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by dave
Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:45 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: News image bug on front page
Replies: 12
Views: 4562

Re: News image bug on front page

It's the old thing: use full absolute paths, but skip the domain name.

Especially as solutionarchive.com can be reached both by solutionarchive.com and www.solutionarchive.com - as technically these are two totally different beasts (to both browsers, web servers and cookies).

We ought to really ...
by dave
Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:28 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: News image bug on front page
Replies: 12
Views: 4562

Re: News image bug on front page

Hmmm... It seems to be because the URL is absolute, i.e.:

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http://solutionarchive.com/file/force,true/id,2210/
If we remove the http://solutionarchive.com, then we can see it without logging in:

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/file/force,true/id,2210/
by dave
Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:12 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Fixed games
Replies: 14
Views: 4821

Re: Fixed games

That requires me to remember what I fixed :-)
by dave
Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:22 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play
Replies: 15
Views: 7700

Re: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play

terri wrote:BTW what does MMORPG mean? RPG I think I get.
Massively Multiplayer On-line Role-Playing Game

Think World of Warcraft or Everquest, basically an RPG with thousands of players.
by dave
Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Platform distinction
Replies: 19
Views: 7392

Re: Platform distinction

What about all the various mainframes? I can see that on some game sites, mainframes are divided into a plethora of platforms? But for our purposes, isn't it more useful to place them all in one group? I'm not all that familiar with those computers.

That's more difficult - "mainframe" is ...
by dave
Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:32 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Fixed games
Replies: 14
Views: 4821

Fixed games

I'm sure we've discussed this before - the regulars on the forum (myself included) have sometimes fixed bugs in game to allow them to be be played to the end, and some of the solutions reference them (e.g. Ziggurat of Dread). Is it in the scope of this site to archive these somewhere for future use ...
by dave
Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:14 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche Hilfe
Replies: 7
Views: 2179

Re: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche H

Ah, the problems of reading source code in a language that you only barely understand :-). Glad that you managed to solve it!
by dave
Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:17 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Games everybody should know
Replies: 17
Views: 9720

Re: Games everybody should know

For Scott Adams it's a toss up between Adventurland and Pirate Adventure (even though these are not the best examples of his work).

For Brian Howarth I would go with Gremlins, I spent hours trying to beat that game (and eventually managed).

For Magnetic Scrolls I'd favour Corruption over The Pawn ...
by dave
Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:38 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche Hilfe
Replies: 7
Views: 2179

Re: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche H

Ah, I think I found where I went wrong. It looks like the code near the message isn't the important thing.

Line 3521 implies that G$(7) is used for the ghoul, which is the zauberstein (magic stone), and you should BEKAEMPFE ZAUBERSTEIN (FIGHT MAGIC STONE).

For Shadow, it is 3515, which is G$(22 ...
by dave
Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:23 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche Hilfe
Replies: 7
Views: 2179

Re: Zauberschloss 2 - german adventure - need help/brauche H

My German is definitely rusty, but the source looks like you need object 23 (floete - flute) to get rid of the ghoul. And object 37 (gegengift - vacine) to get rid of Shadow.
by dave
Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:28 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Xanadu (BBC) - looking for players ...
Replies: 7
Views: 3662

Re: Xanadu (BBC) - looking for players ...

And... It's linked to the game, thanks for your contribution (though this was on my list of games to play :-(
by dave
Mon May 31, 2010 8:05 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site - bug reports
Replies: 45
Views: 15299

Re: New site - bug reports

I'm getting slowdowns on all pages sometimes (over 10 seconds to load in one case).
by dave
Sat May 29, 2010 2:36 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site - bug reports
Replies: 45
Views: 15299

Re: New site - bug reports

After some quick research, I cleaned this up and removed " Nebula Designs Software", moving the game to "Nebula Designs Software". There is a bug though: somehow a company got added that started with a space!
by dave
Wed May 26, 2010 9:29 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Platform distinction
Replies: 19
Views: 7392

Re: Platform distinction

Gunness: that was my thought. The BBC/Elk/Master hardware is close enough for them to be classed the same, just like Spectrum 16/48/128. Not all games will work, but most will without any form of mangulation.
by dave
Wed May 26, 2010 9:24 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Replies: 7
Views: 3287

Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.

I always thought that these where on the BBC, I noticed that Amazon has a load of their books:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=duckworth+home+computing&x=0&y=0

The BBC versions seem to be using the extended BBC BASIC features (e.g. PROCs)