Is there any way to set the number of uploads to be viewed to 50?! I had it set like this for the longest time but up untill about a month ago, it ALWAYS shows just 10 and then I have to go to the bottom of the screen and change it to 50. This has become a pain in the ass as I've been doing it now for almost a 2 months. There has to be a way to preset how many uploads it shows once you come to this screen.

Regards, Steve Krogman

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@concentric.net), June 08, 1999

Answers

I made the feature you requested available a while back. On the news page I wrote this:

Wednesday 19th May 1999

Obscure one, this. Skito emailed me asking if I could allow him some way of specifying how many entries to show in the 'recent uploads' page by default. He likes to have the 'recent uploads' page appear first, not the 'news' page. I made a change, and now you can use a URL like this one:

http://marp.retrogames.com/index.cgi?mode=frames_search&maxlines=25&per_game=2&sort=date_rev&prefix=&passwd= to specify how many entries to show. The 'maxlines=25' specifies the number to show. The 'per_game=2' means don't show any uploads which are in 3rd place or worse for their game. Include your 'prefix' and 'password' at the end and you'll have a URL which will log you on and display the uploads as you want to see them.

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I don't think there's any way to get the news page to appear first, and also to specify the size of the uploads page. Is that what you want to be able to do? I can quite easily add that feature, too. Watch the news page - that's where I'll mention it when it's done. I'm currently sat in a switch room in Holland at 3:20 in the morning trying to get a telephone system to work before the people wake up and wonder why their phones aren't working, so you can imagine that I'm a little busy right now...

Chris.

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