R.I.P., Cube Tech's web site

[codeman38]

In yet another instance of Chinese domain-name roulette, it appears that Cube Tech no longer owns the http://tec-cube.com/ domain. It now belongs to... some sort of Taobao offshoot targeted specifically toward women's fashion? O_o

...Whatever it is, it's definitely not the Cube Tech that we know and love here.

EDIT 27-Nov-2012: They're back, at their old domain! http://cubetac.com/

[Pepper-98]

I just get a "can't load the page" error, as if the site's down.  I wonder if they'll bother with a new site?

[codeman38]

Qiezei

Apr 22 2012, 05:54:59 PM

I just get a "can't load the page" error, as if the site's down.  I wonder if they'll bother with a new site?[/quote]Oops. Apparently Firefox was forwarding me to the "www" subdomain when I tried to access it directly, but it's not doing that from just clicking the link. Anyway, http://www.tec-cube.com/ does go to some sort of women's clothing auction thing.

[Awesome Panda]

codeman38

Apr 22 2012, 05:57:10 PM

Oops. Apparently Firefox was forwarding me to the "www" subdomain when I tried to access it directly, but it's not doing that from just clicking the link. Anyway, http://www.tec-cube.com/ does go to some sort of women's clothing auction thing.[/quote]That's odd; I'm using Firefox and I could access the page just fine. :huh:

Also, the Wayback Machines has archived the home page from early last year, but I don't think it's anything to write home about.

[codeman38]

Before their site went down, I distinctly remember that they had a whole section with these weird...VT168? graphical hacks of NES games. That is, everything about the screen layout was identical to classic NES titles, but the sprite coloring was way beyond even what VT03 can do.

But of course, that was after the Internet Archive grabbed it.

The Archive also didn't grab their gamelist.htm page, which had a screenshot of pretty much every game the company had worked on. *sigh*

[Ninja-Kun]

It's really a shame, but I'm not surprised. Maybe they'll show up with a new site, eventually...

[MLX]

It may have been archived btw, the internet waybackmachine needs 6+ months to make the pages available.

[taizou]

their site used to be at cubetac.com until presumably they forgot to renew the domain name, maybe they did the same thing here and it'll pop up again somewhere else.

I do have a copy of their old gamelist page though, I just need to dig it up off whichever external hard drive it's on...

[codeman38]

Looks like they got the cubetac.com domain name back! Registered to Xu Dongwei, so it absolutely seems to be official.

Nothing's changed on their site at all since it last went down under the old domain, but hey, they at least are known to still exist now. That's good. At least for italo-disco fans, anyway.