Every story has an ending (except for Myst, of course), and the epic Baldur's Gate saga concludes in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the expansion pack to the best-selling role playing game (RPG) Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. MacPlay, a subsidiary of United Developers, LLC, announced today that it will bring the product to Mac OS X on November 21, 2003 under license from the Hasbro Properties Group.

• 933 iBook G4 reader review
• ATI October video upgrade
• G4 iBook vs Powerbook
• Hotrodding article- iBook and iPod?
• Pismo for UK
• Paris iBook SE 466 MHz SE

Plus: • Buggy mouse support in OS X • Panther Tip / Desktop Printing • More about long file names

• Installed 9.2.2, lost CD drive function
• Reinstalling Mac OS on Powerbook 3400c without CD-ROM drive
• New look
• Operating System Upgrade Question

• Good Housekeeping Gives PowerBook Thumbs-Up
• Mac Night Owl: The Panther Report: Can a G3 Deliver the Goods with 10.3?
• G5 Power Mac Mops The Floor With G4/1.33 GHz PowerBook
• Apple Launches New iPod Site Targeting Teens
• MP3.com Announcement - CNET To Launch MP3 Music Service
• The Ipod Companion Available At Amazon.com
• Dirk Pilat's First Impressions Of The 14" iBook G4
• MacUser on the iBook G4 800MHz
• Is Apple Zealotry On The Wane?
• eWeek: Apple's XServe -- Ready for G5 Leap?
• Windows "Expert" Disses Panther
• eWeek: IBM To Release PowerPC G5-powered Blade Servers
• eWeek Enterprise Apps: HP Readies Smart Paper Introduction
• eWeek: Windows XP SP2 On The Way
• Mac Night Owl: A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants
• PC Mag: Samsung SCH-i600 Review

• Cocktail 3.1.1 General Purpose System Utility [OS 10.2 up]
• GPSNavX 1.60 GPS & Charting Application [OS 10.2 up]
• FaxEmailHelper 1.0 Enhances FAX Forwarding By Email In Panther [OS X 10.3 up]
• BatteryStatsX 2.0b1 Battery Status Program With Dock Menu And Icon [OS X 10.1 up]
• Back up user prefs 4.0.6 Backs Up/Restores Prefs, Browser, Addresses [OS 10.2 up]
• NeoAlarm 2.5.2 Easy To Use Alarm Clock And Reminder Application [OS 8.6 - OS X]
• Teal pp4 Entry Level Paint And Image Editing Application [OS 10.2 up]
• Guiffy 5.4 File & Folder Comparison/Merging Tool
• CopyPaste-X 1.6.1 beta Multiple Clipboard Editing, Archiving & Display [OS X]
• Icy Juice 1.0d1 ICQ Client

• MacMice The Mouse USB Scroll Mouse Announced
• Canvas 9.0.2 (Build 722) Vector, Bitmap, Text Media Illustration
• ATI's MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Family Now Available in 37 Leading-Edge Notebooks
• SFX Machine RT 1.03 for Macintosh Real-Time Audio Effects Plug-In for Macintosh
• Guitar Shed 1.5 Helpful Tools For Guitarists
• VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.7.9 Helps Recover Lost Data
• Treo 600 From palmOne Now Available for Cingular Wireless GSM/GPRS Customers
• Intuit's QuickBooks 2004 Line Makes One Size Fits All Software for Small Businesses Obsolete

Last Friday, Feral posted a demo of the forthcoming soccer sim, Championship Manager: Season 03-04. As they put it, "It's the usual half-season's worth of elation and frustration, which should keep you going until the full version is released in early December." It's good to know that whether it's world rules football or American rules football, we all suffer through the same ups and downs.

The best miniature golf game I ever played on the computer was Gnarly Golf on my Apple IIGS. I still occasionally play Gnarly Golf on my Apple IIGS. There was a Sierra game on there, too—I think it was called Zany Golf—but it wasn't as good. On the Mac, there was Gopher Golf (which was pretty lame) and Goofy Golf (which was pretty good). Now, we've got Crazy Golf, which immediately brings up one major point; people designing miniature golf games really have to start coming up with better titles.

It's rainin' games, Hallelujah. Burning Monkey Casino goes gold, along with Burning Monkey Indiana Jones. Burning Monkey Jedi Academy is announced, and you can play Burning Monkey WW II Online free for two Burning Monkey weeks.

Plus: 2003 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Wrapup -- First Look at Panther About Pfinder Fuzzy text follow up: "Daring Fireball: Panther Text Rendering"

• Cool Java app
• MSN Messenger Launches Safari As Default Browser
• Re: What's up with Applelinks?
• Applelinks new site design is only half done
• New web page look
• "Zest" or "Zeal"