The link to Roger Firth’s site ( http://www.firthworks.com/roger/infancy/index.html ) has been giving me “403 Forbidden” for over a week now. It says it’s “Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe”. I’ve googled, but the explanations on stackoverflow etc., don’t tell me if it’s …

Hm, email to roger@firthworks.com is bouncing with a “mailbox inactive” error. That’s more serious.

Oh dear. I hope he’s okay. That was at the back of my mind with the “preserving the resources” business too. Some of the long term stalwarts of the IF scene could well start being a bit fragile (your good self hopefully excepted, of course!) Thanks to Roger, Sonja and the IBG I’ve spent many happy h…

It would take some doing to see just how comprehensive it is, but I haven’t found anything missing at the Wayback machine archive of the Firthworks IF pages .

Does anyone here have an alternative means of contacting Roger Firth?

There’s a note on the website that says if you didn’t get the reply you were expecting, to try SpamSucks@firthworks.com Worth a go?

from Jan 26 We have owned this – very obviously personal – domain name since 2001, conflicting with no other site on the entire web. Until 2017, that is, when some lowlife in China decided to steal the name “firthworks” for whatever purpose (despite being advised against it by their own domain regi…

I assume we could do a wget on: https://web.archive.org/web/20170701005508/http://www.firthworks.com/roger/index.html and rebuild it somewhere. Just the IF stuff and only if he can’t be reached.

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I’ve updated the links on the sticky post to include the Internet Archive versions of the pages. All content appears to be available from that source. I’ve also uploaded the ZIP files that were available from the site (for his PDF versions of the Inform 6 FAQ, Inform 6 quick reference and Standard L…

Wow, thanks to everyone who’s pitched in, and sorry to hear about the problems with his website. Still, it’s a good feeling that the IF community has arranged to keep this really good material available for future students. So I hope Roger Firth’s okay, and… Death to Pyrates, Arrrr!

Firthworks.com no longer working?

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bg (bg) February 14, 2022, 2:03am 10

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