Which is your favourite race in AT?

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Download Warcraft 3 Maphack 1.20b

We have updated the latest maphack for patch 1.20 December 2005.
You can download in the forum. However, you need to register and have minimum 5 posts in the forum before you can view the "hide" forum.

Access it here

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Need For Speed Most Wanted, Clan Bala Review

Hardware:-
Personally recommendation on the hardware:-
CPU:- Pentium 4, 3Ghz and above or AMD 3000+ and above.
Memory: 512MB is minimum, recommended 1GB
Graphic Card: nVidia 5900, 5700Ultra, 6600, 6800 and above
Input:- Work well with MOMO USB PC wheel

Interface:-
Cons
Too many buttons to click to go in one menu
The interface is quite confusing for newbie

Pros
Manual attached is quite useful
Some tips and hint during every loading of the game

Internet Play
Cons
Lagging especially in the public game
Slow initial connection of the userid
Time consuming in registering one new account

Pros
No lagging in the private game
Many players in the custom game
Leavers will be given incompletion %
Players will be locked to launch game

Single Play
Cons
Too many loading for every screen play
Unable to select car for the quick play
Not able to test out the map (single car)

Pros
Intelligent AI
Police chasing is very fun
Game will not get boring even if is single play

Winter 2005 GPU Benchmark (PCI Express)


GPU Benchmark using 3Dmark05, based on PCIe graphic card.
Data and image extracted from tomshardware.com

2004 CPU Benchmarks (PCMark2004)


Full list of 2004 CPU benchmark using PCMark2004.
Image and data extracted from Tomshardware.com

2005 CPU Benchmark (PCMark2005)


Full CPU comparison listing using PCMark2005.
Image extrated from tomshardware.com

Benchmarking AMD vs Intel


Benchmark extracted from anandtech.com for your reference.

Monday, December 19, 2005

How Keeper and Dwarf Looks Like?


Image extracted from battle.net

Friday, December 16, 2005

Custom Map For Download


Run, Kitty, Run is a simple, yet fun, fast-paced game. The objective is to avoid the Evil Dogs as you make your way towards the center of the map. Be sure not to get left too far behind as you and your teammates will need to rely on one another to make it to the end.

http://www.warcraft.org/maps/details/c5218



Battleships is an Aeon of Strife map that pits you and your friends against one another in a fun sea battle. You may start the game as a sailor and upgrade to bigger, better ships along the way. Choose from a variety of ships with different abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. After you've made a name for yourself, bring the Captain ashore to purchase items for your ship and head back out to join the fight.

http://www.myforge.net/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=13



Choose one of ten governors, each having a different set of elements available to them. You will also be able to select from a total of 80 different towers, many with unique abilities, to prevent 40 levels of monsters from reaching the center of the map. Purchase a Hero to catch leaks, use special abilities, and defend your base. Teamwork is necessary if you expect to win!

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/(4)BurbenogTDv2.32.zip

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Review of Need For Speed Most Wanted



Most Wanted is great fun, from its hysterical cutscenes to its extremely tense police chases.

The Good: Outrunning the cops is extremely exciting; outstanding sound effects; sharp graphics; tones down some of the over-the-top product placement found in the previous nfs games; mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

The Bad: Racer AI isn't too bright at first, gets wicked smart later on; not enough mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

EA's long-running Need for Speed series took a trip underground a couple of years back when the developer refocused the game solely on illegal street racing. While the nighttime racing series was certainly successful, the lawless world was always missing one key factor: cops. This year's installment crawls back into the daylight. The actual racing hasn't changed too much, but the ever-present police make this game a whole lot more interesting.
The game's career mode starts out with a hilarious bang. You take on the role of a nameless, faceless new racer attempting to hit the scene in the city of Rockport. An underground ranking known as the Blacklist governs who can race who, and when. You almost immediately run into a punk named Razor, who's definitely the sort of dude that lives his life a quarter-mile at a time. He's at the bottom of the list, but a few races later, he's sabotaged your ride and has won it from you in a race. Meanwhile, you're carted off to jail. Left with nothing but some mysterious help from a stranger named Mia, your task is to get back in the race game to work your way to the top of the Blacklist, which is now topped by Razor, who's using your old car to wipe out the competition.

The game actually has a great story hook at the beginning that makes you want to see the career mode through to completion. The early story segments are told through some sort of unholy mixture of computer-generated cars and full-motion video actors. The acting in these early segments is awful...awful good, that is. You'll scratch your head and wonder if these segments are intentionally bad and meant to be played for laughs or if they're just unintentionally funny. Either way, they're great. Unfortunately, after a brief prologue, you stop seeing video sequences, and the story is conveyed via voicemails from various characters. Are you a cop? Will you get to utter the magic street racing words, "Mia, I am a cop"? Or is the plot twist even more painfully obvious than that? You'll have to see the story through to find out where everyone's allegiances lie.

Working your way up the Blacklist is a multistep progress. Before you can challenge the next Blacklist racer, you have to satisfy a list of requirements. You'll have to win a set number of race events. And you'll have to reach a set number of pursuit milestones and earn enough bounty by riling up the police. The cops hate street racers and will give chase when they see you rolling around the open city. You can also just jump right into a pursuit from a menu, too.
Running from the cops is the best action the game has to offer. Chases usually start with just one car on your tail. But as you resist, you might find 20 cars giving chase, in addition to a chopper flying overhead. Losing the cops gets tougher as your heat level rises. Level one heat results in the appearance of just your standard squad cars. But by the time you get up to level five, you'll be dealing with roadblocks, spike strips, helicopters, and federal-driven Corvettes. A meter at the bottom of the screen indicates how close you are to losing the cops or getting busted. Stopping your car--or having it stopped for you by spike strips or getting completely boxed in by cops--is how you'll get busted. To actually get away, you'll need to get out of visual range...and stay there. The initial evasion changes the meter over to a cooldown meter. You'll have to lie low and wait for that meter to fill up to end the chase. This is probably the tensest part of the entire chase, since you never know when two cops might blow around the corner and spot you, starting the whole process over again. It all sort of works like some sort of strange, wonderful cross between Grand Theft Auto's open city and Metal Gear Solid's stealth mechanic. All the while, you'll be acquiring heat on your car. This means that you'll have to keep a couple of cars around, because acquiring heat on one car lowers the heat on your other ones. Also, getting busted too many times can result in your car getting impounded, though you can avoid that by resetting the system whenever you get caught (if that's more your speed).

There's also a lot of racing in Most Wanted's career mode--almost too much, in fact. You'll engage in multilap circuit races, point-A-to-point-B sprint races, drag racing, checkpoint-driven tollbooth races, and speed trap, where the winner is the player that accumulates the most speed while passing by a handful of radar cameras spread throughout the track. The races are solid but not spectacular. The artificial intelligence doesn't really help things along, because most of the game is rubber-banded like crazy. We actually set our controller down for 20 seconds--then picked it back up and caught our opponents on the final lap. And though the AI will occasionally crash and come to a complete halt, it'll catch up very, very quickly. Later on in the game, you get a voicemail message informing you that things are going to get tougher. At this point, the computer drivers magically start taking every single shortcut, and the rubber banding only seems to work against you. As a result, catching up after a mistake is much tougher. If this difficulty had gradually sloped up, it wouldn't be a big deal. But flipping the switch from "drive like crap" to "drive like a genius" is really annoying. Fortunately, the racing action itself is entertaining enough to keep you going, and of course, you'll be dying to find out what happens next in the story.

