As some of you are aware, the website and forums for Revolution Software (the TI-83+ programming team that produced WabbitEmu, Spasm and was working on ASM Pokémon and Zelda clones) have been down for almost a month now. It appears that the one who hosts the website or pays for hosting it (KevinJB/Rezek) is no longer reachable. This means they may have to switch to a new hosting provider to put Revsoft back online and have Jim_e point the domain name (which he owns) there. However, there haven't been any signs of life of any website resurrection project. Some of their calculator files were put elsewhere so they are still downloadable, but the location is not well known and some major projects such as WabbitEmu are still not available elsewhere.

Two of the website admins, Madskillz and Spencer, are still active in the TI community, the third one isn't, but still shows up sometimes and pays for the domain name and some staff such as BuckeyeDude, NanoWar and AaroneusTheGreat are still active coding as well.

However, with the site gone for this long, could this means that Revsoft is being disbanded as a programming team?

Hopefully, they will sort things out in the near future and Revsoft will live again as a community.

UPDATE (May 5th 2010): According to Madskillz, the founder of Revsoft, the site should be back up near the beginning of next school year. In the meantime, they will have a few surprises for the TI community.

No clue. According to Buckeye, he hasn't been on AIM in ages. I remember I had it on AIM but it was years ago. I believe Madskillz and Spencer also e-mailed him and got no response.

True, altough even when knowing someone IRL that can happen too, especially when living far away

What I found weird is how the site has been down for so long even thought they have two admins and three staff that were still active. I would have guessed that by then, they would have got new hosting and put a temporary board there, like MaxCoderz did back then. They did not have a lot of activity, but they were still kinda there. Buckeye posted updates of Wabbitemu on group.revsoft.org, Spencer did the same with his Zelda map editor, Buckeye posted screenshots of his grayscale Pokémon on their board and I believe Wabbitcode had regular progress. Now it's no longer possible to see progress on their stuff and some people migth think they're all gone from the community.

Otherwise, if a site restoral, even from an old backup, is impossible anymore, couldn't they merge with MaxCoderz or TI-Freakware. MC is pretty similar to RS in the way the team is mostly z80 and game oriented and a lot of their staff used to post on both forums. As for TI-Freakware, AaroneusTheGreat is already staff there.

I hope a downtime this long is not a sign that their activity status in the TI community did not change to retired

Or are they working on a brand new site? (I kinda liked the one they had )

Oh noez! I hope they won't be gone for long.

aaah ok, do you think in the meantime you could set a temp place like Invisionfree?

I think right now they are planning to have a temporary place to put all project files unavailable on ticalc.org so they can still be downloaded since people often ask where to find them.

Aw sorry to hear

I think Tanner was looking for one, but IIRC he also has WIndows, so he could simply develop under Windows for the time being.

Do you think somebody will resume Wabbitcode for Linux at one point?