Hey All,

I was surfing the other day and somehow noticed that bbsdev.net along
with all of its subdomains, including the sites for SyncTERM, SyncDRAW,
Door projects, DOSbox resources, et cetera all appear to be down.

This led me to some concerns and a couple of questions. Does anyone know
what's going on there? Is this a small hiccup, or do we need to chip in
and do something to keep that from being a lost resource?

Also, should we coordinate a little and try to mirror the files?

I have a local copy of the Roughnecks Win32 Installer for
SyncTERM 0.9.5b as well as local copies of a later compiled Win32
executable for 1.0b. However, I never did have copies of SyncDRAW or any
other utilities/tools produced by deuce.

Incidental, I also noticed that bbs-scene.org (along with diskshop.ca)
isn't responding. Hrm.

Anyway, I just wanted to check in and see if everything's okay out there
and if we as a community can do anything to help. If some of those sites
are gone for good, I can start uploading what I had to some file areas
at least. I hope nothing is gone for good.

Take Care
/TLR0
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Re: Re: SyncTERM + BBSDEV.NET + BBS-Scene.org Sites Down?
By: Michael Buchholz to Cameron Lindsay on Wed Feb 04 2015 00:30:33

I liked the idea of bbs-scene.org but it never really functioned since I cam along, so never really got to check it out besides a slightly broken website that used to be there. Too bad it went offline, I would of
offered up some resources / hosting or whatever to avoid it going offline
if resources might of been the issue.

I would, too... There's got to be an archive of it somewhere. Want to pool together and see if we can't mirror it with some more functional site framework?
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Re: Re: SyncTERM + BBSDEV.NET + BBS-Scene.org Sites Down?
By: Michael Buchholz to Damon A. Getsman on Wed Feb 04 2015 11:48:47

Always a good possibility. I know archive.org has it but is a real pain to pull a website out of there and make it somewhat functional again.

Like for the os2bbs.com file section that I recreated from archive.org files Https://retrodigital.net/os2bbsfiles/ Was a bit of a chore.

Yeah I haven't worked with pulling from archive.org before, but I'm sure it won't be easy. You have a spider for it, I'm assuming?
May have been a bit of a chore but it looks like you did a nice job on the os2bbsfiles. :)
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I usually use winhttrack or sometimes wget. Took a bit to grab the os2bbsfiles pages and not sure if there is really any need for the files at this point but it gives people that don't want to download the torrent a good place to locate the files if need be.

Yeah, slowly but surely adding them to my BBS. Fortunately, there were a few files there that I needed here on my eCS system :)

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Is this a small hiccup, or do we need to chip in
and do something to keep that from being a lost resource?

If theres anything like that that can ever be done to preserve information
/ resources I'm always in. Just thought I'd put that out there.

Also, should we coordinate a little and try to mirror the files?

Incidental, I also noticed that bbs-scene.org (along with diskshop.ca)
isn't responding. Hrm.

I liked the idea of bbs-scene.org but it never really functioned since I came along, so never really got to check it out besides a slightly broken website that used to be there. Too bad it went offline, I would of
offered up some resources / hosting or whatever to avoid it going offline
if resources might of been the issue.


Have a great day!
Mike (DeepEND)
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I would, too... There's got to be an archive of it somewhere. Want to pool together and see if we can't mirror it with some more functional site framework?

Always a good possibility. I know archive.org has it but is a real pain to pull a website out of there and make it somewhat functional again.

Like for the os2bbs.com file section that I recreated from archive.org files. Https://retrodigital.net/os2bbsfiles/ Was a bit of a chore.

Thanks
Mike
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Yeah I haven't worked with pulling from archive.org before, but I'm
sure it won't be easy. You have a spider for it, I'm assuming?
May have been a bit of a chore but it looks like you did a nice job on the os2bbsfiles. :)

I usually use winhttrack or sometimes wget. Took a bit to grab the os2bbsfiles pages and not sure if there is really any need for the files at this point but it gives people that don't want to download the torrent a good place to locate the files if need be.
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Yeah, slowly but surely adding them to my BBS. Fortunately, there were a few files there that I needed here on my eCS system :)

All worked out well then.. Will eventually be adding them to my BBS as well. When I get more time to get things done. Making progress though.
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