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This is from the ZA archive site and part of a very long thread. Posts by players/members. This is part of the post Yellowrose did about finding ZT. I was introduced to this wonderful game kind of late(Dec 2003). My nephew had a copy of Zoo Tycoon and I asked if I could borrow it to check out the game. I had watched the TV commercials for it and RCT 2 but had never really tried them. I brought his cd home and loaded it on the the system and played for about an hour. I got sooooo frustrated. He didn't have the manual that came in the box so I was just lost as to how to do anything beyond what the tutorial instructed. I left the game alone for about a week and then fired it up and again the frustration set in so i went looking for some info on the Microsoft site. Didn't find to much there and then spotted the fansite link so I checked it out and saw all these sites listed and started at the top which of course was ZA. I visited the others as well but came back to ZA for further investigation. I browsed the forum for about an hour and did a little reading then the cursed word caught my eye - yep - Downloads. yippee they have something that can help me I thought. Well I visited the downloads section to see what was afoot and 5 hours later....yes you read right 5 hours I downloaded. I got everything this site and a few others had to offer. I came back and read how to install them and use them ingame and then went and played the most enjoyable zoo...wish I still had that very first zoo but ...well...I went out abd purchased Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection and returned my nephew's cd to his care so he could someday regain interest. After playing for 3 hours I came back to the site and joined. I figured it was the least I could do after downloading all the goodies I did, kind of a way to show my appreciation. The first person I really met was Aussie Koala. She was the best and we became friends right away. We even got to playing a card game together off site on an almost daily basis. That frienship lead me to many other great people and over the last few years I have made some great friends including our resident Pesky Admin Texgnome who I consider to be one of my closest friends. Not long after joining the site I discovered it was very easy for me to pick up the steps to simple designs and I started creating my own creations, then came a design team appointment, later moderator, Admin and now Network Admin.

Jokes very much appreciated! The site was restored from a backup. We still have some issues to sort out, so please be patient and always report here if you find something not working properly. Give as much detail and description as possible. Thanks!

Our beloved Z.Z. (Cathy Rourke) passed away this morning Her husband posted this on her Facebook account: Today I cry. A cry from the depth of my soil and the fullness of my heart. I will never see her smile. I will never hear her laughter or see her beautiful eyes again. She is here beside me, yet she is not. She has left me and gone a different path. Leaving me with my memories of our life together and our love for each other. She left me a better man than she found me. And for that I love her even more To everyone, Cathy Rourke passed this morning. it started raining as she passed. She loved dancing in the rain. Somewhere she is dancing still. - Dennis Rourke

It is with heavy heart that I post this. For those that are familiar with Yellowrose (Wendy) from ZA (Zoo Admin), her son posted this from her Facebook account: This is Wendy's son Kevin. I regret to inform you that Mom died Christmas morning. At approximately 5am she passed in her sleep, comfortable, painless and peaceful. She will be greatly missed. Yellowrose was a prominent and prolific designer for our ZT community. I had the pleasure of working with her on a couple of projects. She was amazing. She will most definitely be missed. Side note: At Wendy's request, Jan and I are working on hosting her ZA files here at Tek.