Macintosh Garden offline?

[bproulx12]

Wow one day it was up, now for the last couple of days it has been offline. Anyone know what the deal is?

 

[Dog Cow]

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.

 

[tecneeq]

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?

 

[Dog Cow]

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.

 

[returningmacuser]

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

 

[benjgvps]

Oh wow. Now preterhuman better get up soon.

 

[returningmacuser]

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)?

 

[LCGuy]

Just to let you know, the Mac Garden is working fine for me.

 

[gobabushka]

anybody know when preterhuman.net is coming back?

 

[Dog Cow]

Just to let you know, the Mac Garden is working fine for me.

Nice. Thanks for the status update! :beige:

 

[dav7]

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

 

[phreakindee]

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

 

[tecneeq]

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

 

[joshc]

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

 

[tecneeq]

It's not how big, but how long it will stay online. Extra points for rare software .

 

[Dog Cow]

It's not how big, but how long it will stay online.

Also connection/download speed. Slow sites are the worst. *cough*LINE*cough*

 

[MacMan]

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... :-/

 

[macgeek417]

*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!

 

[phreakindee]

Unforunately, both mirrors are down as far as I can tell.