BOSSarea.com mirror page

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BOSSarea.com mirror page

Post by Pepe » Wed Jul 08, 2020 8:08 am

In a topic of the StompBoxZone forum I stumbled over this mirror website of the old BOSSarea pedal info page:

https://gitaargast.nl/bossarea.php

I always found it very useful to see which pedal was made in what year and if there are Japanese versions, etc. It does also have the serial number decoder.
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Post by BearBoy » Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:43 pm

Thanks Pepe - have bookmarked that 8-)

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Post by Pepe » Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:27 am

And unbelievable: there's a backup of the old BossArea forum! :o

https://web.archive.org/web/20071006202 ... com/forum/

Not every topic seems to be accessible at first glance, but anyway, that was a huge surprise for me.

You can read a lot of the topics when you type in the number of them in the link. For example here is the first topic ("TOPIC_ID=2")

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https://web.archive.org/web/20111013062 ... TOPIC_ID=2
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Re: BOSSarea.com mirror page

Post by Gasgano » Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:37 pm

WOW!
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Post by Pepe » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:34 pm

I'm going to save as much as possible and supply from the old BossArea forum on my webspace. For a few weeks now I'm saving loads of stuff from the StompBoxZone forum. A lot of the cool content has vanished for the public because of the incompatibility with recent php versions. It's a LOT of work and I will need another few weeks to compile everything that's worth being saved.
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Re: BOSSarea.com mirror page

Post by laurie » Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:39 pm

Thanks for doing that!

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Post by Pepe » Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:34 pm

You're welcome. I needed several hours for the "New Boss Pedals" 140-pages-thread. But I think it's worth it. I revealed so many really cool pictures that are now completely hidden at SBZ.

Sadly all the great pictures of The_Doc and natthu are gone ("thanks" to Photobucket and their change of the general terms in 2017! :evil: ).
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Post by Pepe » Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:12 am

Great news! The admin formerly known as bossarea gave me a copy of his BOSS Area Forum backup from April 2010 and I got it running on my HD after some time. I can even log in with my old data. Have a look:

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I will save the coolest content soon. :D
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Post by Admin » Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:25 am

That is amazing! I wish we had that from the start of this forum. I'm not sure if it would be compatible, but I wonder if we could add that as a sub-section to this forum, or (less likely) fully integrate it. I've never spoke to the owner of Bossarea but if anybody here does please thank him and let him know we appreciate all his hard work.

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Re: BOSSarea.com mirror page

Post by Pepe » Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:01 am

Since the old Bossarea Forum was completely asp-based, it won't work on our php-board. I think it's the same level of incompatibility like an attempt to get a DOS 6.22 program running on an Android phone.

The Bossarea administrator registered on this forum a few days ago, so you can thank him in person. :)
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