[pbmserv] game archives

[edvar <evarby@charter.net>]

I noticed that the games archive link is dead. According to 
archive.org's way-back machine, it's been dead for several years.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://northumbria.tripod.com/pbemarchive.html

They have some of the zip-archives archived, but not each date's 
archive. IE the zip on the 2000 page is the same as 2006, even though 
the page says it was updated several times.

I grabbed the archives and checked, and 25 games are missing:
Checkers
ChuShogi
Connect4
Draughts
Entropy
Fanorona
Go
Havannah
Hexxagon
Hnefatafl
Jungle
K-Pente
Koan
Lines-of-Action
Looptrax
Neutron
NineMenMorris
Othello
Phutball
Plotto
Quadraturs
Reversi
Trax
Wari
Xiangqi

On the plus side 39 seem to be valid zip files, though I only checked 
for downloads that weren't zip archives, and I spot checked the 
downloadable zips for validity, and compared MiniShogi's archive to a 
copy I'd downloaded when the page was still live.

8x8trax
Abalone
Amazons
Andantino
Ataxx
Avalanche Chess
Capablanca
Chess
Chex
Chinese Checkers
CoNeutron
Connect4x4
Connexxions
Dama
Dark Chess
Dots
Double Chess
Double Move Chess
Emergo
Gomoku
Grand Chess
Hex
Hexade
Hexbo
Hex Emergo
Max Checkers
Max Draughts
MiniShogi
Oddthello
Omega Chess
Pente
Progressive Chess
Renju
Renn Chess
Rings
Reverse Othello
Score4
Shogi
Twixt

I hope this is useful information,
edvar