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Old News Archive and Poll Results - Started Oct 23
2001
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Previous Poll Results
Question Asked: Which game do you prefer? [49 votes
total]
- Planescape: Torment (24) 49%
- Ultima VII: The Black Gate (6) 12%
- Ultima VII: Serpent Isle (8) 16%
- Ultima VIII: Pagan (3) 6%
- Ultima IX: Ascension (4) 8%
- None/Other (Use Comments) (4) 8%
Comments Entered:
- None
Conclusion: Torment emerges the winner though
there are fewer votes.
Question Asked: Should Ultima VII become freeware?
[687 votes total]
- Yes - 614 votes - 89%
- No - 73 votes - 11%
Comments Entered:
- Something that I really respect in a software producer
is when they release they're older stuff as freeware.
So I think it should be freeware.
- Its too old
- ULTIMA8 too
- and also Ultima8:Pagan
- why shouldn't it? It doesn't run on windows w/o
U7run
- Every one should be able to experience U7 (The best
of the series)...
- it's about time...
- I used to have what I believe Ultima 6 or 7 and
it was free and full version too but very very good
and very very fun.
- Every one should be able to play this awesome game!
freeware it!
- I believe after 4 or 5 years any game should be
freeware.
Conclusion: Based on the results above, many
voters lean towards getting Ultima VII and (if possible)
the other games to freeware. There were some opposition
primarily one comment that said "it's too old".
We just got to hope Electronic Arts will do something
about it. Check out this site
at Wired where Electronic Arts didn't approve of a fan-work
of Ultima I and the fan
against it.
Question Asked: If you're stuck in a game, how long
will you try to attempt to figure it out before resorting
to cheats? [54 votes total]
- 1-30 Minutes(8) 15%
- 30-60 Minutes(10) 19%
- 1-2 Hours(3) 6%
- 2-4 Hours(5) 9%
- 4-12 Hours(2) 4%
- 12-24 Hours(2) 4%
- 1-7 Days(12) 22%
- 2 Weeks(3) 6%
- Forever!(9) 17%
Conclusion: The phrase "Patience is Gold"
holds very true for many, however, 83% will still cheat.
This month, a poll was suggested.
Old News Archive
Janurary 7 1200 2002 GMT+8
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's the 2002 year! The website has
grown with many host movements the previous year. Not
to mention the higher traffic! Also, website traffic
has increased two-fold since the Windows XP inclusions.
December 29 1330 2001 GMT+8
Due to some hard disk partitioning problem, I accidently
deleted all my hard drive data, including my website
and emails .
If you had sent me email within the last 1.5 weeks,
please resend the email using the form. There was one
guy from Ultima VII Team, a story-line editor, who emailed
me, but I forgot to reply. If you're reading this, thanks
for the comments. I'm honored to have people from Origin
appreciate my site .
December 18 1500 2001 GMT+8
Additions to the website
- As you can see, Ganesh's Website is with Tripod
now at the expense of a banner above. To stop pop-ups,
you can use Pop-up
Stopper. This little proggy will stop popups from
any site, and you can disable them by just pressing
a key when expecting a pop-up. Or you can let that
one pop-up that opens be open for your duration of
your visit to this site. No other pop-ups will pop
then.
- Freedom2Surf has sent notice
that the free hosting service ceases 28 Feb 2002.
Now on a search to look for a new host.
- New terrorism
flash movie added to the Laughter HELL! Bin Laden
Has Nowhere To Run - Nowhere To Hide!
- Special Deepavali greetings
to those Indians out there celebrating Deepavali!
- A special guide has been
made to those who want to find out how to install
a new installation Windows XP over your current OS
in DOS.
- New Page on Ganesh's Works
added. For now, it just contains the above.
- New Poll
- The screen shot of the old DHTML design has been
added!
- Minor changes.
November 26 1730 2001 GMT+8
Additions to the website
- Special Deepavali greetings
to those Indians out there celebrating Deepavali!
