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What's New
I've updated everything again to be in sync with NVG (5 Sep), CPCZone (8 Sep) & Nich Campbells CPC Reviews site (7 Sep). I've added a sorted by date list of files on NVG, in reverse order of course so the most recent should always be on the first page(s), you'll find it on the NVG List page from the index to the left. I've dropped the EZBoard messageboard in favour of my own locally stored Ikonboard system so feel free to join & start posting. I've added loading screens to about aother 50 games or so, i'll eventually get round to doing them all as i find the time. Some of the game pages have the ym files playing in background in you install the STSound plugin. If you've upgraded to IE6 however then it won't work as Microsoft have decided
to drop Netscape style plugin support citing "security risks". At the moment there is no ActiveX based YM player that i am aware of so are there a couple of ways round this :
Microsoft are pulling the plug on Listbot so i've moved the mailing list to Yahoo Groups. People who were already on the listbot list have been added to the new setup by me to save you all manually resigning. Yahoo groups has some quite good features as into the bargain, a chat room for instance. If you haven't signed up already, what are you waiting for? Click the link on the front page. I've also setup a messageboard, courtesy of EZBoard. At the moment there's only one forum, General, to kick it off but i'm open to suggestions for other subjects. I've refreshed the rest of the site to cover more file moving & renaming by Nich on NVG. Fixed the broken link to the Anirog page on the companies index CPCZone has moved to Emuunlim so i've updated all the reviews links etc.
I've finally got the companies pages updating in my new system so i've just uploaded them. Fixed the links to the ym files for Trans-Atlantic Balloon challenge & Warhawk.
I've fixed some issues with missing links and duplicate links. There are more ym files linked on the game pages and i've added the new games reviews on CPC Zone, mainly for Cascade 50 games disk.
I've just made my huge update at last and as a result the site has gone from 290 pages to 2500+. So here's what's changed....
There are now pages for just about every file on NVG, there are some that are yet to be created but most of the games are covered. I've updated the links to NVG getting rid, i hope, of all the files that had been deleted or renamed so all the links should now be valid. Malc Jennings has setup a new CPC site, CPC Zone, i recommend you check it out. I have already got links to all of his reviews in the game detail pages. I hope everyone likes the changes and i hope i've not broken anything as part of this update, please send me feedback on anything you would like to see added, changed or improved on the site.
I've updated the New on NVG List to list the work Nich Campbell has being doing. Some of the stuff is listed as new because he's renamed or moved the files therefore this page is the one which will have the correct links until i get my outdated data corrected which should be soon.
Has it really been 4mths? Doesn't time fly... I've been working on moving my admin system into Access which i really did get going on till March but i have now all but completed the migration. NVG has a new site administrator, Nich Campbell. He's been beavering away for the last few months cleaning up the archive and updating it. As a result not all of my links will work, some of the files have been moved or renamed and i haven't had chance to update my data with the new listings, NVG hadn't been updated for a few years so it's nice to have some of the gaps being filled in the the archive now. I've setup a setiathome group for the comp.sys.amstrad.8bit newsgroup, feel free to join Here,we've got some catching up to do on comp.sys.sinclair ;) I'm off on my hols for 2 weeks now so won't be responding to any email until the middle of May, hopefully i'll come back refreshed and ready to polish of the few final bits in Access then i can start adding new content to the site again, it seems like forever since i genuinely added something new....
Sorry for the lack of updates recently, planned changes have kind of snowballed. I've changed email address from my work to home one now seeing as that is now pretty permanent, so if people could use david@tacgr.freeserve.co.uk instead. NVG has changed name so all the downloads were broken when the old one was removed from the DNS servers. I've fixed all the pages (i think) so the links should be ok. The major addition in this update is precreated Reget download groupings.
The files are available on most download pages and a larger single file is also available for each section, i.e.
you can get a file for each company but also one file containing all the companies together.
Ulrich has release Beta 2 of Caprice V2, get it here.
I've fixed the Emulators page as none of the downloads were working. Also added Beta 1 of Caprice V2 which was released at the weekend.
The last update with initial CSS support wasn't too good if you didn't run IE.
I'm looking at trying to get my HTML upto W3C 4 spec which means converting to style sheets etc. Is there anyone
who visits the site who knows their browser isn't upto it? I'm intending to have the site visible for NS & IE 4+ and Opera 3.5+ but i don't know what other browsers people use on non MS os's. I know Netscape & IE accounted for the majority of hits last year but i don't have recent statistics so i'd like to know if anyone has problems with such sites. Added a text based index for browsers without Javascript. The only problem is if you have a browser that supports Javascript but not Java Applets then you won't get an index unless you turn off Javascript. If anyone knows a way round this while keeping the applet i'd like to know. Reimplemented the Netmind MindIT service for this page instead of the main page. I used to have it last year but Xoom did something to kill so i had to remove it but it works fine on Emuunlim. Fixed loads of broken links on the following pages :
Kevin Thacker has released a work in progress of Arnold which you can get Here. Added PDF's of the 464 Manual for people to download, find them on the manuals link.
My workload went back up at work so i've had little time and/or motivation to do much heavy work on the site really, i've made some minor layout tweaks so the site should be a bit more readable and i've fixed some bugs in my html that broke some of the pages. Ulrich Doewich has put a screenshot of the in-development Caprice V2 on his site. I've added a bunch of YM files to the music rips page as well which can now be played on a real CPC or in the emulators using Andrew Cadley's conversion of the MSX YM player which can be found on his site |
