Response to MARP is going to close.... !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the support, guys. I don't want to see MARP close, either. I'd love for retrogames.com to allow the script to keep running, but I really don't think they're going to. Their server keeps crashing, and it's easier for them to blame my scripts that to find out the real cause of the problem.

If anyone knows of a site which can offer MARP the >100Mb of disk spaces needed to host the recordings, and the ~1s of CPU per hit which the script uses then that would be great. I've talked to Dave of davesclassics before, but his site is hosted on an NT box, which doesn't run Python, and he didn't seem very keen to host MARP. Maybe some other site has the resources needed, but I think that the 2-300 hits per day that MARP generates isn't enough to warrant the resouces it takes...

I hope in time that I, or someone else, will be able to re-code the scripts in a more efficient language, or maybe I'll find the time to cut down the memory/CPU requirements of the script, but for the immediate future, I'm not too hopeful.

There's no way that I would have time to manually update the page for every recording that's submitted - I used to do that in the early days when there were maybe 5 or 10 recordings per day, but now it's just too much. I'm sure that eventually we'll work out some way to keep MARP alive. If anyone has any suggestions/offers/prayers please let me know!

Chris.

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