a new life is born

Hello, dear ibProArcade- and vBulletin-Community,

as already announced somewhere in the depth of the ibProArcade-Thread, I was a little busy in the last weeks preparing eveything for the arrival of our daughter.

Now, on monday 23rd of June, she finally arrived and was born at 9.33 a.m.


We are very happy

Everything went fine, mother and child are ok and will get back home on saturday.


Please notice that within the next 1-2 weeks I will be here supporting ibProArcade, but not that regular as usual. After this I will work on v2.6.8+


Father-Greetings,
Marcel (aka MrZeropage)

[MrZeropage]

Today is the 12th anniversary of ibProArcade

...and my daughter (9 years now) is playing ibProArcade :up:




Thanks to everybody contributing this amazing project, I still remember the beta-test-period with so much empathy and support, was a real great great time, and so many great guys out there supporting ibProArcade over the years, truly amazing story!

I just found out that first HTML5-Games are used in ibProArcade, which means even the death of Flash will not break this project at all.


I am proud of all this and want to say THANK YOU on this anniversary!


Meanwhile my own company for PHP-programming is existing for 9 years, so finally I really made a business of my Hobby, but just beside the main job. Unfortunately vBulletin and Forums at all are more and more driven away by Social Media Networks, so I changed my direction a little bit from focus to vBulletin to WordPress and individual PHP-solutions, but I always smile a little when doing some small work on vBulletin 3/4 forums and helping people there.


Cheers on ibProArcade, Cheers on this great Community here!

Have a great sunday,
Marcel
MrZeropage

[blind-eddie]

I think ibproarcade is the best addon ever released. Don't get me wrong, there are many many great add ons that I personally use but this one is what my site is wrapped around and is a heavily modified arcade. Thank you for releasing so many years ago!

[Paul M]

How time flies eh

I personally never used ibproarcade, we had the v3 arcade, but remember when I decided to clean out all the old premium modification forums here (a few years ago) this one was the only one that survived, as it was still active, so well done.

[ShawneyJ]

Happy 12th anniversary mate. Good work.

[MrZeropage]

Meanwhile my daughter turned 12 years, time is really flying!

Beside all that alot changed in my life in the past 2+ years.
As you may have noticed, after ibProArcade v2.7.5 in 2015 there were no updates or development, while 2018 I pushed out three updates including adaptions for PHP7 ect.

After my divorce in 2009 I was alone, I think somewhere I explained that about 10 years ago here. Now, in November 2018 (few weeks after releasing ibProArcade v2.7.6+) I married my wonderful wife Alina, and in May 2019 our wonderful Daughter arrived on this Planet

Now, the little one is 1 year old, while the big sister turned 12 some weeks ago.

[Cobra-J82]

Blessings and all the best.

[MrZeropage]

To finish the family picture and history: there's also my son, he is 19 years now and was born about 5 years before the initial ibProArcade v.2.5.3+ (November 2006). This means two kids from my first marriage, and now in my new happy happy life another daughter to brighten up our day

In 2020 I had a retro-project together with my son. I started my computer career in the mid-eighties with a Commodore 64. Now, 35 years later, I did the all new ULTIMATE 64 with modern HDMI, Ethernet, USB ect. but all the same system and experience. Amazing!

Here is a YouTube video of this project which I made with my son:
https://youtu.be/830CLcTjssQ
(YES you can see us both in the video)

Sorry for german version, but you get the things we are doing