The follow-on article [0] references this article as appearing in "issue 5" of Pixelate, so it seems you found the original source. Issue 4 [1] covered June 2001, probably published in July, and so it seems that issue 5 was probably published in August 2001.
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And from the presence (even in that 2002 version) of the 'allegro.cc' domain, we can narrow the range of dates from the other end, too: The .cc domain was introduced in October 1997, and Allegro.cc claims visitors since January 1999.
The article was specifically written for Pixelate (issue 5), so it was around that time. I only started hosting the articles myself after Pixelate became defunct.
