[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

[Stuart Feldhamer]

I find that prospect highly unlikely. There was no way to download the files
from HOTU en masse, and in fact it was sort of a pain to download anything.

 

Stuart

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Devin Monnens
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:01 PM
To: Henry E Lowood; IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

 

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> 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; 650-723-4602



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rachel Donahue" <donahrm at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <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 > 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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