- NOTICE: Terms of Usage updated to reflect
new service providers
- Elimination of pop-ups (or pop-unders).
- Previous poll results here!
- New Background
- Added javascript validity to the email page.
- The About Webmaster/Website
page has a section on screenshots of old designs plus
previous webhosts.
- Got something to contribute? Check out the newly
added Contribute page.
- Addition of new walkthroughs
for Ultima VII: The Black Gate & Forge Of Virtue.
- Massive upgrading of the links section. More links
have been added to both sections.
November 13 0030 2001 GMT+8
New design to the website as you see. New logo and
new tabs added. To get to a section of a game, click
on the game name first, and then click on the sub-topics
of that game you want to go on the page that loads after
that.
- Addition of Ultima
History and Ultima Underworld
II Super Character files.
- Special Deepavali greetings
to those Indians out there celebrating Deepavali!
- Some design bugs squashed (Transparency and over-nested
tables)
- New design to the whole website! Any problems faced
please inform
me. Thanks to James Lewis for reminding me
- Forums
are still quiet . . . only if YOU start, it will get
active. I lurk over there several times a day, so
please head over there and post any queries you have.
- Funny Flash movie! Check out the Racing Car Human
Sound Simulation here.
- To avoid confusion to later year updates and this
year updates, the year has been added to the dates
above.
- New Poll
- Reformatting of Ultima VII Manual by Ganesh in the
Ultima VII:
Black Gate section.
- Addition of Origin's Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue
Add-on walkthrough to the Ultima
VII: Black Gate section.
November 3 1845 2001 GMT+8
Exams are over, with the final one being a huge headache
. .oh well. Time to "charge" my website! Updates:
- Forums
are still quiet . . . only if YOU start, it will get
active. Please head over there now.
- A new way to run Ultima7 under windows has been
discovered! Head straight here!
- New Serpent Isle Walkthrough by JP Morris added
to the Serpent Isle Humor
section.
- Search engine added .
. . on trial phase.
- New jokes added to the Cool
People (Ah Beng) section.
- Plans for future updates include creating a website
for another game (candidate being Ultim@te Race Pro),
new design to the website and winamp skins!
October 27 0000 2001 GMT+8
Minor updates.
- All files have been uploaded to the new server.
PLEASE REPORT
broken links! Thank you!
- NEW message board. CHECK
IT OUT!!!! and start posting!
- If you didn't know, this site has a section named
"The Good Ol' Midis", Check
it out! The midis are really great. Duh!
October 24 2330 2001 GMT+8
Please be patient while I complete uploading of 90
megs of data for you people to download. The important
SWF files are uploaded to TwistSoft.
- Osama's Diplomacy . . another funny flash movie.
. check it out!
- Created a new page to host previous poll results
and old news. It's great reading old updates to myself
hehe
- If you didn't know, this site has a section named
"The Good Ol' Midis", Check
it out! The midis are really great. Duh!
October 22 2250 2001 GMT+8
Quick Update. TwistSoft
offered me free storage space in return for a link for
their site! A Link! I would be more than happy to provide
more than a link. Check out their site
for a Ultima Underworld I & II Remake.
- Fixed download link of the 3D movie . . . again,
no one told me about this.
- Added another stones music to the Music
section, by Brad.
- If you didn't know, this site has a section named
"The Good Ol' Midis", Check
it out! The midis are really great. Duh!
- Downloads should be working now . . Yayyy
October 10 2250 2001 GMT+8
This site will have few updates as my exams are in
the corner. Searching for free space is fruitless, will
have to try other ways .
- Amazing 3D movie of 10 minutes in just 64KB! You
need Microsoft DirectX
8 to run this amazing movie. Download now!
- A new image added to Computer section
September 28 2200 2001 GMT+8
Website moved again to F2S. Sorry for any inconveniences
caused, but the ad frame in SpacePorts is really too
much =(.
