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We Got A New Massive Server

Great news for everyone at the site. Due to the excellent response from all the members that donated, posted and gifted their money to make this possible, we are very pleased to announce that you are reading this post from the massive hard disk on our new dedicated server platform. The previous server (nicknamed PDP-11) was in service for over four years. The new server (PDP-12) has just been made live today and should service us very well for a further four years at least. We now have over 8TB of RAID10 storage, fully cached controllers, 32GB Ram, dedicated SAN for backup and a dedicated 100MBit link.

A lot of ROM and Emulator updates that have been delayed (due to lack of space on the old server) are now planned for the coming weeks and months. In particular we will soon be adding the entire MAME 0.154 CHD's and ROMs in single file download packs for Unlimited members. There are also plans to bring online entirely new sections like Magazines, Manuals, Artwork and more.

Also exciting is the future release of V2 of this website which will include users download management, account profiles, bookmarking and entire folder downloading not to mention more ways to interact with the site.

All that is left to say is a massive thank you to everyone that donated over the past few months to make this happen. Without your hard earned money this would simply not have been possible.

We look forward to the future and to bringing even more Roms, Emulators, Books, Manuals and content to you.


Thank you
The Team @ http://www.theoldcomputer.com

New Magazine Curator needed, could you do it?

We need a new Curator for our website.

In the coming weeks we plan on opening our new Retro Magazine section. We already have more than 160 different retro computing and gaming magazines from the 1970's, 80's and 90's but we need someone to become part of the team and to take charge of updating, adding to and maintaining this new and very large section.

If you are seriously interested and want to volunteer your time and become a recognized member of www.theoldcomputer.com, please let me know by sending me a PM from within our forums.

This is open to existing members as well. It is not a full time job, or even that difficult. All we ask is that you strive like we do to make your section as good as it can be.

I look forward to your reply's, please just respond to this topic and I will follow it up.

New Forum Design for 2014

Well 2014 has arrived and to mark the start of a very big year for this site we present to you our new look forums. Styled from the bottom up our new forums look and feel part of the entire site. A lot of new features have been added and a lot of the graphics have been improved.

This new forum has taken many weeks to put together, please take some time to look around. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Here to a great 2014.

2013 Website Roundup

Well I thought I had better update the main news feed before 2013 came to an end. So here it is the one and only post for the year 2013 The real news is that during 2013, so much was added to this site and so much happened that the news would not have coped anyway. Here is a quick summary of 2013 here at theoldcomputer.com :-

Total members passed 110,000
Total ROM database size passed 2223GB
Total ROMs offered is now over 418,000
Total Systems with roms is now more than 500
There were more than 35,000,000 ROMs Downloaded in 2013

As if that is not enough we opened our Emulator section in Jan 2013 and it is now the largest single collection of Emulators anywhere, it also includes back catalogs of MAME, MESS, MAMEUI etc.

In July we removed ALL adverts, advertising, votes and other crap from the site much to the appreciation of our members and as a result things got faster and our members got happier. In fact many mobile users said the site became super fast.

During the year there were many ROM and EMULATOR updates. We got a new Curator for the Emulators section (Alzabo) and as a result our Emulators section really gathered speed. I had to work extra time to keep up in the ROMs section.

We had planned to update our server again to 5TB but this has been postponed until early 2014. Stay tuned for this as when the server is upgraded it will be very significant. We have also been working on an entirely new look and feel for the website, the roll out of this is planned for mid to late 2014. Before this roll out we will be adding some exciting new sections. Theoldcomputer.com will become the official home of GAMEBASE with a new section dedicated to the gamebase collections.



We will also be opening our Magazine section and as with everything else we do, when we open this it will be the largest collection anywhere, a lot of my time in 2013 was spent collecting and collating this resource. Currently we have over 150 different old computer and console mags and there should be a lot more before release.

Thanks is for now folks, before I go I want to say a big hello and thanks to the following members for their support and help :-

Crustyasp46
Thank you for all your help and support with sourcing retro content and keeping the forums free from spam.

Kherr
Thank you for your friendship and hard work through the forums, keep your ban hammer ready and your words of wisdom frequent.

Alzabo (formally PMJP)
Quite simply, our Emulators section is the best because of your constant hard work. I thank you for your help and support in 2013 and look forward to it in 2014.

Dragon Mech
Thanks for always being around and helping other new members, I look forward to your input in 2014.

Se7en
Thanks for your feedback and moderation in the forums and for being one of the first to always answer members questions.

In general thanks to everyone who contributed, helped, discussed and played the many different systems we have here. 2013 was a great year and 2014 will be better. With that I would like to wish everyone a very happy 2014.

Hot Trout



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