MacGUI Downloads gone

MrFahrenheit

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Charlie Sheen is the modern software developer, and the other pitcher is a vintage software developer, I guess.


I don’t follow the reasoning behind old software preventing new software development. Perhaps there’s a lot more to it than just that statement. Like he couldn’t express himself properly and chose a poor analogy or words.
 

tt

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My interpretation of Dog Cow's writing is we would need to go over to his forum and start regularly participating there. (But it is probably already too late for that.) The software he is hosting is not bringing value to the site where he was hoping to build a community, so he took it down. The vulnerability of silos of information mentioned here also applies to communities if there are only a couple of them that most people go to.
 
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joshc

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If people mainly found the availability of vintage development tools at Mac GUI of the most value, I’d be happy to host those at Mac Hut instead, for those who don’t want to download 16GB of files just to grab a few tools.

I haven’t had time yet to properly sift through the Mac GUI files but I imagine there’s at least a few which haven’t found their way to the Mac Garden or other sites yet.
 

jkheiser

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1. MacGUI is a great site, his articles have always been great, his knowledge of very early (1984-ish) Mac systems architecture and assembly programming is truly impressive, I hope he updates the Blog soon (because 100% of the Blog articles are excellent and include substantial original research), and I’m sorry that he’s taken the (again, excellent) MacGUI Downloads section offline.
Here-here, aye-aye on all of this. The Mac 512k Blog is scholarly and valuable.

Curiously, downloads from the MacGUI Vault are available again.
 

Snial

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Here-here, aye-aye on all of this. The Mac 512k Blog is scholarly and valuable.
I'd third that. I'm sad he took it down for a while - maybe he felt undervalued. It's easy to get discouraged, I mean, think about what happened to Paul ... who wrote and maintained mini vMac!
 

Skate323k137

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I'd third that. I'm sad he took it down for a while - maybe he felt undervalued. It's easy to get discouraged, I mean, think about what happened to Paul ... who wrote and maintained mini vMac!
I have never felt worse for someone who gave away code than the kid who wrote timthumb.php
 

jkheiser

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Paul’s personal site at gryphel.net went dark in the last 30 days. It was hosted with Lightlink, which has been winding down since its operator, Homer Wilson Smith, died last December.

Mini vMac’s site at www.gryphel.com, however, is hosted at DigitalOcean, which supports auto-pay via PayPal. Maybe Paul configured it to draw from his PayPal account, which is probably still accepting donations. Maybe that is what’s keeping the lights on for Mini vMac.
 

jkheiser

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Now the entire MacGUI site is down. I hope it’s just a temporary problem. A recent blog post from David said he was dealing with an aggressive scraper/crawler.
 

joshc

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The site does seem to go up and down like a yo yo. I wonder if its hosted on a home connection or something.
 
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