The game has more than 30 licensed cars that you'll be able to purchase or win from other racers. We started out with a pretty weak Chevy Cobalt, but eventually we picked up a much faster Supra, a new Covette C6, and so on. You can also find the Ford GT, a Ford Mustang GT, and other cars from BMW, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Lotus, and more. You'll buy your first car, but as you move through the Blacklist, you'll get a shot at the pink slip of the other racer, letting you ease right into the driver's seat of a new, tuned vehicle. Buying them from scratch means you'll have to apply enhancements yourself. You can buy a lot of different performance gear and a ton of visual stuff, like body kits, spoilers, vinyls, and so on. Applying visual upgrades lowers your heat level, making them pretty useful once the cops take notice of your faster cars.

Aside from the career mode, there's also a challenge series that gives you a car and a specific goal. Race goals are fairly easy to understand, but the pursuit challenges ask you to achieve specific milestones, like blasting through five roadblocks or racking up a specific amount of property damage. You can also just dive into quick races, or take it online. The online game is focused strictly on racing, which is a little disappointing. Teaming up to avoid the cops or letting some players drive police cars probably would have been more interesting. Still, the game offers sprint, circuit, and drag races for up to four players, and it keeps an online version of the Blacklist going so you can see who the most dangerous online opponent is. On the game-creation side, you can play in ranked or unranked games, and you can specify a disconnection or "did not finish" percentage, letting you manually weed out jerks. You can also turn off collision detection between players if you want to prevent people from just crashing into one another throughout the entire race, but that's only possible in unranked games. All in all, the online is functional, but without any sort of pursuit mode or other police-tinged races, it's awfully standard.
Graphically, the game looks great, overall. But when you break it down, some parts of it look better than others. For the most part, the game does the large city environment quite well. The different parts of the city give a nice sense of variety, and the car models look sharp, especially when you start painting them with crazy triple-colored paint. The game delivers a pretty good sense of speed and seems to scale reasonably well to fit different PCs. There's a level of detail setting that gets the image quality up to around the Xbox 360 version's graphics, but when that and the resolution turned all the way up, you're going to need a really tough machine to get a playable frame rate out of it. The game doesn't have much car damage at all. You'll see your rear window crack up after a few good wrecks, but there's never any real damage to your vehicle.

On the sound side, the game has outstanding engine noises that change depending on which car you're in and which upgrades you have. The rest of the sound effects are also of excellent quality. The game uses quite a bit of voice acting in the story, which is good. But the best voices come from the police. When you're being chased, you'll pick up the police band and hear them communicating and cooperating as they try to take you down. The cop talk sounds awfully authentic, and you'll eventually decipher the police 10 codes and figure out when they're going to lay out spike strips, set up roadblocks, and so on. While the 10 codes used don't seem to be the actual ones the real police use (at least that's what a little basic research told us), they sound good enough to be realistic. The music included is the standard mix of rock and hip-hop you've come to expect from EA's games, including a few songs from Styles of Beyond.
While the actual racing in Need for Speed Most Wanted is probably the weak link in the chain, it's still solid enough to keep you interested as you move from racer to racer, working your way up the Blacklist as you go. But the real stars of the show are the police, who give the series a much-needed shot in the arm. If outrunning the law sounds like your idea of a good time, you'll have a great time here.

By Jeff Gerstmann
Posted Nov 23, 2005 3:06 pm PT

Need For Speed Most Wanted Cheat Code

Need For Speed Most Wanted (NFSMW) Cheat Codes
Cheat codes are entered at the main menu.
Unlock NFSMW Cars - iammostwanted
Unlock the Burger King Challenge - burgerking

Unlockable Cars and How To Unlock
Aston Martin DB9 - Beat Blacklist Boss #7
Audi A3 3.2 Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss #15
Audi A4 3.2 FSI Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss #14
Audi TT 3.2 Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss # 15
BMW GTR (Race version) - Beat Blacklist Boss #1
Cadillac CTS - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Chevrolet Cobalt SS - Automatic
Corvette C6 - Beat Blacklist Boss #5
Corvette C6.R - Complete 100% of the game
Dodge Viper SRT 10 - Beat Blacklist Boss #6
Fiat Punto - Automatic
Ford GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #4
Lamborguini Gallardo - Beat Blacklist Boss #6
Lamborguini Murciélago - Beat Blacklist Boss #4
Lexus IS300 - Automatic
Lotus Elise - Beat Blacklist Boss #8
Mazda RX-7 - Beat Blacklist Boss #9
Mazda RX-8 - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Mercedes-Benz CLK 500 - Beat Blacklist Boss #8
Mercedes-Benz SL 500 - Beat Blacklist Boss #11
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren - Beat Blacklist Boss #3
Mitsubishi Eclipse - Beat Blacklist Boss #14
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII - Beat Blacklist Boss #11
Mustang GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Pontiac GTO - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Porsche 911 Carrera S - Beat Blacklist Boss #7
Porsche 911 Turbo S - Beat Blacklist Boss #5
Porsche Carrera GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #3
Porsche Cayman S - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Renault Clio V6 - Beat Blacklist Boss #13
Subaru Impreza WRX STi - Beat Blacklist Boss #9
Toyota Supra - Beat Blacklist Boss #13
Vauxhall Monaro VXR - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Volkswagen Golf GTI - Automatic

More Money Selling Cars
When you're going to sell a car, always take it to the tune up shop and sell all the parts first. The selling price of the car is the same either way.

Start Off With $10,000
If you have Need for Speed: Underground 2 installed on your computer and you begin a New Career, you will start off with $10,000.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

100th Post in Clan Bala Blog

This is the 100th post after the Clan Bala blogspot launched on 25 July 2005. Out aim to keep all Clan Bala members as well as all Warcraft 3 players and all visitors to have the most updated news about Clan Bala, games, warcraft 3, Dota, IT news and many many more.

Clan Bala is going to celebrate the 900 days Anniversary on 27 December 2005. I suggest to host some game competitions in-house either dota or even standard games. We also welcome all players to visit us at Clan Bala channel at Lordearon (USWEST) on that day.

With a team of regular, active and friendly players, Clan Bala has reached total of more than few thoudsands ladder game, and the figure is keep increasing. We also have lost count numbers of dota games till todate.

Till date, Clan Bala has about 89 members in Clan and in addition, Clan Bala has its subsidiary Clan, Clan LGDE which is active with Dota games as well.

To all Clan Bala members, keep up the good work and remember to stay good relationship. No only always remember to say a GG, but also to maintain a GG in gaming.

Creative Singapore 3 Days Promotion


Good Buy from Creative Singapore for 3 Days Promotion, Dont miss the boat...

Friday, December 02, 2005

Dota Replays

Thank you for visiting Clan Bala Home Page. if you were referred to here from DotaPortal.com forum and try to find the 2 girls pictures, please refer to the November posts.

If you are looking for the Clan Bala Dota Replay by our Clan pro players, you may find it from our clan forum at http://clanbala.999.org. You will be able to find the maphack tools from there too but you are required to register and post for more than 5 posts before the Tools Forum can appear. (The maphack tool is for you to try it only, please do not use it in any ladder game or dota. We discourage player use hack !!!)

We hope that you enjoy your stay here and do remember to add us in favourite.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Meet The 4Kings (Singapore Trip)


WCG RP Updates

Download AC'97 Audio CODECs

If you are using the on-board sound, and using the AC97 (realtek), you may download the latest codec and drivers.

