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by Mr Creosote
Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:01 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: New user registration is not acknowledged
Replies: 20
Views: 25285

Re: New user registration is not acknowledged

rkowalski wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 8:53 pm It seems there's another problem with the backend; my account works fine on the forums but the main site gives me an authentication error.
You mean it literally says "Authentication failed (wrong username or password)!"?
by Mr Creosote
Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:00 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Kingdom of the seven stones c64
Replies: 7
Views: 15199

Re: Kingdom of the seven stones c64

Congratulations for your persistence!

According to your description, it seems the game's approach at creating difficulty (bad parser aside) is quantity. Lots of locations, lots of objects, lots of NPCs. All this increasing search space of solutions exponentially. I really prefer games these days ...
by Mr Creosote
Wed Jan 01, 2025 10:52 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Happy new year!
Replies: 1
Views: 10789

Happy new year!

All the best for 2025 to all of you and, of course, to CASA!
by Mr Creosote
Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Broken Review Links
Replies: 3
Views: 11551

Re: Broken Review Links

Fixed, sorry about that.
by Mr Creosote
Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Authoring System Not Currently Showing
Replies: 39
Views: 89867

Re: Authoring System Not Currently Showing

From my experiences of playing the administrator of another mailserver, I can confirm that since a couple of years, it has become gradually harder and harder to make Google accept mail from it still. They have everyone jump through so many hoops now, it seems clear they want e-mail to be handled ...
by Mr Creosote
Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Authoring System Not Currently Showing
Replies: 39
Views: 89867

Re: Authoring System Not Currently Showing

Looks good in my amateur judgement :thumb:
by Mr Creosote
Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Authoring System Not Currently Showing
Replies: 39
Views: 89867

Re: Authoring System Not Currently Showing

Dear all, I've deployed a fix for this issue and just tested it by adding an authoring system to a game (and removing it again, since it was incorrect ;)). It should therefore be possible to add such information again.

I do recommend, however, to still proceed with caution on the webmaster side. At ...
by Mr Creosote
Tue Oct 01, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: New fighting fantasy book
Replies: 5
Views: 30101

Re: New fighting fantasy book

Cool, I'll definitely check this out. Thanks for the alert!
by Mr Creosote
Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:11 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clicking link after unsuccessful search sometimes gives 403 error
Replies: 2
Views: 11905

Re: Clicking link after unsuccessful search sometimes gives 403 error

Yes, it is the same issue. The space is not correctly encoded in the URI and therefore, some security module of the webserver blocks access.
by Mr Creosote
Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:00 am
Forum: The modern era
Topic: PunyJam #1 games are ready for playing and judging
Replies: 3
Views: 15118

Re: PunyJam #1 games are ready for playing and judging

A friend of mine (not a text adventure expert) has played Captain Cutter's Treasure and posted about it here: https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1 ... asure.html
by Mr Creosote
Sat May 29, 2021 12:20 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: The Master Storytellers did (Info-)Comics (and nobody took notice)
Replies: 0
Views: 16193

The Master Storytellers did (Info-)Comics (and nobody took notice)

https://www.goodolddays.net/article/id%2C27/The-Master-Storytellers-did-%28Info-%29Comics-%28and-nobody-took-notice%29.html

Just published article about Infocom’s least-known publications (and reviews of all the related games), complete with new interviews with Amy Briggs, Dave Lebling, Elizabeth ...
by Mr Creosote
Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:20 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: ADRIFT platforms
Replies: 35
Views: 83788

Re: ADRIFT platforms

Don't forget to list the minimum version of DirectX required (and maximum version supported)! That's essential information ;)

In all honesty, though, how large do you think the group of people on the one hand interested in text adventures, but on the other hand unaware that pre-2000 games may not ...