u/PrincessRuri

Hi everyone,

I recently acquired a refurbished Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server to play around with running Debian on UltraSPARC T2 architecture for my homelab setup.

The server is currently sitting on a very early SysFW 7.4.2 build (from 2011) and the fans are currently running at full tilt. I'm trying to get the system updated to the final release before sunset - SysFW 7.4.11 (Oracle Patch ID 147307-15) - in hopes of smoothing out the ILOM power/thermal management and stability.

Since Oracle has long paywalled these vintage EOL patches behind active hardware support contracts, I've hit a dead end through official channels.

If anyone happens to have the final firmware archive (Sun_System_Firmware-7_4_11-SPARC_Enterprise_T5120+T5220.pkg or 147307-15.zip) tucked away in their homelab backup archives, could you please drop me a Direct Message (DM)?

I'd really appreciate the help in getting this piece of Unix history running smoothly.

Thanks in advance!

The existence of the Ethiopian Canon has made the round again on social media, and I've been having trouble trying to find which of the books have suitable English Translations available.

It is made complicated by the books having several different names, or particular books being grouped under another name.

Is there some authoritative list or resource that details the translation status and availability of each book?

I'm looking for the dos/windows version of the manual for that tablet as mine only came with the serial cable and power brick when i ordered it at the start of this year and all uploads i found of it are either incomplete or were mislabelled by someone and are completely unrelated to it.

What if Jedi Knight had been released on DVD alongside the prequels and the original trilogy? What would the DVD menu look like? Thought it'd be fun to find out, so I made this.

What: the game client for Hoverboard ASDF (호버보드 ASDF), a Korean online hoverboard racing game developed by Anipark and operated by Netmarble. Korean service ran August 2004 to November 2005; a separate English "global" server closed 31 May 2005. The game has not been commercially available in any form for 20 years and the operator shut it down entirely, so this is a preservation request, not a piracy one.

The specific file:

Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

Original distribution URL, recovered from an archived download page (Wayback snapshot 2005-01-21):

ftp://anipark.nefficient.co.kr/pub/anipark/game_eng/full/Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

The installed binary was ASDF.exe. There was also a msvcp_dll_setup.exe runtime helper on the same FTP.

Why it isn't already archived

This is the interesting part for this sub. Distribution was FTP-only, and the Wayback Machine has zero captures of anipark.nefficient.co.kr. Not a partial capture, none at all. I dumped the full CDX index for the entire asdfgame.com domain, 2,771 unique URLs, and there is not a single executable or archive in it, only Flash, images and ASP pages. There is no archive.org item for the title either.

So the crawlers got the website and missed the software completely. A one-year service life plus FTP-only delivery from a host outside anyone's crawl scope is a fairly clean recipe for total loss.

What I'm asking

If you hoard 2000s-era game installers, Korean shovelware, or magazine cover discs, the filename above is distinctive enough to be worth a single find / locate across your archives. Also worth grepping for ASDF.exe and asdfgame.

The most likely surviving vector I've identified is Korean PC gaming magazine cover CDs (PC파워진, 게임피아, PC챔프), which bundled full online-game clients constantly in this exact window.

If a copy surfaces I will upload it to the Internet Archive so this doesn't have to happen again.

Full write-up with every source I've already ruled out, so nobody repeats the work: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/1vf4fc5/partially_lost_hoverboard_asdf_20042005_korean/

^(Disclosure: I used an AI assistant to run the archive sweep and draft this write-up. I'm a real person, this is my own account, and I'm actively monitoring and replying. Every claim above is checkable against the linked sources.)

When you trawl the depths of internet history, sometimes something crawls up from the abyss that should have remained deep below.
Who knew that the world need a Jedi Knight/CDI/Dr. Robotnik video in the year of our Lord 2008?

Looks like Mainframe is starting to post the HD versions of War Planets / Shadow Raiders that they recovered from the D1 tapes.

Hi,

In about 1992, AMBRA shipped with their Sprinta & Hurdla 386/486 models Lemmings for DOS with a bespoke icon for Windows (3.1) Program Manager, it was cunningly called "lemmings.ico", residing in the c:\lemmings directory.

If anyone happens to have it, please could you link a copy or put on archive.org.

Thank you.