Once more… I really want to say sorry for all the inconveniences that I’ve caused in these 3 days but I’ve been working 9 hours a day ONLY on this website to make it better and take your user experience to the next level.

You’ll probably have noticed that I’ve changed again the forum platform, I had to do this because BB Press was just too simple, too minimalistic and sending private messages was not as straightforward as I’d liked to. In addition to this, there were several things that were not working correctly and after spending hours trying to fix them I gave up and went looking for something else.

The new forum is powered by Mingle Forum and it works incredibly well so far, I really encourage you guys to try it out and see if everything is ok.

There’s a beta version of it that looks even better than this but there are no skins for it and therefore it doesn’t blend well with our wordpress theme. I’ll be waiting for it to be released (or for skins to come out) and then we’ll upgrade.

New features to look out for:

• Upper right, next to your user name: there’s a small thing that will notify you about stuff that happens in the website, so you can immediately see if there’s something new from your last visit (testing needed).
• Improved profiles: now you can make a better profile, with more stuff and use an avatar without registering to the Gravatar service. Those who already have a Gravatar won’t need to change anything.
  Due to this change, people will have to partially redo their profile.
• Private Messages: yes, they are here, they are INSIDE the forums and are well implemented in the system: now you can directly message a user and/or compose a new message from scracth.

I still need to “clean” the forum and put back all the stickies, close the threads were people are not supposed to write in, etc… I’ll make some of these today and the rest tomorrow.

I hope no posts got lost during the various migration (the last one from bbPress to MingleForum was extremely painful, I had to inject manually the threads and posts via SQL queries): if you see a post you made missing, I deeply apologize for this and I kindly ask you to post again the content.

aaaand…. that’s all folks!
Again… I encourage you trying these new features out and report in the forums if everything works for you.

I’ll see you next week with a new release!

Hi everyone,

it’s been a long, long day of super hard work for me, trying to migrate everything and make all the stuff work, but it’s finally done.

There’s still work to do, bugs to squash here and there, little adjustments to do, but I’m too damn tired now to go on.

Following the style of the website the forum has a minimalist look which I really hope you’ll enjoy. The forum now is faster and more responsive.

The only problem is that you’ll have to redo part of your user profiles: these have been vastly improved, now you can use an avatar without using the gravatar service.

And finally, the much requested Private Message feature. Many of you asked for it and here it is.

There are loads of things to try out, I kindly ask you to try several functions of the new forums and features and report all that’s not working as I haven’t been able to due to time restriction.

That’s all for now, see you in the forums!

I mean, I’m trying to do stuff and it is agonizingly slow, moving topic around is a pain, everything feels really sluggish.

I’m really hating it with a passion and that’s why tomorrow I’ll go full YOLO and install a new forum platform based off BBForum which (hopefully) will yield better results.

All the data will be migrated but I absolutely don’t give any kind of guarantee that it will go alright.

The user database is inside WordPress itself and as such you won’t have to register again but I make no promises that all your threads and posts will be migrated correctly.
I strongly encourage you to jot down the games you’ve requested so far because they may be lost during the migration.

Sorry about this sudden change, but I really couldn’t bear with this forum platform anymore.

The Forum will be locked down tomorrow at 14.00 CEST time so I can install the new platform and migrate all the data.

Hopefully everything will work out nicely and we’ll see again on the new boards tomorrow evening!

The quest for perfection

Probably someone already knew this because they saw the post I made yesterday on Facebook, but here we go…

I’m proud to announce you that our recording chain has been upgraded.

By now everyone knows how I strive to get perfect, flawless sound out of the source to provide you not only the most accurate soundtracks ever made, but with the best quality possible: it’s my personal quest, my mission to never stop improving the audio quality of our project and always taking it to the next level.
Lately I’ve received enthusiastic emails praising my work and that not only kept me going, but further pushed me to get even better results with my work to keep you amazed with our releases thus setting a new quality standard.

Well, enough with the talks, lets get down with the changes:

The most critical part, the audio interface, has been upgraded with a (definitely) better one: the TC Electronic Desktop Konnekt 6

What does this mean?
It means that from now on our releases will sound even better, cleaner, fuller, and more dynamic.

The changes doesn’t stop here: I’ve made some small adjustments to the Mega Drive/Genesis as well as the output level was a tad too high and was saturating the sound providing a little bit of distortion – now that’s fixed as well.
To reduce background noise the headphone socket has been replaced with a sturdy professional 6.3mm jack for perfect contact.

This also means that, for coherence matters, we will be ripping the games we’ve already released AGAIN since they needed to be reuploaded with proper cover artwork and HD Youtube video however.
Every time a game will get re-ripped and released you’ll know it because at the end of the game name there will be a –REMASTERED- tag, meaning the the soundtrack has been updated.

News doesn’t stop here though.

Our staff member Roareye will be taking active part in the project by releasing Amiga games’ soundtracks following our principles:

• 100% accuracy towards the source – what the source outputs is what you’ll hear, no filters or stuff added
• Maximum recording quality – everything will be released in high resolution FLAC sampled at 96 Khz and 24 bit (and lower formats as well for convenience)

To achieve this, I’ll be sending him my previous recording equipment on a “long term loan” so he’ll be able to provide you guys Amiga soundtracks recorded with astounding quality.

This means that Roareye is now effectively the second admin of the project and will be working actively with me releasing Amiga soundtracks! Gratz!! :D
And that’s it for now guys… that’s a whole lot of news, hope you’re happy with how the project is evolving!

Stay tuned as a new release is coming out shortly and keep an eye out for these Remastered soundtracks! You won’t believe your ears. ;]

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Enjoy this extra release, provided you by your boss!

This release has a special purpose: it will be pitted against the Outrun’s official soundtrack to see what sounds best!!

Stay tuned for this exciting head to head and see who’ll win!!
 

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