oxygen replenisher, only to die.... At the EXACT INSTANT I pressed "tab" to refill my suply... I started to say, "phew, I made it!" But no... no, istead I said, "phew.... Aaaaah, -blam!-!"


Let me guess...you were either on Acme station or Post Naval Trauma, right?

Damn, I hate running out of oxygen! I recently got Infinity working with Alephone, but Ive been stuck on those two levels for a while now...

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I don't know if Halo-Marathon connection will be appreciated here,
but I ran across a possible connection today. Spartan 117 was
born in the Eridanus system, and out of curiosity I looked up
where the Eridanus system was in relation to Sol. Turns out,
117's home system is 26.6 lightyears from Sol, which is about the
length of a Marathon in miles. It could be a coincidence, but I
thought it was worth mentioning.

On a different, entirely (well, almost) Marathon note, I was reading
Bulfinch's Arthurian Mythology today, and read about Merlin.
Apparently, some stories have Merlin writing Orlando's Innamoroto.
From what I've read of the book, it's a collection of Orlando's
(aka Roland) adventures. I thought it was interesting because it
connects the mythology of Roland with the Mythology of Arthur,
and is done even furthen in a terminal from where are monsters
in dreams when the speaker says the knife is "something from
the knights of the Round" (or something like that)


I wonder if Joe Staten was doing more than telling a joke in that
Documentary video. . . but I digress.

  • 10.15.2004 4:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN O43
Damn, I hate running out of oxygen! I recently got Infinity working with Alephone, but Ive been stuck on those two levels for a while now...


Wait... you got Infinity working on AlephOne? How? Please, I must know!

  • 10.15.2004 5:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Wait, did smee say that he's writing the WEBMASTER?!?!?!?

Oh noooooo!


I am willing to do *what ever* it takes, even if it kills me :P

If I die, then I know that I died for a just cause...

  • 10.16.2004 12:21 AM PDT

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