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fieroboy_gt
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APR 08, 10:50 AM
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Is this still being offered ? If there was a upto date version of this I'd Def buy it.
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Fiero Thomas
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APR 08, 10:55 AM
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Raydar
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APR 08, 11:23 AM
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It hasn't been published in many years. The latest one will be at least ten years out of date.
But since then, server space has gotten less expensive, and the volume has (I'm pretty sure) gotten way too large to save to a CD.
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Fiero Vampire
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APR 08, 12:00 PM
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What's we need to come out is a PFFDVD then.
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jscott1
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APR 09, 11:58 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
It hasn't been published in many years. The latest one will be at least ten years out of date.
But since then, server space has gotten less expensive, and the volume has (I'm pretty sure) gotten way too large to save to a CD. |
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Sixteen years out of date. I uploaded the CD for the benefit of mankind, but it's only value is a curiosity of what the early forum was like. The most recent one only covers 1999 to 2000.
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theogre
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APR 10, 11:11 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by jscott1:
Sixteen years out of date. I uploaded the CD for the benefit of mankind, but it's only value is a curiosity of what the early forum was like. The most recent one only covers 1999 to 2000. |
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Cliff make it available thru Torrent sites years ago after gave up trying to sell. Even then now many times can't get it because no-one seeds the torrent.
Making CD version was hard work and made very little to no money. Vol2 max out CD capacity @ ~ 710MB and like PFF site, Many didn't like Search function for CD.
Updated disks will have same problems w/ dead images because pictures post thru photobucket etc and people deleted moved a picture or link expired.
With pictures is likely too big for 2 layer DVD. Might be big BR burn disks too. Many PC and other devices still are built w/o having BR players so less people will buy. (Many Others w/ BR players only can use 2 layer disks.)
Note: If you don't like PFF search... try use Google and add site:www.fiero.nl to search.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
(Jurassic Park)
The Ogre's Fiero Cave[This message has been edited by theogre (edited 04-10-2017).]
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jscott1
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APR 10, 09:36 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by theogre:
Cliff make it available thru Torrent sites years ago after gave up trying to sell. Even then now many times can't get it because no-one seeds the torrent.
Making CD version was hard work and made very little to no money. Vol2 max out CD capacity @ ~ 710MB and like PFF site, Many didn't like Search function for CD.
Updated disks will have same problems w/ dead images because pictures post thru photobucket etc and people deleted moved a picture or link expired.
With pictures is likely too big for 2 layer DVD. Might be big BR burn disks too. Many PC and other devices still are built w/o having BR players so less people will buy. (Many Others w/ BR players only can use 2 layer disks.)
Note: If you don't like PFF search... try use Google and add site:www.fiero.nl to search.
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I agree the forum CD/DVD/BD/BD-XL is not going to be a huge money maker. But there does seem to be continual interest in having an archive of the fourm. Blaming the disc size seems like a hollow excuse not to do it.
BD-XL is 100 GB. I doubt the forum is bigger than that. Someone that knows could answer for sure. Yes the picture links to online sites will go dead without internet access and will eventually go dead even with. But the online forum has that same issue. There is software out there that can painlessly archive an entire website. How difficult would it be to dump that to BD-XL? By the way I have a blu-ray burner in my laptop.
Oh and why does it have to be a disc? A 1T drive is about $50. for those folks that really want an archive sell them a hard drive with the entire forum on it.[This message has been edited by jscott1 (edited 04-10-2017).]
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fieroboy_gt
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APR 11, 02:33 AM
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It's just gonna sucks when PFF disapears. Pretty much everything fiero will vanish as well.
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Patrick
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OCT 08, 03:32 AM
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We were kidding around Here about finding "the original Fiero on Mars photoshopped image" from 1999. I remembered that years ago I had downloaded the PFFCD when it had been made available online, so I figured it would be easy enough to search through those files to find the image.
Wrong.
First up, I had to create an ISO image of the files and folders for this CD that were on my hard drive. I then mounted this ISO image on a virtual drive, so that it comes up in Explorer as a CDROM.
I installed the program from this "CD", and the program then opens fine.
I click on "Force Offline Mode", run a search... and instantly, results (threads) are displayed.
So far, so good.
However, when I then ask to View a thread (that I've put a tick beside), I get the following error message...
Run-time error '76': Path not found
When I click "OK" in the error box, the program then instantly closes.
What is the problem? Is it because I'm using a virtually mounted ISO image of the CD instead of an actual physical CD? If so, there's surely a way around this![This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 10-08-2023).]
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Cliff Pennock
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OCT 08, 07:33 AM
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