What happened to Chris Longhurst's models?

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:20 pm

I went looking for an update to the old "beta 0.4" Eurostar made by Chris Longhurst but found that his site, Christrains, seemed to be gone, and that all download links for his models were dead.

So what happened to Chris L?

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:31 pm

If you want the new Eurostar get it the Euro Loco pack from justtrains.

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:47 pm

phat2003uk wrote:If you want the new Eurostar get it the Euro Loco pack from justtrains.

So that's what happened, he went commercial.....

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:54 pm

He's still doing freewre stuff but does a bit of commercial as well.

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:09 pm

Eurostar is here................

http://www.trainsimmatch.com/downloads. ... 9ede6df03c

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:27 pm

Due to copyright, the freeware eurostar was removed from Chris's site, and he made the alterations EuroStar Ltd requested, and put it in the justtrains euroloco pack. So if u want an updated Eurostar u need to buy the euroloco pack. As its not allowed to be released freeware.

there are a number of sites that still stock it in the beta0.4 form though, as IKB posted.

simont · Post by **simont** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:30 pm

http://www.christrains.com is still open, and (excellent) new NS trains are still being made.

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:56 pm

simont wrote:http://www.christrains.com is still open, and (excellent) new NS trains are still being made.

"Server not found".

I've got the exakt same error message every time I've tried it (for a few days now). And when I try the IP-address I get a redirect to "Yahoo domains", so it seems like there's something wrong with the christrains.com domain.

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:46 pm

phat2003uk wrote:If you want the new Eurostar get it the Euro Loco pack from justtrains.

I looked for the "Euro Loco Pack" at my local computer games stores (local = Copenhagen, Denmark) but couldn't find it, and it's not listed among the mail order goods at the Just Trains web site so I guess I'm out of luck.....

(BTW did you know that "loco" means crazy in Spanish? So a "Euro Loco" would probably be someone crazy enough not to want the Euro. Which means that the antis as a group would be the "Euro Loco Pack".)

isambardkingdombrunel · Sun Dec 22, 2002 1:00 pm

The site i posted is the link from Christrains,for his model downloads.

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 1:44 pm

isambardkingdombrunel wrote:The site i posted is the link from Christrains,for his model downloads.

His site, "www.christrains.com", hasn't worked for several days but it does now. Maybe he forgot to pay for his domain name?

isambardkingdombrunel · Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:11 pm

I dunno mate,i just post what info i have here,it astounds me how little people actually know about computing and the internet,when they pay all that money for a machine.

simont · Post by **simont** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:37 pm

That site is definitely working on my machine.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:50 pm

ive started a thread in the Screenshots forum, where i will be posting shots of most of ChrisTrains models

esswe · Post by **esswe** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 3:57 pm

simont wrote:That site is definitely working on my machine.

It does now, but the server has been down for the past few days.

(And yes, I do know what I'm talking about. I make my living teaching computer science, especially networking, at college.)