SimsHost Chronicle #37

Simplify opens on SimsHost!

Simplify is just getting started as a new Sims site, but we're sure you will enjoy it!

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Download Managers

One word: Don't. Several subscribers have reported problems with third-party download managers. These are programs that save up your downloads and try to download them all at once later in the day. If you have one of these, please turn it off when visiting the SimsHost sites. We haven't found any of them that are worth a flip, and all of them will cause problems with your downloading.

The download managers that come with Internet Explorer and Netscape work great. Use 'em.

The third SimsHost Treasure Hunt is still going!

Visit the Valentine's Day Treasure Hunt starting page for your first clue!

Don't forget to stop in at Ye Olde Town Inn for a hint if you get stuck! We have a special forum for Treasure Hunters!

Fun and games continue at Killersims!

The popular games are still on-going at Killersims! You can win free downloads!

Now let's do the dailies...

Thursday, April 3, 2003

First, the late breaking news from last week!

Another huge update from Candace's SimBazaar! A "Western Living Room" lets your Sims enjoy the Old West without leaving home (includes a free tapestry). Devil continues the "Flight of Fancy" series with an adorable lavender bathroom set and Sandy expands on it with matching butterfly doors and windows. Devil also has a beautiful "Elegant Sky" formal as a freebie. Sandy provides a variety of floor tiles and helps your Sims get ready for the Easter Bunny's visit.

Sims Festival has a new group of backless animal paintings.

CallistaWolf's SimLair brings you the last "White Plank" set... "Pink Plank" for a Sim girl's bedroom!

Friday, April 4, 2003

Let's give a big SimsHost welcome to Simplify and its webmaster, Behlana!

A new idea at Historic Sim Houses! Gigi has allowed her Sims to modernize a 1896 Queen Anne Victorian house -- and now it's ready for any Sim family to move in!

Check out the luxurious new "Blue Ridge" house on Lot 6 at Sim Homes and Real Estate!

Saturday, April 5, 2003

Historic Sim Houses has a great new house in the Annex: "Outside Zen" by NolNoodle. Big, airy, and wonderfully landscaped!

Carrot Stuff has 7 variously colored sets of Mod-Lux living room furniture!

Back-to-back updates from Sim Homes and Real Estate! This time, "Evergreen" on lot 8 will provide your Sims with a wonderful upgrade in their living conditions!

KillerSims brings you the 1.05 version of Cheatz -- no more Ctrl-Shift-C and typing codes -- one keypress and your cheat is in effect!

Sunday, April 6, 2003

Historic Sim Houses brings you two new houses! First, "Frame Cottage, 1875" gives your Sims a taste of Victorian elegance! Then, the must have "The Great Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo, Russia 1756" will give them a taste of Russian royalty!

Debby Sims presents a funky, WWII style "Pin-Up Swim Shop" as a classy change from all those "beach" theme shops!

Behlana of Simplify has finished uploading the site -- she now boasts two hundred walls, plus lots more!

Build your Sims a mountain hideaway featuring the new "Forest Retreat" living room set from CallistaWolf's SimLair!

Sunny Side Sims has sexy new women's clothes, a playful girl's outfit, and more of her trademark wonderful walls!

Monday, April 7, 2003

Ready to improve your blue Monday is a great update from Candace's SimBazaar! Easter furniture for kids' bedroom and bath, with a free tapestry and painting, all by Candy! A stained glass "Tulip Build Set" with two windows and a door, plus three more doors in the "Oakland Entry Set," plus four sets of tiled walls, by Sandy!

Ayoe starts a new set, "Sims TV," at Simultaneous Design! Add Dharma and Greg and the Crocodile Hunter to your Sim neighborhood! Also, four new guys' swimsuits for your Sim girls to drool at!

Don't forget to snag the seven new rugs at Simplify!

A neat new idea at Tom's Sim Stuff! Forest lots to give your neighborhood the look of a new development under construction, or a national park, or (almost) forest primeval!

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The SimsHost Chronicle Team