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Posted by: bproulx12 on 2008-09-13 05:29:44
Wow one day it was up, now for the last couple of days it has been offline. Anyone know what the deal is?
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2008-09-14 12:32:08
I don't know, but I noticed the same thing. I had been there two weeks ago, now all of this week it has been down. 🙁
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Posted by: tecneeq on 2008-09-15 15:08:00
http://web.archive.org/web/*/mac.the-underdogs.info/
I actually did try to leech the site via wget, but archive.org doesn't have it complete. Does anyone have a complete mirror on disk?
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2008-09-17 14:16:08
Thanks for the link, but the web archive does NOT record downloadable files such as .ZIP, .SIT, etc.
I have some files from there which I've downloaded in the past, but not a complete mirror.
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Posted by: returningmacuser on 2008-09-19 12:00:04
Wait... if the Macintosh Garden is offline, then that means the entire Home of the Underdogs, the greatest source for Abandonware known to man (outside of a few rogue FTPs) is offline! 8-o
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Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-09-19 19:07:27
Oh wow. Now preterhuman better get up soon.
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Posted by: returningmacuser on 2008-09-20 16:19:21
Oh wow. Now preterhuman better get up soon. I tried contacting the owner of the site (Macintosh Garden) via xar@the-underdogs.org, but it didn't get through. Anyone know of an alternate address where I can contact him (and possibly one for the owner of HOTU itself)? |
Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-09-29 21:36:12
Just to let you know, the Mac Garden is working fine for me.
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2008-09-29 22:30:21
anybody know when preterhuman.net is coming back?
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2008-09-30 08:08:42
Just to let you know, the Mac Garden is working fine for me. Nice. Thanks for the status update! :beige:
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Posted by: dav7 on 2008-12-18 22:48:07
Thanks for the link, but the web archive does NOT record downloadable files such as .ZIP, .SIT, etc.
I have some files from there which I've downloaded in the past, but not a complete mirror. This is a bit of a closed thread, but I just wanted to mention that the archive does actually archive non-HTML pages. Not sure if it's accidental or whatever, but this philosophy will probably cover all bases: If it looked like something just downloaded from the web archive and it worked, back it up in at least 16 places. 😛
As an aside, I've been noticing that some files seem to be truncated at $SIZE - 1 bytes, so for example wgetting a 142368 byte file will cause wget to notify me of the connection being closed at byte 142367. :-/ [?]
-dav7
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Posted by: phreakindee on 2009-02-17 14:12:23
For a (possibly temporary) solution, I'm assembling a Mac site in the vein of Mac Garden for some of my favorite software and games, many of which are grabbed from MG from when it was around.
http://mac.thebasingers.com
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Posted by: tecneeq on 2009-02-19 09:33:37
GREAT. I, and this army of macs, applaud your effort!
🙂 :beige: :b&w: 😉 :🙂
😀 ;D :lol: 🙂 :beige:
:b&w: 😉 :🙂 😀 ;D
:lol: 🙂 :beige: :b&w: 😉
:🙂 😀 ;D :lol: 🙂
:beige: :b&w: 😉 :🙂 😀
;D
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Posted by: joshc on 2009-02-19 09:45:40
For a (possibly temporary) solution, I'm assembling a Mac site in the vein of Mac Garden for some of my favorite software and games, many of which are grabbed from MG from when it was around.
http://mac.thebasingers.com Nice one - I hope it grows to the size of the Macintosh Garden! :O 😎
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Posted by: tecneeq on 2009-02-19 13:35:41
It's not how big, but how long it will stay online. Extra points for rare software 😉 .
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-02-19 14:26:44
It's not how big, but how long it will stay online. Also connection/download speed. Slow sites are the worst. *cough*LINE*cough* |
Posted by: MacMan on 2009-02-20 15:53:49
I would also be interested to hear if there is an archive of the Macintosh Garden files somewhere. It was such a great site and it is going to be very difficult to hunt down those old games without it. It is just a shame that there are no other sites with such a large archive as theirs, I guess we are now seeing one of the effects of having all your eggs in one basket... :-/
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Posted by: macgeek417 on 2009-02-20 16:03:14
*ding!*
Anyone remember that on the download page, it would pop up a
"Download from which server?
Mirror 1 (europe)
theunderdogs.org"
thingy???
Maybe 'mirror 1' is still up :b&w:
Quick, search your history and find that mirror! (i can't because i recently "nuked" my web-mac)
I'm gonna run over to my other web-mac and see if i can find it there!
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Posted by: phreakindee on 2009-02-20 16:12:54
Unforunately, both mirrors are down as far as I can tell.
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