classic arcade graffix artwork package down to $999.00

[JONTHEBOMB]

25 members now

If everyone throws in a fifty we will have $1,250.

List of everyone:

- diverdown
- Level42
- arcadefever
- slycrel
- cw
- CheffoJeffo
- davieboynj
- edge
- NinjaEpisode
- mccoy178
- JONTHEBOMB
- JeepMonkey
- somunny
- More Cowbell
- shardian
- JoyMonkey
- ChadTower
- screaming
- Ninten-doh
- Kremmit
- Oddfeld
- MameMaster!
- Truecade
- Jabba
- Nannuu
- NickS
- woodygjw

[CheffoJeffo]

Okay, I'll start the fundable.org group.

It seems there's more than 12 of us in on this now. Should we all give $50 anyway and use the additional funds for shipping and perhaps a random prize drawing?

FYI, you will need a business account with paypal to receive more than $500 in a month.

I think the limit only applies to Personal accounts, not Premier ... but I could be wrong.

Cheers.

[RayB]

balancing cost with time and labour, might be better to just bite the bullet and put it on a hard drive. Cost would be under $100 for that. And the odds of a harddrive losing data over the next decade are MUCH lower than with recordable DVD media (recordable media degrades much faster than the manufacturers want us to believe!)

[shardian]

Okay, I'll start the fundable.org group.

It seems there's more than 12 of us in on this now. Should we all give $50 anyway and use the additional funds for shipping and perhaps a random prize drawing?

FYI, you will need a business account with paypal to receive more than $500 in a month.

I think the limit only applies to Personal accounts, not Premier ... but I could be wrong.

Cheers.

you are right. Need a business or premier.

[JoyMonkey]

How do I tell if I've got a premier account?

Edit: Nevermind, it says right on my login screen that it's a Premier

[shardian]

How do I tell if I've got a premier account?

If you accept credit cards, then you are good to go.

[Nannuu]

25 members now

Thanks!

[miles2912]

Hey guys.  I have a server here in house that I will need to add some more hard drive space to.  It has a fast fiber connection.  1.8mb.  During the day I need the bandwidth for work stuff, but at night -  9pmPST to 9amPST I could open it up and let the primary contributors download.  It would take a while but everyone will get their fill.  I can't host this forever .. maybe a month or untill everyone gets what they need.  I don't have to time/patience to make CD/DVD ROMS.  If you are in Los Angeles/ Orange County California you can bring an external HD over and grab it that way.

Let me know if I can help...

Don

[diverdown]

has the second fundable.org thingy been setup?

I think this should be bought soon before someone with the same twisted sence of irony as me (but has more money) buys this for $999 and sells it back to us for (what are we up to now) $1200

where do i send my bucks?

Also......  Will someone else help out those of us way down here in OZ when this is all done?

[diverdown]

forget above... i worked it out and sent the $50

[Wade]

I'm w/Wade, we need to move quickly before he gets another buyer.

Says right on his site he will sell it to anyone who pays.  There is "no exclusivity" in the sale.

Joymonkey, I say we just let folks pay and see who actually sends funds.  12 folks may be in now but we've all seen enough situations like this to know it's common for people to drop out when the cash comes due.

What it says on the site doesn't matter.  He could simply PULL the offer at any time.  Or, Namco or someone else could shut it down.  If there is some really good art in here... don't let it slip away.

Personally... I think if everyone chipped in and there were $150+ dollars left, Joymonkey should get it to pay for the big drive, not to mention the obviously huge commitment and amount of work ahead of him (even if he just disperses it to a handful of others to disperse).

Wade

[ChadTower]

What it says on the site doesn't matter.  He could simply PULL the offer at any time.

What it says on the site is all we can go by.  He could just as easily take the money and deliver nothing.

[miles2912]

Here is the whois info. 

Registrant:
   ClassicArcadeGrafix Inc
   355 N Lantana St #562
   Camarillo, CA  93010
   US

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: CLASSICARCADEGRAPHICS.COM
      Created on: 19-JUL-03
      Expires on: 19-JUL-07
      Last Updated on: 07-APR-05

   Administrative, Technical Contact:
      Inc, ClassicArcadeGrafix  dns@network-one.net
      355 N Lantana St #562
      Camarillo, CA  93010
      US
      707-885-2580

[NickS]

I would be delighted to put up $50 as well. I was very concerned when I found out about the new Classicarcadegrafix shutting up shop as I had a long list of artwork I wanted from them.

Just p.m. me with the details when the time comes.

