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<p class="bigger">What's New<br>
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<p class="big"><b><a href="/newsarchive/" target="_top">Click here
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for</a><br>
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the archive of older news items</b>
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<p class="big">Thanks to Sue of <a href="http://boardwalkerz.com"
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target="_top">Petz Boardwalk</a> for so
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generously providing mirror
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space for so many months, and then for taking on the full bandwidth
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burden of my monster of a site when Abby could no longer do so. You're a
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special lady, Sue! My enormous thanks also to Abby of the Petzwarehouse
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for hosting my site for all those years.<br>
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Thanks to our amazing Minibyte, I now have a full mirror of this site at
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<a
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091002091450/http://www.minibytepetz.net/Minibyte_Petz/home.html"
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target="_top">her domain</a>, thank you Minibyte!!<br>
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If my site goes down at any time -- woah, that would be quite a day! --
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pop along to <a
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href="http://www.steavehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/index.htm"
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target="_top">this page</a>, where I'll keep you informed of
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whatever is going on.</p>
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<p><b>18 Mar 2010</b><br>
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Wow, I hear you say, it lives! Well, in a way... I still care about this
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site and the old Petz games, but I have no time. This update is a small
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bit of maintenance -- the page for the Petz 5 backup CD now has some
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necessary Catz dlls. You couldn't get catz to load on it before, but
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with these dll files you should be able to. And the links page -- I have
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kept the old pages as an archive but now, when you click on the "links
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and contact" it takes you to a simple page with urls on it that I have
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checked. Plus, I have a new sister site :) Oh yes, and now that Daniel's
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site is down, I've added the original bunny and pig file downloads to
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the "catz in dogz" and "dogz in catz" pages. I'm very sad to see his
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site down again, and am not sure of exactly what is "broken" on this
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site of mine because of it. I will try to find broken links and fix
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them, but if you find such a link please drop me an email. The mail is
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still the hex-help at hornsc clara co uk one.</p>
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<p><b>20 Aug 2009</b><br>
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Wow, nearly a year later, an update! Well actually I've been adding odd
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things here and there for a while now, but not really "Carolyn's
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Creations" so I've not been mentioning them. But people who are having
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trouble searching for everything for the game foolers are getting the
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odd pleasant surprise if they keep their eyes open; I'm hoping that
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people who have lost or damaged irreplaceable CDs will find them helpful
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also.</p>
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<p>I have also uploaded what you would need in order to be able to play
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with Petz Player files, such as Phantarella on my main page, Babyz
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player files such as the ones on my "play online" Babyz page, and
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perhaps most important, to go into the Catz 1 shrine! ;-)</p>
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<p>Last but not least, the very big news; I now have a full mirror of
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this giant of a site! Bookmark <a
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href="http://www.carolyn.minibytepetz.net/" target="_top">this
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link</a>. Huge thanks to Minibyte!!</p>
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<b>30 Sep 2008</b><br>
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I know, I know, I hardly ever update these days. I really don't have the
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time, but I still love the old Petz, Babyz and Oddballz games so I've
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not abandoned you :-) No new hexings for you, but for Babyz players I
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have zipped up the <a href="/babyz/vvccr/">ViaVoice files</a> so
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that people who have been having problems with downloading the
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individual files can get them, plus on that page you will see a link to
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help those of you with damaged or lost CDs. Also there are a few links
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to creative and useful sites on my <a href="/smallislovely/"
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target="_main">"small but beautiful"
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links page</a>. I have put a
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little more information on the <a href="/petz6/">new "petz" games</a> --
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the ones that Ubisoft now calls Catz 2 and Dogz 2. These are in no way
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like the older Petz II game of course, but the info is there for
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completeness. It's a real nuisance that UbiSoft have chosen to call
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their new 3D pet games Catz, Dogz, Catz 2 and Dogz 2.</p>
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<p><b>15 May 2008</b><br>
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Just a really tiny thing -- a new link on my <a href="/smallislovely/"
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target="_main">"small but
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beautiful" links page</a> :-) I know
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people have written to me before asking for links to be updated; forgive
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me, I have had various things such as computer crashes over the past few
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months and am not now able to find the messages. If you want a link
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changed, please write to me again.</p>
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<p><b>03 May 2008</b><br>
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It's like a bus, isn't it -- you wait for ages and then two come along
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at once ;-) Okay, the site should now be complete, including the FinFin
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and Petz4 demo downloads. As far as I can see, everything is as it was
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before the site's foundations got slipped from under it. Nothing new,
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and still a messy monster of a site, but hey, the "olds" are back.</p>
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<p><b>02 May 2008</b><br>
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<b>Site is back up and running!</b><br>
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Wow. Almost a year since last we spoke. And even now this is not an
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update -- it's just a note that the site has been fixed after a few
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weeks of downtime. I think everything has been fixed apart from Finfin
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and the Petz 4 demo, I hope so anyway. The Petz 4 demo and Finfin
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downloads I hope to fix tomorrow. Please note what I say above, if my
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site goes down again pop along to <a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/index.htm"
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target="_top">this page (click) </a> at Blueyonder, where I hope
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to be able to keep you informed of whatever is going on.</p>
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<p><b>30 June 2007</b><br>
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Just a few tweaks to a couple of the foolers, and some links to other
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places of Petz interest, for you today. My computer play time has
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narrowed down to almost zero while I bottlefeed some grey furries...
