Internet Archive: Shareplay Front Page News May 1999

From:  http://web.archive.org/web/19990508072426/http://shareplay.com/ :

April 27, 1999

The new newsletter is online, with lots of news, please read it!

The evernight.net e-mail addresses are back. If you had bounced mail to monarchy, please try again.

The Panumbra old clients will be off-line by end of April.  The new client needs Java JDK 1.1, if you have a 3.x browser, you will need to download a new Java verson from Sun's website. Please change your bookmarks to the new clients that are available from the Play Demo page.

Due to excessive cheating with free e-mail accounts, some free e-mail domains are not allowed to create new accounts in Space Merchant any more (e.g. hotmail, yahoo).  Old accounts with free mails will still work. Read the Developer's Announcement section of the webboard for more details.

We ordered a huge new server and both Monarchy and Space Merchant will move to a faster server by beginning of May.  Both servers are currently overloaded, the new servers should result in faster speeds.

April 14, 1999

The evernight.net server has been shut down.  Please change your Monarchy links and bookmarks to monarchy.shareplay.com. All evernight.net e-mail addresses are temporarily not working either.  We hope we can fix that by Friday this week.

April 8, 1999

Panumbra has a new browser-based window system.  There are less windows, and some of the glitches of the old interface have been smoothed out.

Open beta for M.A.C.E. is delayed (again).  I am not sure when it starts, please don't send me mails. If you are signed up for our newsletter, you will be notified when open beta starts.

SharePlay Store special offering: get theThe Space Merchants book!