Post by Tamkis on Jun 26, 2014 22:31:29 GMT -5
Eidolon's Inn, the home website for the famous and extremely accurate Kega Fusion emulator, development of Tavern RPG (now known as Pier Solar), and a plethor of other histroical Sega information and technical information, is closing by July 5th of 2014 .
To quote Eidolon himself:
Dear Eidolon's Inn user,
the time has come - I have decided to shut down the website Eidolon's Inn.
All content and all user accounts will be deleted.
Mark the date: July 5th, 2014 - exactly on its 17th anniversary.
Most of you will have noticed that the "Inn" has become only a shadow of itself in the past decade.
The once-thriving Sega retro tech/emulation community kindled by the Inn in the late 90'ies and
early 00'ies has long moved on. Moreover, the decision to use Tiki technology made the site too
cumbersome to maintain in the last decade, further adding to it's decay.
Therefore, now is a good time for a final visit/login to the website, for example in case you
still have any important private messages in the site's mailbox you would like to hold on to, or
want to keep a copy of any of the content of the site. Please note this will be gone on July 5th!
However, this is most likely not the end of Eidolon's Inn altogether. I am still contemplating
what to do next, but the most likely scenario is that I will found a new website, where I will merge
some of the best content from Eidolon's Inn, and all content from my other pet website
"World of M.U.L.E.", plus altogether new content, into a new retro gaming website concept.
A concept which will better fit my limited amount of time I can spare for this hobby, using a
technology which is easier to maintain than Tiki.
Even though the content will be gone, the domain www.eidolons-inn.net will stay, where
I will announce the new website.
THANK YOU for having being a supporter of the Inn sometime in the past almost-two decades!
Best regards
Eidolon / Goethe
- Webmaster of Eidolon's Inn 1997-2014 www.eidolons-inn.net
- Webmaster of World of M.U.L.E. 1997-2014 www.worldofmule.net
- Webmaster of 2014-beyond
Despite the sad news of the site's closing, Eidolon has reported that he has created a 2.6GB archival copy of the website.
Only 10 days to go, then this website will be GONE forever.
The good news is that I succeeded in making a full copy of the publicly available website using HTTrack. It weighs in at a whopping 2.6 Gigabytes, mainly due to the stupid way TikiCMS serves pages.
So the Inn will not be lost forever, just will not be publicly available anymore.
Unless I find volunteers who will gradually migrate the best of the Inn content to my new website, which will also be announced in 10 days. :-)
RIP in Eidlon's Inn ;_;
To quote Eidolon himself:
Dear Eidolon's Inn user,
the time has come - I have decided to shut down the website Eidolon's Inn.
All content and all user accounts will be deleted.
Mark the date: July 5th, 2014 - exactly on its 17th anniversary.
Most of you will have noticed that the "Inn" has become only a shadow of itself in the past decade.
The once-thriving Sega retro tech/emulation community kindled by the Inn in the late 90'ies and
early 00'ies has long moved on. Moreover, the decision to use Tiki technology made the site too
cumbersome to maintain in the last decade, further adding to it's decay.
Therefore, now is a good time for a final visit/login to the website, for example in case you
still have any important private messages in the site's mailbox you would like to hold on to, or
want to keep a copy of any of the content of the site. Please note this will be gone on July 5th!
However, this is most likely not the end of Eidolon's Inn altogether. I am still contemplating
what to do next, but the most likely scenario is that I will found a new website, where I will merge
some of the best content from Eidolon's Inn, and all content from my other pet website
"World of M.U.L.E.", plus altogether new content, into a new retro gaming website concept.
A concept which will better fit my limited amount of time I can spare for this hobby, using a
technology which is easier to maintain than Tiki.
Even though the content will be gone, the domain www.eidolons-inn.net will stay, where
I will announce the new website.
THANK YOU for having being a supporter of the Inn sometime in the past almost-two decades!
Best regards
Eidolon / Goethe
- Webmaster of Eidolon's Inn 1997-2014 www.eidolons-inn.net
- Webmaster of World of M.U.L.E. 1997-2014 www.worldofmule.net
- Webmaster of 2014-beyond
Despite the sad news of the site's closing, Eidolon has reported that he has created a 2.6GB archival copy of the website.
Only 10 days to go, then this website will be GONE forever.
The good news is that I succeeded in making a full copy of the publicly available website using HTTrack. It weighs in at a whopping 2.6 Gigabytes, mainly due to the stupid way TikiCMS serves pages.
So the Inn will not be lost forever, just will not be publicly available anymore.
Unless I find volunteers who will gradually migrate the best of the Inn content to my new website, which will also be announced in 10 days. :-)
RIP in Eidlon's Inn ;_;