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First up, <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/poodlepower707/"
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target="blank">The Petz5 Palace</a> has moved so I've changed
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the
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link on my "Small is Beautiful" page and I've fixed up one or two other
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links on a couple of the links pages. Next, I have a new links page for
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<a href="/petzhexzlinks/" target="_blank">PetzHexz </a>which is there
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with its affiliates to help with Petz and other virtual life games --
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and the Virtual Life forum is back up!<br>
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Next, for <a href="/babyz/babyzedit/" target="main"
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title="Babyz Fixes">Babyz fooler</a> fans I have put up some
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files
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from the unpacked Babyz demo for those of you who can't get the demo to
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install. Also on the <a href="/babyz/vvccr/">ViaVoice fix</a> page,
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I've tried to make things a little clearer. For people who wanted the
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Petz 3 playscene Petz Vet and had trouble with the patchfile, I've
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uploaded the full scene on the <a href="/petz/petz3/p3playscenz/"
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target="_blank"
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title="Old Petz 3 Scenes">Old Petz 3
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Scenes</a>page
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3. That's the lot for now.</p>
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<p><b>10 June 2007</b><br>
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As always, in a huge rush. I have for you the abandonware game <a
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href="/finfin/" target="_top">Fin Fin</a><br>
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This update is not actually a Petz item nor is it a Carolyn's Creation,
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but it's a game that has been dumped by its craetors and is too cute to
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lose -- and Sue has kindly agreed to host it. I don't provide any help
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with getting it running, but I do give a link on the download page to a
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very helpful site and forum.</p>
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<p><b>Approx. 20 April 2007</b><br>
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Wups, I uploaded some bits and pieces a few days ago and forgot to
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update this What's New. Things in Real Life here are going like crazy,
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so the site tends to get a bit neglected but uploads still do happen now
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and then. Let's see... I put up a "Pointless Info 2" page to show that
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all the games can be made to work in Windows Vista -- an Operating
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System that I won't touch of course, it's even worse than XP, but I
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thought you'd be interested. I've made it easier to use the Petz II demo
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fooler, it has a whole page to itself now. A tweak or two on the
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Tutorials pages, can't remember in detail now exactly what. And some
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items for Babyz players and hexers on the "newest babyz" page. Sorry
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that updates are so random and far apart, but really I do stuff for the
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site as and when I can. I seem to have lost my latest notes on sites
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which I promised to add to my links pages, my deepest apologies to
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anyone who was expecting a link to go up but really my links pages are
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horribly out of date these days.</p>
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<p><b>18 March 2007</b><br>
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It can't be March <b>already</b>?? Well, a lot has happened so far this
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year but very little of it has been petz-related for me. All I have for
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you this time is an updated link and a tweak or two on my tutorials page
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(a bit more info in my "what to do if petz crashes" and "what to do if
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Babyz crashes" howtos) and my Petz 4 demo-fooler page (get to it via my
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Mad Scientist page). The reason for the demo-fooler update is because it
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seems that demo-download sites now check to see what part of the world
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you live in before letting you download the demo, and if your area isn't
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right they won't let the download start. That is plain evil -- what the
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heck has happened to the Internet?? Gah. Oh, and I realised I'd
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accidentally removed the Phantarella player link from my main page when
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I moved to Boardwalkerz, so she's back on the main page again.<br>
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For those interested in my fostercats, Paddlepat didn't make it through.
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Poor baby. His sisters were spayed this week and, thank heaven, it seems
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that they don't have the same latent disease that he had. They are
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lively and healthy. I am now running the <a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/adoptacat/"
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target="_blank">"adopt-a-cat" scheme </a>which helps to bring in
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some much-needed cash for the Cat Register and Rescue, so my time is now
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even more limited. And a wonderful thing happened which I'd like to
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shout to the heavens, but I can't put it on the sites, aaaargh.</p>
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<p><b>09 February 2007</b><br>
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Just to let you know I'm still here, but 2007 is being a bit of a pain
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so not much is updated. I did a tiny update to the <a
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href="/oddballz/oddballz/">Oddballz </a>and oddballz fooler pages a
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couple of weeks ago but am blowed if I can remember what exactly.
