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Fred 28

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:29:50 +0000

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Fred 2

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Cookie
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Fish Demo	Electron Affinity	demo
Lemmings		basic demo
Bong!
Blob
Rachel Pt2
Tackle
E-Tunes	Andy Monk
T-EML!
Mouse Progs
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 29

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:21:06 +0000

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Fred 29

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Andy Monk
Magazine
Letters
Screens	Stefan Drissen	F29 Retaliator (PC), Leisure Suit Larry III (PC), Space Quest III (PC)
SCADs Mk II
Sprites	Stefan Drissen
Compo Time!
SpaceWorm 2
M/C Part 20	Steve Taylor
Music Demo II	Enigma
E-Tunes	Andy Monk / Craig Turberfield
T-EML!
Mouse Progs
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 30

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:14:10 +0000

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Fred 30

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Reviews
Screens
Shares
Wop Gamma		rolling demo
Kreuzen
Space	Marc Broster / J Patrick
MCode 21	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	Ian Slavin / Andy Monk
Wombles
Shock Megademo	Stefan Drissen	converted speccy demo by ESI
DOS Editor	P Larkin
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 32

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:04:56 +0000

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Fred 32

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Andy Monk
Magazine
Letters
Outletters
Screens
BOFH
Waterworks	Martin Bell	playable demo
Flip N Hell	Paragon	reversi
M/code 22	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	Andy Monk / Craig Turberfield
BPM demo	The Doogle	demo
Invaders	Chris White	DIY Space Invaders
Datestamp		utility
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 44

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:57:33 +0000

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Fred 44

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Dinosorceror	NoName	game
Captain Comic	NoName	game
SAM A-Z	Malevolent	info
Driver Stuff	Malevolent
Net Stuff
E-Tunes	Jon Binnie
Blob	David Lewis	game
Missile Base	Andrew Collier	GamesMaster game
Tape labeller	Andrew Collier	utility
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 43

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000

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Fred 43

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Letters
Screens	Robert van der Veeke
Transfer
Dictionary		utility
Soul Magician	NoName	game
Patience	Paul Horridge	card game
S Wright
E-Tunes	Andy Monk / Peter Gallacher / Robert Pain	Genesis / Wonder / Lemmings / Dance
Modules
Innocent	Wayne Coles	demo
Font Designer	Robert Pain	utility
Adverts
Fredex

Fred 42

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:34:12 +0000

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Fred 42

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Banzai
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Cybertennis	Malevolent	GamesMaster game
Scum!
MOD>Etracker	Colin Piggot	utility
Mr Slidey	Andy Monk	puzzle
MCode pt 28	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	R Brundsden
Modules
Infection	Malevolent	GamesMaster game
Steroegram	Andrew Collier	utility
Adverts
Fredex

Fred 40

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:22:18 +0000

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Fred 40

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Pickasso
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Prisoner		demo
Go	Guy Inchbald	board game
Vector	Robert van der Veeke	demo
SAMPaint		slideshow demo
Adventurer	Cameron Patterson	adventure creator
E-Tunes	John Hutchings / Roger Hartley
Dishcloth	Malevolent
Santa goes Psycho	Malevolent	GamesMaster game
Sesame	Cameron Patterson	adventure created with Adventurer
Adverts
Banzai!

Fred 39

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:11:43 +0000

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Fred 39

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Letters
Screens
MQM2 demo	Cookie	converted speccy demo by Mata Soft and Qjeta Music Factory
Water World	D. Lewis	GamesMaster game
Astroball	Balor Knight	playable demo
Wordsearch	J Eyre	basic word puzzle
MWC
Binnie	Jon Binnie	basic music demos
Shredder	Colin Piggot	disk utility
Panic Attack	Paul Smith	GamesMaster game
Vegas	Malevolent	card game
Adverts
Outdex

Fred 38

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:58:27 +0000

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Fred 38

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Masters of Magic
Magazine
Letters
Screens	Robert van der Veeke
Bomb!
Game Over	Stefan Drissen	converted speccy sample tracker tune by CBM
Noteprint
Axe Trek	Ian Slavin	basic demo
MC pt 27	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	Craig Turberfield / R Oldroyd
Sorter	Paul Horridge	utility
Saucer Strike	D Lewis	GamesMaster game
Deflection	Andrew Collier	basic puzzle
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 37

