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DS development > GBATEK: MIA

#162196 - Izhido - Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:56 pm

You probably already know this, but...

Have you noticed http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm has just disappeared?

EEEEEEEK!

Also, the root site has still a page, but all links have been 404'ed... even the images are no longer there!

Normally, you would just say "meh, don't be alarmist, Martin's site is probably down & will go up in a few days"... but seeing as he's been no longer within anyone's reach in quite a long time, well, I *am* worried.

GBATEK is currently the most comprehensive source of information for us GBA & DS homebrew developers, and frankly, losing that source would strike a major blow to this community... it's just too important to be left out.

So, people, please, all of you who can, go to google.com, search for "gbatek", grab one of the many mirrors of the document, and mirror it yourself. Please!

I just placed a copy of it on my site, at http://dsotaku.drunkencoders.com/gbatek/gbatek.htm . But please, create as many copies of this document (or any other copies you can find on the web) as it is possible, and publish it on your sites ASAP.

Also, if you could drop a line in this topic telling us where your mirror is, well, that would be very appreciated.

EDIT: Kraln has agreed to host a mirror of the document, at:

http://www.kraln.com/gbatek.htm

Let's do this, at least, until we finally find out what has been of Martin & his whereabouts, k?

Thank you!

- Izhido

Last edited by Izhido on Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:13 pm; edited 1 time in total

#162197 - josath - Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:07 pm

Also, anyone with a registered shareware copy of no$gba has a copy of this document, it's under the 'Help' menu.

#162201 - simonjhall - Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:22 pm

I think this guy's gone, hasn't he? I think it's time we removed our dependence and re-did our own community version of reverse-engineered info. Didn't someone make a wiki not that long ago for this very purpose?
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#162203 - DiscoStew - Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:13 am

The link to http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm still works for me
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#162209 - Cydrak - Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:10 am

The site was indeed unresponsive several hours ago. But it's working again, for now.

Is this wiki the one simon's talking about? Not sure why it hasn't caught on. (I probably would have chosen something more comfortable/pretty, IMHO, such as MediaWiki; but there are tons out there, so I won't pretend to know what's what. I'm just big on formatting/navigation/aesthetics.)

josath wrote:
Also, anyone with a registered shareware copy of no$gba has a copy of this document, it's under the 'Help' menu.

Which (by the release notes) seems faintly newer than the public version... not world-ending, but alas.

#162211 - tepples - Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:13 am

I too am Spartacus.
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#162223 - Dwedit - Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:42 am

I'll also mirror it, I'll just assume my site gets no hits anyway. Yeah, huge 1MB HTML file is huge.
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#162235 - gauauu - Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:00 pm

Me too! Me too!

#162244 - silent_code - Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:10 pm

You know, no$ is hosted by others (emubase), so I don't think the site being down temporarily is liked to Martin being MIA. ;^)

Does this count as mass hysteria? ;^D
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#162248 - gauauu - Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:19 pm

silent_code wrote:
Does this count as mass hysteria? ;^D


Quite. But it makes the day more exciting.

#162282 - Road - Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:36 pm

Hello everyone, I'm the administrator of emubase, the society that is responsible for hosting nocash (aside from many other sites on this topic). I'll say some words about the situation of nocash and the site.

It is true, that Martin has vanished for some time now. I can confirm that his last change to the webspace was made on the 23rd of January this year and I've seen no traces from him on the net. Several people requested that I visit him personally to confirm his current status (not an impossible request since we live in the same city), but I'm a bit reluctant to do so, since he has taken long "pauses" before and maybe needs the time without the sometimes-not-so-nice internet annoying him (if you have read his email section you know what I mean). His current absence is noted much more than the ones before mainly because of no$gba being one of the (if not THE ONE) prime NDS emus out there (not even taking the debugger into equatation, which is unmatched imho).

If the site is down, like this time, don't worry too much, mostly it's because our hosting provider got some problems (in this case the whole provider was down, because an external technician manipulated the central backup power unit unplanned).

If Martin were ever to delete his whole site, I would place a notice on nocash.emubase.de which explains the situation. If he would give his agreement, we (the emubase society) will keep up his whole site as an archive as long as we provide our hosting service (which I hope will be forever or at least for a long, long time), even he "shuts down" his services.

In the case you got any futher questions regarding this issue you can find me on #emulation@irc.euirc.net with this nick.

Greetings
Road
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#162289 - silent_code - Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:16 pm

Thank you very much, Road!
I hope you're right and Martin reappears.

Greetings to Hamburg!
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