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by Gunness
Wed May 02, 2012 3:08 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

I wanted the "CASA" in the house to be a cut-out that revealed the aforementioned twisty passages, but at the scale of the picture it's a little difficult to put in that detail within the letter openings. I suppose I could put a big hole (or several) in the roof and place the passages there, this ...
by Gunness
Wed May 02, 2012 10:38 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Alien adventure
Replies: 0
Views: 20754

Alien adventure

When Ripley sat down to have a go at text adventures ;) Cute!
link

(I'm counting the days till Prometheus opens, so anything to pass time!)
by Gunness
Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:22 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Prisoner Entries?
Replies: 7
Views: 4985

Re: Duplicate Prisoner Entries?

Much as I like The Prisoner, trying to tell apart the many games based on it has been a nightmare. I can't remember the details right now, but I'm almost certain that the game entries themselves are correct, and that the solutions have been assigned incorrectly.

I will try to update the entries a.s ...
by Gunness
Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:52 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

Ah, I hadn't though along those lines :)

If I have given the impression that CASA isn't a solution archive any longer, then I haven't expressed myself very well. It certainly is. But it's also a lot more than that these days, and that's what should be expressed somehow.
One option is to get a new ...
by Gunness
Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:36 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

@Alastair: sorry, I didn't realise you had made it this far :D The house looks good! Colours are spot on. I think Hannes' previous suggestion:
a house, visually cut open to reveal a winding path/twisty little passages inside and probably a guy following such a passage holding a lantern?
sounded ...
by Gunness
Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:55 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

1. People seem to agree that "solutionarchive.com" is a good domain name, and it's not part of the name you suggest.
These are two observations, but they don't combine into a clear objection. So I feel I have to ask: So?
I made a comment about this in a previous post. It seems to be fairly ...
by Gunness
Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:59 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

Hi Pippa,
thanks for the input :) Appreciate it!
It's a clever name but I'm not too keen on it, I'm afraid - for a number of reasons:
1. People seem to agree that "solutionarchive.com" is a good domain name, and it's not part of the name you suggest.
2. It has the same problem as the current acronym ...
by Gunness
Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:03 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

That might be a way of doing it. I have to say up front that I like the current colour sceme.
by Gunness
Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:41 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

@Mr. Creosote: sounds like a good suggestion. Now all we need is an artist. I wish I had better graphical skills myself.
@iamaran: tricky indeed. I searched for options for a really long time.
by Gunness
Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:05 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Screenshots resolution
Replies: 12
Views: 38068

Re: Screenshots resolution

dave wrote:I know of none that use the higher res modes of the BBC though (you only had 32K of memory and the smallest high res screen use 16K for screen memory).
That's plenty of space for two "escape from a locked room"-games in one load :D
by Gunness
Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:54 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Screenshots resolution
Replies: 12
Views: 38068

Re: Screenshots resolution

Excellent notes. I can't recall any CPC releases at the higher rez, but I guess some of the Infocom titles might use it.
Thanks for the comment on the TRS-80 - I never could figure out what resolution to use. I will update the list accordingly.
by Gunness
Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:41 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Screenshots resolution
Replies: 12
Views: 38068

Screenshots resolution

When screenshots are added to the archive, we try to keep them at their native resolution.

In order to handle the processing as quick as possible, if you want to upload a screenshot, please use the resolutions below (all are without borders) :)


Amiga: 640x400
Amstrad CPC: 320x200 / 640x400 ...
by Gunness
Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:01 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

Re: New site name?

Thanks for the input, people.
So, if the domain name works well (it's clean and easy to remember), and we want to find a new backronym, what to do? As "solution archive" is part of the domain name, it might be worth keeping.
Other options:
- Catalogue of Adventures and Solution Archive (way, way too ...
by Gunness
Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:44 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Problem with Masquerade
Replies: 5
Views: 2645

Re: Problem with Masquerade

I have only played the C64 version. I'll take a look at the Apple version later today.
by Gunness
Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:06 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New site name?
Replies: 28
Views: 25818

New site name?

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."


I'll be the first to admit that our site's name is pretty dreadful and clumsy. I never had any great aspirations for the site, so the name was sort of slapped-on as an afterthought. We've come a very long way ...