Online repository of ACK games?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:44 am

I think in this case he really is wishing you luck. There's a lot going on right now for everyone. I'd love to see us come out of this pandemic without having lost ACK.

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:11 am

Flack wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:09 amBest of luck.

I was going to pick a fight because ya know man, any discouragement hurts quadruple right now, but that would just be feeding into the behaviors I don't want.

by **Tdarcos** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:04 pm

RetroRomper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:58 pm
Flack wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:09 amBest of luck.
Are you suggesting I'll fail again?

There is a typical warning on advertisements for investments: "Prior performance is no guarantee of future results. Your results may vary."

You may succeed. You may have a neutral result, neither succeeding nor failng. You may fail. It is up to you, since apparently you can't get professional help.

You need to improve your attitude. Nobody here is predicting anything. We wish someone good luck that they may be successful in their endeavors. It has no ulterior motive and is nothing other than a wish for good fortune.

As you have admitted you have had personal problems in the past, wishing you "good luck" is nothing more than someone offering the hope that things will get better for you, not that they expect them to get worse.

There are a couple of sayings, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." and "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

The first means that you should expect the common rather than the unusual, the second says to expect ordinary behavior, not unusual hatred. Nobody here has said anything bad about you, thus you should give them them the benefit of the doubt, and "presume good faith," as Wikpedia says.

by **RetroRomper** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:58 pm

Flack wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:09 amBest of luck.

Are you suggesting I'll fail again?

by **RetroRomper** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:36 am

Didn't you read my messages?

I'm not saying I didn't nearly follow through with all of them, what I'm saying is that I destroyed nearly all of them due to being a complete, manic dunce that no one should put any faith at all in. Look dude, would you please at least acknowledge that my problem isn't follow through, but simple self sabotage?

by **Flack** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:09 am

Best of luck.

by **RetroRomper** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:01 am

1.
Seriously man, I was okayish leading up to it, did all the foot work, and Tdarcos tone deafly describes three rape stories? Holy Misogyny Batman! My only mistake was to not include a "how much would you be willing to pay?" dial thing in the form. My pounding on him was ugly, mean, and cruel as well and I'm sorry for it, that shouldn't have happened.

2.
Hit Save! Video Game Preservation 501(3)c Non-Profit-Organization, thank you very much. Would you like to see my State incorporation paperwork or the IRS 1023-EZ application that I was working on "Follow up Questions" for them on?

3.Over the past 48 hours:

I've scanned on my flatbed around 30 SNES and Super Famicom boxes, weird cartridges of obscure consoles.

Spoke to three different color printing and correction experts: a professional fine art print store owner, a workflow and production engineer at X-Rite, and a Product Manager at same. And that is for a video game preservation group finding a better workflow for color accuracy, that they'll use to processes new editions to their large collection of scans. LARGE

4. The website is excessive: it looks like the entire community (minus one or two people,) was centered here so targeted gathering is going to work alot better. Hopefully I may have something to show of on a website if one is ever required before I make it. What I am going to do is to create a Google Form with my contact info, a way for them to upload their files and write down their memories, and then mass PM it would with permission from Robb.

If I'm feeling extra spicy, I'll post the form in the forums where Garth received a one or two post response to ACK.

5.
Am I so autistic that I enjoy novelty things that give me an excuse to talk to and visit a bunch of people I've interacted with for quite a while (good or otherwise) when I can't even see my dumbass coworkers?

Uh...

by **Flack** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:32 pm

I'm not waving anything around. The reality that nobody else wants to mention is that over the last month you said you were going to make t-shirts and then you didn't, and then you said you were going to start a video game preservation site, and you didn't. That is why nobody is jumping to help with this latest manic endeavor. Over the past 48 hours, I've scanned in over a thousand floppy disk images and posted them online. If you want people to help out, go set up a domain dedicated to archiving ACK stuff, post what you can, and then ask people to pitch in. Nobody wants to do a bunch of work for someone who shows up once a week to post how high they are or how they wish they were dead.

by **RetroRomper** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:59 pm

Flack wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:50 am If you can point me to anything you've archived that has been online for more than nine years, let me know. Otherwise, and I say this without malice, I think I'm doing okay on my own preserving things.

1. The original link to the article on RoboHara in the ACK base where you talked about this was dead.
2. Are you waving your preservation big pepe around?
3. I set up a deal for a video game preservation website to purchase 3000 video game covers, manuals, PC games, etc.

You can also blame me for this:

You're welcome.

by **pinback** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:43 am

When is the part where we sit back and let you do all the work?

by **Flack** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:50 am

RetroRomper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:40 pm
Flack wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:13 pm Have you tried PM'ing any of these people? They all have JC accounts, and when you send them a PM it sends them an email informing them someone has sent them a message. This would seem to me to be the most direct way to contact any registered forum member.
I was curious if you still had the scans you made of your Commodore 64 and other systems banging around somewhere and if you would be willing to hand them to me for publication?

