Great posting on slashdot about the 25th anniversary of the BBS. Check it out. TradeWars is of coursed mentioned repeatedly. I guess no one knows we still play this game. 😀

I’ll be quick and to the point. I’m keeping this site online for a while longer. I’m not gonna be able to get my bowling site up in time as the season will be over in only a couple months, so I’m just gonna run my bowling site off a subdirectory of this site. I have not maintained either this site or my bowling site for some time now, but now i’m going to find the time. Meaning I’ll keep the Trade Wars Gazette News online for a while longer. Let’s start with the USO. Currently it has 6 teams entered and the scheduled start date is Feb 23rd at Hardcoded. Planet TW is taking a haitius from Trade Wars so the USO site’s address is being moved to https://hardcoded.dnsalias.org:81\USO\USOTC.HTM. Silver Dragon had said that if there is not enough entrants in the game, he’ll cancel it. I think 6 teams is a good start and many players are known for 11th hour entries to keep the competition guessing. So Silver Dragon need not fret whether or not he’ll have enough players. So looks like the USO will be a go this year.

EleqTrizi’T continues to keep the Home Sector website updated and looking nice. Check it out at The Home Sector website. Fuseblown and Mana Knight also contributes to the site on an occasional basis.

Speaking of MK, he has woken up from a long, long, long coma, dusted off his old Commodore 64, not knowing today we use blazing P4’s at speeds of nearly 3 GHZ if that, and has updated his website. He discussed TW:DM and its apparent demise. More info can be found on his well written article.

Space Ghost came out of his trusty escape pod long enough to inform us that John Pritchett has also resurfaced and possible updates to TWGS might be around the corner. Not often I can read an article where I have to scroll down the screen just to read the next sentence due to its large font 🙂

Finally, I’ll get this website fully operational within the next few days such as my MBBS-TWGS page, the ZOC scripts, and links page. I’m gonna send Macahan a payment today as I’m behind on them.

Speaking of ‘Ol Mac, he rebanged several games at Fament. Telnet bbs.fament.com to check them out. That’s all for now. Happy belated Valentine’s Day everyone.

Mana Knight has made an update to tradewars.org. No, I’m, serious. Really.

What’s going down? No one knows. Some say JP is busy with Realm Interactive and TW: Dark Millenium. Judging by www.tradewars.com and it’s current non-existence, jack is happening over there (although who knows; I could be wrong).

Friday, Feb. 14th (today, for a couple more minutes here on the East Coast) marks the one-year anniversary of the LAST update out of EIS.

Is it time for this game to die? I realize it probably won’t, but what’s going to happen to TW? Will it move on to new hands to be maintained and updated?

I hate to be skeptical against JP and EIS, he’s an awesome guy and I commend him for a job well-done. He lost a valued helper in Rave (R.I.P.) when she passed back in November. Maybe things will pick up in the future.. but it hasn’t looked too good for the past 12 months.

What are YOUR thoughts? (please play nice)

I’m the luckiest man alive.

Someone just ICQ’ed me and asked if off-topic posts were OK. Not only are they OK, they’re encouraged.

..or does everyone miss those kick-ass intro. graphics Eleq used to do for the splash page of the old Home Sector sites? ;D

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I have posted the 2002 news archives from the Home Sector site from April-December 2002. I have some other content to post yet, although it seems that Eleq already got to the bulk of it. 😉

It’s weird reading some of this stuff again, but always interesting to see how TW has progressed over the past couple of years.

What Eleq didn’t tell you is that this “business trip” is actually a movie audition! What movie part is he looking to snag? I’m not sure, but this may shed some light on it:

I’m going on a business trip. Will be back Sunday. At this point, I’m not sure how it will affect my news posting capabilities. Hollywood, here I come!