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First post, by Pontiac

Posted on 2024-05-26, 19:13

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Hey all. It's been a few days that I've noticed that the xtideuniversalbios.org size has been down. I wanted to just check up and see if there's a new EEPROM image to throw at it, but, I'm getting service error answers, which doesn't give me the good feelings.

Does anyone know what's going on with it? Is there a mirror somewhere? Are idiots who shouldn't be using computers just breaking the site?

Reply 1 of 9, by kingcake

Posted on 2024-05-26, 19:16

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I hope they're renaming it to option ROM instead of BIOS. It's not a BIOS.

Reply 2 of 9, by Deunan

Posted on 2024-05-26, 20:10

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I visited there a few days ago and while the site was up I had terrible page load times. Some would even time out and I had to retry a few times. I was looking for some info on what exactly is compiled into 386 code, both l and non-l, didn't really find much on that subject. The latest version is still r625.

Reply 3 of 9, by vetz

Posted on 2024-05-26, 21:53

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I had the same issue the other day, ended up going to Wayback machine over at archive.org to acquire the r625 release.

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Reply 4 of 9, by kingcake

Posted on 2024-05-26, 22:35

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Maybe someone should upload r625 to vogonsdrivers for posterity (make sure to include all the flavors)

Reply 5 of 9, by darry

Posted on 2024-05-26, 22:43

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kingcake wrote on 2024-05-26, 22:35:

Maybe someone should upload r625 to vogonsdrivers for posterity (make sure to include all the flavors)

For quick reference. Last snapshot is from less than 2 weeks ago.

Binaries :
https://web.archive.org/web/20240516205208/ht … s.org/binaries/

Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609222454/ht … rsalbios/trunk/

Reply 6 of 9, by kingcake

Posted on 2024-05-27, 00:01

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darry wrote on 2024-05-26, 22:43:
For quick reference. Last snapshot is from less than 2 weeks ago. […]
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kingcake wrote on 2024-05-26, 22:35:

Maybe someone should upload r625 to vogonsdrivers for posterity (make sure to include all the flavors)

For quick reference. Last snapshot is from less than 2 weeks ago.

Binaries :
https://web.archive.org/web/20240516205208/ht … s.org/binaries/

Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609222454/ht … rsalbios/trunk/

I could care less if it's on the internet archive. I will avoid using that site at all costs.

Reply 7 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2024-05-27, 00:32

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kingcake wrote on 2024-05-27, 00:01:

I could care less if it's on the internet archive. I will avoid using that site at all costs.

Really ? I have had good luck with them both in allowing my archives and in finding a lot of good stuff from 1996 to present in the way back machine.

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Reply 8 of 9, by Pontiac

Posted on 2024-05-28, 06:21

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The archive site works a treat. BM'd it. Now if Archive.org will just stay up. It had a bunch of issues over the weekend. Thanks.

Reply 9 of 9, by darry

Posted on 2024-06-09, 01:40

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It's back up, currently.

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