cc333 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Not sure if this is the proper place to post this... I'm starting to get back into vintage PC software again, after concentrating on Macs, and I'm looking up a few of my old sources. One of which was this one: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Unfortunately, the link is dead, and the Way Back Machine has the "teaser" page archived, but nothing else. Does anyone know if the site was moved somewhere? Or did it just disappear, lost to time? EDIT: AHA! It seems I was looking in the wrong time frame, and gave up too soon! I looked at the most recent snapshot that actually has content (July 17, 2006), figuring I had nothing to lose, and snapshot has the home page! Now to see if anything else works.... EDIT #2: link. c Edited July 12, 2018 by Tripredacus Revelations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) The (also archived) site on devedia might have some content that the original might miss, or possibly something after July 2006, anyway, sad news : https://web.archive.org/web/20070403225819/http://www.devedia.com:80/dosghost/ Quote In Loving Memory of Charles P. Angelich, Jr. Born 1/20/1947 Died 11/16/2006 jaclaz Edited July 12, 2018 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Aw, that's too bad. I never realized the creator of the site died! No wonder the site dropped off the face of the earth in 2007.... RIP, Mr. Angelich! I wonder what he died from? he was only 59! Whatever happened, I hope it was quick and relatively painless.... Anyway, Thanks for the link. Maybe I should figure out how to download the whole site and put it in safe keeping? Does the Archive have a mechanism for this? EDIT: There is one "update": On October 9, 2006 (about a month before the author died), there was a page stating that he'd disabled his forum page. It's just speculation, but it seems like he might've been killed somehow. Car crash, probably. c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 As a side note, among the many troves in that site, one of the nicest little things is the PeepHole: https://web.archive.org/web/20070403225654/http://www.devedia.com:80/dosghost/dos/ph_w31.htm#top which is a tiny mini-Windows 3.1 on single floppy. Which partly inspired (shameless plug) the minibox: http://reboot.pro/topic/623-minibox-rides-again/ (a tiny Windows 3.1 mainly "extracted" from the Win 9x Setup). jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Yeah, I think I remember playing with PeepHole back when the site was live. Speaking of which, with the help of someone on another forum, I was able to get a more-or-less complete offline archive of the site, and have set it up using a DOS-based web server on a VM. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's coming along! So now it won't be going anywhere! I even thought about posting an updated and fixed-up version of it online so it can be available once again, but A) the web archive already serves the original version, and B ) I'm not sure about how to get permission from Mr. Angelich's family, which I'd definitely want to do before I make it public. Oh, well, at least I can enjoy it privately :) c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 I've decided to put it online for awhile after all, figuring that nobody will probably notice. http://209.65.198.189/ I've created an index page listing the sites, so all you have to do is click the link to the one you want to visit. Many of the download pages in dosghost are still broken, as the filenames of the download pages got mangled somehow (why this didn't happen to any of the others, I don't know), but I plan to fix them. As for the server, using EZ-NOS 2 on top of MS-DOS 6.22, all running in a VM (for added authenticity). This is probably why the download page filenames got mangled (no LFN support). Enjoy! c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i430VX Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Okay, but one tiny problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Ack! It was a typo! http://209.65.191.189/ This one should work! c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i430VX Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Okay, but another tiny problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 That's because a wild fire happened near my house, and I had to shut everything down and leave :( It'll be up within the next day ot two, all going well. c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i430VX Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 2 hours ago, cc333 said: That's because a wild fire happened near my house, and I had to shut everything down and leave It'll be up within the next day ot two, all going well. c That's not good! Hope it all goes well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 No, it's not! It's out though, and we're in the process of going back. So far, so good c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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