sheep's site gone?

D · Post by D » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:15 am

sheep's site gone?
http://www.world-of-arcades.com/
what's up?

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:08 pm

Son of the bitch! It was up only a week or two ago.

R.I.P. world-of-arcades.com, "the legend will never die"; here's hoping that it will find new hosting sometime-somewhere later.

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:28 pm

noooooo...

D · Post by D » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:35 pm

He's clearly upset.
He does so much for the community and somebody please consider hosting his site.
There are lots of manuals, artwork, codes, dip swicthes and other info, etc online. It's a loss.
Sheep is a member here right?
Sheep, thanks for all your hard work.
I hope your work will find a new home for the world to enjoy.
If I had 1GB space I'd host it for you.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:54 pm

I just noticed this while trying to find the code for dangun feverons' timeattack.

One of the most useful and interesting sites I ever used and I hope it comes back soon.

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:53 pm

I'll host it. I have unlimited space (but not download) at powweb. I'll just copy it all into a subdirectory from root and you can then point your domain to it.

I have gigs of download per month so as long as it doesn't go over my limit there won't be a problem,

I can't give you admin priviledges but if you make changes just let me know and I'll post 'em no problem.

I don't know if sheep will read this directly so if you read this and you know him, please let him know, type thing

Cheers

Lee

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:54 pm

Also, it might be worth speaking to the chaps at ikaruga.co.uk.

Cheers

Lee

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:01 pm

Try dropping him a line.

[email protected]

Since the domain still exists it may still be active.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:46 pm

Damn.

Here's hoping Sheep finds a new hosting service soon. WOA was a truly useful site in regard to the Raizing & Cave titles especially.

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:28 pm

**weeps**

Anyone heard from sheep yet?

(plus I just got Dragon Blaze and need to know where those gemheads are.....)

99pence · Post by **99pence** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:51 pm

It was an awesome site. Wicked screenshots.

pcb_revival · Post by **pcb_revival** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:12 pm

toaplan.com fansite as been done for weeks and weeks also

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Wed May 03, 2006 3:54 pm

pcb_revival wrote:toaplan.com fansite as been done for weeks and weeks also

I cried about that too....surely someone has saved the sheeps sites and toaplan.com to their hard drive...right?

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:03 pm

Ceph wrote:Try dropping him a line.

[email protected]

Since the domain still exists it may still be active.

Nope, it doesn't work.

Let's try this:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wor ... rcades.com

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:47 pm

many have missed the sheep. and i am very sorry to hear about the site. i believe that was my introduction to shmups, and it was through there i found shmups.com

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Thu May 04, 2006 2:00 pm

They were both great pages (toaplan.com and Sheep's) - I especially appreciated Sheeps overviews at the games. If their content won't be brought back it will be a true loss for our shmup history.

D · Post by D » Wed May 17, 2006 9:58 am

Sorry to bump this thread, but what can I do as a person to get the site online again?
anybody have a clue who would like to host his archive?
I'm estimating 1GB+ of data.
Why doesn't arcadeflyers.net adopt it, then they will have manuals as well!
Can Anybody get in contact with him?
Is there somebody that downloaded the entire site?

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:36 pm

These questions also burn in my mind.....

JigsawMan · Post by **JigsawMan** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:08 pm

If someone has a full dump of the site then I could host it on my leased line (4Mb upstream) for a month or two so that everyone who wanted a copy could download it by FTP. I would also post a copy to usenet. PM me if you have a copy.

edit: that's if this is OK byt he sheep. Obviously we can;t go posting his hard work without his say-so.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:46 pm

JigsawMan wrote:If someone has a full dump of the site then I could host it on my leased line (4Mb upstream) for a month or two so that everyone who wanted a copy could download it by FTP. I would also post a copy to usenet. PM me if you have a copy.

edit: that's if this is OK byt he sheep. Obviously we can;t go posting his hard work without his say-so.

Yes, that would be awsome if Sheep provided a singe zipfile of the entire site for download similar to what Click did for his site when it finally went away. Is anyone in contact with the Sheep?

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:09 pm

Speaking of Click's, anyone have that zip or a link? I finally have some removable storage capable of holding all this stuff, and the Shmup packrat in me is crying out for love....

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:35 am

you can only get so deep but there is some superficial material cached.
much of the meat however is lost.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... rcades.com

I always wanted to just dowload everything off that site in one fell swoop but I always had the respect not to bandwidthd bomb the site like that.
now i wish i had

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:48 am

http://web.archive.org/web/200406041059 ... _Index.htm

i was able to still grab some manuals etc..

slateman · Post by **slateman** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:38 am

Could host it all easily myself...and will see if I can find click-stick's site zipped. I have it, could easily host that as well. Silly space + silly bandwidth = pretty damn cool.

D · Post by D » Sat May 20, 2006 4:52 pm

dynagod wrote:http://web.archive.org/web/200406041059 ... _Index.htm

i was able to still grab some manuals etc..

Which manual were you able to grab? and bump

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:42 pm

I sifted through the 0-9's & A's.
literally had to open hundreds of links, thank god for tabbed browsing.

i only weened

1942_manual.pdf
1944_manual.pdf
500GP_DX_Manual.pdf
Aeroboto_Manual.pdf
Amidar_Manual.pdf
AquaJet_Manual.pdf
AquaJet_Update.pdf
Asterix_Manual.pdf

going through A-Z will take quite awhile.

that site is way to great of a resource to loose. a multi-generational loss of mamouth proportions.. need to figure out a way to reconstruct it.

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:27 pm

Soldato J wrote:**weeps**

Anyone heard from sheep yet?

(plus I just got Dragon Blaze and need to know where those gemheads are.....)

SECRETS
http://web.archive.org/web/200407030153 ... ecrets.htm

MANUAL
http://web.archive.org/web/200406201834 ... Manual.pdf
(have to cut and paste that one)

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:03 pm

Went and methodically collected what remained of Sheeps shmup overviews for Cave/R8zing/Psikyo PCB's and zipped em up.
Most of the imagery is missing so the pages are incomplete, but much of the scoring systems, secrets, stories etc (anything thats primarily text based) was saveable. alot of good secrets and hidden menus/options/dips that otherwise would be lost..

http://www.wolfpackunit.com/PRESERVATION.zip

im in the midst of going thru the entire "arcade papers preservation" archive.
im up to C and have maybe yielded only roughly 15 manuals,promos etc.
Luckily its not as much of a loss as the arcde flyer site has much of this stuff mirrored and or was the original source to begin with.

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:54 pm

Thanks dynagod for the Dblaze info....I am still hoping someone has the whole site, images and all (it was so pretty, sheeps site was)

D · Post by D » Mon May 22, 2006 2:40 pm

I asked system16's Toby about the matter and this is what he had to say:

D wrote:
>Maybe you or somebody can host Sheep's site "world of arcades"?
>He has a lot of great things like manuals that can't be found anywhere
>else on the net.
>His site is offline and contains about 1 GB.

Toby wrote:
I contacted him and received no reply,

Toby...