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Updated my <a href="/newlinks/">"new links" </a>page. And today I have a
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great new <a href="/sisters/" target="_top">sister site </a>-- Miranda's
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PAC, which will be updated shortly with new breedz etc, so keep an eye
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on it! That's it for now. I've got a very very sick cat at the moment,
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/catpics/2006/Paddlepat.htm"
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target="_top" title="Paddlepat">Paddlepat</a>Paddlepat needs all my
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care and attention but he probably won't survive, so please keep the wee
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fellow in your thoughts and prayers.</p>
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<p><b>07 January 2007</b><br>
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Already the year is starting to zoom along... But I have a small update
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for Babyz players -- <a href="/babyz/babyztoyz/">kitchen magnets
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separated.</a> Sorry that's it for now, I have a new cat in who
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needs plenty of attention.</p>
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<p><b>02 January 2007</b><br>
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Woah, another year has started... Happy New Year! Just another small
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update for Petz 4 players <a href="/petz/petz4/p4toyz/">a bunch of
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un-hidden toyz.</a> It doesn't include the ones which don't have
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on-shelf graphics, nor does it include the four gemstones. I may get
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those up soon, if Real Life doesn't take off too fast. And for Petz 3, 4
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and 5 people who like to dabble in editing the binary parts of petz with
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a hex editor, I've put a little more info up on the <a
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href="/tutorials/petbreakdown/">Rough Pet Info</a> page.</p>
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<p><b>31 December 2006</b><br>
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Happy Hogmanay!! I have one small updates for you -- a howto on <a
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href="/tutorials/trottingandfloofing/">Trotting and Floofing .</a>
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wrote the thing ages ago and then forgot to upload it because LNZPro had
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a tick-box for it. But it seems that doesn't really work, so here's how
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to do it manually. Including how to make your chinchilla Persians trot,
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LOL.</p>
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<p><b>28 December 2006</b><br>
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I hope your Yuletide is going well -- that the celebrations continue and
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that the coming weekend will produce a great hogmanay. I have one or two
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very small updates for you -- <a href="/tutorials/yarntailcolour/">a
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howto on</a> changing the Yarn Ball tail colour, <a
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href="/newlinks/">a page of new links</a> and a bit more on <a
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href="/petz6/">Ubisoft's latest "Petz" games including</a> info
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about the Windows Horsez. Finally, for those of you who are interested
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in my fostercats, there's updates <a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_top">at that site too.</a></p>
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<b>22 December 2006</b><br>
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My hearty thanks to Sue for the lovely new splash page that she has made
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for me, and for the terrific new link banner and button, which are now
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of course on my links page -- although I've not managed to update it
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apart from that...<br>
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<img src="2006-12-22_1.gif" alt="a banner"><br>
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<img src="2006-12-22_2.gif" alt="a button"><br>
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<br>
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Wishing you all a very happy holiday season and a joyous christmas,
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Hanukkah, New Year, Solstice -- or whatever else you enjoy celebrating
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at this time of year. Me, I like to just sit and listen to the world
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turn on its axis :-) May 2007 be a good year for us all, and a fun year
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for Petz and modding. I now have a wordy little treatise on <a
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href="/hexingmodding/">What IS "hexing?"</a> -- MODDING!</p>
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<p><b>16 December 2006</b><br>
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Nothing new for you at all today, I'm so sorry -- well, apart from the
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<a href="/babyz/vvccr/">Babyz ViaVoice fix</a> which I uploaded a while
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ago and forgot to mention -- I've not even managed to get the links I
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promised to update for various wonderful site-owners all fixed up, I
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promise I'll try to get that done on my next update. All that's
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happening this time is that my site is moving over fully now to the
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mirror that Sue provided for several months. Abby has been wonderful for
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hosting my stuff for so long after she lost interest in Petz, and Sue
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has been a trojan for seamlessly taking over the bandwidth burden. For
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anyone who has been linking directly to various pages at my
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Petzwarehouse site, such as the Babyz colour chart, I'm sorry -- the
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link will have broken. Come along to my site here at <a
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href="/sues_virtual_life/?@root" target="_top">Boardwalkerz </a>for
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all the information and charts that used to be there.</p>
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<p><b>01 December 2006</b><br>
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Still nothing really for you -- but I do have a brief note about the
