Erik

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Hi everyone, I'd like to take a minute to give everyone a quick update on our current projects. THEMES RELEASED We've released new themes for the site which change the look and feel of CombatACE. At the bottom of all our pages locate the Theme link and select it to choose your favorite look while using our site. The Wings Over Flanders Fields theme has been revamped and returned to the Old Brown Dog Software Forum. Our classic theme "Morning Light" is the professional white background in our traditional color set. The new theme "After Sunset" is a deep mid-range denim that reminds me of one of our first theme sets we started with back in 2002 called Bohegedda. The newest theme "Midnight Abyss" is a dark rich black inspired theme that is super easy on the eyes especially at night. Feel free to pick your favorite and let us know which one you like best. LIBRARY WORK The Admins and Modders have been hard at work restoring some lost images on older files. This has been something I've wanted to accomplish for years and just never had the time. I can't thank everyone enough for all their time and energy they've invested into this project. As we go through these files the system is updating the "last update" timestamp which is causing some issues with the way the library is displaying most recent files shown first. When we're done we'll be restoring all the timestamps which will return the files back to normal with all images restored. OUR PICKS We're working on a new roll-out of hand-picked files we're endorsing as must-have downloads. We're continuing work on the section and hopefully will be done with it soon. Give it a look and let us know what you think of it so far. The Our Picks section of the site is live here https://combatace.com/ourpicks/

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In both the SF1 and SF2 sections of our site we have compiled knowledge base articles to help you do exactly that. I would start by digging in there, experimenting, and then start asking specific questions if you have them. The guys here don't mind helping but they will want you to dig in a little first. Start small like making a skin and your knowledge will grow as you do more and more. Welcome and we hope to see you around.

Good to see you guys!

I don't know. That would be a question for Mike. He has account here and simHQ under the same username.

Mike wants to keep the content offline and he'll send files to people that request them. We are going to respect his wishes and wish him well. If things change in the future we'll be here.

Your account should be all set, looks like the old subscription platform was causing issues with the new one. Let me know if that fixed it. Erik

Let me have a peak, lots of changes going on around here so something could be screwed up, which is my standard MO these days. I hope you are well too and staying safe in all this craziness. Thanks for checking in and I'll get right back to you on this. E

@GKABS I found a new loading sound for you.

Of course not, I would take a dozen files at a time and we'll work on this as we can. It's been broken for a decade, I don't think we're in any hurry. It's more a passion than necessity, at this point, and any help I get I am greatly appreciative of. In the meantime I'm searching old backups to see if any of the files can be recovered from data I don't know I have. After we moved this time and it broke our backup system I built a new one. We backup "soup to nuts", literally everything, nightly to the local /backup drive and remotely to a machine off site. Data loss isn't part of our vocabulary anymore even though the first ever event I experienced was not my fault nor could I have prevented it. Heck, if all else fails around here I build a GUI for our backup system and we go into business.

All this positivity makes me feel optimistic.

Welcome

Who wants to help me resurrect the screenshots we lost back in 2009 when the data center moved our /storage drive to a new machine and wiped it clean on install. That's downloads that show with no images need to be restored and there's only way to do it. Download each file that is missing images, open it, take new screenshots, then edit the file and put the new screenshots into place. I may be willing to bribe one or two people to help me.

I fixed a bunch of little stuff today, images and colors on various themes, the downloads files feed on the right column of the forum where the images weren't clickable (been bugging me for ages), and redid our subscription images because they had a white border which looked funny on the darker themes. Work continues.

Way to pay attention. I thought for sure it would take a week for anyone to notice but 1.5 days, not bad.

Use your Admin tools and select the three dots on those posts to edit them. Use the format remover by highlighting the offending text and pressing the Tx button on the editor to remove formatting. I fixed that one but if you find more than ones or twos I'll have to do a mass database edit.

Some of the admins are a little more OCD than I am, which is hard to aspire to and very praise-worthy.

@Menrva I might be looking at something else so can you screenshot what you're seeing or link me? Helps when I can put eyes right on the issue. Thank you. Edit: I think I found what you were looking at. Give the new settings a go and see if you like them more. Thanks.

@Menrva The white background was exactly what you thought it was, html coding in the description and version information. I've corrected this for all files so we don't have this happen again. In the future with your new powers you can probably edit those fields in html so I'd just ask you not copy paste into the editor unless you want to the use "Source" button and view the BBCode to remove the HTML from it. Mistakes can happen and if they do just contact me. In regards to changing the CSS that wouldn't work because it's rendered before the text so if the text has HTML in it that's what becomes the final rendered version in the browser. The text associated to the files wins every time. As for the images yes the format changed but I want the new format, the old squares were too small and didn't do justice to the files and all of the hard work. I'm proud of you guys and I like to show off your work. I haven't seen any images that look horrible, yes some are marginally different but they aren't horrible. I also think our new image format lends itself better to the more common widescreen formats we see screenshots taken in. It used to be the old monitor resolutions prevailed because they were more predominant but in 2026 widescreen is more predominant. If you see something you absolutely hate in the images point it out. I'm not adverse to reviewing anything you see and fixing it. The rendered white background was an awesome catch and was in more files than just yours, 1381 of them to be exact. Let me know your thoughts boss and I'll get to work. E

I'll check into this, thanks for the report. Ill get back to you.

The way the system shows read vs unread is that blue dot on the very left. I'll have to look if the actual text has attributes for each I can define. I'll let you know. Thank you for the suggestion.

I like suggestions. Screenshots help, like where and where.

I've released "Abyss" our new zero light theme. Give it a look and let me know if you see anything that needs fixing like colors in the wrong place or things that just don't look right.

Welcome.