Paul Keating
August 22nd, 2010, 04:43 PM
We now have verbatim records of play from round 49 onwards, available
for online search or download, either here (49–1569, in Pages,
History; and 1804– , in the message archive); or in the Coryphæus
group over at Yahoo (1561–1803).
Call me a completist if you will, but I would really like to fill the
gap between round 25 (which is where Loren Jenkins' summary of the
first 6 months of play ended) and round 49, when Russ Heimerson took
on the weighty mantle of the game's first round-by-round scorekeeper.
Russ and Scott Crom responded generously to earlier calls for old
message files, in 2008 and 2009, and between them provided
impressively complete records of over 1500 rounds, which you can now
download as XML, open in a browser, search, and even write an XQuery
on if you feel so inclined.
Can either of the two remaining players who were around at the time
fill the gap?
I do realize that enquiring after Tapcis .msg files from early 1990 is
asking for the moon. My own records of the first round I played (186)
fell victim to a disk-full message somewhere in the late 90s.
But I thought I would ask anyway.
for online search or download, either here (49–1569, in Pages,
History; and 1804– , in the message archive); or in the Coryphæus
group over at Yahoo (1561–1803).
Call me a completist if you will, but I would really like to fill the
gap between round 25 (which is where Loren Jenkins' summary of the
first 6 months of play ended) and round 49, when Russ Heimerson took
on the weighty mantle of the game's first round-by-round scorekeeper.
Russ and Scott Crom responded generously to earlier calls for old
message files, in 2008 and 2009, and between them provided
impressively complete records of over 1500 rounds, which you can now
download as XML, open in a browser, search, and even write an XQuery
on if you feel so inclined.
Can either of the two remaining players who were around at the time
fill the gap?
I do realize that enquiring after Tapcis .msg files from early 1990 is
asking for the moon. My own records of the first round I played (186)
fell victim to a disk-full message somewhere in the late 90s.
But I thought I would ask anyway.