What was New at the Fort for 1996.

• Thursday 19th of December
  An introduction to RISC OS is now tucked away deep in the Power section of the site. It features images of the desktop along with explantory text to allow newcomers to RISC OS to get a taste of what the OS is like to use.
• Tuesday 17th of December
  The entry for Complicity is now online.
• Tuesday 10th of December
  Added a link to Aardvark in the Teleport section. This site is well worth checking out if you are using the Internet in NZ. Also I have freshened the links to the Culture Shock and Acorn Demo pages. Finally I have removed the link to Justin's Links from the Underground. Mostly because I don't think his pages is worth visiting anymore due to the changing values it now represents.
• Monday 2nd of December
  Yet more tidying to the standing collection, hopefully the last of such till I upload the next entry into it. Also I have placed into the Archives section a new Freeware module, CacheCtrl, for downloading. It provides a cache control OSCLI command for rendering some older programs StrongARM compatible in a tidy fashion.
• Friday 29th of November
  Tidied up the entries uploaded on Monday and a few others in the standing collection to which they belong.
• Monday 25th of November
  Now uploaded are the entries for Walking on Glass and Espedair Street in the Iain M. Banks standing collection.
• Friday 22nd of November
  I have updated the TTA Books page to include a short list of commonly asked questions about these books.
• Tuesday 19th of November
  Once again I am being plagued by irksome computer problems that are requiring the servicing of my machine half a country away from me. This has made preparing new HTML pages and entries tricky at the best of times. Thus the delays in things happening at the moment. However, that said, a new comment is up in the Atrium - on Bayblon 5 and the patterns in it visible thus far.
• Wednesday 30th of October
  Finally the cover image for Great Space Battles is in place, completing the update of that section. For some reason doing this cover proved most problematic due to file corruptions and the like.
• Thursday 24th of October
  The cover image for Star Liners is now in place, I was going to add the one for Great Space Battles but it didn't survive the journey home well corrupting for an as yet unexplained reason. Hmph.
• Monday 21st of October
  The ARM Chips page has been updated with details about the AMULET2e processor.
• Thursday 17th of October
  Due to popular demand I have included two images of the TTA Books' cover illustrations. This is to aid in identifying the book when hunting for it on a bookshelf somewhere.
• Tuesday 15th of October
  Minor tweaks around the place. I have adjusted the front page and tag to reflect the season again and done a few corrections down in the Books section.
• Wednesday 9th of October
  I have uploaded a new story, Change, into the stories section. My hard drive is still awaiting replacement so life is going at a slow pace for a while.
• Thursday 3rd of October
  The details for the 1997 Paul John Stratham Writing Competition are now online and available. Good luck to those people entering the competition.
  
  Secondly my SCSI drive has started to die, again, on me. So my computer is currently running in a reduced state meaning that updates to the page are likely to be patchy. However the good news is that this might give me some time to do some reading again...
• Wednesday 25th of September
  And the entry for Canal Dreams is now online and available.
• Monday 16th of September
  Uploaded a new comment into the Atrium, an exercise in speculation about the Borg. I have also added into the Teleport section a new URL in the people pages - to Laura Lemay's home pages. Well worth a quick stop by while reading the Web.
• Tuesday 10th of September
  The entry for The Bridge is now online.
• Monday 2nd of September
  Added the entry for Use of Weapons.
• Monday 26th of August
  Added the entry for The Wasp Factory. I have also gone through the standing collections and removed a few spelling, grammatical and other mistakes that were scattered around those pages.
• Saturday 23rd of August
  Did a general tidyup of the Image tags in use on the pages. All of them now have appropriate Alt tags, even the ones that I don't want any alternative text to be displayed for.
• Wednesday 21st of August
  Udated the link to Mark Thomas' pages, due to them moving to a new location.
• Tuesday 20th of August
  Removed the 'Afterlife of Bob' entry from the Transport section and updated the 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' link, due to that page moving.
• Monday 19th of August
  An entry for The Player of Games is now online.
• Saturday 10th of August
  The ARMChips file has been updated with more information about the ARM1 chip and what became of the ARM4 & ARM5 cells.
• Tuesday 30th of July
  I have uploaded the entry for Whit into the standing collection.
• Friday 26th of July
  Now the entry for 'Feersum Endjinn' is online. Also I have corrected the entry in the Teleport section for 'Fried Society', which has changed URLs slightly.
• Tuesday 23rd of July
  The entry for 'Consider Phlebas' is now up and in place. As well I have added a link to the Strange Matter cartoon archive in the Teleport section.
• Sunday 21st of July
  Firstly it must be now noted that these web pages are over a year old. Something that I must admit I wondered if I would manage to maintain a sufficiently level of enthusiasm and interest to keep updating them over that kind of time frame.
  
