Forgotten Futures CD-ROM

[ffutures]

Apologies for the long absence, I've been fairly busy with other things. Including this:

For some time now my web site has experienced frequent outages due to excessive traffic. As an experiment I've taken the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM zip file off the site. It was by far the biggest file on the site, and it's possible that repeated downloads were causing the problem.

Instead I've uploaded it to archive.org as a zip file, about 658mb - open the link in a new tab or page! It contains everything that was published for my RPG up to 2012-ish, plus a ton of copyright-expired support material.

https://archive.org/details/ffcd-8-zip

This takes everything that was on the last release of the CD-ROM plus a lot of extra material that would have been on the next release if there had been one. It won't all fit onto a CD-ROM any more, but if you unzip it into a subdirectory of your hard drive it ought to work well.

Note - Links to Empire of Earth, which would have been Forgotten Futures XII, do not work.

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

[Cholmondely]

Apologies for the long absence, I've been fairly busy with other things. Including this:

For some time now my web site has experienced frequent outages due to excessive traffic. As an experiment I've taken the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM zip file off the site. It was by far the biggest file on the site, and it's possible that repeated downloads were causing the problem.

Instead I've uploaded it to archive.org as a zip file, about 658mb - open the link in a new tab or page! It contains everything that was published for my RPG up to 2012-ish, plus a ton of copyright-expired support material.

https://archive.org/details/ffcd-8-zip

This takes everything that was on the last release of the CD-ROM plus a lot of extra material that would have been on the next release if there had been one. It won't all fit onto a CD-ROM any more, but if you unzip it into a subdirectory of your hard drive it ought to work well.

Note - Links to Empire of Earth, which would have been Forgotten Futures XII, do not work.

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

Welcome back!

[hiran]

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

Not a real problem but I want to let you know nevertheless:

I downloaded your archive and burned it onto a CD without issues. So I got curious and saw there is some new technology called DVD. It looks like a CD, it behaves like a CD but it has so much more capacity.

Do not feel to have hit a limit. You can still add content to your archive.

[ffutures]

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

Not a real problem but I want to let you know nevertheless:

I downloaded your archive and burned it onto a CD without issues. So I got curious and saw there is some new technology called DVD. It looks like a CD, it behaves like a CD but it has so much more capacity.

Do not feel to have hit a limit. You can still add content to your archive.

That wasn't the reason I gave up on the project. My intention was to switch to DVD, but got delayed on the next release of the game. Then in 2015 the EU introduced a new tax scheme called VATMOSS, which hugely increased the complexity and difficulty of selling on line - sellers had to get verification of the real location of every buyer, there was suddenly no lower limit on turnover before you had to charge 20% tax, and so forth. Ebay and Amazon could afford it, private sellers who did this stuff independently were suddenly in a world of hurt. Data protection law was a BIG complication, and while I wasn't selling customer data, proving that it was completely secure etc. would have been difficult and expensive. I was selling Forgotten Futures on line as shareware with very low profit margins, with some buyers downloading it, others buying CDs, and some a mix of both. After a little thought I decided it wasn't worth continuing.

See these old blog posts for more info.

https://ffutures-news.insanejournal.com/?skip=50
then start at the bottom of the page and work up
2016.05.01 11.58 Registrations Ending - initial announcement
2016.05.09 18.58 Forgotten Futures Shareware Registration Ending - a more detailed announcement
2016.05.11 16.25 The Beast from 20,000 Bureaucrats - link to an article about VATMOSS
2016.05.31 19.08 Forgotten Futures refund update
2016.06.01 18.22 Forgotten Futures Charity Update, future plans
2016.07.01 11.15 Life, the Universe, and Returned Payments

Unfortunately Britain leaving the EU just made the situation worse, and although I think that VATMOSS is now run slightly more sanely all of the data protection, collection, and disclosure stuff (which is a big intrusion into buyer's privacy) still applies. I'm better off out of it.