It's effectively the moment of the good and the bad surprises ! I understand
why you have taken this decision, but it's a very great deception for the
MSX fans. Maybe there is a fourth reason : the announcement by ASCII of
creating in the next months a new downloading site with a freeware part and
a commercial part, including the old games of Konami, Namcot, Sega,...
It's the eternal problem of the neverending copyright, though these games
weren't available since ten years at least ! That's must be for you also a
source of disappointment. By the way, I have discovered that there's no more
MSX directory on JAZZ. As this ftp site is in Korea, I think that this fact
could find his explanation in the future new site of ASCII.
To be more positive, I'm interested by your CD. You can send me a e-mail
privately for the explanations (can I send you an Eurocheque, as I live in
Belgium ?). My e-mail address is the following : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beno�t "Le Martien" - http://www.marsupone.com -
Non � l'homme de Cro-Magnon !
Ecoutez la musique en toute libert� !
Red�couvrez les plaisirs de l'ordinateur MSX !
----- Original Message -----
From: TFH/Fony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; MSX Stuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:17 PM
Subject: MEP partiatly offline...
> Hi guys!
>
> This time I am going to send out some bad news to you all.
> As you might know, we have done our best the last 2 years to supply you
with
> all the MSX Emulators around, and also we have tried to collect all the
MSX
> Games we could find and to put them online for you.
> We have succeeded quite wel in that last part, and we now have about 2800
> files online in our database. But, to all good things, there comes an
end...
>
> As some of you might have already noticed, about 40% of our files in the
> databse is unavailable right now. We are not going to solve this. Even
> worse: Our Games Database will go oflline completely in a couple of
days...
> WHY ??? You may ask..
> Well, a couple of reasons:
>
> 1. TIME... I simply don't have the time any more to keep updating all
this.
> My job is demanding too much from me, and I also want some time to spend
> with my wife now and then ;)
> 2. Lack of interest from the users: I have requested help from all of you
a
> couple of times, but no one wants to help me out... O.K. Perfect, but then
> don't expect me to keep this thing online...
> 3. MONEY... The traffic this databsse was generating was huge. The MEP had
a
> traffic of about 150 gig a month. I am not willing to pay this anymore...
>
> Well, these are the main reasons.. There are also a few minor ones, but
> those are not so important.
>
> Anyway.. What does this mean:
>
> 1. If you still want to download any games from the MEP, you'd better
hurry.
> 2. The MEPonCD will stay available untill the end of this month, then it
> will disapear as well.
>
> On the other hand:
>
> 1.Emulators will stay online and will be updated
> 2.Music will stay online
> 3.Fony will stay online
> 4.I will have some space to spare. If someone needs external hosting of
> files, I am prepared to help out...
>
> Well, Not so nice news I guess... But it had to happen someday....
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> TFH/Fony
>
>
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