[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'll be trying to catch up with ~2 weeks of obituaries, news and other 
bits for the blog - my PC died last Monday, and I've been "offline" in 
regards to sorting these bits of news :) I only put up some randomly 
when checking my email before it crashed.

As for Bittorrents, yeah, someone might. I hadn't visited the site for 
years, so I can't even remember what was on there. A sad loss, 
regardless, even with it being legally dubious.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> I haven't checked, but I wouldn't be too surprised if somebody decided 

> to do an Underdogs bittorent. That might be the only way all the files 

> would ever get together again. However, I'm not convinced all the 

> stuff they were distributing was really legal to distribute. It's 

> another of those gray areas. Still, sad to see the site's gone though.

>

> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Henry E Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>     Alan, would it be ok if we add your note to the SIG blog?  I've

>     noticed a citation or two out there on the web, tracking back to

>     your "post" to the SIG, but of course there isn't one.

>     Henry

>

>     Henry Lowood

>     Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;

>         Film & Media Collections

>     HRG, Green Library

>     557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University Libraries

>     Stanford CA 94305-6004 USA

>     http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood <http://www.stanford.edu/%7Elowood>

>     lowood at stanford.edu <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>; 650-723-4602

>

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

>     From: "Rachel Donahue" <donahrm at gmail.com <mailto:donahrm at gmail.com>>

>     To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org

>     <mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>

>     Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 6:05:24 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada

>     Pacific

>     Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

>

>

>     Wow, just wow. A huge loss, indeed. Does anyone know the

>     maintainers -- no chance it will resurrect with a different host?

>

>

>     On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Alan Au < aau at alum.mit.edu

>     <mailto:aau at alum.mit.edu> > wrote:

>

>

>     Hi All -

>

>     I've mostly been lurking, but I did want to pop my head up to

>     mention that the long-standing abandonware site "Home of the

>     Underdogs" finally succumbed to hosting troubles on Monday (the

>     webhosting company went bankrupt) and is probably gone for good.

>      The preservation community is that much poorer for it.

>

>     RIP HotU.

>

>     - Alan

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>     Rachel Donahue

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>     Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

>     University of Maryland, College Park

>     College Park, MD

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