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:56:34 +0000

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Fred 37

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Axel F	Stefan Drissen	converted speccy Soundtracker II tune
Pot Noodle	Electron Affinity	demo
Driver	Steve Taylor	slideshow demo
Maze	Paul Horridge	game
MC pt 26	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	Andy Monk / Robert Pain / John Hutchins
The Witching Hour	John Vincent	playable demo
Invaders	Chris White
Podpersons from Mars	Stefan Drissen	converted speccy demo by The Lords
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 35

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:44:54 +0000

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Fred 35

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Aesthetix
Magazine
Letters
Screens
Cutey	Axe	basic demo
Soundtrack IV	Stefan Drissen	converted Fuxoft speccy demo
Cyclops		utility
Bub	Bunj Wobl	game
Mcode 23	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	converted Soundtracker tunes	Megamix / Agent IV / Agent V / Amiga One / Amiga Two / Logo Title / Disco / Zybex / Mikropol
Turbo Worm	The Doogle	game
Invaders	Chris White
Spell Help
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 33

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:35:26 +0000

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Fred 33

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Andy Monk
Magazine
Letters
Screens	Stefan Drissen	Space Ace 2 / F29 Retaliator (PC)
Yahtzee	Roy Gardner	basic dice game
Superleague	John Teare	football management
Tower of Hanoi	Colin Piggot	basic puzzle
Bunj Wobl 1
Pain Game	Robert Pain	Games Master break out game
E-Tunes	Craig Turberfield
Horsie	Matthew Collins
Invaders	Chris White
Coupe Demo	Mosher Skol	demo
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

Fred 34

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:20:55 +0000

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Fred 34

Item	Author	Description
Menu	Andy Monk
Magazine
Letters
Screens		Aliens / Golden Axe / Flashback
Convertor	Stefan Drissen	convert speccy Soundtracker tunes to E-Tracker
WaterWorks level	Martin Bell	playable demo
SUET
Bunj Woble 2
MCode Pt 23	Steve Taylor
E-Tunes	Stefan Drissen / Andy Monk	Amiga One Remix / Wop Gamma tunes / Open Your Mind / Sweet Child ‘o Mine (Soundtracker)
Days Of Sorcery demo	Nigel Kettlewell	rolling demo
Invaders	Chris White	DIY space invaders
ZAP	Paul Horridge	demo
Adverts
Bits ‘n Bobs

It lives! (sort of)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:16 +0000

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If you can see this message, then you’re viewing worldofsam on its new home at pinkstuff II! The old server was getting on for ten years old (it’s a Pentium2!) and we’d seen some hardware unreliability lately, so it was only a matter of time before my sites would have to move house.

In an ideal world this would all happen quietly behind the scenes and you wouldn’t notice any difference…

In practice there are a whole bunch of grubby differences - largely due to now running on a more recent version of PHP which has taken a dislike to the (rather old) version of drupal on which this site is based. I’m trying to fix issues as and when I can identify them (mostly by applying a patch from a later drupal version), unfortunately as this site relies quite heavily on some custom field types to the the flexinode module (which was deprecated, rewritten, and folded into drupal core with an incompatible API within a year of starting up the site) this means I need to find and apply individual patches since upgrading wholesale to drupal 7 would pretty much require rewriting the site from scratch.

Please let me know (email might be best) if you see any issues, especially relating to logins (I’ve patched one session handling problem [92802]). Also, I already know that:

A whole bunch of the administrator pages are showing up blank, but that shouldn’t affect anyone but me…

Image handling is not properly reinstalled yet, so uploading title images or screenshots will not generate thumbnails correctly

Note that the URL will show up as “worldofsam.intensity.org.uk” for a little while. I’ll change this back to worldofsam.org after a few days when its likely that the DNS change has propagated. Should be back to normal now.

The edit-user page doesn’t appear to work (“php: Parameter 2 to user_user() expected to be a reference, value given”), so I can’t approve new accounts or block existing slightly-spamming ones…