Marley has released a new demo of an as-yet-untitled level in progress...

I have been informed that the hosts of df-21.org are upgrading their servers on Tuesday morning (9th April 2002). The sections of the site hosted there will probably be inaccessible for a short while; I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

df-21.net is unaffected by this change, so the home page and forums will remain online throughout. Download links will probably stop working, but many files are still available from ftp://df-21.net if you desperately need to download something!

As I type this, DF-21.org is completely inaccessible. Hopefully the upgrade should be complete within the next few hours; I'll keep you posted.

You can still download most recent missions- right-click and copy the link you want, paste into your address bar and replace ".org" with ".net".

You can follow the progress of the upgrade at http://www.integrahosting.net/upgrade.html.

The upgrade appears to be complete now; download links are working again, but subdomains aren't yet available so some pages still won't work. These will hopefully be set up in the next 24 hours.

As always, let me know if you happen to spot any broken downloads!

Taton Qek has released the final version of his level, Imperial Asteroid Mining Facility (Demos). Although it's described as "unfinished", there's quite a bit to look at.

It looks like the upgrade is now complete, as subdomains are working again. Let me know if you have any problems.

It's still very close in the voting, and a couple of votes could swing the contest... if you haven't already made up your mind, what are you waiting for? contest.df-21.org is where you should be clicking...

I finally got round to organising the various knowledge we have about getting DF running on newer systems into a handy Article. Any further tips, corrections or contributions are definitely welcome.

Voting has now closed in the One Room Wonders Contest...

The result:

1. 1st: Raid on the Ovarid - Jacqueline Foss: 41%
   
2. 2nd: Untitled - Barry Brien: 23%
   
3. 3rd: Armed & Dangerous - Kevin Jackson: 18%

The Projects section is back, but it dragged something home with it...

The Project submittal form is now open for business, and I'll be handling the updates indefinitely. It sounds like Fenwar ran into some sort of technical problem with the new projects system. It must be pretty bad, since he's gone and let me back into the pantry.

It's been a long time since I did this stuff, so expect a slip up or two.

It looks like pretty much everything is back, now.

What's not: anything in ftp.df-21.net (mirrored on ftp.df-21.org anyway), email redirects (mail me to get yours set up again if you had one before) and the poll script, because the database didn't make it over.

Thanks again to Satya, who is a legend and without whom most of this stuff would still be broken, and also to Scape Goat and Jackson for their assistance over the weekend. And to anyone else who helped out or offered to help out. Couldn't have done it without you, etc...

Trip Stallings has mailed in the deluxe edition of the popular Desalinization Plant: Imperial Clean-up (Downloads/Missions/A-L). It replaces the old desal.zip which appeared to have been corrupted in some way.

Oton "Fish" Ribic, a recent newcomer to DF editing, has released Voc2RVoc 1.0 (Downloads/Utilities). It converts VOCs to looping VOCs based on the method described by Scape Goat, but in a considerably quicker and less messy way...

The utilities page now (at long last) credits authors for their work. If there were any Mac programmers besides Brad Oliver who contributed to DFGold, mail me or post in the forums and I'll add their names to the list.