  It seems I am well and truely addicted to the things.
  
  As for updates I am preparing, down in the Random Stacks a few standing collections of details about books and authors I think worth supporting. Spearheading this is a section of Iain M. Banks' books, which will be updated and fleshed out over the next few days to weeks. Also there is a section devoted to the Terran Trade Authority Books, which is fully finished.
  
  I hope people find this new section useful.
• Thursday 11th of July
  Sorry for the delay, I have been a touch busy with things. Part of that will be the re-opening of the Acorn archive in the near future with, hopefully, a nice and spiffy HTML interface. The link in the Archive section will be updated when appropriate, not to mention news posts to the various appropriate groups.
  
  As to what has changed. Well a few links have been trimmed from the Transport area, much to my annoyance the 'Temple of the Conqueror' doesn't seem to be accesible anymore. And two other links to pages that haven't been updated in quite a while have been removed. Finally a new comment has been uploaded, Of Mice and Users.
• Tuesday 18th of June
  A new notice has been placed on the noticeboard.
• Tuesday 11th of June
  The Archive section has now had a heavy update to list a collection of Freeware and Shareware software that I have had a hand in. (Mostly I wrote it.) Acorn users are invited to peruse at their leisure.
• Friday 7th of June
  Quiet tidying around the place. It is now worth flushing your image cache of the standard tag image and reloading that. I am toying with the idea of reflecting the current season in the tag image and the introductory page.
  
  Being ever mindful of the modem users out there I have now split the Infodesk's entries up by year. So there is now a link down the bottom of the page allowing you to go and check out the previous year.
  
  Finally I have added some new links into the Teleport section.
• Tuesday 4th of June
  Tweaking around the place mostly. But I have added a new form to the Movies page so that the really lazy have a pre-written email done for them. Also I added alta-vista to the 'useful' section in the teleport.
• Monday 20th of May
  After a quick tidy up of various pages, in minor ways, I have uploaded a new comment into the Atrium - about the balkanization of the net currently occuring.
  
  Also I have updated the ARMChips list to include more details about the StrongARM processors. This seems to be a fairly popular page with people in Intel, Sony and Hewlett Packard. So I hope you people appreciate the update. :)
• Saturday 18th of May
  After a long delay the Endeavour pages are available. To facilitate this I have opened a new section, the Noticeboard, that will contain details about various functions, events or shows I consider noteworthy.
• Thursday 9th of May
  I have added a few new links into the Teleport section. Some of them are definitely worth checking. Also a new story has been added to the Library.
• Monday 29th of April
  Uploaded a new comment into the Atrium.
• Monday 22nd of April
  Added a new link to the Teleport section. Due to the return of a certain SCSI card I have been a tad busy reconfiguring everything and working my way through the backlog of posts and CDROMs. However I have not forgotten this site, and will be doing some more work on it soon.
• Tuesday 2nd of April
  I have added two new poems to the garden. Does anyone read these things?
  
