Gabe McGrath writes,
Hi Raph,
Found your blog via Technorati, whilst searching for more “retro remakes”. I hit this page. Don’t know if you (or your readers) would be interested, but the RR site was hacked recently, so your link to the downloads *won’t* work. I have compiled all the “off site” links I could find (for each remake author) and put them on one blogpost. So there you go. Sorry if you’ve already “moved on”. (Thought it might be of interest.)
PS: Funny – I stumbled on your page, and couldn’t work out where I knew your name. Then I saw the book cover – OF COURSE! “Theory of Fun” – read about it on Boing Boing ages ago. Alas, it’s still sitting safely in my “amazon to buy list” as the Aussie dollar has tanked against yours. Hopefully it recovers soon, so I can build my game-related library. All the best 🙂
Hacked… that sucks. 🙁 Hopefully they recover quickly, it’s one of my favorite indie projects.
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Wayback Machine has a few “backups.”
Morgan, that’s a good thought!
Unfortunately, it won’t help in _this_ case.
The RR comnpo entries were uploaded in December 2008, and the most recent “Wayback copy” is 10 months prior to that date.
Good suggestion though – I hadn’t thought of trying the IWBM. 🙂
Oh, I was just thinking of the textual content, not the downloads. I think you have to make formal arrangements with Wayback Machine to essentially mirror entire websites as archives. The Wayback folks tend to be proactive in soliciting content to archive, so if you make a splash, you won’t have to contact them. 😉
I think I still have contact info for the guy who contacted me a year or two ago regarding some event videos, if you want to set something up for posterity.
Thanks again Morgan;
amazing what you learn in a comment thread!
As for the “contacting stuff”… I don’t represent the RR site in any way, I’m just a member.
But – I _will_ pass on this idea to Oddbob, RR’s man-in-charge.
🙂