User:Jimmsta: Difference between revisions

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Hi, I'm jimmsta. I've been a member of the beta scene since 2003 or so. I was a member of the original OSBA, and have been on BetaArchive since its inception.

For years, I spent countless hours turning over every stone on World of Warcraft development history, and eventually one of the developers wrote a book on the subject - The WoW Diary (John Staats, 2018). I wrote many of the WoW articles on the wiki during the early days, and will try to spruce them up to the newer wiki standards, with appropriate information and screenshots.

On other forums, I'm known as akspa or akspa420. This has caused some confusion in the past with regard to who has found or released information about old WoW builds. Yep, that's me.

I'm also active in the Xbox emulation scene - or at least, in the testing part of it. I test XQEMU and Cxbx-Reloaded. I also have the equipment and knowledge to get games dumped properly according to redump.org's standards. I own a kryoflux to dump older software according to the BetaArchive policies for Archiving.

I am active in diagnostics and repair of Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles as well.

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 Hi, I'm '''jimmsta'''. I've been a member of the beta scene since 2003 or so. I was a member of the original OSBA, and have been on BetaArchive since its inception.
-I like to examine the differences between different builds of both software and games. I pride myself on learning the history of WoW, and other Blizzard titles. My main focus currently is to update the wiki with as much World of Warcraft info as possible. This means turning over every rock and looking for every screenshot, video, and review of the earliest builds ever reported on. Lots of work (read: years) has gone into gathering all this information, and the work never ends (or so it seems).
+For years, I spent countless hours turning over every stone on World of Warcraft development history, and eventually one of the developers wrote a book on the subject - The WoW Diary (John Staats, 2018). I wrote many of the WoW articles on the wiki during the early days, and will try to spruce them up to the newer wiki standards, with appropriate information and screenshots.
-All those years of waiting finally resulted in finding version 0.6.0 of WoW, thanks to a user on the BetaArchive forum! (2016)
+On other forums, I'm known as '''akspa''' or '''akspa420'''. This has caused some confusion in the past with regard to who has found or released information about old WoW builds. Yep, that's me.
-I'm currently documenting changes in the Legion expansion pack, to write small articles for each build that gets released.
+I'm also active in the Xbox emulation scene - or at least, in the testing part of it. I test XQEMU and Cxbx-Reloaded. I also have the equipment and knowledge to get games dumped properly according to redump.org's standards.
+I own a kryoflux to dump older software according to the BetaArchive policies for Archiving.
-On other forums, I'm known as '''akspa''' or '''akspa420'''. This has caused some confusion in the past with regard to who has found or released information about old WoW builds. Yep, that's me.
+I am active in diagnostics and repair of Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles as well.