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931. The Neighborhood Handler 4.00 Final out!

Written on Sunday 15 December 2002 at 22:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's here, the final version of The Neighborhood Handler 4.00! After months of work, it's finally ready. The manual got a new design and has been rewritten nearly completely. A few tutorials have been added too. But most important: the program is working ok! There were still quite a lot of bugs in the latest Release Candidate 2 version, a few of them causing not all files to be copied properly. Those old versions have been taken offline. To prevent such problems and other bugs, ALL users of The Neighborhood Handler 4.0 RC1 or 4.0 RC2 MUST upgrade to the 4.00 final version! I will not be giving any support anymore for these versions. Because this update is so critical, everybody can download it right away, so the big public doesn't have to wait a week after the group members got it.

You can download the full version from this page, or get the upgrade version here. For the upgrade version, you need to have version 3.7 or later installed. Enjoy this new version.

932. Sim Brother Celebrities need your help !!

Written on Friday 13 December 2002 at 18:17 by Andy - 0 comments.

933. Old-Style Homes

Written on Friday 13 December 2002 at 06:35 by Jendea - 0 comments.

One huge rambling Victorian and a compact practical Craftsman. Also, I added a window which is used in the Victorian.
You can view them all under my section: Jendea
Enjoy!

934. SimDay: More chats...

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 19:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week in SimDay: a new TSO and SimCity 4 chat, a patch for The Sims Deluxe and a new The Sims PS2 website. The patch and website info can be read in the "Read more" link, but first here is all the chat info. First of all, tonight at 11pm (British time, midnight GMT or 3pm Pacific) there will be a chat of SimCity 4. Guest of honour is Joseph, designer of that game, who will be talking about the rewards system. Tomorrow there's another TSO chat where you can talk about the development team. That event will be held at 2am British time (which is 3 in the morning in Europe, 6pm PST). A chat of last week's chat is available at the TSO site. As it's available only in the community events section of the bug boards, I cannot read the chat as I cannot join the play test either. Remember that we have a TSO interview too! You can still submit your questions to us so your questions get answered. Read More!

935. Server is back! New feature up!

Written on Sunday 8 December 2002 at 23:55 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The moment you've all been waiting for (well, we were anyway) is here! The server is back up which means we can properly add files for your enjoyment again. But, we've also added something new, which is necessary for us. As I've explained more often, hosting a site costs money. At the moment, the costs are quite high for us and unfortunately we cannot afford it anymore at the moment. That's why we need your help! You can send us an amount of money (you decide how much) using the Donate button on the left (or by following this link). With the donations, we hope to cover all our costs. But, that's not where we stop! When we're able to pay all our bills, we will send the remainder of what we got to a charity. For the next few months we've selected the RGA. For more details about that, go to the donations page.

As we don't want you to leave empty-handed, we give you some value for your money too. Every month, a new bunch of special files will be added to this site. When you donate, you will get an email with a username and password, which you need to download these files. The files are listed in the donations file group, so you can get a preview of the files before you donate. You can also wait a month to get the files for free then, but then you also don't help us... which might mean we have to close down eventually! So:

936. The Sims Online Shipping Confirmed [Update]

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 17:31 by Steve - 3 comments.

The date for The Sims Online being shipped has been confirmed as the 17th December (providing there are no manufacturing problems). This will mean you will be able to purchase The Sims Online very soon!

If you want you can still become a play tester for The Sims Online by visiting The Sims Online Site. Or you can go direct to the order site at: https://secure.dotcomdist.com/maxemail.htm. Shipping is free if you live in the US or Canada, if you live outside the US or Canada shipping is $10. Please note that in certain countries you will not be able to sign up for the play test.

Update 8 December, 0:00 by ChEeTaH: This means The Sims Online has gone gold, i.e. production (pressing cds and manuals, boxing the packages etc) has started. As TheSimsResource says: "The Sims Online has been approved for production": the 'master cd' is ready and went to the companies for pressing. Note that this is only for the American edition (USA, Canada). Exact European release dates are unknown but it probably will be the first quarter of 2003.

937. SimDay Update: another chat

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 00:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The SimDay news got updated a bit late again, with the news that there will be a SimCity 4 chat again next thursday (12 December) at 3pm PST (11pm GMT, midnight in Europe). The chat will be one where you can ask your questions to MaxisJoseph, designer of the SimCity 4 team. Go to chat here at that time to submit your questions. The same goes for the TSO chat later tonight (it's just a few hours away!). Have fun chatting!

938. GameSpot TSO Feature

Written on Sunday 1 December 2002 at 01:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As mentioned before, GameSpot has added their "Behind the Games" feature of The Sims Online. It's a long but interesting read. One thing that's talked about, is the original idea for TSO:

"'Originally, our idea was that you'd set up your house and it would act as a server,' recalls Wright. In essence, you would build your house offline and then open it up for online players to come and visit. 'It was going to be a lot like the matchmaking service on [Blizzard's] Battle.net,' says Wright. In other words, to visit someone else's house you'd actually connect directly to that player's computer. The idea seemed like a good compromise: It would be quick to develop, but it would also give the game online functionality."

The whole article is basically a big interview with Will Wright, designer of SimCity, The Sims and The Sims Online (amongst others). With its 13 pages, it's probably the longest feature about The Sims Online ever written so far. It even tells some things that Will is afraid of in TSO - "people spending too much time playing the game and about the illegal activity that could happen in his world". The development of TSO from the beginning until the play test and the launch of Alphaville is described. That play test was scary to quite a big part of the team, as it would show the consumer's opinion. People not pleased with the play test would base their opinion on that even though the game is still in decelopment. The result could be fewer consumers for the final version. Anyway, you should just read the whoe thing as it's too big to summarise here. A must-read for everybody: "The Endless Hours of The Sims Online". Enjoy the reading!

939. Unleashed on Mac

Written on Thursday 28 November 2002 at 23:04 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As expected, Aspyr is converting the latest expansion pack of The Sims - Unleashed - to the Mac. The current date is set to December 2002, so it should be coming very soon. You can follow its progress a bit at their project status page. It will be pretty much the same as the PC version. This are the minimum system requirements:

MacOS 8.6, 9, 10.1 or later.

G3 processor at 233 MHz or faster (450 MHz recommended)

192 MB of Memory (additional 128M recommended if running OSX)

2 MB VRAM (8 MB recommended)

Hard drive, with 750 MB of additional free space

Quicktime 4.1.2

More info is at Aspyr.

 

940. The Sims PS2: More screens

Written on Tuesday 26 November 2002 at 00:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

IGN has doubled the amount of screenshots for The Sims on PlayStation 2 in one go. This "Sims Image Party" has resulted in 29 new shots. There's some socialising, partying, relaxing, skill-training and more going on there. Basically too much to mention in one go here. Go to this page for the whole list of shots, as well as the older images and the E3 trailer. Below is one of the new screenshots: