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What's New<br />
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<b
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><a href="/newsarchive/" target="_top">Click here for</a><br />
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the archive of older news items</b
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Thanks to Sue of
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<a href="http://boardwalkerz.com" target="_top">Petz Boardwalk</a> for
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so generously providing mirror space for so many months, and then for
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taking on the full bandwidth burden of my monster of a site when Abby
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could no longer do so. You're a special lady, Sue! My enormous thanks
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also to Abby of the Petzwarehouse for hosting my site for all those
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years.<br />
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Thanks to our amazing Minibyte, I now have a full mirror of this site
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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"
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>her domain</a
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>, 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
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<a
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href="http://www.steavehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/index.htm"
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target="_top"
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>this page</a
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>, where I'll keep you informed of whatever is going on.
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<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
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this site and the old Petz games, but I have no time. This update is a
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small bit of maintenance -- the page for the Petz 5 backup CD now has
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some necessary Catz dlls. You couldn't get catz to load on it before,
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but with these dll files you should be able to. And the links page --
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I have kept the old pages as an archive but now, when you click on the
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"links and contact" it takes you to a simple page with urls on it that
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I have checked. Plus, I have a new sister site :) Oh yes, and now that
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Daniel's site is down, I've added the original bunny and pig file
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downloads to the "catz in dogz" and "dogz in catz" pages. I'm very sad
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to see his site down again, and am not sure of exactly what is
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"broken" on this site of mine because of it. I will try to find broken
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links and fix them, but if you find such a link please drop me an
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email. The mail is still the hex-help at hornsc clara co uk one.
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<b>20 Aug 2009</b><br />
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Wow, nearly a year later, an update! Well actually I've been adding
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odd 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
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helpful also.
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</p>
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<p>
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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! ;-)
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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
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<a href="http://www.carolyn.minibytepetz.net/" target="_top"
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>this link</a
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>. Huge thanks to Minibyte!!
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</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
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the time, but I still love the old Petz, Babyz and Oddballz games so
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I've not abandoned you :-) No new hexings for you, but for Babyz
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players I have zipped up the
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<a href="/babyz/vvccr/">ViaVoice files</a> so that people who have
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been having problems with downloading the individual files can get
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them, plus on that page you will see a link to help those of you with
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damaged or lost CDs. Also there are a few links to creative and useful
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sites on my
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<a href="/smallislovely/" target="_main"
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>"small but beautiful" links page</a
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>. I have put a little more information on the
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<a href="/petz6/">new "petz" games</a> -- the ones that Ubisoft now
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calls Catz 2 and Dogz 2. These are in no way like the older Petz II
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game of course, but the info is there for completeness. It's a real
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nuisance that UbiSoft have chosen to call their new 3D pet games Catz,
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Dogz, Catz 2 and Dogz 2.
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<b>15 May 2008</b><br />
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Just a really tiny thing -- a new link on my
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<a href="/smallislovely/" target="_main"
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>"small but beautiful" links page</a
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:-) I know people have written to me before asking for links to be
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updated; forgive me, I have had various things such as computer
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crashes over the past few months and am not now able to find the
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messages. If you want a link changed, please write to me again.
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<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
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FinFin and Petz4 demo downloads. As far as I can see, everything is as
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it was before the site's foundations got slipped from under it.
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Nothing new, and still a messy monster of a site, but hey, the "olds"
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are back.
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<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
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/index.htm"
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target="_top"
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>this page (click)
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</a>
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at Blueyonder, where I hope to be able to keep you informed of
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whatever is going on.
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<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,
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<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/poodlepower707/" target="blank"
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>The Petz5 Palace</a
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has moved so I've changed the link on my "Small is Beautiful" page and
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I've fixed up one or two other links on a couple of the links pages.
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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
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<a href="/babyz/babyzedit/" target="main" title="Babyz Fixes"
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>Babyz fooler</a
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fans I have put up some files from the unpacked Babyz demo for those
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of you who can't get the demo to install. Also on the
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<a href="/babyz/vvccr/">ViaVoice fix</a> page, I've tried to make
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things a little clearer. For people who wanted the Petz 3 playscene
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Petz Vet and had trouble with the patchfile, I've uploaded the full
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scene on the
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<a
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href="/petz/petz3/p3playscenz/"
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target="_blank"
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title="Old Petz 3 Scenes"
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>Old Petz 3 Scenes</a
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>page 3. That's the lot for now.