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latest Virtual life games from Ubisoft <a href="/petz6/">here </a>. They
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really are not a part of the Petz series, but for completeness I mention
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them.</p>
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<p><b>14 November 2006</b><br>
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Another month on, and nothing much for you -- but for Babyz fans I have
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three versions of Stewie and three different "cow bells" for them to
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wear on my <a href="/babyz/babyznewest/" target="main"
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title="Newest Babyz">Newest Babyz</a> page. Real Life and my
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kitties
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are taking so much of my time, bless the furry ones.</p>
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<p><b>19 October 2006</b><br>
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Sorry it's been so long... and even now there's nothing new really, but
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I've adjusted a few pages to make things a little easier to find -- I
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hope. I've put the "if you can't download you're at the wrong place"
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info even easier to find as well as trying to make things such as the
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Babyz Fooler easier to follow. Also not new, but just to let anyone who
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needs help with Tinker or LNZPro or Petza/Babyza know -- the link to his
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download site is on my Nicholas' Tools page, along with links to useful
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info. My links pages are woefully unkempt now, I'm sorry -- I can't face
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going through it all but I hope to adjust the most obvious and add an
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extra page of fresh, interesting sites soon. I've simply not been
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getting the time to do things properly -- take a look at <a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_blank" title="my fostercats">my fostercats site</a> for
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some idea of how busy I've been. And a lot has happened even since I
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updated there, LOL!</p>
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<p><b>30 July 2006</b><br>
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Yes, I know, I've not updated for two months -- I can't begin to tell
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you how busy things have been here, so I've not updated either this site
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or my fostercats one in all that time. As for this update, it's just for
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oddballz fans. Because Daniel's site is down and now, it seems, also
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Don's Amberoddballz, plus nowhere else on the net seems to have the
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demos, I've uploaded a demo and the official breedz to this site, also
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Ron Tigat's Oddballz Eggz Scrambler. You will find these things on the
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<a href="/oddballz/oddballzedit/">Oddballz Fixes</a> and <a
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href="/oddballz/oddballzfooler/">Oddballz Fooler</a> pages.<br>
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Also uploaded on the new p2, p3, p4 and p5 pages are the skorch
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breedfiles for Catz games. They are on the relevant New Breedz pages,
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and the sound files are on the species sounds page. These were once
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exclusive to Daniel's site but since I created them and his site is down
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they have come home to me.<br>
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I wanted to do more, but that's it for now. Hopefully not so long before
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the next update. Must dash.</p>
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<p><b>21 May 2006</b><br>
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Sorry, a late update and I've not got much for you -- Real Life has been
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getting in the way big-time and I've only managed to update my <a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_top">My foster-cat site</a> since I last updated here --
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and even there I'm not up to date. And I'm not managing to do half of
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what I've been promising people on this update, sorry. But there are
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some little things.<br>
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A bunch of experimental babyz, and more of my "Harem set" on the <a
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href="/babyz/babyznewest/" target="main" title="Newest Babyz">Newest
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Babyz</a> page. Yes, I know there aren't any pictures and that
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should have the harem clothes on the clothes page. I don't have time to
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do it right!<br>
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On the <a href="/collaborations/" target="main"
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title="Collaborations">Team creations</a> page you'll find a new
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Catz breed made from Casey Miller's pet. Also there, my few Unibreedz --
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Artie, Honkie and Sauropod -- should be fixed for cross-breeding as they
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were re-done with the latest LNZPro.<br>
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I've put the catz 1 demo up for download on my <a
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href="/petz/petz1/catz1dex/">Catz 1 demo fooler</a> page.<br>
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If you go to my sister site, <a href="http://boardwalkerz.com/babyz"
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target="_top">Sue Briley's Babyz
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Punked</a>, you'll find there a
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couple of unusual babyz and a babyz clothing item, for Naturists, made
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by myself.<br>
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I've got a couple of great cyberpets from Dulua Land up on my Cyberpets
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page.<br>
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NOT YET done -- a whole bunch of howtos, which will eventually go on a
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"pot-luck" page, more half-done hexed stuff, and fixing up my links
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pages. I don't know when these will get done, but one thing I will try
