Dev, why would you say I want you to shut up? I fully get where Ed's grief comes from too, he's explained it many times over.
We are here because we're here? You don't like a certain feature look for a version where it did not feature. I did not upgrade my Win7 laptop because I want to play DVDs. It stays. My desktop's seen W7, W8, and W10, I want to keep it up to the latest spec.
Hence I put the link out there. Hence I wrote that post at the Matrix. You want to enjoy an old scenario with specs it was designed for? Well run it with JTCS 1.02. Not much else that can be done. Very easy to do. All the links are there, the unit change log is there. I am not telling anyone to do anything. It is just a pointer. Don't want to do that, fine.
Bugles, drums, gunfire. You certainly haven't been here lately
It is all good. What took me a bit with surprise was I thought it was good news there's no JTCS 2.1 anymore. All the changes to old engine and that, not happening anymore.
Data values, unit data, there's still a ton of things there, it's a huge file system there. Motorcycles with defence values of 3 have been at least since 1.01, no one's noticed them until now in Dan's Haiku Corner. Data values can be corrected. Just no more major revisions. Which I thought would have been good news.
I get the concern about JTCS ladders, but honestly I don't see an issue there. As long as there's game reports going in, why take the effort to take it down? Maybe something for the Blitz Officers to answer, but it took 15 years since last Talonsoft game came out the ladders were finally removed. After a few notices to see if there's folks still out playing them as I recall.