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<b>10 June 2007</b><br />
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As always, in a huge rush. I have for you the abandonware game
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<a 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
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Creation, but it's a game that has been dumped by its craetors and is
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too cute to lose -- and Sue has kindly agreed to host it. I don't
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provide any help with getting it running, but I do give a link on the
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download page to a very helpful site and forum.
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<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
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now and then. Let's see... I put up a "Pointless Info 2" page to show
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that all the games can be made to work in Windows Vista -- an
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Operating System that I won't touch of course, it's even worse than
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XP, but I thought you'd be interested. I've made it easier to use the
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Petz II demo fooler, it has a whole page to itself now. A tweak or two
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on the Tutorials pages, can't remember in detail now exactly what. And
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some items for Babyz players and hexers on the "newest babyz" page.
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Sorry that updates are so random and far apart, but really I do stuff
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for the site as and when I can. I seem to have lost my latest notes on
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sites which I promised to add to my links pages, my deepest apologies
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to anyone who was expecting a link to go up but really my links pages
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are horribly out of date these days.
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</p>
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<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
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this year but very little of it has been petz-related for me. All I
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have for you this time is an updated link and a tweak or two on my
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tutorials page (a bit more info in my "what to do if petz crashes" and
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"what to do if Babyz crashes" howtos) and my Petz 4 demo-fooler page
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(get to it via my Mad Scientist page). The reason for the demo-fooler
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update is because it seems that demo-download sites now check to see
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what part of the world you live in before letting you download the
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demo, and if your area isn't right they won't let the download start.
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That is plain evil -- what the heck has happened to the Internet??
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Gah. Oh, and I realised I'd accidentally removed the Phantarella
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player link from my main page when I moved to Boardwalkerz, so she's
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back on the main page again.<br />
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For those interested in my fostercats, Paddlepat didn't make it
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through. Poor baby. His sisters were spayed this week and, thank
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heaven, it seems that they don't have the same latent disease that he
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had. They are lively and healthy. I am now running the
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/adoptacat/"
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target="_blank"
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>"adopt-a-cat" scheme </a
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>which helps to bring in some much-needed cash for the Cat Register
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and Rescue, so my time is now even more limited. And a wonderful thing
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happened which I'd like to shout to the heavens, but I can't put it on
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the sites, aaaargh.
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</p>
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<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
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<a 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
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a great new <a href="/sisters/" target="_top">sister site </a>--
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Miranda's PAC, which will be updated shortly with new breedz etc, so
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keep an eye on it! That's it for now. I've got a very very sick cat at
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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"
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title="Paddlepat"
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>Paddlepat</a
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>Paddlepat needs all my care and attention but he probably won't
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survive, so please keep the wee fellow in your thoughts and prayers.
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</p>
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<b>07 January 2007</b><br />
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Already the year is starting to zoom along... But I have a small
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update for Babyz players --
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<a href="/babyz/babyztoyz/">kitchen magnets separated.</a> Sorry
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that's it for now, I have a new cat in who needs plenty of attention.
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<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
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<a href="/petz/petz4/p4toyz/">a bunch of un-hidden toyz.</a> It
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doesn't include the ones which don't have on-shelf graphics, nor does
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it include the four gemstones. I may get those up soon, if Real Life
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doesn't take off too fast. And for Petz 3, 4 and 5 people who like to
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dabble in editing the binary parts of petz with a hex editor, I've put
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a little more info up on the
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<a href="/tutorials/petbreakdown/">Rough Pet Info</a> page.
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</p>
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<b>31 December 2006</b><br />
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Happy Hogmanay!! I have one small updates for you -- a howto on
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<a href="/tutorials/trottingandfloofing/">Trotting and Floofing .</a>
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wrote the thing ages ago and then forgot to upload it because LNZPro
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had a tick-box for it. But it seems that doesn't really work, so
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here's how to do it manually. Including how to make your chinchilla
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Persians trot, LOL.
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<b>28 December 2006</b><br />
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I hope your Yuletide is going well -- that the celebrations continue
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and that the coming weekend will produce a great hogmanay. I have one
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or two very small updates for you --
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<a href="/tutorials/yarntailcolour/">a howto on</a> changing the Yarn
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Ball tail colour, <a href="/newlinks/">a page of new links</a> and a
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bit more on
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<a 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
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_top"
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>at that site too.</a
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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
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made for me, and for the terrific new link banner and button, which
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are now of course on my links page -- although I've not managed to
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update it apart from that...<br />
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<img src="2006-12-22_1.gif" alt="a banner" /><br />
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<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
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year for Petz and modding. I now have a wordy little treatise on
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<a href="/hexingmodding/">What IS "hexing?"</a> -- MODDING!