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to get fixed and up soon is Miranda's brilliant sounds for Kirby.</p>
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<p><b>03 March 2006</b><br>
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As always later than intended, but I added what I believe to be the
|
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final soundfixes to the <a href="/babyz/babyzxpsoundfix/">Babyz soundfix
|
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for XP</a> page. The new downloads and replacements are marked with
|
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the date beside them, so if you downloaded most of the files before
|
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today, just download those which are marked. My friend gave the whole
|
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thing a quick test, and with any luck this will prevent any
|
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sound-related freezes in your game now. Remember, people, you do need to
|
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also download 9 toyz from Twilight's site -- the link is clearly on my
|
|
soundfix page. And yay for Sandi of <a
|
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href="http://www.geocities.com/songshirah3/index2.html"
|
|
target="_top">Forever Babyz</a> -- she gave an award to myself and
|
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Twilight, and I'm displaying it with pride :-) Thank you so much!<br>
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<img src="2006-03-03.jpg"></p>
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<p><b>27 February 2006</b><br>
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Well, I fell over today and twisted and bruised me poor arthritic old
|
|
bones, so not as much done as I'd hoped. But I have a couple of great
|
|
breedz for you on the Team Creations, <a
|
|
href="/withsueandnintendo/" target="_blank">"With Sue Briley and
|
|
Nintendo-6444"</a> page,<br>
|
|
<img src="2006-02-27.gif"><br>
|
|
and yesterday and today I added to the <a
|
|
href="/babyz/babyzxpsoundfix/">Babyz soundfix for XP</a> -- have not
|
|
been able to test the latest fixes myself yet but have had good reports
|
|
so far. I am intending to fine-tune the soundfix over the next day or
|
|
two.</p>
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<p><b>25 February 2006</b><br>
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I know, I know, I've not done anything much this month so far. Real Life
|
|
has been taking almost all my time. All I have for you today is a <a
|
|
href="/babyz/babyzxpsoundfix/">Babyz soundfix for XP</a>, but with
|
|
any luck that'll at least make many of the Babyz Commumity happy.</p>
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|
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<p><b>07 February 2006</b><br>
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Once again, I've not managed to update as I wanted to. I've been having
|
|
some Real Life difficulties, so updates are of necessity going to be
|
|
slow for the near future -- but they will happen, truly. But for now,
|
|
great news! Not only do we have <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">a new
|
|
version of Tinker</a>, but also Nicholas has <a
|
|
href="http://www.sherlocksoftware.org" target="_blank"
|
|
title="Nicholas' own site!">his own site.</a> The latest versions of
|
|
his software will always be found there :-) Also there are some updates
|
|
on the links pages.</p>
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|
|
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<p><b>28 January 2006</b><br>
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|
Yes, I know -- I've not updated in ages. There have been all sorts of
|
|
Real Life crises, all getting resolved okay but taking time, so all my
|
|
wonderful hexing plans have had to wait. The Great Present Caper is of
|
|
course finished, but I'm making my donations for Petz games available
|
|
for you all. You can download them when you find the picture of a
|
|
present. Also downloadable now, from my babyz toyz pages, is the
|
|
Christmas Spoon that I made for DRN's Advent Calendar. I've fixed up
|
|
some items on my links pages, and got a new "Sister". And finally, some
|
|
weird and wacky babyz for your downloading pleasure on the <a
|
|
href="/babyz/babyzheadbanger/">pasted-heads page</a>.<br>
|
|
<img src="2006-01-28.gif"><br>
|
|
Coming soon (I hope) will be some "Team Creation" breedz, for some of
|
|
which I just need to get the pages done.</p>
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|
|
|
<p><b>02 January 2006</b><br>
|
|
Nicholas has updated <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Petza to fix</a>
|
|
the Petz II and Babyz bugs. It works beautifully now -- go get it!!
|
|
That's it for today, but pretty good all the same :-)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>01 January 2006</b><br>
|
|
<b>Happy New Year!!</b><br>
|
|
So I didn't get the hexing time I'd hoped for this past week... But we
|
|
have from the wonderful Nicholas -- another new version of Petza from
|
|
his <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages. This
|
|
update, version 2.0.2, fixes some problems for Petz 3, 4 and 5 players.
|
|
On my machine it crashes in Babyz and Petz II, so I've left 2.0.1 up for
|
|
you as well just in case the same happens with you. I've also got some
|
|
changes on my links pages, a new sister, and a changed link to Miranda's
|
|
Kirby page on my P3,4,5 LNZ breedz page.</p>
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|
|
|
<p><b>26 December 2005</b><br>
|
|
The Great Present Caper is apparently delayed until tomorrow. Should be
|
|
good anyway! And now, from Nicholas -- a new version of Petza from his
|
|
<a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages. This
|
|
update, version 2.0.1, fixes the "weather" bug for Petz 5 players!</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>24 December 2005</b><br>
|
|
The Great Present Caper should be under way -- good hunting! The big
|
|
Christmas present for you at this site today is from Nicholas -- a new
|
|
version of Petza from his <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas'
|
|
Tools</a> pages. There's some good stuff in it, including a great
|
|
new feature for Babyz players; you can at last add new playscenes!
|
|
Remember that you will need to make them non-overwriting with their own
|
|
name and ID numbers of course. Apart from that, my <a
|
|
href="/cyberpets/cyberpets/">Cyberpet</a> has grown up at last,
|
|
there are a couple of updated <a href="/links/">links</a>, and I've had
|
|
a nice time with my <a href="/flowers/">"gifts from friends" pages</a>.
|
|
Yes, I meant to get a lot of hexed items up, but in the end I only
|
|
managed to complete some presents for the Great Present Caper. Am hoping
|
|
for some peaceful days over this coming week to finish off other
|
|
goodies. Merry Yueltide!</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>07 December 2005</b><br>
|
|
Just the Great Present Caper notice above, and a couple of updated
|
|
links; Miranda's PAC on <a href="/links/">the main links page</a> , and
|
|
Tigger's site on <a href="/babyzlinks/">the babyz links page</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>04 December 2005</b><br>
|
|
The last of the demo-foolers is now online, thanks to Daniel! This time
|
|
it's the turn of Mac players of the games. Get the <a
|
|
href="/petz/petz1/catz1dex/">Catz 1 demo fooler</a> , and the <a
|
|
href="/petz/petz1/dogz1fooler/">Dogz 1 demo fooler</a> -- and last
|
|
but not
|
|
least, the <a href="/oddballz/oddballzfooler/">Oddballz demo fooler</a>!