AC'97 Audio CODECs (A3.79)
Note: Windows 98Gold/98se/Me/2000/XP/2003(32/64 bits) for Driver only. For Windows 98 SE, DirectX(R)8 is required to enable advanced features.
Released Date: 7-November 2005
Version: A3.79

Choose any download site belows:
Download Site 1
Download Site 2
Download Site 3

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Dota AllStars Map Version 6.27b

Download the Dota Allstars Map version 6.27b
HERE

Discuss Latest Strategies and Download MapHack
HERE

nVidia Graphic Driver 81.95

nVidia Latest Driver (WinXP)
Version 81.95
Released Date: 22-November 2005

Download it HERE

Monday, November 21, 2005

Fiona Xie at WCG

Lets Meet SKYCN, Champ of WC3

WCG 2005 Highlight



Razer Diamondback





Specifications

Optical engine powered by kärna precision
1600 dpi, twice that of conventional high performance sensors
High speed motion detection, up to 40ips and 15g
Frame rate over 6400 frames per second (5.8 megapixels per second)
16 bit data path, as compared to 8 bit and 12 bit data paths used by other conventional mice
Always On Mode – the optical sensor never powers down - provides instantaneous response at all times during gameplay
Buttons – 7 physical buttons optimized for gaming response and independently programmable
Ultra large non-slip mouse buttons, tactile response design
Non-slip side rails and new ergonomic ambidextrous design
Zero acoustic Teflon feet for smooth motion over any surface
Gold plated USB connector for maximum conductivity
Size: 5.04" length x 2.5" width x 1.54" height
7 foot, lightweight, non-tangle cord
Award winning Razer drivers featuring On-the-Fly sensitivity adjustment
Chameleon Green and Magma (red) translucent chassis options available
Comes with custom designed Razer Diamondback Lan-Pack for storage and transport.

Pros
Comfortable
16-bit Processor (Eliminating Negative Acceleration)
Four programmable side buttons
On-the-fly sensitivity adjustment
Very high DPI optical sensor
Smooth scroll wheel
Fast and stable teflon feet
Available in two different colors
Always On
Optical (No mouse ball to get dirty)
Razer Software/Drivers

Cons
Side buttons require strong fingers
Side buttons in awkward position
Side buttons are too small
USB Only

Road Map of AMD (2006)

World Cyber Game WCG Final Replays

A new champion SKYCN has born in the WCG Warcraft 3 final session at 12.00pm on 20-11-2005.

His daring tower rush tactic in first game, and super micro defend tactic in second game, has defeated the BenQ from USA.

Let see the replay here. (version 1.20)

Friday, November 18, 2005

NameSpoofer Pro Version

Download the interesting tools NameSpoofer Pro Version
Find it in Clan Bala Official Forum here

Only registered member with minimum 5 posts in the forum can be able to view the "download" forum.

Download Dota-Allstars 6.25

Version 6.25 is out, download here or enter the forum

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Download Dota 6.24 map

Download Dota-Allstars Map for version 6.24
Download here

Download Latest Graphic Card Driver

Download the latest graphic card drivers. If you are not the registered member in the forum, you need to resigter in the forum and post at least 5 posts to enable download.

ATI 5.11 for Window XP
Released Date: 11-11-2005
Download here

nVidia 81.94 for Window XP
Released Date: 14-11-2005
Download here

Friday, November 11, 2005

Extreme Candy War 2005

News extracted from battle.net (October 27, 2005 )
New Warcraft III Bonus Map - Extreme Candy War 2005 - BlazeExtreme Candy War 2005 is the latest version of Blizzard's Halloween map where Alliance and Horde fight it out on the battlefield. Fans of World of Warcraft will undoubtedly feel at home as ECW '05's heroes are based off their respective classes. The object is to crush your opponent's Candy Mages who channel an invulnerable shield around their Candy Vault. Once the Candy Mages are down, destroy their Candy Vault to win! This year's version features updated hero abilities, new items, and faster paced gameplay.

Download here

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Download Dota 6.23

Download Dota version 6.23 here

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Crazy Overclocking

Highest Core Speed (AMD)




Highest Core Speed (Intel)




Highest FSB reachable

Internet Connection Speed Checking

Consolidated the useful resources, for you to test your internet connection speed. Sad to say that, till now, I am still unable to find one which offered by Singapore locally.

Since all the following resources offered are based in overseas, as such, your result may not the true result. However, it is useful for you to determine how fast your speed, and do a check again when you feel you encountered slow connection speed. At least, you may compare your current result with your previous result.

Personally I like to use the first one, which offered by McAfee. (US Based)

http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer.asp Mcafee's SpeedOmeter (resurrected)
http://bluefield.speedtest.frontiernet.net/
http://bos.speakeasy.net Boston, speakeasy bandwidth speed test
http://box54.org/SpeedTest.html Box 54 Server
http://bugclub.org/BUGSpeed.html Brevard Users Group server Speed Test
http://chi.speakeasy.net Chicago, speakeasy networked server speed test
http://cookeville.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Cookeville TN
http://den.speakeasy.net Denver, speakeasy bandwidth speeds
http://dfw.speakeasy.net Dallas, speakeasy bandwidth speeds
http://download.enitel.no/speedtest/ Speed test - text download, Norway
http://elkgrove.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Elk Grove CA (Nice test site)
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/bandwidth.html BrowserSpy, How fast is your connection...
http://home.austin.rr.com/bc/bandwidth.htm RoadRunner of Austin, Texas
http://home.broadpark.no/~tbjorgen-1/speedometer.html Lars-Magnus Lier
http://home.cfl.rr.com/bjp/test.htm Brad's RoadRunner networked server speeds
http://home.cfl.rr.com/cm3/speedtest7.htm Corley's RoadRunner Test page
http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/SpeedTest.htm Eric's own RoadRunner Bandwidth Test
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage.htm 2 tests available.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage/testpg5.htm Modem Speed Test-5
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage/testpg7.htm Modem Speed Test-7
http://itavisen.no/speedometeret.html ITavisen.no Speedometer, Norway
http://jetstreamgames.co.nz/speed/ADSLdownload1MB.html online bandwidth test
http://jetstreamgames.co.nz/speed/ADSLdownload500.html online bandwidth test
http://kingman.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Kingman AZ
http://lakeville.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Lakeville MN
http://lax.speakeasy.net Los Angeles, speakeasy bandwidth speed test
http://members.toast.net/leslie/testpage/testpg56.htm Toast.net Performance Test-56
http://middletown.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Middletown NY
http://nyc.speakeasy.net/ DSL speed test
http://performance.toast.net/ cable speeds internet speedtest
http://rochester.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ Rochester NY
http://sfo.speakeasy.net San Francisco, speakeasy bandwidth speed test
http://speedtest.adslguide.org.uk:8080/speedtest.html
http://speedtest.chartermi.net/ cable speeds
http://speedtest.eastlink.ca/
http://support.primus.ca/en/dsl/speedtest.php
http://support.sbcglobal.net/dsl/speedtest/
http://w1.970.telia.com/~u97007522/ Speed test, Located in northern Sweden
http://web.bitnet.net/dimension/ (Sweden - Borlange)
http://web.bitnet.net/dimension/speedtest.htm Sweden, bandwidth speedtest
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/giis/50.htm RoadRunner of Tampa Bay, FL
http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/?tag=tm CNET's test.
http://www.2wire.com/meter/bm.html 2Wire Bandwidth Meter.
http://www.2wire.com/meter/bmresult.html?kbps=1863 2Wire Bandwidth Meter.
http://www.aitsoft.com/Services/speedtest.asp AIT -- Services -- Speed Test
http://www.alken.nl/ Online Speedtest etc.
http://www.aroundcinci.com/speedtest/ speedtest home of Cincinati, Ohio
http://www.austin.rr.com/speedtest/speed.asp RoadRunner home of Austin, Texas
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ Bandwidth Place Welcome!
http://www.beelinebandwidthtest.com/ Beeline Bandwidth Test, Amsterdam
http://www.cable-modem.net/features/oct99/speed.html bandwidth speedtest
http://www.computers4sure.com/speed.asp?iid=154 By mhmd, 4SURE.com bandwidth
http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/baandbredde/start.html Norway
http://www.donspage.com/dsltest/speedtest.html online services bandwidth speed test
http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1 DSL Reports in Megapath, CA
http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=2 DSL Reports in LinkLine, LA
http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=3 DSL Reports in NAC.NET, NY (restricted)
http://www.eaglepro.net/bandwidth/ Test mot server Kommunicera.umea.se Sweden
http://www.eaglepro.net/bandwith/ Sweden bandwidth speed test
http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~annexste/speed.html internet performance speedtest
http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~annexste/speed100.html University of Cincinnati
http://www.elkindustries.com/SpeedTest.htm Elk Industries Server Test
http://www.info-techs.com/speedtest.html Information Technologies
http://www.info-techs.com/speedtest50.html Lakeview Terrace, CA
http://www.info-techs.com/speedtest500.html Lakeview Terrace, CA
http://www.intercom.net/xpeedometer/xpeedometer.htm
http://www.itcom.itd.umich.edu/adsl/speedtest.html broadband connection test
http://www.midsouth.rr.com/speed.asp RoadRunner of the Mid-South Speed Test
http://www.mordax.nl/ Netherlands internet speedtest
http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed/Checkup.php?L=br connection performance
http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed/Checkup.php?L=tw United Kingdom
http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp speed test page for Fort Wayne,IN
http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp PC Pitstop's Internet Connection Center
http://www.satx.rr.com/support/speedtest/ RoadRunner Speed Tests
http://www.speedsuite.net/speedsuite/ Networked Speed test, Amsterdam
http://www.speedtest.nl/ Netherlands
http://www.squigly.com/performance/ cable speeds near Toronto, Canada
http://www.summitcomputer.net/speedtest/unlisted/speedtest500.asp
http://www.testmy.net/ Bandwidth Speed Test & Broadband Forum-Chat
http://www.zensupport.co.uk/speedtest/ Zen's Web test
http://speed.kify.com/
http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html
http://www.datapacket.net/speedtest/ Java plug-in is required.
http://www.testadsl.net
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Bandwidth_meter/7004-7254_16-0.html
http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk
http://www.thespeedtest.com/ Test by: Josh Richesin
http://ult-tex.net/tools/ultra/speed_test.pl U-L-T-R-A'S DSL & Cable Speed Tester
http://www.kvron.com/utils/speed/ this link in spanish.
http://www.toast.net/performance/ Burnt toast performance
http://speed.oct.net/ T3 out of Kansas City.
http://myspeed.visualware.com/ Visualware
http://speedtest.cogeco.net/ Canada local DSL Reports

