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Ten years of Owen’s Transport Tycoon Station!

orudge — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:11:03 +0000

Well, ten and a bit years ago, my Transport Tycoon Station was launched! (The anniversary was actually in July, but I’ve been a bit busy lately and didn’t notice, I’m afraid.) Since then, the site has grown enormously, with the development of several useful Transport Tycoon utilities, a comprehensive strategy guide and reference, saved games and scenarios, and, of course, The Transport Tycoon Forums, which originated as an offshoot of the site. The Transport Tycoon “scene” has also changed significantly, with the rise of TTDPatch in the early 2000s, and then the creation, release and further development of OpenTTD in the second half of the decade. Will we still be playing Transport Tycoon in 2020? I’ve no doubt the game will live on, and I’m sure the Transport Tycoon Station will still be here then too. And who knows, maybe I’ll have even finished the new Repository by then!

EDIT: And, as a little tenth birthday present, I’ve updated some of the pages on the site, and even finished a couple of those pages that weren’t yet finished. Enjoy!

Foxamp 0.3.11 released

orudge — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:26:55 +0000

I have released a new version of Foxamp. Foxamp 0.3.11 adds support for Firefox 3.6. Apologies for the delay with getting this released – it’s been a busy couple of months!

Happy new year!

orudge — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:13:28 +0000

Just a quick message to wish all visitors to my site a very happy new year.

10 years of owenrudge.net!

orudge — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:32:36 +0000

Well, to be more precise, 10 years of Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop, which then evolved into the site you see before you. It was the 28th of November 1999 when I launched my first web site, and it’s grown significantly since then! I’ll hopefully post a new blog later today (I’ve been meaning to post on for over a month now, but been quite busy), and shall likely comment on the anniversary later on.

In the mean time, here’s to another ten years!

Foxamp 0.3.10 released

orudge — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:17:30 +0000

A minor update to Foxamp has been released. Version 0.3.10 fixes an annoying bug whereby Foxamp would display a “Winamp is not running” message every 5 seconds if Winamp was indeed not running and Foxamp was unable to start it. If your Firefox is set to automatically check for updates, it should receive the update shortly – if not, you can manually download it here.

Owen’s Locomotion Depot launched!

orudge — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:36:07 +0000

Yes, just five years after Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion was released, my new Locomotion site has launched! To be more specific, I have taken over the site from Stephen Brandwood, who hadn’t the time to maintain it, and relaunched it. The site’s content has been updated, the design improved, and I intend to provide more updates when I can in the future. If you have any comments or queries on the new site, please get in touch!

Foxamp 0.3.9 released

orudge — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:39:02 +0000

I have released an update to Foxamp. Foxamp 0.3.9 adds support for Firefox 3.5, so if you’ve upgraded Firefox, you’ll want to install the new version.

owenrudge.net is 9 (and a bit) years old!

orudge — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:03:48 +0000

Well, I’m an hour late, but yesterday, owenrudge.net turned 9 years old! Yep, on the 28th of November 1999 I launched “Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop”, which gradually evolved into the site you see today.

About Me update

orudge — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0000

I’ve finally updated the About Me page with more information, well, about me! To be more precise, I’ve split it up into a few different pages, depending on what you want to know about me, and I’ve updated details of the likes of the open source projects I’ve worked on.

On another, unrelated, note, I’m thinking I will stick my entire site in a Subversion repository, to make maintenance easier, and also to provide a nice history feature – if I update something and break it entirely, I can go back and figure out what caused the breakage a lot more easily. While this’ll make more or less no difference to you, the end user and visitor, it’ll be beneficial to me.

Foxamp 0.3.8 released

orudge — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:47:51 +0000

I’ve released a new version of Foxamp, version 0.3.8. New in this version is support for Firefox 3.0 (which was released today). The helper application that retrieves the song title and performs some miscellaneous functions is also faster and more efficient, and the playlist number and Winamp title are no longer included in the status bar. If you use Winamp and Firefox, check it out.