The newsletter should be going out sometime soon. As always, please report any and all of my grievous errors. (Or non-grievous errors, even) Bai bai.Huzzah! Suddenly, six new games appear on the website! Upon closer inspection, they seem to be The Black Cauldron, Carmageddon Demo, Mastermind, Number Munchers, Snipes and Three. Make these lost gaming gems your own (for free, mind you!) by harkening over to the Newest Additions section.
dosgames.com site update March 26th 2004
dosgames.com site update March 26th 2004
Man, the update process for this site is a pain in the arse. If I ever died and someone had to take over this site, they'd have a helluva time with the archaic system I've got goin here. Anyways, today's update is, as usual, copied directly from the front page:
Owner / Webmaster of DOSGames.com for over 20 years
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Ah, finally you updated
@Kazer0: Darren's own words: "dosgames.com is an oldschool site, not just in content, but in design and coding " lol
@Kazer0: Darren's own words: "dosgames.com is an oldschool site, not just in content, but in design and coding " lol
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The site is almost entirely in html ... poorly coded html I used php but mostly for includes and a few other small things (like the download page). If you're interested in what the W3 thinks of my good 'ol design, check out the results from the W3 Validator here:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... sgames.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... sgames.com
Owner / Webmaster of DOSGames.com for over 20 years
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The server is fooling you!!! Actually yea kazer0 is right. The mod uses htaccess URL redirection, basically works like this:
When the server sees a URL ending in like posting-nc-mode-reply-t-2813.html (the URL for this post) it matches a regular expression in a list in the htaccess file. It then reinterprets the URL and displays a different page. The trick is that search engines just see the .html URL, not the "real" URL. This is important because if a SE is surfing, say, .php URLs, like view.php?num=9&page=101 it will stop after a certain # of pages ... whereas with html files it will continue capturing pages until it finds 'em all. At least, that's how it was explained to me
A sample line from the htaccess file looks like:
When the server sees a URL ending in like posting-nc-mode-reply-t-2813.html (the URL for this post) it matches a regular expression in a list in the htaccess file. It then reinterprets the URL and displays a different page. The trick is that search engines just see the .html URL, not the "real" URL. This is important because if a SE is surfing, say, .php URLs, like view.php?num=9&page=101 it will stop after a certain # of pages ... whereas with html files it will continue capturing pages until it finds 'em all. At least, that's how it was explained to me
A sample line from the htaccess file looks like:
I know how to write a htaccess file but I didn't do this mod ... that kinda stuff is a bit beyond my technical prowess atm.RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-nc\-([^-]+)\-([^-]+)\-([^-]+)\-([^-]+).html $1.php?$2=$3&$4=$5 [L]
Owner / Webmaster of DOSGames.com for over 20 years
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Hehe, your site's coding is really bad emmzee Wait untill they scan my site
anyways, thanks for mentioning me in the newsletter
anyways, thanks for mentioning me in the newsletter
Webmaster www.playdosgames.com
Heh I don't feel so bad anymore, check out some of the results for validating some of these famous sites:
Slashdot: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ... ashdot.org
eBay: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.ebay.com
CNN: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.cnn.com
Blizzard: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ... izzard.net
Slashdot: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ... ashdot.org
eBay: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.ebay.com
CNN: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.cnn.com
Blizzard: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ... izzard.net
Owner / Webmaster of DOSGames.com for over 20 years
Download my free ebook: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
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