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Dota Allstars v6.20

Its out get it at http://maps.dota-allstars.com/DotA%20Allstars%20v6.20.w3x

overall, sniper is imporved, blademall seems cheaper, morphling lesser int,swap cannot use fro creep(harder to escape), PL lesser strength, lunar eclips reduce, bounty ww no speed gain but track will have speed gain, agies item change, shackle lesser time but got 40damage/s and a new mode call leaugue mode -lm. the details are below...

Changelog:
-New Terrain
-Game core code rewritten for optimizations and cleanliness
-Fixed the projectile vision through Fog of War bug-New Hero
-Added a mode for league play, -lm (-leaguemode)
-Added Deathmatch, -dm (-deathmatch)
-Fixed pretty much all memory leaks in DotA-Stout Shield returns
-Heartstopper (engine bugs with this) replaced with a new ability
-Anonymous Dead replaced with a new ability
-Dynamic Size multiboard based on the number of players in the game
-Fixed some abuse issues when blinking to a tavern
-Better panning and hero selection when you respawn, it's not as choppy now
-Fix a bug that allowed you to accidentally get multiple heroes
-When lone druid is repicked, his bear properly disappears
-Increased Hexed unit model slightly
-Fixed Coup de Gras' tooltip
-Chickens no longer block paths
-Fixed a bug that did not combine consumables on chickens
-sc randomness issues improved
-Fixed Enfeeble's tooltip
-Ignite missle speed improved a bit
-Shortmode is a bit shorter
-Building experience bugs fixed
-Fixed some multiboard issues
-Improved camera start location when -ar (allrandom) is used
-Fixed tooltips on neutral creeps
-Fixed some witchcraft typos
-If Dark Ritual, Nightmare, Conversion or Deathpact is cast on an allied chicken, it will not kill the chicken
-Fixed some Toss issues
-Cannot Toss chickens (only Toss to chicken was fixed before) nor any units Tiny owns (to prevent abuses)
-Fixed a bug with the souls kept after death on Nevermore
-Fixed Conversion, it should always automatically work now
-Added a skill icon for SA's Permanent Invisibility
-Fixed Craggy Exterior stun duration bug
-Fixed Bloodlust Multicast bug
-Made creeps converted by Chen unable to block other units
-Fixed some Poison Nova bugs-PA's -refresh is removed, it will now automatically refresh.
-Shock tooltip error
-Changed multiboard display for missing players a bit
-Removed the red dots that appear briefly on minimap when you use ap
-Cannot Toss Dragon Knight in Elder Form
-Fixed a bug where if you do -unstuck then -recreate, -recreate takes no time
-Fixed a minor Necronomicon unit selection annoyance
-Fixed Jux-item dropping from Phantom Lancer
-movespeed now works by using -ms also-matchup now works by using -ma also
-Changed Queen of Pain's Blink animation
-Fixed the crazy Crystal Maiden spam z/h bug with Freezing Field
-Helm of Dominator converted creeps cannot be used to block paths
-Improved the small area restriction where
-recreate is castable
-Fountain healing ranged improved a bit, but smaller than the attack range obviously
-Fixed bug with Nightmare not canceling Flask
-Fixed various typos and updated tooltips
-Tweaked Necromonicon a bit, to fix a Warcraft III engine related bug
-Disallowed Blade Fury during Omnislash
-Fixed some Assassinate buff issues
-Hero Descriptions updated
-New Map Picture
-Fixed Manta Style + color change bug on Morphling
-Fixed Wolf Form multiboard display glitch
-Reduced delay on various morphing abilities (Elder Form, Shapeshift, etc). This helps reduce control loss risk
-Quest menu updated with league rules when -lm is used
-Fixed Phantom Lancer icon moving in tavern when another hero is taken
-Improved some display messages, like when someone leaves
-Add the proper buff icon for Mask of Madness
-Frostbite reduced from 2/2.5/3/3.5 to 1.5/2/2.5/3, damage per second increased to equal the same total damage as before
-Stormbolt damage reduced from 125/175/250/300 to 100/150/200/250
-Fissure nerfed
-Enchant Totem cooldown reduced-Ignite slight buff, Bloodlust move nerf, Bloodlust mana cost decreased
-Avalanche AoE reduced by 50
-Dagger of Escape has a 90 mana cost now (here comes the hate mail)
-Reduce damage of Burrowstrike from 80/160/240/320(tooltip was wrong) to 100/160/220/280
-Buffed Caustic Finale area from 250 to 400
-Rupture duration from 7/10/13 to 5/7/9 but slight increase of initial dmg from 100/200/300 to 150/250/350
-Reduced Shapeshift hitpoints from 150/275/400 to 100/200/300
-Chaos Knight Critical Strike from 1.55/2.10/2.65/3.2 to 1.5/2/2.5/3
-Necrolyte movespeed reduced from 300 to 290
-Kraken Shell from 10/20/30/40 to 5/10/15/20 but reduces ranged as well now
-Anabolic Frenzy from 3/6/9/12% to 3/5/7/9% move speed
-Chakra from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360 but and mana cost from 75 to 50
-Elder Form does not grant bonus hp
-Breath of Fire reduced from 85/170/255/320 to 75/150/225/300
-Reduced Purification from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360 but damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 90/180/270/360
-Sprout duration decreased from 3/4/5/6 to 3/3.75/4.5/5.25
-Furion movespeed buffed from 280 to 295
-Hoofstomp .75/1.5/2.25/3 to 1.25/1.75/2.25/2.75 with stun dmg from 50/100/150/200 to 100/150/200/250
-Shackle's duration from 3/4/5/6 to 2.5/3.25/4/4.75 and damage 40dmg/sec to Shackled target
-Max number of Eclipse per target reduced from 5 to 4 (6 to 5 on Scepter)
-Luna's attack range increased from 225 to 325
-Nasal Goo from 20+4/8/12/16 to 20+3/6/9/12
-Track now gives bonus speed to Bounty Hunter when cast, mana cost increased a bit.
-Bounty Hunter's Windwalk gives no speed bonus.
-Reduce Penitence damage amplification from 8/16/24/32 to 7/14/21/28
-Test of Faith damage from 50-75/100-150/150-225/200-300 to 50-100/100-200/150-300/200-400
-Chen's creeps do not die when he dies
-Persuasion from 1/2/3/4 to 1/1/2/3-Slardars Warstomp changed, lower stun but added a secondary effect
-Aegis changed, uses stout instead of RoH, stats modified a bit as a result.
-Mekanism aura from 2 to 3hp/sec
-Waveform range reduced and mana cost increased
-Rampage movespeed from 7/14/21 to 7/9/11
-Satanic's Deathpact cooldown from 20 to 60 seconds.
-Lich movespeed buffed from 280 to 295
-Chain frost bounce from 7 to 6
-Blackhole damage from 40-80/75-120/100-160 per second to 30-60/50-100/70-140
-Enigma starting str from 17 to 16
-Enchantress movespeed from 300 to 285
-God Strength cooldown from 100/90/80 to 120/120/120
-Healing Ward cooldown from 50 to 75 and mana cost from 125 to 140
-Overgrowth mana cost from 100/150/200 to 200/250/300
-Phantom Lancer from str 19+2.0 to 18+1.5
-Sunder mana cost from 175 to 250
-Venomancer's attackrange from 490 to 450
-Shockwave mana cost from 100/120/140/160 to 110
-Empower from 20/40/60/80% to 15/30/45/60%
-Empower mana cost reduced to 30
-Insatiable Hunger duration from 30 to 20 seconds
-Purge duration from 6 to 5 seconds
-Splitshot from 40/50/60/70 to 45/55/65/75
-Queen of Pain's Blink mana cost from 60 to 80
-Gush mana cost from 100 to 120
-Nevermore's attack range from 500 to 450
-Nether Swap can only target heroes, not creeps
-Change Primal Split damage type from normal to pierce (weaker vs towers)
-Song of Siren Duration from 6/8/10 to 6/7/8 and invul duration from 4/5.5/7 to 6/7/8
-Rearm casting time from 3/2/1 to 4/3/2
-Morphling no longer gains +2 int from his Attribute Bonus ability
-Morph mana cost from 10/sec to 20/sec
-Crushing Wave damage buffed by 50
-Blademail recipe from 750 to 500
-Back angle on Bristleback slightly reduced
-Gravechill from 10/20/30/40 to 8/16/24/32
-Scattershot damage from 14-40 to 10-35
-Sniper's agility from 26/1.9 to 28/2.4
source:dota-allstars.com