|
|
Now <b>everyone</b> can join the fun :-)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>03 December 2005</b><br>
|
|
Another one of my toyz converted on my <a href="/petz/petz5/p5toyz/">petz
|
|
5</a> page -- the freedom fish to overwrite your fish bowl. I'll be
|
|
converting the playscene for it soon, but that's not done yet. The big
|
|
thing for you today is the <a href="/petz/petz1/catz1dex/">Catz 1 demo
|
|
fooler</a> (yay!) and <a href="/petz/petz1/dogz1fooler/">my own Dogz
|
|
1
|
|
demo fooler</a>, which allows you to go back to the adoption centre
|
|
and take Daphne's quiz. I have captured the flavour of the Catz 1 site
|
|
as it was when the game first came out, complete with some little
|
|
surprises, a find-it and the part which I personally adored -- the <a
|
|
href="/petz/petz1/dream/">VRML temple.</a> I totally loved that thing,
|
|
and
|
|
I can still play it on my old browser. You may not be able to see it,
|
|
which would be a shame, but I do have links to viewers on that page. If
|
|
you can install the Cosmo player, that would be optimum. If you do
|
|
manage to play it, the links within it have been updated to links that
|
|
actually work. Also, all actual links on the pages should lead to
|
|
interesting things. Anyway, have fun!</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>28 November 2005</b><br>
|
|
Managing to get some stuff done at last. Some conversions... The Secret
|
|
Wood, with its toyz, for you on the <a href="/petz/petz5/p5playscene/">Petz
|
|
5
|
|
Playscene</a> page. Some of my toyz converted on my <a
|
|
href="/petz/petz5/p5toyz/">petz 5</a> page, including a gem hairball
|
|
for
|
|
dracoz (I intend to improve the P3 and P4 ones some day too). An
|
|
exciting new toy for <a href="/petz/petz2/p2toyz/">petz II</a> -- fishes
|
|
swimming in and out of a tank, yay! I intend to make a Petz 3 version of
|
|
that soon. Also for Petz II, the <a href="/petz/petzfish/">Fishie
|
|
breed</a> and a <a href="/petz/petz2/p2playscene/">scene
|
|
backdrop</a> for
|
|
the fish petz and toyz to play in. Oh, and a couple of versions of the
|
|
<a href="/babyz/babyztoyz/">"surprise box" for Babyz</a>, mostly as a
|
|
service for hexers who requested it. Plus again a few updated tweaks
|
|
over the past couple of weeks, on tutorials and links pages, which I
|
|
can't remember in detail, sorry, but do check out the "small is
|
|
beautiful" links page.<br>
|
|
<img src="2005-11-28.jpg"></p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>22 October 2005</b><br>
|
|
A few more things for you from all the stuff I'm trying to finish... A
|
|
brand new Butterfly Chaser breed, with some finishing-off by me on <a
|
|
href="/petz/withbutterflychaser2/">this "Team"</a> page. A few pages
|
|
of detailed info on using LNZPro on <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/pet2breedxtraeasy/">this tutorials page</a>, plus a
|
|
few updated tweaks here and there on tutorials and links pages which I
|
|
can't recall in detail.<br>
|
|
<img src="2005-10-22.gif"></p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>18 October 2005</b><br>
|
|
Time races past as ever. I've got a few things for you... some links and
|
|
updates on all three links pages. three new babyz from the <a
|
|
href="/babyz/babyznew/">new babyz</a> page. This picture shows just
|
|
<b>one</b> of them :-)<br>
|
|
<img src="2005-10-18_1.gif"><br>
|
|
An update to the texture List info on the <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/lnz2nd/">2nd LNZ info chunk</a> page -- thanks to
|
|
Lynelle for pointing out the missing bits -- and a <a
|
|
href="/lynelle/">new breed from Lynelle</a> who has made creative
|
|
use of the Oddballz-petz breedz and made a brand new one of her own.<br>
|
|
<img src="2005-10-18_2.gif"><br>
|
|
Oh, and my <a href="/cyberpets/">cyberpet</a> has grown a little :-) I
|
|
tried to get more up, but constant interruptions today (and over the
|
|
weekend) have got in the way. Expect some new Butterfly Chaser breedz
|
|
soon.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>05 October 2005</b><br>
|
|
For your downloading pleasure... Yet more updated versions of Pet
|
|
Workshop and of LNZPro, from the <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages :-) Also
|
|
some links on the <a href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful"</a>
|
|
page.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>04 October 2005</b><br>
|
|
The most amazing tool -- a brand new version of pet Workshop! Does
|
|
tattoos, paint ballz and lots of other good stuff. <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Pet Workshop</a> page.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>02-03 October 2005</b><br>
|
|
A fantastic new version of LNZPro on the, yes, <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">LNZPro</a> page. A brilliant new
|
|
idea and base baby, also, from L41N (Wardah Ahmar) is downloadable from
|
|
the babyz tutorials page, specifically from <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/hexerbaby/">its own</a> page. I added a bit of a
|
|
tidy-up to the baby file to make it a little clearer, and tried to
|
|
explain how it's used and the potential that it has :-) Finally, a bit
|
|
of info for people who might have been pulling out hair trying to make
|
|
hexed Petz playscenes show up -- on the <a
|
|
href="/petz/petzedit/#SCN">Petz tutorials</a> page -- and extra
|
|
information on passing on colours in the <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/2ndgenreport/">"fixes for 2nd-gen problems"</a>
