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Yep, me too!

PayPal sent and I'll aim to be there Fri - Sun. Possibility I might struggle with the Friday. Will confirm.

Cheers.

I got Island of Secrets and Write Your Own Adventure Games this morning ... but it looks like the URLs have been switched to be Google Drive links ... so hopefully they should all be available again.

There was a period when they 404ing this afternoon though.

Dave E at Acorn Electron World has done a marvellous job of getting Island of Secrets and many of the others working... but I don't think the game itself quite lived up to my tween imagination.

Sam.

I remember massively enhancing some of the programs from Computer Spy Games and Computer Space Games.

Never did manage to get Island of Secrets and the game from How To Write Fantasy Games working properly, though ...

Sam.

All, I'm locking this topic. We all know that there is a tonne of bad feeling and name-calling which goes on over many of the unmoderated Acorn communities - newsgroups, mailing lists, websites etc. This place is intended as a haven from such things. It's one thing to post a friendly warning about d...

Can you get him to email contact@stardot.org.uk with the username and just a brief note on his background with Acorn machines? Then we'll activate his account as soon as we can!

Sam.

Yes, that's normal.

It's been read and actioned now, though - so expect a new member shortly.

Apologies for us being slow to respond (again)...

Sam.

Yep, drop me a PM with the username.

Sam.

Anyone else spotted this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18 ... ply_snafu/

No need to ditch a classic beeb anytime soon ...

Sam.

I'm seeing a consistent theme... I also want to encourage other users to throw their 2p's worth in here if they have an opinion, even if it is just to repeat what others are saying. That way, we can be sure it's not a minority view. Ta!

Sam.

Thanks for the screenshots, Mark. We still have access to the old theme so I was intending to post some reminder screenshots soon. That sounds like another vote for a more accessible direct link to View Active Topics. Any more for any more? Also worth saying that whilst we can fiddle with the forum ...

Hi both. All the features are definitely still there - they just may be squirrelled away somewhere. This topic would be a good place to collate feedback on the theme. Specifically, do people think this one needs any tweaking? - for example, we could experiment with increasing the font size, if peopl...

Hi, all. You may (OK, will) have noticed that we were offline over the last 36 hours. Without sugar-coating it, the forum database was compromised. The upshot of which is that the contents of the database user table was stolen, resulting in everyone's username, email address and hashed password bein...

A very familiar sight (and site).

Glad it all went down well. Not sure which I missed most - the event or the curry!

Sam.

Would it be churlish to suggest that people should read the entire mailing list thread to find John's view of this site and its members before ordering? Hopefully this suggestion isn't inflammatory! It would be a bit churlish. ;) His projects should stand on their own merits, and I'm sure he'd be a...

I am gutted that for the second year running, I'm going to miss Wakefield. :/

Unfortunately, I have a rather big commitment on the Sunday which is really going to need preparing for.

blast!

<Link removed by admin> What's all this about? I've obviously missed a controversial incident here... or has someone pressed the wrong button and accidentally erased this person? The post doesn't look at all inflammatory, and neither do the responses. The post itself wasn't particularly controversi...

Hi, Forum members are reminded that we require people not to hide behind multiple or fake account names . It is not fair on the rest of our community to knowingly misrepresent yourself as someone else. This is one of the few things that may regrettably lead us to require a forum member to leave. The...

I'm sort of with Arcadian, plus the forum theme is /soooo/ blue already ...

but I haven't actually voted ...

Sam.

Great. If anyone prefers 1024MAK's suggestions, please vote for other and leave a comment which says which of his colours you prefer. I don't want to add them as a poll option, as it will reset the current poll, forcing everyone to re-vote. Also, anyone who has already voted can also change their vo...

Yes, it was a suggestion in the first post - I updated the post and highlighted the colour bit earlier. Just to give an indication of who was willing & able to travel to a meet and who probably wasn't likely to attend, even if it was fairly close to home.

Sam.

Definitely agree on good post etiquette. I think quoting is only really necessary when you're trying to reply to a large number of individual points or where you are replying to a post that is much earlier in the topic. Even then, the quotation should be sparing - just enough to provide context. Rep...

This we could do without much trouble, but I think we'd need to hear that it's something the majority would prefer. To that end, I've modified your first post and created a poll. If people want to vote to change it to one of your alternative suggestions they can, or they can cast a vote to say they'...

Yep, a compelling argument - apologies it's late but I've just ticked the box to enable txt listing attachments ...

Sam.

+1 for getting them on the wiki and not lost in a forum!

That'd be like the original commitment to create an offline single player game, then? :) It's going to be a long while before it becomes an issue. I hope he follows through with it when the time comes, though. Otherwise, I think we can say for certain that he'll be dragged across the gaming press ag...

Alright, I've wasted some time fiddling and I think I've been able to update the URL in the first post with a view that will start with the focus on a zoomed out view of Great Britain. That means other folk can put in their pins even if they live a lot further away, without stretching the default vi...

Excellent to see this idea appears to be working - I didn't have anyone around to test, so I just published it right before I left the office and crossed my fingers. lol I see we have two incongruous pins in there - 1024MAK and SPhilMainwaring, were yours intentionally set to purple and yellow, resp...

Yep, as what they said. Messages move from your Outbox to Sent Items when the recipient has actually logged in to the system and read them. This sometimes doesn't happen for ages if the recipient isn't ready to reply, because they will have often read the message already as it is included in the PM ...

Hi, With regards to the new topics that sydney has started about trying to work out how far people would be willing to travel, I think it would help if we actually had a clear idea where people from our forum were actually located. To that end I've created this *. STH forum members geographical loca...