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Message: 6706

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 02/11/2010

Subject: Re: JSW websites

 

jetsetdanny wrote:

Does anyone know if JSW pages of:

1. Sendy (Alex Cornhill)

2. Geoff Eddy

3. Nick Aldridge

4. Jet Visy (Visa-Valtteri Pimiä)

are still online somewhere out there?

They are all archived at the Wayback Machine
<http://www.archive.org/web/web.php>. Sendy and Jet Visy have had several websites over the years, so perhaps some of their older sites are archived there too.

I got the impression that Geoff Eddy took his site down deliberately and section by section, judging by the messages that he posted there, which I saw last December. By that time, his JSW pages were still there, but his _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ pages were already gone, with a message that he might put them back if he got enough people asking for them. He got at least one.

Also, are there any new websites / web pages devoted to JSW/MM for
the Spectrum (say, created in the last three years)?

The only one of which I'm aware is my own website, which has suffered two changes of domain in just over a year. As a result, it now has very low visibility on Google; it's easier to find archived copies of my old site than to find my new site! I've been having great difficulty spreading the new URIs, due to some idiotic spam-filters.

But it's not like I've been doing extensive Google searches for MM/JSW, or keeping up with the _World of Spectrum_ fora and comp.sys.sinclair as I would if I were not so extremely busy. It's quite possible that I might have missed something.

After the amazing surge of reinterest in MM/JSW at the dawn of the Spectrum-emulator era – which peaked with 32 new MM/JSW games in 2000–2002 – it feels like the interest is waning and waning.

Will there be any interest left in MM/JSW by 2013? I have already lost 2011 in advance as far as my MM/JSW activity is concerned, and if the deal on which I'm currently working goes through, I could easily lose 2012 before the end of November 2010.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://abroad.sqweebs.org/spectrum/mmjsw/

 

 

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