Games: Netrun: News

A.k.a, the website update log. Sometimes, at any rate.

Saturday July 1, 2000
Tuesday June 27, 2000
Sunday June 25, 2000
Sunday April 30, 2000
Sunday April 16, 2000
Thursday April 13, 2000

Sunday June 27, 2000

Current version: v0.0.9b1

Minor updates to the website. Fixed a few open, dangling tags and broken liunks, and tried to make everything HTML 4.01-compliant (hence the badge at the bottom).

The website's sections have been redesigned - each version now has it's own web page, and a few frankly useless pages have been dropped. I'd say the bandwith saving in headers and footers is justified against the slightly longer pages.

Work on Netrun more-or-less deliberately ceased over past two days, working on the release, this website, playing a CD full of demos and reading a new book. (I consider myself a good reader, but I'm not widely read, so to speak.)

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Sunday June 25, 2000

Current version: v0.0.9b1

Frightening. The next website update is on the same day-of-the-week as the last one, but this time it really _is_ a relative eternity since the last update.

In a particular Victorian high school (at least), the term-and-semester just ended, leaving students with two weeks off school to do whatever. In my case, aside from what my parents request, it will include a lot of programming and other Netrun-related things. Thus, the update.

There is a new version of Netrun out, with quite a bit of work done to it including server-server netspace and saving the game. The website is also getting a bit of an update. There is now a link to the daily CVS snapshots (not that it changes much),

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Sunday April 30, 2000

Seems more like an eternity than two weeks since the last update. Isn't being an adolescent wonderful...?

I left out the `<body>' tag on the top of the web pages, which doesn't perturb Lynx but makes the body text appear at about twenty-five point high under Netscape. Uurgh. Fixed, I hope.

I know there hasn't been a new tarball or any other news recently, but school has started up and I was also `busy' with getting my home computer upgraded. Given that it's gone from a 486 to an AMD K6-2 500, it means that a) I'll be able to compile faster and b) the code will be inefficient as heck because I probably won't bother to optimise it.

Netrun has moved a bit in the interim - server-server netspace exists. I could use some names for the servers themselves - I need five for each letter of the alphabet, with any 'the's stripped. There's also been a lot of tiny tweaks. I'll get around to publishing a tarball Real Soon Now, I promise. :)

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Sunday April 16, 2000

Second website update. More pages `done' - only index.html remains to be made decent. Many incomplete pages, inconsistencies and broken links still to find and fix - mail me.

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Thursday April 13, 2000

To say nothing of triskadekaphobia, today the first revision of the website was uploaded - and if things permit, this news file will arrive in the second revision.

Unfortunately, the first revision is only about a quarter complete (much like the Netrun binary!) - only the simpler things have been finished, and the front page doesn't bear comment.

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