July Updates Archive

> What is your
> view on downloading ROMs of games for the 3 current sytems? Is there a line
> that should be drawn in the timeline of gaming when it is okay to emulate
> something.

I personally have an issue with people downloading and playing games for
the current three systems (and the GBA). For crying out loud, these
games are commercially available! However, I don't have an issue with
emulators being made for these consoles. These games run off of CD
media. If I want to run it on my PC, I can just pop the CD in my system,
fire-up the emulator, and away I go. The whole gripe with copying the
game onto the PC is avoided, 100%.

Many emulator authors are kind enough to add code that prevents people
from running pirated games through the emulator. Unless the person is
fairly inclined in computer programming, the average person is not going
to download the source code for the emulator and modify it to disable
copy protection. I imagine some emulator authors prevent distributions
to be made that has copy protection disabled via their license
agreements.

(NO CARRIER)

07/20/2003

Search Script Fixed
The old search script that we used here on the 'Zone has been replaced with that from Google. We used to use SWISH++, which would go through our site every evening and record the occurances of each word each web page. Two years ago, the script stopped working. After talking to the server admins, we determined it was pointless to try to hack the thing back together to get it to work once again, now that people pretty much havepages that are dyamically created, not static. Thus, the search script has been replaced with that of Google's. I was going to customize the output from Google's search engine to match that of the site, but I fail to see the point.
(NO CARRIER)

07/18/2003

Power Outage Knocks Out the 'Zone
On Thursday at around 11 PM EST, the ISP that houses ZTNET’s servers suffered a massive power failure. One of their power distribution nodes failed, which cut power to all of their customers. The power has been restored and everything is back to normal. (I hope!)
(NO CARRIER)

07/09/2003

tssz|one Premiere Tonight
The season premiere of Random Hour with Adam Lizzi debuts tonight on tssz|one, at 9PM Eastern time. Turn to tssz|one by clicking here.
(Tristan Bresnen, tssz|news)

The Sega Programming Network
I'd just like to let everybody know that I am still working on The Sega Programming Network. During the last few months, there's been no updates. Also, people with higher resolution than 800x600 have not been able to veiw the site properly. I'm aware of this and an improved version of the layout is going to replace the old one. I also have written more instalments of the Megadrive programming tutorial. Also, ALL technical mistakes and spelling errors are being fixed.
I will try to update the 'Network as soon as possible.

If anyone has any requests or suggestions, email me, and I will see what I can do.

The Sega Programming Network
(Metalix)

07/01/2003

Sega Forever Re-Born
I have re-done the site from scratch (last time was throwing bits of PHP into existing HTML) and it probably looks the best it ever has. The main focus of the site is manuals and magazine articles and ads; the hoaxes, AIM icons and other junk have gone.

Sega Forever
(DarkWolf)