SWAT HQ
Previous News from 2010
Posted March 1, 1998
Updated May 13, 2010
May 13, 2010: Mad Max Returns
The SWAT Mad Max Fan Fiction Index is online again.
SWAT Mad Max Fan Fiction Index
http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/madmax
May 11, 2010: Automotive Combat Media
and Car Wars Fan Fiction
The SWAT Automotive Combat Media Index (originally published in High
Velocity Duelling Magazine in 1997) and the SWAT Car Wars Fan Fiction
Index are both online again.
SWAT Automotive Combat Media Index
http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/media
SWAT Car Wars Fan Fiction Index
http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/fiction
May 09, 2010: Road-Kill Rally, Road
Rage, Roads 2 Nowhere and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Road-Kill Rally
Z-Man Games
http://www.zmangames.com
http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/road_kill_rally.htm
Road Rage: Apocalyptic Death and Destruction in 20mm Scale
Stan Johansen Miniatures
http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/index.html
http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/Road%20Rage%20Rules.htm
Roads 2 Nowhere
Scrying Eye Games
http://www.scryingeye.com
http://www.scryingeye.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=15&products_id=81
http://www.scryingeye.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=15&products_id=82
http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/Road%20Rage%20Rules.htm
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 2 CD Set
Limited Collector's Edition of 3000
Tadlow Music
Also sold by Intrada
http://www.pragueorchestras.com/madmax.htm
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6601/.f?sc=2&category=7
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Happy Mother's Day! Thanks, Mom, for my first autoduelling
lessons.
April 18, 2010: Car Wars Articles in
Pyramid
Links to the SWAT HQ Car Wars Articles in Pyramid Magazine page have
been corrected.
SWAT HQ - Car Wars Articles in Pyramid Magazine
http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/magazine/pyramid.html
April 1, 2010: CWIN, WADA, Axle
Tribes and SVI Raptor
CWIN Vol. 13, No. 3 was mailed to subscribers on March 28th.
CWIN Vol. 13, No. 4 is planned for an April 15th release.
The Saginaw Valley
Autoduelling Club has been added to the WADA Chapter
Registry.
Axle Tribes,
the
out-of-print
automotive
combat
game from the Drunk
Dwarves, is now available on SWAT HQ.
The out-of-print SVI Raptor
article
from Car and Driver Magazine
has also been archived on SWAT HQ.
March 1, 2010: SWAT HQ's 12th Anniversary, CWIN's 12th
Anniversary
and 2010 WADA Automotive Combat League
The SWAT Web site celebrates its 12th anniversary today. The first
issue of CWIN was sent to subscribers 12 years ago today.
The Car Wars Internet Newsletter Archive
has been updated. The index page has been moved therefore if you have a
CWIN
Archive URL in your Bookmarks/Favorites list it will need to be changed.
To all of the autoduellists for the past 12 years who have given
comments, contributions and visited the SWAT HQ Web site, thank you.
The 2010 WADA Automotive Combat
League has been opened to other automotive combat tabletop games.
February 25, 2010: Atomic Highway and Warlands
Braking News: First Printing of Atomic Highway Available NOW! The
first
print run can now be grabbed via Indie Press Revolution, for
immediate shipping if the date of 2-19-10 is anything to go by! There
are only 100 copies in this run, so snatch 'em while you can!
Radioactive Ape Designs - Atomic Highway: Post-Apocalyptic
Roleplaying
http://radioactiveapedesigns.com
Indie Press Revolution - First Printing of Atomic Highway
http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17164&cat=0&page=1
DriveThruRPG - Atomic Highway: Post-Apocalyptic Roleplaying
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=70124
Aberrant Games - Warlands: Full Throttle Vehicular Combat!
http://www.aberrantgames.com/warlands.html
Aberrant Games Store
http://store.aberrantgames.com
Warlands Maxwell V8 Interceptor - Pre-order Only
$13.00
Warlands Valiant WS - Pre-order Only
$13.00
Warlands Vehicle Accessory Pack - Pre-order Only
$9.00
Warlands Rattler Gun Truck
Online Web Store Sales Only (Not available to retailers)
$15.00
Pre-order Only (estimated release date - end February 2010). All
pre-orders will be shipped before general release date.
February 24, 2010: High Velocity Duelling's Car Wars
Mailing List
The archive of the High Velocity
Duelling Car Wars Mailing List (HVD CWML) is once again available
on SWAT HQ.
February 21, 2010: MegaRace, MegaRace 2, MegaRace 3 and
Interstate
'76
Good Old Games is also offering for purchase downloadable versions
of MegaRace,
MegaRace 2
and MegaRace 3.
The
classic
automotive
combat
computer
games,
originally
built
for
older
operating
systems,
have
been
retrofitted
for
Windows
XP
and
Windows
Vista.
The Official Interstate '76 Desktop Theme and Wallpapers for
Windows Computers from the Official Activision Web Site have been
unavailable for over 10 years. Before they were removed from the
Internet SWAT saved copies of the files. These beautiful graphics can
be downloaded once again if you access the SWAT
Automotive
Combat
Desktop
Themes and Wallpapers Page.
February 20, 2010: Duel Slang and Interstate '76 Arsenal
Do you remember the "Truckers' Terminology and CB Slang (Circa
2033)" sheet in the Car Wars Pocket Box supplement Truck Stop? Vist SWAT HQ's Autoduelling Terminology and CB
Slang Unofficial Updates for new phrases to use when talking on
your wireless during courier runs and battles.
Good Old Games is now offering for purchase a
downloadable version of Activision's Interstate '76 Arsenal. The
package includes the original Interstate '76 game and the Nitro Pack
Expansion. GOG.com also published a retrospective
article
about
Interstate
'76.
February 19, 2010: WormSpeaker's Mad Max House Rules for Car Wars
WormSpeaker's JARPS Zone, the home of Badlands (a tabletop RPG
set in the world of the Wasteland CRPG), was sent to Highway One when
GeoCities was shut down last year. SWAT saved a copy of the Web site
several years ago. Visit SWAT HQ's
Archive of WormSpeaker's JARPS Zone's Car Wars Files to access a
set of Mad Max variant rules from old Web site.
February 15, 2010: CWIN Vol. 13, No. 2 and Pyramid
CWIN Vol. 13, No. 2 was sent to subscribers today.
Steve Jackson Games has posted all of the Car Wars articles from the
electronic version of Pyramid Magazine on its Web site. These articles
include Uncle Albert's 2050 Catalog Update, a document previously
available only to subscribers of Pyramid. Visit the SWAT Index of Car Wars Articles in
Pyramid Magazine to access these files.
February 1, 2010: Axles and Alloys II
Released!
Axles and Alloys II: Dork
Future Blog
January 11, 2010: Death Rally
Computer Game Now Available as Free Download
Remedy
Entertainment - Death Rally for Windows
Remedy
Entertainment - Discussion Forums - Death Rally
January 10, 2010: Knight Rider 2010
TV Movie and Warlords in the 21st Century (Battletruck) Now Available
on YouTube
Automotive Combat Media - Streaming Video
January 2, 2010: Web Site Cleaning
A few sections of the old ServNet site are now back. A long-overdue
check of the site's links has started, a process that will hopefully be
concluded within a month.
January 1, 2010: Happy New Year!
CWIN Vol. 13, No. 1 was sent to subscribers today. If you want to see
the articles and links from the issue now instead of
waiting for the CWIN Archive to be
updated, subscribe!
The 2010 WADA Car Wars League was started today. All the information
about the tournament is on the League Main Page.
2010 WADA Car Wars League
http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/tour2010
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