  Secondly I have taken the Comms centre offline. The links it contained were mostly unuseable or had gone offline anyhow.
• Monday 1st of April
  Okay, more links for ya in the Teleport section. Also a minor tidyup of the ARM chips list. (Found a spelling error, noted the omission of the 33MHz part for the ARM610 and updated the ARM7 section to include details about the 40MHz 710 chip.)
• Monday 25th of March
  I have done some tidying up of the Wellington page. I found a few spelling errors and corrected the odd grammatical clumsiness. Due to continued hardware woes I am still unable to put up the Endeavour pictures. Still I'll see what else I can rustle up in the meantime.
• Wednesday 6th of March
  Been link trimming. If you notice a few links missing it is because they are no longer valid ones. (Odd that)
• Tuesday 5th of March
  I have done some link adding to the Teleport section. Namely links to Outbreak, Psychobabble, System 7 and the Temple of the Conqueror. All nice sites, although the Temple of the Conqueror deserves extra mention as being a very nicely laid out site. In my opinion only the Lurker's Guide surpasses it.
  
  Furthermore I have trimmed The Spot and the Computer Cartoon out. The Computer Cartoon is currently between sites and unavailable. On the other hand The Spot has simply got boring, possibly the novelty of it has worn off but I suspect more the story is now into serious rehash territory. So out it goes...
• Monday 4th of March
  My apologies for those of you awaiting updates to these pages. Things have been a touch nasty of late, making updates tricky. By way of explanation I have uploaded the details for you to read. In the meantime I will try and get around my general lack of usual tools for doing this sort of thing and keep the pages fairly fresh.
• Tuesday 13th of February
  I have quite massively rearranged the layout of the FAQ into friendlier bite sized chunks. This took some doing and I hope the people out there in TV land appreciate the effort. (For the hint impaired out there in TV land that was a request for feedback on the FAQ.)
• Monday 5th of February
  Alright, I am impressed. My nomination for the most unusual site to have visited these pages has to go to callers from McMurdo Sound. It is an odd feeling knowing that Antarctica is on the net, we really do live in a world where the net goes most anywhere.
  
  Well a big hello to the visitors from the south. If you get the chance, and have the inclination, I'd love to hear from ya.
• Friday 2nd of February
  Okay, been busy as usual. It looks strongly like these pages might be moving again in the near future. Something I am not terribly happy about but these days of wonderful new internet competition in NZ has it's prices. One of them is a constantly fluctuating pricing war.
  
  At any rate I am now looking again for a nice stable home. The usual 'these pages have moved' warnings will be put up after the move. Also I have pulled down the pjsbro competition page. The deadline for entries has passed so if you are not entered by now, you never will be for this year.
  
  Anyways, not much else to report. I should really get back to some FAQ modifications... Oh yeah, one final thought for you. "The end of the world, is nought!" I'll expand on that later.
• Monday 22nd of January
  Adjusted the JPEGs in the Wellington so that they occupy less space. The total page is now 382 kb (or so) compared to a shade under a Mb before.
• Sunday 21st of January
  Added a whole bunch of new links into the Teleport section. Places linked to include Planets Edge, Todays Computer Cartoon, some Atheist links and a general URL submission page. I also have rearranged the page slightly to catagorise things a bit more. Some of the sections are starting to get a little large.
• Friday 19th of January
  I have uploaded a new poem and a new comment into their respective sections. All things considered the move seems to have gone well. Few teething troubles and from the access logs back on central most people have caught on to the new location.
  
  Now that I have more space I am contemplating extending the site a bit. Possibly a few more pictures I have taken with my trusty camera. Definitely I want to place up the freeware software I have written. Maybe this weekend i will have the time to draft up the HTML for that. As always, you, the reader is welcome to make suggestions as to what you want here.
• Wednesday 10th of January
  Added a link to Starting Point into the Teleport section. Generally did some tidying up of a few rough edges from the move of pages. I tried to design these pages to be portable, and to an extent they are, but there always seem to be a few things that need changing.
• Sunday 7th of January
  Phewww! Major reworking as I move the pages to their new home. Because HTML 2 doesn't support a tag file system at all I had to update every page to correct email the addresses referenced at the bottom of my pages. Unfortunately CityNet, aka kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, is shutting down in a few months so I thought I would wean off their system now, while I was doing the move.
  
  I have updated the transport page with a few new links, namely to Argon Zark, Planet Wellington, Sorabji's pages and a set of pages about the Reboot TV show.
  
  Back, by semi popular demand, are the Wellington pages. Be warned these pages are large, at around a megabyte of total data.