[JoyMonkey]

20 people have already contributed $50 to the Fundable.org fund. Once those payments clear Fundable will take its cut ($70) and PayPal the remaining $930 to me, then PayPal will take a portion of that. This will end up being $902.73
Three other people have sent me $50 directly through PayPal (probably would have been a better idea that using Fundable), so that's another $144.75.

So right now we're at $1047.48 and 23 people have contributed.

Once the Fundable payment goes into my PayPal account I'll transfer it to my Bank Account (will take about 3 days), then I'll get a money order for $999 and mail it (by registered priority mail) to Mike.

More people are welcome to donate more; additional funds will be used for shipping charges, blank DVDs and probably another hard drive that will be given to a random member of the group.

[leapinlew]

I would like to offer hosting services.

In 2 weeks I will be at a new location in Alexandria, VA. We currently have a co-location that has a fat pipe to the internet. I am alloted 100gigs of transfer on a OC3 per month. Additional 100gigs is $125. What I could do is:

• Someone could send me a hard drive with the files properly setup (i.e. files are set to appropriate sizes, remove bloat, etc.)
• Create an FTP and allow all contributing members to download their data
• After a couple months, I'd pull the FTP and ship back the hard drive.

   

This way, everyone would be responsible to put the data on whatever medium they want. If anyone is interested let me know. I could probably host this from the middle of February till the end of April. Or, with any luck, everyone could download it in a few weeks and I can finish it early.

The other option I thought of is Bit-torrent instead of FTP, but we'd still want a fat pipe either way.

Let me know if I can be of service!

[JoyMonkey]

That's definitely something to consider, thanks Lew!
We'll just have to wait until we get our grubby hands on the artwork and see how well we can trim it down.

[leapinlew]

That's definitely something to consider, thanks Lew!
We'll just have to wait until we get our grubby hands on the artwork and see how well we can trim it down.

Yeah, it would be best if the artwork could be condensed and possibly compressed. FTP doesn't usually like downloading multiple files. If you do decide to let me host it - I would expect the hard drive sent to me would be ready to be installed on my server and setup on the FTP.

After the bloat is removed, the file will probably be small enough that I could probably make room on the FTP so someone could upload it. I wouldn't even need the external drive.

[woodygjw]

I would like to get in on this as well.  Sent a PM to JoyMonkey...

woody

[JoyMonkey]

Thanks Woody.

To try and keep things simple on my end I'm not going to accept any more contributions.
Thanks to everyone thats provided the funds, looks like this thing is actually going to happen now!   

[diverdown]

I would like to offer hosting services.

In 2 weeks I will be at a new location in Alexandria, VA. We currently have a co-location that has a fat pipe to the internet. I am alloted 100gigs of transfer on a OC3 per month. Additional 100gigs is $125. What I could do is:

• Someone could send me a hard drive with the files properly setup (i.e. files are set to appropriate sizes, remove bloat, etc.)
• Create an FTP and allow all contributing members to download their data
• After a couple months, I'd pull the FTP and ship back the hard drive.

   

This way, everyone would be responsible to put the data on whatever medium they want. If anyone is interested let me know. I could probably host this from the middle of February till the end of April. Or, with any luck, everyone could download it in a few weeks and I can finish it early.

The other option I thought of is Bit-torrent instead of FTP, but we'd still want a fat pipe either way.

Let me know if I can be of service!

This is a problem for me as I only get 8Gig a month download and as fast as i can get is 156Ksec.  I was kinda hoping this would be hosted ad-infinitum----- or at least be in a format that can be shipped via snail mail...... even if I have to mail a HDD to the states.

[scottp]

Damn... I guess I need to keep an eye on the Misc forum also, I typically only browse the Main and Artwork forums... 

A couple of days ago I (mamemarquees) partnered up with Gremlins solutions In the UK and sent CAG $999 for the collection.  So we will have the images available for printing on our sites in a couple of weeks.  I do plan on cleaning up any color and scanning issues that I come across as people order them.

Scott

www.mamemarquees.com

[Ninten-doh]

Hey Scott, how about a discount for those of us who had pitched in to save the artwork?   

[rlemmon]

Damn... I guess I need to keep an eye on the Misc forum also, I typically only browse the Main and Artwork forums... 

A couple of days ago I (mamemarquees) partnered up with Gremlins solutions In the UK and sent CAG $999 for the collection.  So we will have the images available for printing on our sites in a couple of weeks.  I do plan on cleaning up any color and scanning issues that I come across as people order them.

Scott

www.mamemarquees.com

This is fan- ---smurfing--- -tastic ! Now We can get there stuff printed in better quality. Looks like I will cancel my plans to go with new old stock for the data east side art I will be needing.  


You Rock Scott 

[RayB]

*ahem*  Page 1:

Perhaps donate it to MameMarquees ...