Hi, i'm hemo the new page updater for clan bala.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Air-Conditioned Mid Tower





Sytrin Nextherm ICS 8200 mid tower looks pretty much like many other computer cases. It's made of steel and features a plastic front cover. The real secret is only revealed when you take a look at what's inside. There you'll find a two 80 mm fans and a cooling system using two Peltier devices. The combination is to keep the ambient case temperature at a pleasant 66°F (19°C).

Estimated price is S$528.00. Take a first look.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Realtek Latest Codec V3.78

Download Realteck AC97 lastest codec version 3.78 here

ATI Latest Driver - Catalyst 5.10 for Windows XP

Catalyst 5.10 for Windows XP
Released on 12-10-2005
Download here

Download nVidia Driver 81.85

nVidia Graphic Driver
Version: 81.85
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Download here

Ordering the F.E.A.R












For those who are interested to purchase F.E.A.R at $42.00, please let me know by 27-10-2005

View The Future Roadmap for AMD

GPU Performance Benchmark on F.E.A.R
























New game, F.E.A.R. seems like going to be a popular game very soon in the market. Take a first look of this game to test on different GPU.
Read full review from here

Monday, October 24, 2005

Cyber Cafe Updates


Phase I Cybercafe set up updates.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Comparison of AMD True GHz


AMD, being one of my beloved processor, which I have witnessed myself how AMD processor out-performed its competitor. After the season of AMD Athlon XP, here come with many big brothers, which are AMD 64, Dual Core and FX.

Many users are confused about the model number given by AMD, the model number does not mean the processor running speed, but perhaps is only marketing strategies or etc. For example, Athlon XP 3000+ does not run at 3.0GHz, but in actual fact the processor is running at about 2.17GHz. Do not be disappointed with the small 2.17GHz of the processor, you will be surprise how it out-performed the competitor which has true 3.0GHz processor speed. I shall say the numbering given by AMD perhaps served as a benchmark the performance is equivalent to the competitor 3.0 GHz speed.

To clear your doubts about the true GHz run by the processor, I have consolidated the list of all AMD models for AMD64, AMD Dualcore and AMD FX for your reference.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Benchmark of Graphic Cards Based on Frozen Throne



Based on our beloved game, Frozen Throne, let us understand which graphic cards served us right.

These graphic cards are the version in year 2003-2004 when the Frozen Throne first launched, the comparison only up to ATI9800 series and nVidia 5 series.

However, point need to take note is nVidia 6 series does not mean better then 5 series in terms of graphic resolution and etc, for example, the 6200 will not be able to compete with 5700 and 5200 will certainly unable to compete with Ti4200 and etc. So sometimes you need to do some study and do not let the numbering of the model to confuse you.

Glad to see that my card is still within top few at that time.. but not sure how the benchmarking for the nVidia 6 series and ATI X series on this game.

Price Guides for nVidia VGA Card



Consolidated the general price for the GPU 6600GT to 6800Ultra for comparison.

Personally I found that 6600GT is a good card in terms of ratio of price/quality.

When you intend to buy a graphic card, you need to decide which GPU you are going for, and to check whether the GPU serve you right. After you decided on the GPU to go about, then start to compare the price among the brands, and not to forget to understand the after sales support of the particular brands. As I personally like to purchase the brands carried by Corbell Singapore, because their excellent after sales service.

The price quoted above does not zoom in detail about the types of memory (DDR, DDR2 or DDR3) and also does not zoom into the size of the memory (128MB256MB or 512MB).

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

First Look of the PC spec of Clan Bala CyberCafe

The following are the computer specs for the Cybercafe. Although not at the top end, but to keep within the budget, we have obtained a very good buy from the shops by working with retailed as well as the pretty distributor.

Motherboard: MSI 915 Neo2
Processor: Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz Socket 775, 630 series
Graphic Card: MSI nVidia 6600 256MB DDR PCI-e
Memory: Corsair 512MB DDR2 533
Monitor: 17" LCD 8ms

Anyone who interested to order the parts and etc, may contact me, as I can help you to purchase in bulks.

Good Promotion of Chenbro Casing (Xpider)


I obtained a good buy for purchasing 10 unit of computers this afternoon.
Read further in my blog below:-

http://seantoh.blogspot.com/2005/10/chenbro-xpider-gaming-bomb-pc61166.html

Friday, October 14, 2005

Problem Solving in Lagging

One of the possibility of lagging in game is the background download. Some of you may encountered lagging while playing game even though you did not download anything awarely.

However, if you are using Window XP SP2, then you need to be extra careful of the background updates. Your operating system may be running the background downloading of the window xp critical updates or security patches, which you are totally not aware of.

