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by Andreas_Rottler
Wed Oct 21, 2026 6:25 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Forum Registration
Replies: 2
Views: 56

Re: Forum Registration

Your registration was successful and complete.

By the way, I have now added a question which needs to be answered correctly. This replaces the captcha image. So far no more spam registrations and posts.

I had recently every 5 minutes a new spam registration until I added the question.

Andreas ...
by Andreas_Rottler
Sat Oct 10, 2026 12:14 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Forum Registration
Replies: 2
Views: 56

Forum Registration

Hi all,

There is currently a huge wave of spam hitting the Bricks Game Forum. As a countermeasure, new users now need to be manually activated by me before they can post anything.

Since I don't check the forum very frequently, I suggest sending me an email as well (to the address mentioned in the ...
by Andreas_Rottler
Wed Sep 02, 2026 12:30 am
Forum: Competitions
Topic: New Comp: Box Fun
Replies: 12
Views: 548

New Comp: Box Fun

This time a rather classical one. Not difficult to solve, but I was really struggeling to find a decent solution.

http://www.bricks-game.de/winbricks/box_fun.dll.zip

Have (box) fun,
Andreas
by Andreas_Rottler
Sun Jul 19, 2026 11:27 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduction to the new forum
Replies: 18
Views: 1426302

Re: Introduction to the new forum


how does phpBB store posts? If they're in a database, it shouldn't be too hard to import a csv into that.


Importing a csv into phpbb is possible and not an issue. The issue is more like getting the data sets compatible (old database structure is different).
Posts are having a user and a thread ...
by Andreas_Rottler
Sat Jul 11, 2026 12:35 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduction to the new forum
Replies: 18
Views: 1426302

Re: Introduction to the new forum

Update about the old posts: I got the CSV file from Forumromanum but there is no easy way to import this to phpBB. There are some discussions on the phpbb help board and the experts all say "not possible without a lot of work".
by Andreas_Rottler
Fri Jul 03, 2026 10:46 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduction to the new forum
Replies: 18
Views: 1426302

Re: Introduction to the new forum


Also, this looks like you're running it on your actual server, correct? If so, you should have full access to the database in ways that free turnkey services usually don't give, so an import should be theoretically possible in some way. (If you set up e.g. a Forumotion phpBB forum, they don't give ...
by Andreas_Rottler
Wed Jul 01, 2026 10:50 pm
Forum: Competitions
Topic: New Comp: Bridge it!
Replies: 10
Views: 37101

New Comp: Bridge it!

Hi all,

hopefully a lot of players discovered the new forum.

Here is the link to the next competition: http://www.bricks-game.de/winbricks/bridge_it.dll.zip

Enjoy,
Andreas
by Andreas_Rottler
Wed Jul 01, 2026 9:03 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduction to the new forum
Replies: 18
Views: 1426302

Re: Introduction to the new forum

OK, looks as if everything was set up correctly :-)
by Andreas_Rottler
Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:47 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduction to the new forum
Replies: 18
Views: 1426302

Introduction to the new forum

Hello to everyone!

Since Forumromanum has stopped their service I have set up a new forum on the Bricks Webspace.

This is running using phpBB. I have never used this before - so, please be patient with me. It will take a while until eveything will run.

I have requested getting the old postings ...