Notices

Agreed with you on the other mentions of other games...
yup...I enjoyed them mightily ...
Got 'em in my vault as well.
There are just so many good ones.

As far as the initial query concerning Jagged Alliance 2 and pupnik's site being gone.
Gone is gone...
But ...
gone is never truly gone on the ocean of the web.
the German version is still accessible...downloadable..
Along with the majority of all the list of pupnik's games.
I haven't attempted to test and download them all...
Of all that I randomly tried ...
Only one I couldn't get a fix on the copy to download it...
and that was the english version of JA 2.
Otherwise the other games and emulators and tools and downloads he made are still valid, downloadable, and salvageable...
I could probably find even JA 2 english version on the web..if I was interested enough for the challenge...
But a cursory glance managed the bulk of pupniks work.
I also ...somewhere in my storage vaults have all pupnik's works ...naturally...
Just have to find it...
So I see no reason to dig for it through the web.

It doesn't solve the problem.
The problem that started with the 770 and then the n800/n810 3rd party repos...
and now...
the problem has caught up to the n900 3rd party repos ...

What is needed ...more than an individual just digging around for abandoned software, abandoned sites...
for another singular person...or for a few people at that specific time...
Only for the problem to remain...and grow...and the threat to spread to other 3rd party repos that could any time fold..
After the n900 3rd party repos have all fallen..
The next on the list will be the n9 3rd party repos... eventually.

What
We need .
Badly.
As I have said before.
is to absorb and put in our Maemo repos all 770 n800 n810 n900 and n9 3rd party software from the still active sites and the sites which though gone ...but are not gone quite yet.

Saving from oblivion ..
a decade and more ...of hard worked on software for our devices...
is a critical issue which demands our attention.

for the immediate....concerning the specific issue of JA2
and it is NO solution to the massive problem we face ..
Which we need to sit down and speak on how to deal with...

...look up http://pupnik.de/software.html in the wayback machine...
It is a sloppy method of saving sites and pages...
I know on the off chance ***** went bad...at least a couple of my saves there would be valid..
Others have done likewise .
If you hunt through specific saved days and times ...you may even find a backdoor to the missing JA2 english variant.

But yet again I reiterate.
We need to sit down and work on a plan...
We need to salvage the 3rd party repos for maemo...there is A LOT of software out there that can be permanently lost if we continue to do nothing and do not salvage and archive them properly.
We need to do this ..
before tons of good hard work and software disappears ...

As a reference to the fact I saw this coming a long time ago ...refer in my signature ....The Lost Gronmayer Catalogs,,,,
the work I have done tracking down lost repos and catalogs full of salvageable software ...and also a list of what I could not salvage...
That was years ago...
and the problem has not gone away...but is quietly growing.
What of us remain of maemo users have the opportunity still...to rescue all of this and more...
But we need enough people helping to do this...
It is a daunting prospect for a few or 1 to take on.
We need to create a lifeboat to chuck them into...
and then sort them out and add them to our main central maemo repo.