If you encountered uncommon lag which you are aware that you did not download anything, please disable the auto updates of the Window XP temporarily.

This occured during 12-14 October 2005, if you encountered lagging in dota or ladder between this period, dont curse your internet provider and your host.. :)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Warcraft 3 Stat Hack


Besides maphacking tools, player can use other hacking tools like introduced here, Statistic Hack!

This will allow the user to view the economical status of the enemy in the game. This is useful by estimating whether:-
1) To know the player is keeping the resources for fast teching?
2) To know whether the player is pumping the unit for rushing?
3) To know whether the player is having the second gold mine?

Basically, this software is still safe to used in ladder game, however, use this software at your own risk !

Download from our Clan Bala Forum. You need to register as a member before you can download. The registration only required less than 2 minutes. No pop-up!

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Download Dota 6.19b (released on 10-10-2005)

Download Warcraft 3 most popular custom map, Dota, version 6.19b, which released on 10-10-2005.

Two hyperlink for you to choose for faster download speed:-
Download from Clan Bala (preferred)
Download from Dota-allstars.com

Read the released notes from Clan Bala Forum. Registration is required.

Monday, October 10, 2005

How Many Types of X800



There are many types of ATI X800 in the market and sometime is quite confusing for buyer to decide which type they shall purchase.

In general, there are 8 types as at now available in the market, X800, X800SE, X800GT, X800GTO, X800Pro, X800XL, X800XT and X800XTPE. All of them have slight differences in terms of the GPU using, thier Mhz of the core and memory. The above table has shown their differences in general.

I have also consolidated their price, based on 10-10-2005, and generally some brands selling in Sim Lim Square.

Assumption: (1) AGP and PCIe are having similar price (2) based on 256DDR (3) Exclude the special edition, eg platinum edition (4) ignoring the differences between DDR2 and DDR3.

New Walao Dota Replay - TINY

New Dota replay (TINY) by our well-known dota player, walao12345.
Download is available in our clan forum. Registration is required to download.

Download here.

Quality Replays To Download

13th_dc aka The_Shaman won the Random Team game by 1v3, after partners left the game. Go to the forum to download. Registration is required.

Download here.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Download Warcraft Maphack Tools and Utilities

There are maphack for patch 1.20 and various utilities and tools for Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne. You may find it in our Clan Bala forum.

Password Grabber
Password Grabber enable you to view the userid and password used for the warcraft 3 or frozen throne which running simutaneuosly in your computer. It is pretty useless in the sense that you do not require to know your password or userid as you may have already remembered them. However, when you log in your userid and password in the cyber cafe, do take note that whether the computer is running this software in the background.

CD-Key Grabber
CD-Key Grabber works exactly similar like Password Grabber, and it will retrieve your warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne both CD-Key in the system. It may be good only if you need your Cd-Key info and too lazy to search for the box packing to find the CD-Key.

Maphack for patch 1.20
Self-explanary as shown in the title, it has 'on' and 'off' function and also enable to for remove in minimap as well as the entire map. It supported all version and up to version 1.20. (You meed to select 1.19 to support 1.20).
Players use this software at your own risk as you may be banned by battle.net if caught.

How to download?
1) Follow the hyperlink here will bring you to our forum with pop up.
2) An registration screen is shown and you are required to register as our forum member, all it takes for less than 2 mins and no email verification needed. (Fast)
3) Go to the Downloads thread and you will be able to find all your required download there.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Welcome New Editor of Blogspot

We are pleased to annouce that we have 2 new editors for the Clan Bala Homepage and they are James and Desmond.

We look forwards for their interesting articles, information, posting and their kind contribution.

Download SpamBot

Download Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne SpamBot here.

According to the writer, this tool is classified as belowe:-
SpamBotToolLadder Game: Safe
Custom Game: Safe
BattleNet: Safe

Monday, October 03, 2005

Dota BanList Software

Download Dota Banlist Software here

Dota Allstars 6.19

Download Dota 6.19
here

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Beta Driver with OpenAL

Download

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy unified series Beta driver with OpenAL support 2.08.0002 SBA2-BETAD-W1-LB

This beta driver is recommended for gamers who want full OpenAL™ support for their audio devices. Only the following audio devices are supported:

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy® series, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum series, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX series
Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 series including Sound Blaster Platinum, Sound Blaster Platinum eX and Sound Blaster Value
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS series including Sound Blaster Platinum and Sound Blaster Platinum Pro
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 series
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook series

Added Features or Enhancements:
Provides full OpenAL / EAX® ADVANCED HD support
Improves performance of all OpenAL game titles
Requirements:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Audio devices listed above only
Notes:
THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. We recommend that only experienced users install this driver.

Make sure you uninstall the existing drivers for the audio devices listed above.
To uninstall the existing drivers:
1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon. The Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Install/Uninstall tab.
4. Select the driver for your audio device and then click the Add/Remove button.
Do not install this driver for the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Sound Blaster Audigy SE or Sound Blaster Audigy Value audio device.
Some Creative applications such as Surround Mixer, THX Console, and Creative MediaSource™ may not work properly with this beta driver.

Monday, September 26, 2005

ATI 5.9 Catalyst Driver

New ATI driver is avaiable now
Version: Catalyst 5.9
Date: 21-9-2005
Download here

Friday, September 23, 2005

Resetting of Ladder on 26-September 2005

1.19 Ladder Implementation
An updated version of the Warcraft III ladder Automated Match-Making System (AMM) will be deployed alongside the ladder reset on September 26. This is the technology that allows players to find opponent’s of similar skill to compete against on Battle.net ladders. Although

Season Three is focused on the solo competition, we’ve made updates to the ladder that we feel will positively impact the experiences of all players on Battle.net.

Search Times vs. Game Quality. There is a reverse correlation between the two. The longer the system waits to find an opponent of similar skill, the more likely it is to find a closely matched opponent. Conversely, we can reduce the search time for an opponent at the expense of making skill levels more disparate. We’ve re-evaluated this trade-off for all ladder formats.

Random Team. We’ve increased game quality of Random Team games significantly.
Solo. We’ve increased game quality of solo competition moderately.
Arranged Team. We’ve decreased search times for Arranged Teams significantly.

Minimum Game Requirements. Game requirements now scale better across the entire level range.These requirements have been slightly increased for players of levels 1-50 and significantly decreased from the existing numbers for players over level 50.

Less Sensitive Experience. The way experience is calculated has been modified to make it less sensitive moving away from the mean. The target level for the average player has not changed, but players will be distributed in a tighter group at the peak of the level bell curve. For the majority of Battle.net players, the achieved level will be similar between the old and new systems. However, for very strong players, it will be more difficult to progress into the higher levels.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Realtek AC97 latest driver

Using on board sound? If you are using Realtek AC97 on board, you may wish to download the latest driver codec here

Version: A3.76a
Date: 13-9-2005
Download

Version: Beta
Date: 14-9-2005
Download

ATI and nVidia Driver for Download

nVidia new driver is available for download
Version: 78.01
Date: 2-9-2005
Download

ATI new driver is available for download
Version: Catalyst 5.8
Date: 17-8-2005
Download

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Patch 1.19 is out

Please click on here to download the latest patch 1.19.

