His content is still out there if you know where to find it 😉

but yeah it's sad that the site is gone.

Is this what you're talking about?

http://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/retrograde/content.htm

that one only has the Sir-Tech stuff and some of the info pages... anyway, I wouldn't want to post links here 😀
I was talking about the Web Archive at web.archive.org, but even their archive is broken in places.

I managed to archive it several years back fearing this since it's a unique diskette game crack site. I don't think it's ethical though, it's highly on the "abandonware" side.

Nobody here wants to go into illegal territory, but it would be a shame to let such good data go lost forever. If your house happens to burn down, all would be lost 🙁

to be honest, the "abandonware" thing isn't the reason I care (wouldn't have posted this if it was) - every dubious "collection"/"pack" of DOS games out there has probably added this stuff by now anyway. Retrograde was an important website because it was the work of one person, and was specifically dedicated to preserving games where the only media isn't even readable ordinarily.

So yeah, it's probably illegal. "Ethical", I'd argue, but that's not the point. Just wondering if anyone knows what happened with the site and why the project was discontinued... I guess legal problems are one possible answer.

Or maybe he just had enough of it? Noone knows

Tetrium wrote:

Or maybe he just had enough of it? Noone knows

Yeah, this could be the case, I know I had run a website for awhile and was getting tired of maintaining it, some of the members were kind enough to help offset the cost of the site too so that was great but I ended up handing it over to one of the regular members who agreed to take over the reigns so to speak.

They put their own spin on things too, still visit the site too.

Good news (for those who care)... I did manage to contact Demonlord - there have been problems with the domain and he's been focusing on other things, but he hopes it won't be too long before he can get Retrograde back up again in a new location.

OK I think I found it, for legal reasons I won't post what I found but I am pretty sure I have the right site now. The Wayback Machine is an amazing thing.

A seemingly complete mirror of the site, although it may look slightly different, can be found here : http://detali2.ru/

Great Hierophant wrote:

A seemingly complete mirror of the site

At inf.ua works still. But seems it has outdated image, as last news of retrograde at trustno1 on archive.org is from 2006-12-24, not from 2006-04-03.