Re: ataricade.com

I've got a server too if a European mirror is wanted

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On 25 Jun 2010, at 05:56 PM, "saint@arcadecontrols.com" <saint@arcadecontrols.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth I also can host a mirror on
> mirrors.arcadecontrols.com. Server's been up for 11+ years and I don't
> intend to go anywhere, and have the intent that if I ever hang it up I'll
> loudly announce it ahead of time and look for someone to grab mirrors or
> outright take over the domain and contents. I'd love to see a
> decentralized group of mirroring hosts for important sites like this.
>
>> Darren Finck wrote:
>>> Hello John,
>>>
>>> You are correct, they must have been in my cache. I fired up another
>>> browser and don't see them. Interestingly, the few images that are
>>> there appear to be getting served up by ataricade.com, for instance:
>>>
>>> http://www.ataricade.com/the720skater.jpg
>>>
>>> Also interesting is that the pdf files are in the google cache, in
>>> html-conversions:
>>>
>>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.ataricade.com/CINE_FAQ_V096.pdf
>>>
>>> Hopefully it is just a temporary hosting/configuration problem and
>>> things will be ironed out soon. ataricade was a useful resource to me.
>>>
>>> Darren
>>>
>>
>> You can rebuild the site for as much as you have images in the cache -
>> simply drag the cached pictures to a folder and archive the HTML code
>> using "View - Page Source (Firefox)" or "File - Save Page As (FireFox)",
>> name the images folder to what the original HTML code was looking for
>> "Images" or "img" and see if you can open the page from the hard drive
>> using a second browser.
>>
>> I can host this on Flippers if Francis agrees, and doesn't have his own
>> backup. Flippers has been up continuously since 1996....Or Vectorlist
>> can do this...we need to archive/mirror more of these sites.
>>
>> John :-#)#
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 6/17/10, John Robertson /<pinball@telus.net>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: John Robertson <pinball@telus.net>
>>> Subject: Re: VECTOR: ataricade.com
>>> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
>>> Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 12:59 PM
>>>
>>> Darren Finck wrote:
>>>> The google cache is fairly recent (I get caches from the past
>>>> month or two for most of his pages).
>>>>
>>>> For example:
>>>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.ataricade.com/index.htm
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.ataricade.com/oddsandends.htm
>>>>
>>>> are both from mid-May, and include most images for me.
>>>>
>>>> Darren
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Darren,
>>>
>>> Those images are in your browsers cache - not on Google (I have no
>>> images - well, one or two - when I use your links), I have to
>>> assume Google doesn't archive all images when it does its cache
>>> routine...
>>>
>>> John :-#)#
>>>>
>>>> --- On *Wed, 6/16/10, John Robertson /<pinball@telus.net>/* wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: John Robertson <pinball@telus.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: VECTOR: ataricade.com
>>>> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
>>>> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 7:14 PM
>>>>
>>>> Tim Matthews wrote:
>>>>> Doesn't sound promising. If anybody is able to get in touch
>>>>> with the site owner and he's not interested in running the
>>>>> site any more, I'd be happy to mirror it if he'll provide a
>>>>> tarball/ftp/rsync access for a short period.
>>>>>
>>>>> tim
>>>>
>>>> Well, there is archive.org - shows the latest version of his
>>>> site (2008) as:
>>>>
>>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20080328093702/www.ataricade.com/index.htm
>>>>
>>>> If anyone sees the images (from their web browser cache) when
>>>> they visit that site perhaps they could save them for Tim...
>>>>
>>>> John :-#)#
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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