I'm on my way out tonight, so I'll keep it quick:
Abandonia added a game called Oil's well (looks like a unique type of old-school arcade fun).
Abandonia Reloaded added a game called Stardust (also a few days a ago they interviewed the maker of Mind's eye, an acclaimed adventure).
Gobliiins added another bunch of games over the course of the day (keep it up guys).
House o' Games added a game called H.E.R.O., don't know this one.
If I don't leave now they'll blow my door off, see you...
The forums are back up!! I'm sorry to say the last week's or so posts and other changes (such as new accounts) were lost.... but it's all for the best, now it's fully working and should be kept that way for a great deal of YEARS. ;) Go there make talk, y'all.
Also, I fixed bugs in our administration system. Now I think the admin is working 100% like before the news scripts went kaputz, plus I fixed an old bug that messed with the updates dates. This one took me hours to notice, just after I...
*sigh* Man, the source-code behind this site is evil. I really mean it.
All right, here's what's going on. Swizzle and I have been working on moving the Abandonware Ring to a new server. Well, you guys know the code behind the site has been failing us in many fronts for some time now, so you can imagine the length of our trouble, being an old and huge site like this. If we didn't really *need* to move the entire site we surely would keep it there, but it had to be done.
To make things wors...
- Core systems are running, adding new members to the ring, news, and updating the members information. Ring admins can log in to the updater's area as usual.
- Forum will be down for a few more hours up to a few days.
- Our game search engine very unfortunately stopped working and will be down for a few days until I figure out what's wrong (or how it works for that matter).
- The main site database had to be rolled back to the state from a couple days ago, and the forum to several weeks ago (which I must be able to fix soon).
We apologize to all members who have been updating during the last few days with no response from our team, even worse, with the last few days' updates being lost forever. Shouldn't happen again until our next big move. None of this code was written by me, in fact there's code from many programmers all mixed together here, most meant for an older version of PHP, so it's really a blessing that the site is even running. I did what I could to make the move as smooth as possible, but a few things were lost in the way.
Now guys, please, if you happen to see anything very unusually wrong on the site, let me know through [email protected]. Once again, I apologize for any inconvenience that our might have caused, it was really necessary, is all.