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What happend at Doris & Frank's homepage in 1999?

6th and 14th December 1999

• Numfield:
  Play yourself or set up your own tournament .

21 November 1999

• Numfield:
  New strategies by Mark Delano and Don Reble.

13 November 1999

• First reviews of Zoff im Zoo (in German).
• Started a page for Game Awards we won .
• Numfield:
  Important bugfix and new strategies by Mark Delano.

5 November 1999

• Started a page for rule translations .
• Numfield:
  Mark Delano joins in
• New shops in Australia on the Foreign Shops Page .

31 October 1999

• We are back from Essen, Zoff im Zoo did have great resonance. If there wasn't that bad Essen flu every year, things would be even better :-)
• Added an announcement for the 4th Müsterschaft to the Mü Page .
• Numfield: Joe Huber sent another couple of new strong strategies and I finished another one.
• New shops in Canada and Japan on the Foreign Shops Page .

3 October 1999

• It finally turns out our 1999 game Zoff im Zoo is 3 to 7 players, everything else is wrong :-) Added a JPEG with the box cover to its page.
• Did a slightly nicer version of the Numfield Applet .
• Minor fice lifting of entry page, navigation frame and all. It seems, my idea to improve layout without spending time did cost only time.
• The usual run of minor and major typo and bug corrections. This little creapers will never die on this site.

23 September 1999

• Added our seasonal Essen Games Fair page, with the map how to find our booth.
• Changed homepage logic, to include latest changes on the site on it.
• Minor corrections here and there!

19 September 1999

• Included code for the "First German Webring for Board and Card Games" on all entry pages. Note this webring really is in German!
• Added an announcement for our new game in 1999 .
• Minor modifcation, optimisations and corrections here and there.
• Next to come: Find us in Essen 1999. A map, where our stand will be this year.

16 September 1999

• Another major update to the whole set of numfield pages : Two very special new strategies, a league splitting for strategies.
• New Ursuppe expansions are finally there. Ursuppe itself is a bit late and will come early october.
• The Xafka Applet got another update of its internal brain array based on about 600000 self played games. There is still no complete convergence, though some areas seem to cool down. I'm thinking of starting from scratch with some algorithmic improvements :-)
• Minor additions at the Foreign Shops Page .
• Yes and there will be an update for you gamers soon, just keep on staring at the mouse and the fishes on this page.

15 August 1999

• Another major update to the whole set of numfield pages : 6 or so new strategies, two more pages. Sample source codes of quite a few strategies released...
• I hope I will soon have some gaming news for those of you, who are not interested in this numfield stuff...

8 August 1999

• Finally complete information about "Board not bored games" at the Foreign Shops Page .
• Lots of updates at the numfield pages: 4 new strategies by Joe Huber, one by Frank. You can see those new strategies at the Results Page and the Pi Experiment Page . To get an overview there is also a page, completely devoted to Joe Hubers Strategies .

1 August 1999

• Various small changes at some the numfield pages , new strategies to watch , a clique building experiment and an evaluation class by Don Reble.
• Next Ursuppe games are scheduled for September 1999 and there are still on time...
• Some email contributions and tournament updates at the Mue page .

2 July 1999

• Text corrections and enhancements on various numfield pages , especially Numfield Java .
• Entirely new Page on Numfield Theory started.

26 June 1999

• Did one more but very important fix to the Numfield download package and the Numfield Applet , since the version I've postet on the 24th had one really serious bug in the routine which fed data to Strategies. I greatly appologize. Thanks again Aaron .

25 June 1999

• Did quite a lot of fixes to the Numfield download package and the Numfield Applet . Many Thanks to Aaron Fuegi , whos bug reports triggered and guided this effort.

24 June 1999

• I completely did an review of the numfield pages . Especially I put additional examples and a newer, corrected download package on . Further the applet now does some graphics about scores, see here! .

7 June 1999

• I have built a page to demonstrate the results of the first contributed strategies for the Numfield Game . I also added a remark about alternative rules on the Numfield Rules Page . Put a description of a test environment for numfield strategies on the Numfield, how to Java pages.

15 May 1999

• Updated the notorious availability status at the Ursuppe page .
• Published the Numfield game .
• Corrections and additions to all of my link-pages.
• Minor corrections at many places.
• The Xafka -Applet got another new brain (for those who know: same algorithm, but modified static scoring on base of 350000 selfplayed games).

21 February 1999

• Added a word file with Ursuppe extensions rules to the Ursuppe page ; also updated the notorious availability status.
• Updated the Mü page since another Müsterschaft has happend in January.
• Reworked all (hopefully) external links to break my frameset and corrected a few mistaken links. Did some minor changes to contents here and there...
• Added one more UK shop .

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Hmm, quite a contradiction in itself, but one never should forget history :-)

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