Please read the following for the changes of 1.19

MAPS
(2)EchoIsles
Added range creep to expansion goldmines.
Replaced both Fountain of Health with Mercenary camps and changed the creep composition so that it’s not all piercing attack.
Replaced the mana fountain with a Market Place and changed the level 3 perm item drop to level 3 charged items.
Replaced one Troll Trapper with an equal level Ogre to the all troll trapper green camp next to each start location.
(2)TirisfalGlade
Added a tavern to each side of the map, reduced the creep level and item that guard the Mercenary buildings, and reduced two Orange creep camps and level of the item drop.
(4)TurtleRock
Opened areas of the map to help alleviate strong choke points that favor ranged unit combat.
(4)BrokenShard
Replaced the 4 center orange camps with 4 green camps.
Replaced two ranged units with two melee units to the creep camps guarding the Goblin Merchants.
Increase the Orange camps level near each start location and added an additional item to each of those camps.
(4)Hellfire
Reduced the creep level on the two middle Red creep camps.
Reduced the creep level on the East and West Goblin Laboratory creep camps.
(4)StonecoldMountain
All creep with the ability to posses units have been removed this map.
(4)LostTemple
Added a few trees to all the start locations to ensure better balance of lumber harvesting for all races.
(4)TwistedMeadows
Changed the level 4 charged item drops at the Goblin Merchant to level 4 permanent drops.
(4)SunrockCove
Added pathing room around Goblin Laboratory and removed the clump of trees in front of the Goblin Laboratory to enhance game play.
Lowered the goldmine creep camp from Red to Green
Pushed Blues West ramp further from it’s start location.
(6)GnollWood
Removed all Gnoll Assassins from the Goblin Merchant creep camps, replaced with Gnoll Brute’s.
(6)Typhoon
Fixed Red and Teal start location to be closer to the goldmines like the other start locations.
(6)SilverpineForest
Removed the Tavern from all start locations
Can now path across the center of the map, added a Tavern to the center of the map.
Reduced the Item and creep levels of the 4 Red camps in the center of the map.
The 6 center goldmines have been reduced in difficulty of creep camps.
(6)Dragonblight
The two center creep camps have been pushed away from pathable area to prevent accidental attacks.
The players alliance settings have been changed to favor 2v2.
(6)Moonglade – New Map File
Two center creep camps and buildings have been removed.
Added two tavern to the center of the map.
Opened up all chokepoints.
Added some tree to all start location to help harvesting.
(6)Everfrost
Added a few trees to Yellow and Teal start location to ensure lumber harvesting balance.
Added ground Anti-Air units to the East and West Red creep camps.
Bonus Maps Added to Battle.net
(2)Shrine of the Ancients
(2)Terenas Stand
(4)Phantom Grove
(4)Deathrose
(6)Everfrost
(6)Sunrock Cove
(6)Emerald Shores
(6)Duststorm
(8)Full Scale Assault
(8)Hurricane Isle
(8)Cherryville
(10)Skibis Castle TD
(12)Worm War BALANCE CHANGES

Items
Creep-dropped item sell prices have been standardized. Items of the same level will now generally sell for the same amount.

Undead
Skeletal Mastery research time reduced to 30 seconds from 45 seconds.
Skeletal Longevity research time reduced to 15 seconds from 30 seconds.
Exhume Corpses research now costs 75 gold / 50 lumber down from 125 gold/ 100 lumber.
Destroyer armor reduced to 3 from 4.

Orc
Spiritwalkers now have the passive Resistant Skin ability. This causes some spells such as Cyclone and Slow to have a much shorter duration when used on a Spiritwalker. Resistant skin also grants immunity to certain other spells such as Polymorph and Possession.
Ensnare duration reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Batrider hit points reduced to 325 from 400.

Night Elf
Tree of Life build time increased to 120 seconds from 110 seconds.

Human
Human Towers (Guard, Cannon, Arcane and Scout) now gain 1 armor per masonry upgrade, down from 2. WORLD EDITOR CHANGES
Trigger Editor
The "Image" category and actions now appear after the "Item" category.
The "Ubersplat" category and actions now appear after the "Unit Group" category.
Fixed script generation errors when using the "Terrain Pathing Is Off" function. This is now a Boolean function.

Fixed script generation errors when using variables of the following types:
Attack Type
Combat Sound
Damage Type
Effect Type
Pathing Type
Sound Type
Sorted lightning type presets.
Appended "Cliff" to cliff terrain types, to distinguish them from non-cliff terrain types.
Renamed "Life Drain" and "Mana Drain" to "Drain Life" and "Drain Mana", respectively.

Cleaned up the name, grammar text, hints and/or sorting order for the following trigger functions/calls:
(Boolean) Environment - Terrain Pathing Is Off (was Terrain Pathable)
(Unit) Event Response - Damage Source
(String) Game - Ability Name
(String) Game - Ability Effect Art Path (was Ability Effect Art)
(String) Game - Ability Effect Sound Name (was Ability Sound)
(String) Hero - Hero Proper Name
(String) Trigger - Trigger Name
(Real) Lightning - Red Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Green Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Blue Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Alpha Value of Lightning (was Alpha Color of Lightning)
Cleaned up the name, grammar text, hints and/or sorting order for the following trigger actions:
Environment - Change Terrain Type
Environment - Turn Terrain Pathing On/Off (was Turn Pathing On/Off)
Floating Text - Suspend/Resume
Floating Text - Permanent/Expires
Floating Text - Change Color
Floating Text - Change Lifespan
Floating Text - Change Fading Age (was Change Fadepoint)
Floating Text - Change Age
Game - Enable/Disable Selection (was Enable/Disable Select)
Game - Enable/Disable Drag-Selection (was Enable/Disable Drag Select)
Game - Enable/Disable Pre-Selection (was Enable/Disable Pre Select)
Image - Create
Image - Change Color
Image - Change Render State
Image - Change Render Always State
Image - Change Above Water State
Lightning - Create Lightning Effect (was Create Lightning Effect At Points)
Lightning - Move Lightning Effect (was Move Lightning Effect To Points)
Lightning - Set Lightning Effect Color
Unit - Add Classification
Unit - Remove Classification
Unit - Issue Drop Item Order (was Drop Item On A Point)
Unit - Issue Move Item In Inventory Order (was Drop Item In Slot)
Unit - Issue Give Item Order (was Drop Item On A Unit)
Unit - Damage Area
Unit - Damage Target
Unit - Decrease Level Of Ability For Unit
Unit - Increase Level Of Ability For Unit
Unit - Set Level Of Ability For Unit
Ubersplat - Create
Ubersplat - Change Render State
Ubersplat - Change Render Always State
Added an event and three new trigger functions for future tournament support:
(Trigger Event) Tournament Event
(Real) Tournament Time Remaining
(Integer) Tournament Melee Score
(Integer) Tournament Finish Rule

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Download Dota 6.15

Dota 6.15 is available now.
Download in Clan Bala forum. Link is here.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Asrock 939 Dual SATA2 motherboard


Very good motherboard to introduce to all, economic yet powerful and feature rich. The lockable PCI and AGP bus sure a good news for all overclocker. Read details here...

http://clanbala.4.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=40

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Using Dual Channel Correctly

Using Dual Channel

Dual Channel requires at least two modules for operation. It is recommended that the modules you use be of the same size, speed, arrangement etc. Dual Channel is optional on the original nforce2 motherboards and nforce2 ultra400. You can choose to run in single channel mode on these motherboards. Nforce2 400 boards are singe-channel only. Most dual channel capable nforce2 motherboards come with three slots. On these motherboards the first memory controller controls only the first slot (or the slot by itself), while the second memory controller controls the last two slots (which are usually closer together). Name them slots 1, 2 & 3 respectively. To implement Dual Channel, it is necessary to occupy the slot 1 (channel 0) and either one of the two slots that are closer together, slots 2 or 3 (channel 1). The entire config would be running in 128 bit mode.

