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Mapped Out

Thursday, January 1, 2009

First update of the new year, and it brings some goods news: the Battle Zone map links finally work.

The nicest thing about paying for hosting is that there are no pop-up ads for any visiting the site. The next best thing? The near unlimited space that’s availabe. Yesterday, I added some of the harder-to-find files for games on this site. Today, I added the Battlezone maps. Now, years ago, the BZ Cartogrpher’s Guild was the first site to really review and push mapmaking, so I just hotlinked to them. They went under a few years back, so the links have been dead since then.

Fear not, for now the links are back and the files are hosted here, so as long as the site is up, you can download them.

Updates:
Battlezone Maps – Links work

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