Important announcement - Remakes!

[Shockwave]

Those of us who have been watching Stormbringers great work and enjoying them will soon be glad to know that a dedicated place somewhat like Flashtro.com will soon be around.

This will be dedicated to Win32 remakes as opposed to browser remakes and anyone who has downloaded a remake by Stormbringer will apppreciate how near to the original he gets each time.

The domain name retro-remakes.net has been purchased and while the site will be a seperate place from here with it's own protocol, we will be closely linked. Indeed the domain and webspace are being donated by dbf-interactive.com

An announcement will be made here when it is online.

Also please note that the remakes will continue to be posted here and at Intro-Inferno, it's just that Stormbringer is so prolific at making them that we feel that they need a site all of thier own.!

[stormbringer]

I'd like to warmly thank Shockwave for this initiative.

This place will have more and more remakes in the next weeks to come and also source code and tutorials available here on DBF.

Thanks again and I hope this new web-place will bring some added-value to past and present coders and sceners!

Stormbringer

[benny!]

Awesome news. Really looking forward to see the project online ? Any time schedule when
you plan to go online ?

[Shockwave]

Well, the domain name registration process will take up to one more day, although the purchase is already listed on whois, then I need to allocate some webspace and point the dns the right way.

At the moment we are thinking that it will be a file repository of some kind with a forum area. Maybe this will come online in the next week.

[Shockwave]

Well, the domain name is in place and so is the webspace

dbfinteractive have donated 30gb of bandwidth a month and up to 800mb of diskspace if Stormbringer feels he needs it... Initially this is from it's own dedicated plan, but as I plan to move this site somewhere with a couple more gb of diskspace in the future I think that if Retro-remakes needs it it could have the space occupied by this site too.

Stormbringer is going to be a little bit busy this week in work, but hopefully we can start putting the site together soon.

The domain name now points somewhere http://www.retro-remakes.net/ (even if it is only verios sales page for now!). Also the webspace is online and cpannel and apache are both installed on retro-remakes webspace. http://207.58.139.183/

Some ideas for this place will be;

• Win32 Remakes from old platforms will be stored here.
• Resources from old demos will be held here too.
• The site will contain a small forum dedicated to remakes only.
• The site will work hand in hand with this site and intro-inferno.
• The front page will probably contain RSS feeds from various scene portals.
• You will at least be able to comment on the remakes.

Not sure if it is appropriate to vote on a 1:1 remake because what are you voting on? The original or the code to convert it?

And of course we are open to suggestions too.

I should make it clear that Stormbringer will continue to post all his remakes here and at intro inferno as well as his own site and that his tutorials will be available here too.

 

[benny!]

That just sounds tremendous. Nothing to add !!!

[slippy]

Really looking forward to see the site online ...

Sounds very very cool indeed ...

[stormbringer]

Yes, I'll continue to post these remakes here and on Intro-Inferno for sure. But Shockwave suggested that they should have a dedicated place because they are not really new things (remakes) and they appeal only to people that still remember these old plaforms...

Voting? I do not know what you can vote for? I mean a discussion thread about each of them could be interesting... but voting for the code behind? I can't really see the point. It's not complex code at all.

As you can see it on II, people love them or hate them. And the voting system shows it very well.

My 2 cents

[Shockwave]

On II I tended to vote for the conversion, for example how close I think that you got to the original, but as they are so damn close the voting is irrelevant imho.

Also a voting system leaves the site open to fake account abusers.

Invariably all your remakes got 9 and 10, it seems no point in giving them a rating when some nostalgic comments seem more apt...

[stormbringer]

Correct. Instead of voting for my code (if there is a voting mechanism one day), it may be a better idea to vote for the original one (but that would be replicating II's purpose).

And sincerly I do not remake all these intros for getting good marks. I remake them because they bring to the surface some drown memories... and that's what some of us like to see in these remakes I believe..

Unless I'm sidetracked??

[Shockwave]

Maybe a remake should inspire you to go and vote on the original prod if it is cool enough?

[Shockwave]

So for example, intro-inferno has "watch it in flash" and a link to flashtro, maybe we could put a link to the the original prod on II so that people could vote on the original?

[stormbringer]

I always tend to vote for the original version.... the problem with me is that I liked so much the style of he intros from 87 to 92/93 that I always give good marks 

But yes a link on the original would be a good idea!

[Shockwave]

This is coming very soon now!

Domain is working and the portal is half ready, adding content now and you will be able to use this site in about a week

[Rbz]

Neat! 

[Shockwave]

www.retro-remakes.net
Is open for registrations now

Enjoy!

[benny!]

registered.

looking great. Awesome template/design.

[benny!]

Wrote a little blog entry today about cracktro remakes in general and of course mentioned
dbfinteractive.com and the new site retro-remakes.net. Hope this will generate some more
traffic to the new site.

[Shockwave]

Thanks for the mention Benny