MetaZine Issue #5 
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"Now It's Ok To Be Square"


VOL 1, Issue 5, April 6, 2001


Editor: Joshua Dickerson, editors@metasquarer.com


Coeditor: Michael Barnathan, webmaster@programmerfaq.com


Publisher: Joshua Dickerson


http://www.MetaSquares.com/metazine


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              IN THIS ISSUE


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  1. Headline: MetaZine is back!


  2. Poll: Free Email @metasquares.com?


  3. NEWS FLASH!


	New version released.


  4. Article: New server for Metasquarer


  5. The top 10 players


  6. Feature Article:


        Metasquares.com hosting now done by cihost


  7. Featured Web Site


  8. The Quote


  9. Subscription Management


  10. Contact Information





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1.  MetaZine is back!


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After a long period of waiting, I finally got the computer with the password to MetaZine back. I can finally start publishing again! I'll try to keep the once every two weeks frequency on MetaZine from now on. As for the editor, Josh, he seems to have disappeared, reappearing very infrequenty and briefly, before fading into obscurity again.





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2. Poll


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New Poll: How do you like the idea of Metasquarer users getting a free email @metasquares.com? 





Choices:





  Free email!? WHY are we having this poll? I love the idea!  


  Sounds good  


  It could be better  


  Well I wouldn't sign up  


  I think it's a terrible idea  


  I'm undecided   


  


Responses Choices  Votes  %  1 reply  Respondents  





Free email!? WHY are we having this poll? I love the idea!  1  100.00%    compnut78@cs.com


Sounds good  0  0.00%    


It could be better  0  0.00%    


Well I wouldn't sign up  0  0.00%    


I think it's a terrible idea  0  0.00%    


I'm undecided  0  0.00%  





To participate:


In order to participate in the poll you have to be a member


of Egroups (http://egroups.com).  Then you have to join


MetaSquares Newsletter (http://metasquares.com).  Upon


logging into your egroups account, there will be a link


for the poll.  Go there and vote.





By the way, in build 60, you CAN have an email at metasquares.com!





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3. NEWS FLASH!: New version released!


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Metasquarer version 6.0 is out!


This version offers integration with metasquares.com,


allowing you to check your stats and make changes to


your account on the web!





These are the official changes made in build 60:





Enabled skins again. Should work fine now. 


Made irccontrol2.ocx into a class module. It's part of Metasquarer now, should be no problems whatsoever with it anymore. 


Put icons next to users' names. Icons can be customized on the webpage. 


Added a login system. Nicknames are now password protected. 


Since logins work on the server, you may access your rating, etc, from any computer. 


There's a LOT of info about your name on the web now... you can also change things. 


You may now view every game ever played in version 6.0 on the web... I hope this doesn't fill my 50 MB quota :) 


Fixed a text parsing bug. Smilies should show up fine now :). 


Added the option for applying skins on startup (Default off), in case people have problems with skins. 


Operators are shown in Bold text now. 


Changed autoconfig file location to main server due to problems on the alternate. Also made it a perl script instead of text. 


Try right clicking someone's name! It brings a menu up with rating, email, and the works! 


Top 10 displays MUCH quicker now, due to a better parsing algorithm. 


Fixed some bugs in peeking. 


Fixed many minor bugs. 


Added large font support. 


Added room rules. This allows for tournaments to be set up with strictly defined rules, and prohibits people from playing in #chat. Nifty. 


Found and fixed a bug where the last person to enter a chat would not be shown in the name list. 


Re-made the piece images. Hopefully this will correct the "not seeing my first move" problem a few people had. 


Build 60 users may logon to the website to check their stats and change info such as username or password. 








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4. Article: New Server for Metasquarer


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Metasquarer has moved to a new server in winter 2001. We are now being hosted on Mike's server!





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5. The Top 10 Metasquarer players





Metasquarer top 10 players





1.) smirk (MadRoth@aol.com)


    125.79


2.) CatC1 (Fallen1@aol.com)


    125.74


3.) Matt


    119.53


4.) BullGator (flbound6@aol.com)


    119.17


5.) gonesoon (DewmanJr@aol.com)


    116.67


6.) Elaine (frankelain@aol.com)


    110.02


7.) tincan (mrpsf@aol.com)


    108.88


8.) Tester (metasquarer@metasquarer.com)


    108.80


9.) dragon


    107.41


10.) Lard (mirolimo@aol.com)


    107.39





Interested in becoming one of the Top 10 Metasquarers?


You can become one by downloading Build 57 or later of Metasquarer


at Metasquares.com or Metasquarer.com





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6.  Feature Article


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Metasquares.com hosted by CIHost!





Metasquares.com is now hosted by CIHost, and we are paying


through the nose for it :). This host gives us a whopping


2 GB of disk space to use, hypermart only gave us 50 MB.


The host doesn't have ads, so you can surf the site without


being dragged down by hypermart's banner ads. We can debug


CGI script much more easily thanks to server-side script


editing as well.





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6. Featured Web Site


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Squaroid





This is an interesting site. This site is the homepage for


Squaroid, a Linux Metasquarer clone. The programmer and I


have created cross-compatibility between our programs, and


we have both helped each other out many times. This site has


some great information on how to create your own clone, and


for all those that know C++, the Squaroid project is opensource.





Go there:  http://www.squaroid.de





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8.  The Quote


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"AOL had reportedly tried to talk MetaCreations into moving the game to the Premium games area, which currently charges members US$1.99 per hour over the $19.95 monthly membership fee to play. MetaSquares will not be available on AOL after September 1."





--- Press release from www.gamespot.com





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7.  Subscription Management


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8.  Contact Information


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Thank You


Joshua Dickerson (eye-say.com) - editor@metasquarer.com


Michael Barnathan - webmaster@programmerfaq.com








You can find Joshua on MetaSquarer.


Nickname: Groundup





You can find Mike on MetaSquarer.


Nickname: Mike, Tester





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