Scott: Make sure you transfer it all to a hard drive. As I mentioned earlier, recordable discs are not reliable.

[scottp]

He is sending it on a 500GB external.  I plan on getting another internal 500GB and transferring it onto the internal, and put the 500GB off site at a buddies.  Plus there will be another copy sent to Andy at Gremlins solutions in the UK.  So if anything... it will not be lost due to a hardware failure.

Scott

[ChadTower]

Obviously, then, you know enough to come up with a backup strategy for your ongoing work, but I'll mention that you should have a good one just in case.

[shardian]

Damn... I guess I need to keep an eye on the Misc forum also, I typically only browse the Main and Artwork forums... 

A couple of days ago I (mamemarquees) partnered up with Gremlins solutions In the UK and sent CAG $999 for the collection.  So we will have the images available for printing on our sites in a couple of weeks.  I do plan on cleaning up any color and scanning issues that I come across as people order them.

Scott

www.mamemarquees.com

Why exactly is it going to be a couple of weeks? I would hope shipping would be expedited for a purchase of this size...

[ChadTower]

He didn't say it would take two weeks for him to receive the material.  He said it would be two weeks before he could print and ship orders based on the material.  He needs time to receive it, evaluate it, tweak it to suit his business' needs, and perhaps make adjustments to his business' abilities based on new requirements.

[scottp]

Exactly right, I will probably get it either this weekend or the beginning of next week.  Then I have to figure out the best way to present it on my site, putting 1000+ images on a website with different options is not easy.  I use an open source cart (OScommerce) and it has a bulk load option, but I hear it does not work great, so it may take some time if we have to do them individually.  I actually work a full time job during the day and print at night, so I also have that going against me.  Either way it will get online, it may just take a couple of weeks.

Scott

[Mickey Juice]

Hey guys,
Only just found this thread 

Are you still taking donations?? 
I'd love to get a copy, even though im in the same boat as Diverdown..  living in Aust.

[FrizzleFried]

Frankly,  I am wondering why mamemarquees hasn't snatched this up yet...

...hell...I am considering going in to business...and I have the $1,000 (it's just getting the wife to let it go).

What do you guys think?   I could buy the collection myself,  set up an ordering service,  shoot out the artwork on a per order basis (so I wouldn't have to host 400gb of art),  for say,  $5.00 per image?

[CheffoJeffo]

Frankly,  I am wondering why mamemarquees hasn't snatched this up yet...

Miss this ? 

Damn... I guess I need to keep an eye on the Misc forum also, I typically only browse the Main and Artwork forums... 

A couple of days ago I (mamemarquees) partnered up with Gremlins solutions In the UK and sent CAG $999 for the collection.  So we will have the images available for printing on our sites in a couple of weeks.  I do plan on cleaning up any color and scanning issues that I come across as people order them.

Scott

www.mamemarquees.com

[Mickey Juice]

What do you guys think?   I could buy the collection myself,  set up an ordering service,  shoot out the artwork on a per order basis (so I wouldn't have to host 400gb of art),  for say,  $5.00 per image?

Wouldn't you run into copyright problems? i.e. selling copyrighted artwork for profit?

[CheffoJeffo]

What do you guys think?   I could buy the collection myself,  set up an ordering service,  shoot out the artwork on a per order basis (so I wouldn't have to host 400gb of art),  for say,  $5.00 per image?

I think that is exactly what I was hoping to prevent.

But, by all means, don't let me stop you .. it is a free world and Mike says there are no non-competes.

Cheers.

[ChadTower]

$5 for the service of finding a decent printer, getting it printed, and having the artwork on hand to print... that's pretty good.  He'd have to take in 200 orders to just get back his initial capital and probably 250 before he made a single dollar profit.  It takes years to get 250 orders in this hobby if you ever get past 25.

[diverdown]

I think this should be bought soon before someone with the same twisted sence of irony as me (but has more money) buys this for $999 and sells it back to us for (what are we up to now) $1200

So whats happening with the BYOAC purchase?

And maybe those of us dwon here in Aus (and I guess NZ) could band together to get a HDD sent up there and back?

[FrizzleFried]

I wouldn't charge $5.00 for the artwork,  more like the artwork is free...$5.00 service charge to locate, package,  and transfer the file to you.

...I certainly wouldn't be doing it for the profit though.

[diverdown]

 

I'm not selling any roms or copywrited software on my mame cabinet. You are buying some chipboard, computer parts, joysticks and buttons. It plays 3000 games which you get for free when you buy the other stuff

[Kremmit]

Now there's a discussion we really, really need to have.   

Stop it.