|
|
page.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>29 September 2005</b><br>
|
|
A new version of Tinker on the (heh) <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Tinker</a> page. On the Real Life
|
|
front, I've recently updated my <a
|
|
href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm">fostercats
|
|
site</a> too. Must dash, chores to do... Happy daze...</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>26 September 2005</b><br>
|
|
Over the past week or so, a few odd bits and pieces got uploaded here
|
|
and there mostly on my <a href="/tutorials/tutorials/">Tutorials</a>
|
|
pages. Firs off, a grand Variations tutorial by Nicholas, which is on my
|
|
main tutorials page and on his <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Pet
|
|
Workshop</a> page. Also on that main page are a new "What to do if
|
|
Petz won't start or crashes" FAQ and a similar one for Babyz, plus I've
|
|
updated my LNZPro tips. On the Petz-specific page I've put a howto on
|
|
making non-hidden emoticon variations in a breed, how to change and
|
|
expand tails for dogz and catz, giving your petz' eyes or "irises" a
|
|
texture (includes example petz), and putting bunny ears on a Dane. The
|
|
perspicacious amongst you will have spotted that I've got a new page
|
|
called <a href="/tutorials/petbreakdown/">Rough Pet Info</a> which is
|
|
exactly what it says. It breaks a pet file into sections so that you can
|
|
see the structure, and see where the important parts are when it comes
|
|
to cloning a corrupted pet. It really is rough -- a series of
|
|
screengrabs -- so if you don't understand anything about pet files it
|
|
won't help. But it's a handy reference that I made for myself ages ago
|
|
and I'm sharing with you now. I'm also sharing with you a set of lists
|
|
of Bodyarea numbers that I intended to put in with some "howtos" but as
|
|
I've not managed to get those written, you'll find the lists on my <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/LNZdetails/">Vital LNZ info</a> main page. I added
|
|
some info into the relevant LNZ chunk also. Slight improvement to my <a
|
|
href="/petz/petz5/p5foolersucess/">Petz 5 demo-fooler </a>. Errr...
|
|
I
|
|
think that's the lot, it's been a weird couple of weeks and difficult to
|
|
do more than snatch a moment or two at the computer now and then.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>15 September 2005</b><br>
|
|
Just a real quickie -- a new brilliant version of LNZPro on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages! Edit
|
|
.baby files, and make Unibreed versions of your breedz that should work
|
|
on Non-English petz 3 games as well!</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>11 September 2005</b><br>
|
|
New bug-fix version of Pet Workshop -- and a great new beta-test version
|
|
of LNZPro on <a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a>
|
|
pages! Note that the LNZPro has not been tested thoroughly, but I think
|
|
you'll like the newest feature. New links on my<a href="/links/">main
|
|
links</a> page, a couple of them in the tutorials etc section to
|
|
help people who ask about website making, and one of them is also in the
|
|
section called "Sites for "realistic" petz standards, and petz clubs"
|
|
because it's a promising new breed registry site which also offers
|
|
hosting of breedz. The week went by too fast, still none of the other
|
|
things that I meant to do are finished, sorry. But my <a
|
|
href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
|
|
target="_blank">fostercats site</a> was updated a couple of days
|
|
ago for those who are interested.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>04 September 2005</b><br>
|
|
New versions of Petza/babyza, LNZPro 2, and Pet Workshop on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages! New
|
|
features and bugfixes... I'm so trying to get other things up, odds and
|
|
bods of my own, almost finished but not quite, hopefully this coming
|
|
week will see some goodies.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>24 August 2005</b><br>
|
|
A new version of Petza/babyza on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> pages. This has
|
|
no new features, it's another version he's made to try and help track
|
|
down the problem that some people have with it, so if it's working for
|
|
you there's no need to download. Also one link removed from my
|
|
<a href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful" </a>page; after I had
|
|
given them info on how to make files available for download, Sarah and
|
|
Ruby proceeded to "hotlink" to other sites' breedz. folks, this is a
|
|
huge no-no on the Internet; don't do it! They appear to no longer be
|
|
answering emails, so until they do and fix the problem, their link will
|
|
stay down.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>22 August 2005</b><br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Whew, that was a tough few days -- it looked as if Petzwarehouse was
|
|
down for good, and I was worried about Abby. But last night I heard from
|
|
Abby, she's fine :-D and the site should be up today *happy-dance*<br>
|
|
Meanwhile, my good pal Sue picked up my broken pieces and generously
|
|
offered to mirror my site; see the link above :-)<br>
|
|
Updates to the site are a couple of <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> -- go
|
|
fetch the latest Pet Workshop and LNZPro 2. Also there are some new
