Old Update Log for the Medieval and Renaissance Games Page

• 5/8/05:Yes, yes -- I owe the site a major overhaul. But as a start, I've updated my bibliography with a number of recent acquisitions.
• 3/27/04:  Updated my description of Astronomical Tables to reflect new information about the dice.
  
• 10/26/03:  Added an appendix to my Primero reconstruction, discussing the differences between it and David Whittaker's.  Updated my cheat sheet with modifications based on his ideas, but haven't updated the main reconstruction itself yet.  Also, added links to all the other primary sources.  Added an alternate transcription of the Trump section from Familiar Dialogues.
• 8/24/03: A long-overdue update of lots of things. Added the Berni article on Primiera. Added the Trictrac Yahoo group. Add a pointer to Imran's copy of the Nare article on Primero. Tweaked the URL for EBro Software. Added Phillipe Lalanne's Trictrac page. Added a couple of images of apparent games played on ice. Added the Bocce links page. Added the Collegium Cosmicum ad Buxeas bocce page, and several bowling-history pages. Added James Masters' Croquet-history page. Added Imran's transcription of The Royal Game of the Ombre, and that of Cotgrave's description of Gleek. Added a number of Game of the Goose links. Added a link to Faire Angel's games page. Added a pointer to the Marostica live chess match. Webbed Antron de Stoc's transcription of Belloc, and his reconstruction of Trump. Webbed James Wickson's new Tarot reconstruction. Added the TarotL page on Tarot history. Added David Whittaker's Primero reconstruction (which is probably better than mine in several respects). Added a link to the good online image of Breughel's Children's Games. Added links to two vendors selling seven-sided dice; I don't like either set completely, but we're getting there. Tweaked the link to Robert fitz John's Alquerques page. Most important of all, added a link to Sonja Musser Golladay's translation in progress of the Alfonso MS.
• 11/11/02: Added a couple more Primiera-related transcriptions from Thierry Depaulis.
• 11/10/02: Added Rowan O'Sidhe's description of Fidchell; Gwynydd of Culloden's descriptions of Morris and Cent; a Latin transcription of Cardano; three transcriptions and the translated game list from Gargantua; several pointers into Imran's pages under Research Materials; the Accademia della Tarocchino Bolognese; the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française; Hans-Joachim Alscher's tarock page (under both tarot and transcriptions); Thierry Depaulis' transcriptions of a couple of sources relating to Prime; my transcription of Metromachy.
• 10/13/02: Added my new reconstructions of Italian and English Primero.
• 9/22/02: Added pointers to: the British Kubb Federation; Greenwood Press; La Boule Bleue; the Far Isles Guild of Gamers; Hildegarde Stickerin's Tarot page; the CD-ROM reprint of Chatto; Imran Ghory's History of Backgammon and Albanian chessman image; Karen Larsdatter's games in art page; several pointers into the ORB; the Hartshorn-dale games page; a couple of games from the Shire of Isenfir.
• 6/19/02: Added pointer to the Kunshistorisches Museum game board images, to the Transcriptions and Images page. Beefed up the links to the Games Guild of Ealdormere, which has been busy. Added Pastyme Games.
• 6/11/02: Added a new Ace's Boke article, on false dice.
• 5/1/02: Added Justin's reconstruction of Astronomical Tables (aka "Seven-sided Backgammon"), under Tables Games.
• 4/18/02: Updated the links to games on James Masters' Traditional Games Page.
• 4/7/02: Added Roselyne's translation of the Zodiac games from the Alfonso MS.
• 3/28-29/02: Updated the links to the Venshavn Tafl pages. Added the Y Cam description of Gwyddbwyll. Added the Chesmayne Chess page, and the MatchMate origins of chess page. Updated pointer to the Alfonso X site, and added pointer to the Alfonso transcriptions; moved both of those to the transcriptions & images page. Added the RenGeekCentral Rounders pages. Added link to the Sloan article on the origin of Chess. Added the German Merels site, and a couple of tafl pages. Added the IPCS History of Cards. Added the Smithsonian Tafl page. Updated the Tattershall links. Added the Games Guild of Ealdormere. Added the CueCare history of Billiards. Added Leif Bennett's Java games. Added the EarthGaming Tafl pages. Added the KnowOdds Cotton transcription. Added a pointer to Zillions of Games. Added the Slade Tafl page. Added the Taeflor discussion group. Added the Tafl Gild. Added the Blackmask transcription of Bird's Chess History. Added the White Chess Collection. Removed dead pointers to Wulfric's pages.
• 2/23/02: Fixed the link to Gunnora's Tafl page. Added link to EBro Software Tafl implementation. Fixed the links to David Levy's Trictrac page. Added pointer to 1457 act outlawing Golf. Moved a bunch of old updates to the old update page.
• 12/15/01: Added a pointer to the SCETI scans of Varchi's book on Rhythmomachy, to the Transcriptions page. Added the Dice Site to Related Sites.