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</p>
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<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
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while ago and forgot to mention -- I've not even managed to get the
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links I promised to update for various wonderful site-owners all fixed
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up, I 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
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for hosting my stuff for so long after she lost interest in Petz, and
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Sue has been a trojan for seamlessly taking over the bandwidth burden.
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For 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
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<a href="/sues_virtual_life/?@root" target="_top">Boardwalkerz </a>for
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all the information and charts that used to be there.
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</p>
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<p>
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<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>.
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They really are not a part of the Petz series, but for completeness I
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mention them.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>14 November 2006</b><br />
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Another month on, and nothing much for you -- but for Babyz fans I
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have three versions of Stewie and three different "cow bells" for them
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to wear on my
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<a href="/babyz/babyznewest/" target="main" title="Newest Babyz"
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>Newest Babyz</a
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page. Real Life and my kitties are taking so much of my time, bless
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the furry ones.
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<b>19 October 2006</b><br />
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Sorry it's been so long... and even now there's nothing new really,
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but I've adjusted a few pages to make things a little easier to find
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-- I hope. I've put the "if you can't download you're at the wrong
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place" info even easier to find as well as trying to make things such
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as the Babyz Fooler easier to follow. Also not new, but just to let
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anyone who needs help with Tinker or LNZPro or Petza/Babyza know --
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the link to his download site is on my Nicholas' Tools page, along
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with links to useful info. My links pages are woefully unkempt now,
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I'm sorry -- I can't face going through it all but I hope to adjust
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the most obvious and add an extra page of fresh, interesting sites
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soon. I've simply not been getting the time to do things properly --
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take a look at
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_blank"
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title="my fostercats"
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>my fostercats site</a
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for some idea of how busy I've been. And a lot has happened even since
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I updated there, LOL!
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<p>
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<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
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site or my fostercats one in all that time. As for this update, it's
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just for oddballz fans. Because Daniel's site is down and now, it
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seems, also Don's Amberoddballz, plus nowhere else on the net seems to
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have the demos, I've uploaded a demo and the official breedz to this
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site, also Ron Tigat's Oddballz Eggz Scrambler. You will find these
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things on the
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<a href="/oddballz/oddballzedit/">Oddballz Fixes</a> and
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<a 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
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down 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
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before the next update. Must dash.
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<p>
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<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 getting in the way big-time and I've only managed to update my
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_top"
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>My foster-cat site</a
|
|
>
|
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since I last updated here -- and even there I'm not up to date. And
|
|
I'm not managing to do half of what I've been promising people on this
|
|
update, sorry. But there are some little things.<br />
|
|
A bunch of experimental babyz, and more of my "Harem set" on the
|
|
<a href="/babyz/babyznewest/" target="main" title="Newest Babyz"
|
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>Newest Babyz</a
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>
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page. Yes, I know there aren't any pictures and that should have the
|
|
harem clothes on the clothes page. I don't have time to do it
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|
right!<br />
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On the
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<a href="/collaborations/" target="main" title="Collaborations"
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>Team creations</a
|
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>
|
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page you'll find a new Catz breed made from Casey Miller's pet. Also
|
|
there, my few Unibreedz -- Artie, Honkie and Sauropod -- should be
|
|
fixed for cross-breeding as they 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 href="/petz/petz1/catz1dex/">Catz 1 demo fooler</a> page.<br />
|
|
If you go to my sister site,
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|
<a href="http://boardwalkerz.com/babyz" target="_top"
|
|
>Sue Briley's Babyz Punked</a
|
|
>, you'll find there a couple of unusual babyz and a babyz clothing
|
|
item, for Naturists, made by myself.<br />
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|
I've got a couple of great cyberpets from Dulua Land up on my
|
|
Cyberpets page.<br />
|
|
NOT YET done -- a whole bunch of howtos, which will eventually go on a
|
|
"pot-luck" page, more half-done hexed stuff, and fixing up my links
|
|
pages. I don't know when these will get done, but one thing I will try
|
|
to get fixed and up soon is Miranda's brilliant sounds for Kirby.