|
|
links to great sites on my <a href="/smallislovely/">"small is
|
|
beautiful"</a> and <a href="/babyzlinks/">babyz</a> links pages, and
|
|
a few small tweaks on the tutorials pages.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>10 August 2005</b><br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Not much, just a howto for people who are having difficulty working out
|
|
how to use Tinker and LNZPro 2. On my <a
|
|
href="/tutorials/tutorials/">Tutorials page</a>. For those who are
|
|
interested in my fostercats site, I'm going to update <a
|
|
href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
|
|
target="_BLANK">there also</a> today, with some cheerful news and a
|
|
new family member. All a bit rushed, Real Life is running away with me
|
|
:-)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>03 August 2005</b><br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Yup, another version of Petza/Babyza, version 1.1.4; also another
|
|
version of Pet Workshop, also version 1.1.4. As always, they are on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools pages</a>. I've got
|
|
a small howto on the tutorials, <a
|
|
href="/petz/petzedit/#BRE">Petz-specific page</a> because I've been
|
|
asked a few times how to change the default pet name at the AC. I have a
|
|
bunch of other howtos waiting to be polished up and uploaded, they're
|
|
too rough at the moment. Some nice shiny new links on the <a
|
|
href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful"</a> and <a
|
|
href="/babyzlinks/">babyz</a> links pages, you really want to check
|
|
them out! Also, for my own pleasure, I have a <a
|
|
href="/cyberpets/">Cyberpet page</a> for my site (thanks, Rachel!)
|
|
and some lovely updates on my <a href="/flowers/">"gifts from
|
|
friends"</a> pages. Nothing else for you today, but for those who
|
|
are interested in my fostercats, I recently had another update <a
|
|
href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
|
|
target="_BLANK">there also</a> but be warned, the latest update was
|
|
quite sad.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>28 July 2005</b><br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Another version of Petza/Babyza, this time a "bugfix" version 1.4.3
|
|
thanks to people who sent Nicholas their bug reports, and to Nicholas
|
|
too of course :-) as usual on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools page</a>; thanks yet
|
|
again, Nicholas! Also another neat link on my <a
|
|
href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful" </a>links page.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><b>22 July 2005</b><br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Nearly 3 weeks since I last uploaded... So sorry! Well, today I've
|
|
uploaded Pet Workshop version 1.1.3 on <a
|
|
href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools page</a>; thanks,
|
|
Nicholas! Various improvements for the program's fans, so go see! One or
|
|
two little tweaks here and there on the site too, including adjustments
|
|
to the Petz 4, Babyz and Petz 5 foolers. Also some updated links on my
|
|
links pages, and for those who follow my fostercats I've recently
|
|
updated <a
|
|
href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
|
|
target="_BLANK">there also.</a> Oh, and I don't think I mentioned
|
|
earlier that I am hosting <a
|
|
href="http://www.geocities.com/cheesycrustie/"
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target="_BLANK">Iola</a>'s Miniature Bows for Dogz on my <a
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150316023926/http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/index.htm"
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target="_blank">Off-site specials</a>, as she has had some server
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problems and in fact had lost all of them. Well,
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they are all back online again now :-)</p>
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<p><b>02 July 2005</b><br>
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<br>
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We had Live 8 up here in Edinburgh today -- nearly a quarter of a
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million people marching to Make Poverty History -- yay!<br>
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But, back to Petz -- we have version 1.4.2 of Petza.toy (which is also
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Babyza of course) for you on <a
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href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools page</a>. A minor
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update, but hopefully a useful one. Also, Kirby fans check out the link
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on my <a href="/specials/petz3-5lnz/">P3,4,5 LNZ breedz page</a> --
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<a
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href="http://paccybertown.250free.com/Kirby/KirbysPage.html">Miranda</a>
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has made some great variations! I meant to get some other things
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uploaded, but the day has been chaos -- well, the whole week has really.
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Hope to do more soon.</p>
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