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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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