You can use three modules in Dual Channel Mode, by filling the third unoccupied slot. With three sticks, slots 1 remains as channel 0 while slot 2&3 become channel 1. To maintain 128-bit mode, with all three slots filled, each channel must have an equal amount of memory. For example, slots 1 should be filled with a 512 Mb module, while slots 2 & 3 are populated 256 Mb modules. If you were to use three modules of the same size, then only the first two modules would be running in 128 bit Dual Channel Mode. Example, using 3x 256 Mb modules will have the first 512 Mb running in 128 bit Dual Channel mode, while the remaining 256 Mb will be in 64-bit Single Channel mode. Intel dual-channel systems are different. The have either two or four slots, and to run dual channel mode must have either one or two pairs of (hopefully) matching modules.

Running three modules on a P4 system will force it to run in single channel mode, and is therefore to be avoided. Consult your motherboard manual for instruction on exactly which slots exactly to use.

Friday, September 02, 2005

Clan Bala New Forum

We have changed the new Clan Bala to new host. The new and most important feature in this forum is to allow member to upload the files in the forum.

http://clanbala.999.org

The old forum will be remained active for 2 weeks. Kindly update or backup your information as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

New Warcraft III Bonus Map

This land is truly cursed. Rivers of poison, filled with demonic bile, eat away at the earth. Ancient wyrms, terrible and great, slumber quietly within the mire. Perhaps you know of a dragon slayer, jobless, up for hire.

http://www.battle.net/war3/maps/war3xbonusmaps.shtml

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005

Guides to Purchase LCD

Based on my studies on the LCD vs CRT. Although generally LCD monitors having poorer performance as compared to CRT, here some of the guideline for you to purchase the LCD if you want to outperform CRT

Contrast: get the contrast 700:1
Viewing angle: more than 150°
Defective Pixel: must get as low as possible
Possible resolution: at least 1024x768
Pixel response time: 4ms

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Upgrade Your Computer Now? Think Twice



Are you planning to upgrade your computer? Still lost which processor to go for?

If you are using the Pentium 4 Socket 478 Processor, running at 2.4G and above, my personal advice is not to upgrade the computer at this moment.

The performance of the current processor upgrading is not obvious, as you may notice for the past 2 years, the processor clock speed is selling at 2.4G to 3.4G in the market. Nothing has been obviously changed in the past 2 years, despite increasing of the L2 cahce speed from 512K to 1M and 2M and etc.

I have done some benchmarking based on my processor bought in March 2004, which is 1.5 years ago from now. I have made some comparison based on the Sandra Sisoft benchmarking and found that there is totally no obvious changed in the performance. Perhaps I shall say that the performance may be increased, but it will not be observed by your eyes or sense...

See how my computer run almost same speed as Pentium 4 3.6Ghz at 1M L2 Cache? The real advantage of 1M Cahce remain a question.

The good upgrade alternative is dual core. Only dual core processor can let you "see" the performance changes. However, the price of the Dual Core isnt cheap at this moment.

I shall expect that the next generation after Dual Core shall be our long waiting Pentium 5.. :) or AMD K9 ?

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

3DMark 2005 Benchmarking


Found one of the benchmarking from tomshardware.com, comparing the benchmark of the graphic card (APG). Perhaps, it serve a good guide for all to decide which graphic card to go for and which has better performance than another.

Monday, August 22, 2005

Check Out The Solo Win Against Clan AUS

Check out the latest solo win against Clan AUS, posted by Dashz in the forum.

http://p2.forumforfree.com/solo-win-against-clan-aus-grunt-vt66-clanbala.html

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

In-House Tourney Score Chart

The In House Tournament Score Chart has been posted in the Clan forum. Please take a look here.

Monday, August 15, 2005

New Warcraft III Bonus Map - Terenas Stand

"Noble countrymen, evil is upon us. Darkness has befallen our shores. Rise and slay thy enemies… strike, strike so others shall live. The meek shall not fade into the night… live my brethren, live." – King Terenas
Download Terenas Stand

Friday, August 12, 2005

Battle Net Ladder will be reset - 2nd time in 2 years

" Warcraft III Battle.net Ladder ResetAraxas on August 8, 2005
Details for the upcoming Ladder Season Three will be revealed in a few weeks. To accomodate this new season, all Warcraft III ladders will be reset soon. The precise date for both the new season and the ladder reset will be announced in the near future.
"


This is the second time of resetting, which mean, all players will have level 0 and start from fresh. Your total played record and statistic will be remained.
Please take this opportunity to rush for the ladder rank and we might become the rank #1 for all AT .. at least for first few days ... lol

Frozen Throne Effect - Frozen Rain in Selangor !


Frozen rain 10-8-2005, 17.10pm, Selangor Malaysia ...
Frozen Throne effect !

Pro Replays to Download

I found 2 Pro replays for you to download. Download them in our forum.
Here

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

nForce 4 Chipset with SLI x16

nForce4 chipset now come with SLI x16, supporting both AMD and Intel processor. Read futher review here.

Monday, August 08, 2005

We Defeated Clan SOD Chieftain

Clan BALA Arranged Team (AT) defeated Clan Surrender 0r Die [S0D] Chieftain.
Second Clan Chief we defeated in AT.
Player from BALA = Magicbreaker and The_Chieftain.
Download here

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Laptop for Gaming?



Which laptop good for gaming? Here the benchmarking of laptop for your reference. Laptop suitable to play warcraft 3? Posted a review of the TravelMate 3200 in a forum. Read here.

Saturday, August 06, 2005

In House Tourney Result Updates - 6-8-2005


Here is the updates of the Clan Bala In House Tourney. This update was posted early today instead of Monday is because 6-Aug is Chieftain's birthday !!! haha !!!

We, Clan Bala is glad that there are more and more members play 1v1 solo for the tourney, more and more positive direction towards the good game. We see improvement among the members and 长江后浪推前浪, more and more new good players.

Treat this as a practice among us, a friendly match among us... sometime, 结果并不重要, 过程才有意思, 有意义.

See this exciting match between Magicbreaker and xxjiangchengxx, both Undead races play a good close game !!!

Download the replay here:
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/clanbala/bala-elf_vs_jiang.w3g

Keep up the good works BALA!!!

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Clan Bala Defeat Clan NTL Chieftain (Rank 2 in 4v4)

Clan Bala defeated Clan NTL who is currently rank 2 in Clan Ladder.
Congrats.

Download and see the replay here

WCG 2005 Official Maps

WCG 2005 Official Maps for Warcraft 3, Frozen Throne

Lost Temple (Reign of Chaos)
- Suggested Players: FFA, 2vs2- Size: Medium- Tileset: Lordaeron Summer - Ringed by gold mines, the Fountain of Health beckons. Expand quickly or risk being crushed by your opponents.

Turtle Rock
- Suggested Players: 1v1, 2vs2- Size: Small- Tileset: Lordaeron Summer - Once an island for all those who were exiled, this has now become an island of riches for those who seek its hidden treasures. .

Twisted Meadows
- Suggested Players: 1v1, 2vs2, FFA- Size: Medium- Tileset: Lordaeron Summer - The path twists, and the future is uncertain. Race for the center and the treasures it might hold, or visit a Goblin Laboratory and explore one of the small islands.

Echo Isle
- Suggested Players: 1v1- Size: Small- Tileset: Lordaeron Summer - Though these islands are surrounded by deep and treacherous waters, they have seen little peace. Many of the creatures dwelling here are refugees from the war. They have nothing left to lose. Don't expect a warm welcome.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

WCG2005 Singapore Championship Registration


WCG2005 Singapore Championship registration is now opened.

Venue: Suntec Exhibition Hall 401
National Finals: 8th - 11th Sept 2005
Limited slots are available.

Registration Fees:
Single Player Game - $12Team Game - $50
Prizes and goodie bag details can be found here.

Manual registration (Cash only): Date: 4th/5th August 2005
Venue: Nanyang Auditorium, NTU Time: 1130am - 5pm

Online registration (eNETS only):
*Limited slots are available for all games and registration is based in a first come first served basis.

Sign up now at http://sg.worldcybergames.com/register.html