http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Home of The Underdogs RETURNS! en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:26:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-53626 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:29:21 +0000 ⓒⓗⓘⓟ 53626@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ahh, the great hamster has spoken :] Well, welcome back HotU and let's hope it stays for good! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-53614 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:51:33 +0000 thewebmaster 53614@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Remember Home of the Underdogs? It's been dead and back from the dead about as many times as Jean Grey (X-Men readers will know what I'm talking about). Seems that record it's going to be broken again.</p> <p>After the site's - seemingly final - closure not long ago it's owner made a copy of HotU's database publicly available.</p> <p>Guess what happened next? There turned out to be a group of enthusiasts sufficiently dedicated - or perhaps crazy, maybe both - to try and rebuild the site.<br /> -Abandonia</p> <p>Great looking wizz!<br /> LOL, only checked the other day. :)</p> <p>-Web<strong>hamster</strong><br /> hee hee again </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-53458 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:27:33 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 53458@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hey,that's good news. I only checked the other day and it was still closed. :) </p> <p>WR </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-53457 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:25:18 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 53457@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>HotU is back! If you don't believe me, check out the site <a href="http://www.hotud.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.hotud.org</a> I guess the owner made the site's database public and some loyal fans are now maintaining upkeep on the site. I hope they can make it okay. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51682 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:21 +0000 thewebmaster 51682@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This <a href="http://www.abandonware-paradise.fr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.abandonware-paradise.fr/</a> is a good site. It has a lot of abandonware, so you can use that if you wish!<br /> -Webhamster hee hee. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51624 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:28:45 +0000 notblocklox 51624@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sad news for me too, haven't been there for a while - must I have a bad conscience now?</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTjYZHNtMg">Visit from the Dead Dog</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51623 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:14:26 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 51623@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Darn it, that is a great shame. Still, there are plenty of other abandonware sites - maybe not as extensive, but between them most games can be found. Just so long as they don't go the way of a couple of abandonware sites that actually charge you to download the free games or ask you to take surveys etc.</p> <p>Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to re-check some of the future games I have planned that I know I downloaded from HOTU. I had noticed that lot of links were no longer working but assumed it was because the games had been shown not to be abandonware. I never bothered to follow up the assumption. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51622 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:34:21 +0000 CowTown_Utd 51622@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is sad news,there were great games at HotU that you couldn't find anywhere else. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51608 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:25:58 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 51608@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>R.I.P. HotU I used to spend quite a bit of time at HotU, but I fully expected this day would be coming soon. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4832#post-51607 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:17:53 +0000 thewebmaster 51607@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Love it or hate it, HotU was one of the (if not THE) most well-known Abandonware websites on the net. If you were looking for abandonware - HOTU had it. If you were looking for a massive archive with literally thousands of games to download and reviews to go with them - HotU had it. If you were looking for a rare or obscure title not found anywhere else on the internet... chances were HotU had it.</p> <p>But over last three years HotU was dying a slow death, with no updates and the once-active community dwindling down until all that was left of it was the core of most die-hard supporters. In September last year the site went offline, only to return far diminished soon after, with none of the downloads or screenshots working anymore - reducing the once glorious abandonware archive to but a shadow of its former self.</p> <p>A week ago, it went down again - and seems this time it's for good: according to a message posted by the site's owner on Twitter, it's webhost closed down due to bankrupcy, thus leaving HotU with no place to call home.</p> <p>It's sad to see such an end for what was the best Abandonware site of - quite literally - the last decade. -Abandonia</p> <p>After a brief stint of being offline during the month of September 2008, HOTU seemingly returned late in the month, however, the games once offered are no longer available and attempts to download a game return an error message: "I'm sorry, but the file doesn't exist." -Wikipedia</p> <p>On February 13th, 2009 Home of the Underdogs went offline. According to a message posted on Twitter by the site's owner[1]</p> <p>, this was because of the webhost's bankruptcy. -Wikipedia</p> <p><a href="http://twitter.com/Fringer/statuses/1194153273" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/Fringer/statuses/1194153273</a> -Twitter message by owner</p> <p>Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) was an abandonware archive[1] founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul in September 1998, and grew to be one of the most significant abandonware websites on the Internet.</p> <p>-Webmaster </p>