Nine years ago, I purchased a large lot of Commodore 64 hardware and software through Craigslist. Mixed in with the software, I found the entire software library belonging to the Commodore Users of Norman -- about 45 floppy disks worth of mostly public domain utilities. I spent approximately a week converting them all to D64 disk images, and scanning in pictures of each disk. When I was finished, I posted about it on my blog. Some of the programs on those disks had been previously undiscovered, and were added to GameBase 64, and the entire collection has been added to multiple Commodore 64 disk collections. The post, including links to the files and pictures, remain on my website nine years later.

http://www.robohara.com/?p=3657

If you can point me to anything you've archived that has been online for more than nine years, let me know. Otherwise, and I say this without malice, I think I'm doing okay on my own preserving things.

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:23 pm

I was not going to ask you for their email addresses or any other personal information: that is strictly out of bounds regardless of my state of mind. What I was going to suggest, is if you could send a link to a Google Form to part of the user base:

https://www.fastcomet.com/tutorials/phpbb3/mass-mail

A Google Form asking for ACK and IF files for saving, archiving, preservation or whatever would be easy and kill two birds with one stone. But seriously, I would never ask for information not publicly disclosed from a third party as that is stepping over a moral and ethical boundary.

I know it's beside the point, but Garth's email address is garthsequipmentshop@gmail.com because he publicly disclosed it. With the incongruity, sort of. I'm assuming it's me asking someone directly right before asking for a mass mailer? I'm willing to ask someone directly, but not an entire user base one by one?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:55 pm

I was going to ask ICJ if he'd be willing to send a mass mailer.

I'm really trying to not give you a hard time about this because then we won't see you for three months and I genuinely like having you around. But:

A few days ago you had a nervous breakdown. A few days before that you said some of the most horrible things to Commander Tdarcos and insinuated that we'd all pay for ... for asking you to apologize to him. You're not in a good spot right now when it comes to contacting strangers. Like Flack said you can write them through JC's PM system. I'm not going to go look up people's email addresses and give them to you. There is an expectation when people sign up for a system that such a thing would not happen unless you're a hawt cych. For all I know Garth's email address is GarthEquipmentShop709-33-1253@gmail.com and now you have his first name and his last name and his social security number. I don't know. Do YOU think you're in a spot to be given people's email addresses right now? Can we go 8 days between incidents before handing stuff out? At some point can we vote on this?

RetroRomper wrote: but keeping track and individually messaging around 30+ people would be a bit of an all consuming task.

RetroRomper wrote:I was curious if you still had the scans you made of your Commodore 64 and other systems banging around somewhere and if you would be willing to hand them to me for publication?

Again, I am not giving you a hard time. I want you to keep posting here because I genuinely like you and your posts. But can you see the incongruity between those two statements?

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:40 pm

Flack wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:13 pm Have you tried PM'ing any of these people? They all have JC accounts, and when you send them a PM it sends them an email informing them someone has sent them a message. This would seem to me to be the most direct way to contact any registered forum member.

I was curious if you still had the scans you made of your Commodore 64 and other systems banging around somewhere and if you would be willing to hand them to me for publication?

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:38 pm

I was going to ask ICJ if he'd be willing to send a mass mailer. That may be presumptuous on my part, but keeping track and individually messaging around 30+ people would be a bit of an all consuming task.

by **Flack** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:13 pm

Have you tried PM'ing any of these people? They all have JC accounts, and when you send them a PM it sends them an email informing them someone has sent them a message. This would seem to me to be the most direct way to contact any registered forum member.

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:54 pm

bryanb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:50 am [...] I do think we could potentially get McDeath back if we simply set up a JC Discord, but I don't think that's going to happen.

Would you be willing to PM me their Discord contact information? I'd be happy to speak to them personally about what they have regarding ACK.

by **bryanb** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:50 am

RetroRomper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 2:09 am The dropbox folder repository upload link at that site is dead, as are many of the links in JC, the stickied posts here, and I think many of the mega patches. Do you or someone you know have any sort of direct access to Chris and or Garth? Anyone else that is prominent in the ACK community?

I'm afraid my links to the ACK community are tenuous at best so I can't be of much help here. Robb might potentially still be in contact with Chris and Garth so you could ask him. That said, I do think we could potentially get McDeath back if we simply set up a JC Discord, but I don't think that's going to happen.

by **RetroRomper** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 2:09 am

bryanb wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:50 pm If such a thing doesn't already exist, we could create it! By "we" I really mean you, the person reading this message. [...] Technically, we do have the Adventure Creation Kit File Repository already but it's very incomplete. So you're definitely not off the hook here.

The dropbox folder repository upload link at that site is dead, as are many of the links in JC, the stickied posts here, and I think many of the mega patches. Do you or someone you know have any sort of direct access to Chris and or Garth? Anyone else that is prominent in the ACK community?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:53 am

All right! Just finished a major project at work that had some pretty late nights involved. Gonna hop over to my email and see what people have written me now that this chunk of work has been completed and I have a little free time coming up. Let's see what the ole inbox has in store.

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