Original WoS Pages Now Available

[PeterJ]

For anyone who prefers the original WoS look and feel we now offer links to both the new site, and (with the help of archive.org) the old one too.

Towards the bottom of each 'Classic Game' page you will see the normal other sites section:


Click on 'New World of Spectrum (Spectrum Archive) for the new look, or 'Original World Of Spectrum (Spectrum Archive) for the classic look.

For example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180908070 ... loadpics=3

[akeley]

Nice. I actually do miss the classic look very much (much more compact and without all these white spaces). I don't suppose it'd be possible to offer it (or something very similar) as an alternative choice of template here, for ZXDB itself?

[Pegaz]

Thanks Peter, it's really nice to have old style wos pages available.
And somehow sad at the same time...

[PeterJ]

Glad you like it [mention]akeley[/mention].

Never say never, but I doubt it. The whole site is built around Bootstrap to make sure it renders properly on devices of all sizes. Around 50% of visitors use tablet or mobile to visit our site now.

Peter

[PeterJ]

Thanks Peter, it's really nice to have old style wos pages available.
And somehow sad at the same time...

Glad you like it. Yes, it is a little sad to wave goodbye to the past.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Another good feature, Peter, but I suppose it's included for nostalgic reasons as we have here all we need about the Spectrum as SC is clearly a more complete and updated DB.

And now is the moment of insisting, again -sorry-, of removing the original WoS score because I see even WoS has removed it.

If I want to check the old WoS score, I just click on the old WoS link. This is SC and I don't see why it has to include an score of another site.


... and also I insist of having our own game score... but well, it's just my humble opinion!

[PeterJ]

And now is the moment of insisting, again -sorry-, of removing the original WoS score because I see even WoS has removed it.

Done

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Done

Blimey!!!

[blueowl0708]

nice, it's cool how that example link gives you the full WOS experience (new or old) via the broken images

[djnzx48]

I noticed quite a few pages that are only available as archive.org snapshots if the 'loadpics=3' portion of the URL is removed. Maybe that part could be omitted if it's not necessary?

[PeterJ]

Hi [mention]djnzx48[/mention],

Please can you PM me a couple of examples, and we will take a look later in the week.

Peter

[PeterJ]

Hi [mention]djnzx48[/mention],

Thank change has been made. Thanks for the examples.

Peter

[ZXDunny]

Went looking for splATTR (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... um/splATTR) and see that the New WOS link points to an infoseek entry, which no longer works. Archived Old WOS link works fine.

[PeterJ]

Went looking for splATTR (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... um/splATTR) and see that the New WOS link points to an infoseek entry, which no longer works. Archived Old WOS link works fine.

Morning Paul,

Yes, I get the same result. It works fine for other titles I tried like Biff for example. Not sure what's going on there sorry.

PS - The TipShop have the same issue.

https://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/i ... id=0019191

We were under the impression that old infoseek links would continue to work on the new WoS. Maybe they have had a change of heart.

[Einar Saukas]

Both links are working fine now.

I guess Lee is still following this forum