Nectarine Radio to make a comeback

It is with baited breath that I await the return of Nectarine Demoscene Radio in whatever form it decides to take. Only a few days have passed since the loss of Nectarine toa hacker (see post below) but already the scene has rallied to Yes (Christophe) support both financially and through the offer of temp streams, servers, hosting and backup.

You can follow a lot of the story and scene discussions at Pouet you can also visit the new Official Nectarine Revival Project and donate or just keep in touch with developments.

For my part I just want to say a big thanks to everyone making this happen. I look forward to updating my dedicated Retro Radio Page with the new feeds.

Good luck.

Nectarine Radio - GONE !

I have been a fan of Nectarine Demoscene Radio for many years now, in fact from its launch. For those of you that dont know, its a site dedicated to preserving the demo scene music from the past, namly Commodore 64, Amiga and other formats from the ere. It was a polished and professional site that offered many memorable tracks. It allowd you to request tracks and was one of my regularly visited pages. Although free it did rely on donations to keep going.

Many of you will know from my website that I was a huge Amiga fan and was a part of the scene back in the 90's. So it is with a very heavy heart that I learned yesterday that Nectarine Radio site had been hacked again (it had been attached a few months ago) and this time the idiot who did it, managed to delete all files and backups. Looking at the message from the webmaster it appears that it will not be returning.

Apparently a childish scripter posted a message about the vulnerability before bringing the site down, a transscript of the message follows....

Country flag xdxf 10:29:28
look in the html src for mysql_pconnect
Country flag xdxf 10:29:01
the vuln is: http://www.nectarine.fr/played.php?Template=../includes/db.php
Country flag xdxf 10:28:44
enjoy your faggy forum in peace
Country flag xdxf 10:27:55
k that should do the trick
Country flag [name] 10:26:24
whatever
Country flag xdxf 10:26:12
just to make sure lemme delete it
Country flag xdxf 10:25:54
seems fair to me
Country flag [name] 10:25:42
Sure i promise
Country flag xdxf 10:25:24
hmm.. ok how about this.. i’ll expose the vuln if [name] admits that he’s a [rude word] and agrees to change his usern/password forever because it’s an insult to pyros/chemists everywhere…

Its easy to start ranting and raving about the hacker but alas there is no point. Who cares, all that matters is that our beloved radio station is no more. I am hoping that we can convince the webmaster of Nectarine to reconsider. Maybe after a few days rest he will once again start to rebuild the site.

In order to show our support and love for his work and also to help him pay for replacement materials and time I have started a ChipIn donation fund that I hope everyone will see fit to send a little money his way.

(Update: I have suspended my ChipIn fund in order to point directly to the official ChipIn Fund. I have also transfered any funds made to my account to Nectarines)

Please also visit the now official site of Nectarine

The Official Fund is Listed Below, Please Donate.