jeroen
Vector Runner
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Post by jeroen on Jan 26, 2018 8:00:41 GMT -5
I am no longer very active on vectrex, and becoming a casual follower of retro games. The website costs me around 100usd a year. I have ended the contract next month. I hope you all enjoyed the content the last 15 years. Jeroen www.vectrexworld.com
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Post by Malban on Jan 26, 2018 8:10:40 GMT -5
Sorry to see you go... ...but I bet you found other fullfilling hobbies!
Thank you for all the work you invested over last years!
Malban
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Post by VectorX on Jan 26, 2018 9:28:08 GMT -5
A shame to hear. You've done quite a lot for our favorite, only home vector machine.
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Post by Rapetou33 on Jan 26, 2018 11:40:41 GMT -5
Sad... but easy to understand..Thanks a lot!!
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Post by VECTREXER on Jan 26, 2018 12:10:31 GMT -5
I am no longer very active on vectrex, and becoming a casual follower of retro games. The website costs me around 100usd a year. I have ended the contract next month. I hope you all enjoyed the content the last 15 years. Jeroen www.vectrexworld.comThank you for you long term Vectrex sites. Will miss it when it goes.
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Post by 50tbrd on Jan 26, 2018 12:38:51 GMT -5
A shame. Its a nice website. Not too many written reviews for Vectrex games out there. Would be nice if some of the information and reviews could be moved to the Vectrex Wikia.
I'd like to take the VIX design hosted on your site and upgrade/remaster it and house it on my website.
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Post by VectorX on Jan 26, 2018 12:59:11 GMT -5
Would be nice if some of the information and reviews could be moved to the Vectrex Wikia. That's a thought. With permission, I could move the reviews, thus creating multiple entries of reviews for several games, which would be nice/a first All games that have a review currently only have one review per game.
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Post by hcmffm on Jan 26, 2018 17:19:59 GMT -5
Really a bit sad, Jeroen, that you give up your website. It contains many interesting reviews and heaps of pictures, especially flyers. But live changes and hobbies and interest can change, too. I'd might be interested to include various scans of flyers in my website www.vectrex.de . Is there any chance/way that someone mirrors the whole website www.vectrexworld.com? Anyway, thank you very much for your dedication and effort for the Vectrex for many years! All the best, Helmut
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Post by TrekMD on Jan 27, 2018 11:33:28 GMT -5
Sad news but I can certainly understand. Thanks for keeping the site up for as long as it has.
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Post by Malban on Feb 1, 2018 4:36:57 GMT -5
@vectorx: I might go out of my scope here - but I guess Daniel would not mind you copying his reviews, especially since the site will go down. Perhaps you can contact him directly (user: nubiandaze) - in the thread vectorgaming.proboards.com/thread/1976/alex-herberts-old-game-idea he allowed me to use the reviews in Vide. (although - not all reviews were done by Daniel...) Malban
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Post by VectorX on Feb 1, 2018 9:22:59 GMT -5
Well, all reviews I imagine, were protected under copyright by jeroen. I could just contact him if I have to. (although - not all reviews were done by Daniel...) I know, as I did several of them myself I was the one who did the only Mine Storm review, thus snagging one of those last shirts several years ago.
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Post by VectorX on Feb 23, 2018 16:05:31 GMT -5
Would be nice if some of the information and reviews could be moved to the Vectrex Wikia. Jeroen gave the ok for the reviews to be copied onto the wiki, along with Vectrexer being given a data dump of the site to preserve it somehow. So it looks like it'll be preserved Everyone take a good last look if you haven't already, as it's going down to its final days now. I was just reminiscing over the site last night and taking notes for a possible future wiki article.
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Post by ls650 on Feb 24, 2018 13:32:05 GMT -5
I just tried going there, and it's gone. Just a redirect to wix.com, asking the owner to renew.
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Post by hcmffm on Feb 24, 2018 16:04:49 GMT -5
I just tried going there, and it's gone. Just a redirect to wix.com, asking the owner to renew. Bummer, I just tried to make a copy of the whole website and found that it's no longer available, too. February is a short month, but that short?!
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Post by VECTREXER on Feb 24, 2018 16:46:26 GMT -5
Kickstarter / Patreon to re-fund the site?
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