www.gamerz.net/pbmserv has been off line for about a week now. Has anyone heard from Richard Rognlie? I can't even email him through the server. It would be a shame to lose this resource for playing so many abstracts, plenty of which are available nowhere else on the Net. It was an email server, but also had a graphical web interface. Once you were logged in for free, you could just click to make your moves. Just as one example, These are Trilbert tiles. I don't know if any such exist in the real world or not.
Don't use windows/ms when i can avoid it, and don't know about zillions. But iggamecenter seems like a good, open site to me. More of us should go there!
There's Axiom which is free and can work with Zillions but also works as a standalone product. There's also Vassal which is used for lots of wargames but can also work with abstracts.
Yes. I started another project (not related to IT at all) that takes 24/7 of my time and will most likely continue be so for the next couple of years at least.
Still, there are some recent events related to igGC, which may change its fate drastically this year. Doesn't depend on me personally, though, because I am not involved into active development at this phase.
Nothing special. igGC doesn't depend on iGoogle. Anyone can continue playing on igGC itself directly. Any site that uses the internal igGC gadget won't see any difference cause that internal igGC gadget has nothing to do with iGoogle.
Richard sent an email to players saying that Gamerz will be back online tomorrow, but with the games as of about January 20. He had a fried hard drive and january 20 was his last backup.
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