September 22 2200 2001 GMT+8
I'm Back! Again, my FastTrack motherboard malfunctioned
and I had to send to for service and that took a mighty
1 month. So for those who were waiting for authorisation
in ICQ, now you have it!
As we all know, Tuesday was the day New York's World
Trade Center was attacked by terrorists. My deepest
sympathies to the families of the people working there
affected by the tragedy.
- Due to Yahoo! GeoCities new limits on bandwidth,
this site had to be moved to Spaceports. It seems
a much better host, lively community with forums and
additional space . . all in the expense of a framed
ad PLUS a banner ad =( . . other free hosts seem to
be disappearing . . .for now, this host looks promising.
- NBCi has stopped providing free unlimited space.
As of today, the links (mainly the "GET IT")
are still working (i.e.. no 404 error). As a precaution,
the site is monitored for uptime. However, FTP connections
fail, that means, no new downloads. I have sent an
email to Spaceports for additional webspace of a whopping
150MB, which I hope they will agree on.
- The poll seems to attract a lot of comments and
votes. For now, I'll just leave it as it is.
- Updated links to The Pit website.
- Updated Dan Simpson's Ultima VII Part I Walkthrough,
Torment Advanced Dungeons & Dragon's FAQ, Torment
Walkthrough.
- All Your Smurfs . . . CATS interviews a Smurf from
The Smurfs, Check it out here!
This is hosted on SpacePorts btw.
July 4 1800 2001 GMT+8
Some additions
- A guestbook entry suggesting of a poll on Ultima
VII becoming freeware was posted. So a new poll.
- Ad square that covers the story jokes have been
removed.
- Added Kerpal - She KICKED my DOG!! lyrics.
July 2 1810 2001 GMT+8
None of the story jokes are working. NO
ONE TOLD ME about this! Except for a guestbook
entry who didn't explain well enough, a visitor whom
I asked for a website critique found this out! =( =(
The story jokes should be working now.
June 30 2300 2001 GMT+8
Been busy with Fallout Tactics, Driver and Diablo II:
Lord of Destruction so little time to squeeze in my
time to take care of this website. And it's July! Time
flies fast. Ever since Google indexed the whole of this
site, the daily hits have jumped to 200+! Keep coming!
- Added more jokes to the "Common Tech Support
Humour You May Know Already" in the computer
section and other sections.
- The Ultima and Torment sections are having little
updates due to fewer fan works popping out. If you
know of anything I've missed in the downloads, please
tell me!
- The Message
board is receiving a few posts, thanks to the
contributors, esp. "The Nameless One".
- Feel free to suggest a poll, I've run out of ideas
;-)
- Fixed javascript that occurred in the previous upload.
June 25 2230 2001 GMT+8
Back from the trip, time to get back to business. Minor
updates as I'm just back from the trip, you'll see more
in the next update.
- Added the Featured Files link to the navigation
(Laughter HELL!).
- The Message
board is still at silence.
- Added ICQ number (81266509) to the Myself page.
- Very Minor changes.
- New ad and background
June 1 0000 2001 GMT+8
Just some minor additions before leaving the site as
it is for 3 weeks.
- Updated the font zip files with more Ultima related
fonts.
- The Message
board is still at silence again.
- Added two funny jokes to the Misc
section of Laughter HELL!
- New Poll
- Location parts of the online document modified.
May 28 1630 2001 GMT+8
Couple of new downloads added. Also, this site will
not be updated for about 3 weeks after 31st May since
I'm going to Europe! Feel free to e-mail me, but don't
expect a immediate response.
- The Message
board is back to silence again. =( =( It's been
a bit active thanks to "The Nameless One"
and "cookdd", but that was a week ago.
- Another AWESOME stones remix mp3 added! This time,
it's by DJLizard. Check it out in the Music
sections.
- For those aspiring musicians looking for the Stones
sheet music, you can download the PDF right here!
You can also get the lyrics there.
- Added two links, one to
Ultima Thule and another to my own 'other' site, New
Zealand Splendour.
- Added a "Virtual Bonds" joke to the computer
section
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