Newsletter-June-July 2003

SW City's Official Newsletter - June, July 2003

EDITOR'S NOTE

Ever noticed how things slow down during the summer instead of speed up? We spent most of May and June quietly building, as you'll see below. Not many exciting things have been happening. But we do have an interesting surprise for those of you that like talk radio. Read about that as well. This newsletter is probably going to be pretty short, but don't take it personally. We're just busy. Come to town, hang around, and talk with us. We're always just a telegram away. We'll leave the light on for ya. Yeah, it's that big yellow one up in the sky that just miraculously appeared within the last few days.

Cheers,
SW Chris, Editor-in-Chief

ORTON STRIP MALL EXPANDS

Over the past few days, builders have been busy continually expanding the ever-growing Orton Strip Mall area. This time, all the building is being done east of the last expansion which included the book store, hat store, travel agency and the Eep Shop.

Some of the new stores that have been opened include Vintage Loggers Restaurant, Hours o' Flowers, Tattoo Tip, Philippe's Photo Studio, WTF! Hair Palace, Speakers n' Stuff, Myer's Fires, Optima Financial, FRI's Electronics, Mr. Frink's Fine Wooden Furniture, Shanubia's Shiznit Shampoos, CatCorp MuteGuns and the Birde Bin.

Also located in this sector is numerous new Hovercraft dealerships which brings this location to be the #1 spot to shop for your next craft. Some of the companies located here are King Industrial Hovercrafts, Gryphon Hoverworks, Vortech Motors and CatCorp Motor Industries.

A new alleyway has also been created which is home to a number of new nougats. There is also high-income housing located in this alley for some reason. The new residents include Grace H. Mace, Mr. Frink and Vornox. ^,^

One of the biggest openings in this area of Orton Strip Mall is the new movie theater which will premiere huge box-office movies like The Hulk, The Matrix Reloaded and the new hit, The n00b and I. Reposted from http://www.swcity.net/

Orton Strip Mall - AW 2345.0S 3828.0E 0.1a 0 http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_2345.0S_ 3828.0E_0.1a

TRIPOD IMAGES ACCESSABLE AGAIN

Guess what? They changed their minds. And I quote: "The decision has been made, and it's not going to change, and so the SW City staff is working at finding and financing a suitable web host to house the city's images."

Active Worlds, Inc. has decided that due to popular demand (with no small contribution from the SW lobby), they would make optional in the worldserver features to turn off third party hosted images from popular web hosting services such as Tripod and Geocities. As a result, Alphaworld no longer blocks images from these sites. Hooray for AWI!

3D AXIS AND OTHER FEATURES FINALLY COME TO TOWN!

I got some good news. Our beloved Alphaworld finaly has the long awaited...3d axis rotation feature! *everyone gasps*

I just found out when I (SW Comit) got home from Florida today. And if that's not enough, look up in the sky. Alphaworld actually has a SUN now O_O

Still want more? How about tourists? Nah, sorry, not gonna get that =P But tourists can come to Alphaworld for a limited time, for the AW festival.

Now, get to work building people, before they change their minds >_<

Reposted from http://www.swcity.net/

SYNTAX'S SW PICK OF MAY

Sorry folks, it's SW Chris, you're official SW Substitute. Now, I know you were just waiting for Syn's next article, but it looks like he's a bit busy preparing for college. Yup. Our resident mayor is a college man now. So in honor of Syn's great achievement, we're bringing you this wonderful SW build that might actually teach you a thing or two about building. I give you the SW City Builder's Academy.

SW City Builder's Academy - AW 2336.3S 3811.5E 92 The nifty quick reference online version: http://academy.swcity.net/ The take-your-time-and-browse-around version: http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_22336.30S_3811.50E_0.00a_90

SW QUICK LINKS

Website - http://www.swcity.net Discussion Forums - http://forum.swcity.net SW Outfitters Tours and Expeditions Store - http://store.swcity.net Charter - http://swcity.skywalkeronline.net/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=134