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Sam Trenholme wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 11:40 AM UTC:
I have determined that the following 31 zrf files, which were once on the server (and, indeed, still have index pages pointing to a now-non-existant .zip file), are no longer here:
  1. dfantasychess.zrf (A 2005 web archive crawl obtained the file, which I have copied here)
  2. hexshogi.zip (Seems to be here again)
  3. nrelay.zrf (A 2005 web archive crawl obtained the file, which I have copied here)
  4. russian_symmetrical_chess.zrf
  5. voidrider.zip
  6. vyremorn.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  7. warp-point-chess.zrf (A 2005 web archive crawl obtained the file, which I have copied here)
  8. warworlds.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  9. weakest.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  10. weak.zip (this may be the same file) (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  11. weave.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  12. west-protochess.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  13. white-elephant.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  14. wildebeest.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  15. WildJokers.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  16. wizardchess.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  17. wizwar.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  18. wksq.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  19. wolfchess.zrf (A 2005 web archive crawl obtained the file, which I have copied here)
  20. wormhole.zip (this may be the same file) (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  21. wotn.zip (this file is available here)
  22. xhess.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  23. xhetrast.zrf (A 2005 web archive crawl obtained the file, which I have copied here)
  24. xiangqi42zrf.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  25. ximeracak.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  26. yangqi-oriental.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  27. yangqi.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  28. zelda-chess.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  29. ziggy.zip (I have a late 2002 version of this file here)
  30. zipchess.zip
  31. zonex.zip
Someone may wish to fetch these files from a backup tape. I have a backup from 2002, but my post-2002 collection of Zillions games is spotty.

- Sam


Sam Trenholme wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 03:06 AM UTC:
I have, via a combination of going through my own backups and getting a few files from the Web archive, managed to recover all but four of the missing Zillions' games which were lost during the big move last year.

The four games that are still missing are:

  1. Russian Symmetrical Chess
  2. Voidrider Chess
  3. Zip Chess
  4. Zone X
I have added a link to the recovered file in the comments section for all 26 other missing files.

If anyone has copies of these still-missing files, let me know by replying to this comment.

- Sam


Larry Smith wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 04:05 AM UTC:
Due to a previous hard drive crash, I do not have a copy of Russian
Symmetrical Chess on hand.  But I will work up another ZRF.  Just give me
a few days.

Sam Trenholme wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 05:43 AM UTC:
Larry,

There's a pretty good chance that some chessvariants.org editor has this file somewhere on a backup tape. It's also possible some other reader of the site has a download on their hard disk. I'd wait a while before resorting to re-writing the .zrf file.

- Sam


Antoine Fourrière wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 06:35 AM UTC:
There are regular backups, so I think David Howe should be able to retrieve
them.
Anyway, i have Voidrider Chess and Zone X on my hard drive (and so do
their authors, I presume).

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