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Reply #15 - 12.01.17 at 10:59:38

@FalconFly I'm sorry to hear the news that this place is shutting down as I've always considered it home for all things 3dfx related.
I thank you for keeping this place going for this long as I've learned a lot over the years by reading the useful information posted by the various users and having the links to download all the sw needed to test the cards in my collection.

Best wishes for the future,
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #16 - 16.01.17 at 02:20:45 A sad day indeed. Thank you for the space and friendship Martin, if you are ever in my corner of the States the first round of drinks is on me! Gary
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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #17 - 16.01.17 at 12:27:49 FalconFly, has ben a pleasure to be here all this years. Thank you for all. Take care, Oscar.
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Reply #18 - 27.01.17 at 14:40:19

Quick Update on the DvD :

I've pretty much completed the raw Server dump, now I'm just looking if I can fit it on one single DVD for ease of purpose. Doesn't look like it thou Wink

I'd rather include all the temp images and various image archives, as they include quite a bit of 3dfx Hardware images that might go lost otherwise.

I reckon sometime next week I'll send it all out, but don't quote me on that Wink

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Having received numerous requests for some form of Forum File backup (which got all denied due to legal reasons), I'm still investigating if I can't find a way to export a somewhat functional read-only Version of the public pages and pack it onto the DVD set.

No idea if that experiment is successful though, so far all Tests with various Software have failed (quite miserably).

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Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017
Reply #19 - 27.01.17 at 17:48:56

A backup of the forum would be awesome. I'll try to save some threads, but the entire forum archived properly would be much, much better.

It's sad that you have to close the site and the forum, but it's understandable, it was nice while it lasted, I aquired some nice cards here and I met some cool people.

Thanks for that!

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michaeldale YaBB Newbies Offline recent 3dfx enthusiast Posts: 6	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #20 - 30.01.17 at 11:40:40 Hi All, I did an index/copy of the entire site (including forums as html pages). Obviously only public pages, linked files etc, but should have 90% of everything, hope that is okay http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #21 - 04.02.17 at 08:20:38 Thanks FalconFly for everything. It has been a pleasure to be here all this years, unfortunatelly not from the very begining. Regards. Radu
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #22 - 06.02.17 at 20:55:04 Thanks for keeping the informationen. Great loss for the community, but I guess it was kinda predictable. Farewell...
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Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017
Reply #23 - 09.02.17 at 16:04:22

michaeldale wrote on 30.01.17 at 11:40:40:

Hi All,

I did an index/copy of the entire site (including forums as html pages).

Obviously only public pages, linked files etc, but should have 90% of everything, hope that is okay

http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com

Oh, sweet

Saves me from buzzing around with Software that failed to archive even a single Forum page.

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Voodoo_Freak YaBB Newbies Offline Affordable Reality Posts: 44 Berlin/Germany Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #24 - 17.02.17 at 19:21:18 I have been inactive here for several years now and I just read that information on VA. Being inactive here, means not that I did not use the archive during the last years. Well I do respect the decision and I just want to say THANK YOU for the great effort to the community.
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Reply #25 - 22.02.17 at 14:35:01

Alright, small update on the deliveries : Planning to send out a full Batch next week on Monday.

Been holding up on that, waiting for more Addresses to send to, but now it's a big enough Batch to really make it worthwhile.

(was busy with other stuff in the meantime, so 3dfx related stuff was left on low priority)

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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #26 - 22.02.17 at 17:51:48 Thanks
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White YaBB Newbies Offline recent 3dfx enthusiast Posts: 1 Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #27 - 24.02.17 at 09:47:05 Hello! I'm a member of 3dfx community all these years and it is very sad to hear such news from you. I want to help you to save your website without any finances from you and free for all people from community. I will send you PM with my thoughts.
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Varus Full Member Offline recent 3dfx enthusiast Posts: 164 Poland Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #28 - 25.02.17 at 21:27:01 I recommend Teleport PRO to backup complete Falconfly site. It can by use later on DVD as read only, with working links.
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Announcement : 3dfx Archive to shutdown in 2017 Reply #29 - 27.02.17 at 22:39:42 Alright, everyone who asked for a DVD copy of the 3dfx Archive so far got it sent out today As usual, allow for typical postal (DHL) delivery times.
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