|
|
</p>
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|
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<p>
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<b>03 March 2006</b><br />
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As always later than intended, but I added what I believe to be the
|
|
final soundfixes to the
|
|
<a href="/babyz/babyzxpsoundfix/">Babyz soundfix for XP</a> page. The
|
|
new downloads and replacements are marked with the date beside them,
|
|
so if you downloaded most of the files before today, just download
|
|
those which are marked. My friend gave the whole thing a quick test,
|
|
and with any luck this will prevent any sound-related freezes in your
|
|
game now. Remember, people, you do need to 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 Twilight, and I'm displaying it
|
|
with pride :-) Thank you so much!<br />
|
|
<img src="2006-03-03.jpg" />
|
|
</p>
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|
|
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<p>
|
|
<b>27 February 2006</b><br />
|
|
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 />
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<b>07 February 2006</b><br />
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
<b>28 January 2006</b><br />
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
<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>
|
|
|
|
<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
|
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*happy-dance*<br />
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Meanwhile, my good pal Sue picked up my broken pieces and generously
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offered to mirror my site; see the link above :-)<br />
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Updates to the site are a couple of
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<a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools</a> -- go fetch the
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latest Pet Workshop and LNZPro 2. Also there are some new links to
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great sites on my
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<a href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful"</a> and
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<a href="/babyzlinks/">babyz</a> links pages, and a few small tweaks
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on the tutorials pages.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>10 August 2005</b><br />
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<br />
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Not much, just a howto for people who are having difficulty working
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out how to use Tinker and LNZPro 2. On my
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<a href="/tutorials/tutorials/">Tutorials page</a>. For those who are
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interested in my fostercats site, I'm going to update
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_BLANK"
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>there also</a
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>
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today, with some cheerful news and a new family member. All a bit
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rushed, Real Life is running away with me :-)
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>03 August 2005</b><br />
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<br />
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Yup, another version of Petza/Babyza, version 1.1.4; also another
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version of Pet Workshop, also version 1.1.4. As always, they are on
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<a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools pages</a>. I've got
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a small howto on the tutorials,
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<a href="/petz/petzedit/#BRE">Petz-specific page</a> because I've been
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asked a few times how to change the default pet name at the AC. I have
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a bunch of other howtos waiting to be polished up and uploaded,
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they're too rough at the moment. Some nice shiny new links on the
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<a href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful"</a> and
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<a href="/babyzlinks/">babyz</a> links pages, you really want to check
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them out! Also, for my own pleasure, I have a
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<a href="/cyberpets/">Cyberpet page</a> for my site (thanks, Rachel!)
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and some lovely updates on my
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<a href="/flowers/">"gifts from friends"</a> pages. Nothing else for
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you today, but for those who are interested in my fostercats, I
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recently had another update
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_BLANK"
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>there also</a
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>
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but be warned, the latest update was quite sad.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>28 July 2005</b><br />
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<br />
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Another version of Petza/Babyza, this time a "bugfix" version 1.4.3
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thanks to people who sent Nicholas their bug reports, and to Nicholas
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too of course :-) as usual on
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<a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools page</a>; thanks
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yet again, Nicholas! Also another neat link on my
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<a href="/smallislovely/">"small is beautiful" </a>links page.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>22 July 2005</b><br />
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<br />
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Nearly 3 weeks since I last uploaded... So sorry! Well, today I've
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uploaded Pet Workshop version 1.1.3 on
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<a href="/specials/nicholastools/">Nicholas' Tools page</a>; thanks,
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Nicholas! Various improvements for the program's fans, so go see! One
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or two little tweaks here and there on the site too, including
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adjustments to the Petz 4, Babyz and Petz 5 foolers. Also some updated
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links on my links pages, and for those who follow my fostercats I've
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recently updated
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<a
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href="http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm"
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target="_BLANK"
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>there also.</a
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>
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Oh, and I don't think I mentioned earlier that I am hosting
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<a href="http://www.geocities.com/cheesycrustie/" target="_BLANK"
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>Iola</a
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>'s Miniature Bows for Dogz on my
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<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"
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>Off-site specials</a
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>, as she has had some server problems and in fact had lost all of
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them. Well, they are all back online again now :-)
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</p>
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<p>
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<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
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<a 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
|
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link on my
|
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<a href="/specials/petz3-5lnz/">P3,4,5 LNZ breedz page</a> --
|
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<a href="http://paccybertown.250free.com/Kirby/KirbysPage.html"
|
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>Miranda</a
|
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>
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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
|
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really. Hope to do more soon.
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