• 11/25/01: Updated the pointer to the Ravensgard pages.
• 11/11/01: Changed the pointer to information about the period games mailing list. Added a pointer from the transcriptions page to Ruben Krasnopolsky's collation from EMEDD.
• 10/28/01: Added link to the Games Guild of Ealdormere. Added a link to Clan na Bheithir's hurling page. Added a section index to the by now rather large rules page.
• 9/23/01: Added links to Bryanna's Treasure Box and The Viking Trader. Added Greg Lindahl's transcriptions of game entries from Minsheu. Added a pointer to the analysis of probabilities in knucklebones. Added direct pointers to Ruben Krasnopolsky's recent reconstructions of Spanish card games, and his transcription of the Diccionario de Autoridades.
• 7/29/01: Added Ulrich Schadler's critique of the Roman Games site, since a lot of folks seem to be getting to the Roman site from here.
• 7/8/01: Added a pointer to Seaan's description of basic Tarot on the Rules page. Split the older stuff from this What's New list out to a separate page. On a related note, Ruben Krasnopolsky has added some new sections to his Historical References page.
• 7/2/01: Updated my bibliography with the takings from my recent trip to Paris.
• 4/30/01: Added a bunch of Hurling links. Added a few Dice links. Added a Kubb link. Added Hickok Sports, and a pile of links to their game-specific history pages. Added a Byzantine Chess link. Added the Merels page from the Museum of Games.
• 4/6/01: Added a link from the Transcriptions page to Ruben Krasnopolsky's transcriptions from Cotgrave. Put in a link to Guillaume de la Sudeterre's Brandubh page. Added links to the Fanarona software implementations.
• 10/9/00: Added a link from the chess section to the Religion and Chess article.
• 10/8/00: Fixed links to Modar's pages, which had moved slightly. Fixed links to Ravensgard. Fixed link to Rudivale's Troccas page.
• 5/31/00: It was pointed out to me that my Brueghel pointer was dead, but that the Museum of Games has a better one now anyway; switched to use that. Also, put pointers to several subpages there from the Rules page.
• 5/24/00: Due to me abruptly finding myself out of work, moved this site to its new location. Hopefully it won't have to move again until I pony up the money for a domain for the site.
• 2/2/00: Noted the current controversy over Tablero: it looks like the main secondary source used for the game is full of strangely ahistorical information.
• 1/31/00: Added all of the individual Ace's Boke articles to the general Rules page. Added a Tafl article to the Ace's Boke.
• 1/26/00: Massive update, as I officially move to the new URL. Added pointers to all of the game descriptions on the Alfonso site. (That site is starting to get very useful!) Killed lots of dead links, and moved pointers to moved sites when I could find them. Reformatted the Rules page to be easier to read and understand. (The original style made sense when there was only one description of any given game, but it had gotten to be a mess.) Put direct links to the relevant chess variations on Hans' Chess Variant Pages. Put direct links to relevant pages on James Masters' Traditional Games site. Added a link to Board Games Studies. Added a whole lotta chess sites. Added lots of related sites and such.
• 12/30/98: Catching up on page-hunting. Added pointer to article about Spain's part in origins of chess. Added pointer to SCA games page. Added a pointer to Dragonsspine's SCA games pages. Added a couple of descriptions of tafl, and some Poch illos. Added pointer to Y Cam's article on Towlbwrdd. Moved Dagonell's page with all the other collections of rules. Put in direct links to rules articles by Dagonell and Modar, on the theory that a single comprehensive index is probably useful. (More is needed on this.) Added description of Rounders. Fixed pointer to Tara Hill, and added their rules page. Added a bunch of assorted alternate descriptions of games. Added description of Celtic knucklebones. Added pointer to Breughel picture.
• 12/17/98: Many additions to my personal bibliography.
• 9/22/98: Added pointer to Robert fitz John's Alquerques page.
• 9/2/98: Added several hnefatafl links. Added pointer to Ravensgard's Norse Games page.
• 8/31/98: Added link to the Alfonso illustrations project. Added a pointer to ShadowWolf's nice, concise History of Tarot. Added a pointer to James Masters' History of Traditional Games. Added a pointer to Kadon Enterprises.
• 5/5/98: Moved all refs to the Landsknecht pages over to their new site. Added pointer to David Levy's Trictrac page under Rules. Added pointer to The Merry Gamester page, under Bibliographies.
• 2/23/98: Lots of additions. Added Wulfgar's games page to the Collections list on the Rules page. Added pointer to a Geocities page under Related Sites. Added pointer to Ambush under Game Software. And added a beefy new collection of Rythmomachy links on the Rules page.
• 2/17/98: Added pointer to The Compendium of Common Knowledge.
• 2/12/98: Added pointer to a new Java implementation of Tablut.
• 2/4/98: Several updates to the listing of Vendors of Period Games, below.