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Title: Downloading
Post by: Phantom on September 06, 2003, 04:47:39 pm

I have been trying to download this for weeks but I can't get fileplanet to work, every time I try to download it it just takes me back to the forum page with the link on it. Is there anywhere else it can be downloaded from? (I REALLY want to play this).

Title: Downloading
Post by: Galemp on September 06, 2003, 05:03:47 pm

SectorGame has Port 1.5 and 2.0, but not 2.1 hosted. It was never added to the VWArchives, either.

In short, I don't know.

Title: Downloading
Post by: Stealth on September 06, 2003, 05:30:53 pm

yeah i've had trouble downloading it from Fileplanet too.  upload it to swooh as a mirror i'd say... you can't go wrong that way

Title: BitTorrent
Post by: Cyker on September 30, 2003, 02:32:39 pm

Is there any chance someone could start a BitTorrent tracker for the stuff on this page?
BitTorrent is a really good proggy for spreading the strain of massed downloads...

But seriously, uploading it to any place that
a) Doesn't require registration and
b) Doesn't have a queue that forces you to wait for an hour, then cuts you off half-way through with no resume
would be better than FilePlanet!!!!!!!!!

Heck, with BitTorrent all we need is someone with a decent connection to seed the files and as long as loads of people DL it and leave their trackers running we'll all be able to get the thing at good speeds without stressing our connections :)

Another place you could set up a mirror is via Kazaa or Gnutella...
I think a lot of people still underestimate the power of distributed file-sharing vs POS centralised systems like FilePlanet...

Title: Downloading
Post by: übermetroid on October 18, 2003, 01:18:10 pm

beggers can't be choosers..  I think that is how it goes...

Title: Downloading
Post by: Hippo on October 18, 2003, 01:29:31 pm

a wee but late... GE, i'd suggest you get it onto sectorgame soon... especially before ST:R...

Title: Downloading
Post by: Galemp on October 18, 2003, 02:34:00 pm

Sectorgame is on and off so often I can't even keep track. And it won't help the bandwidth limits, either.

Title: Downloading
Post by: Thylrial on October 19, 2003, 02:50:03 am

And good luck for finding a reliable, free, without a queue, server, which would accept a file half a giga big. Yes, that's quite a lot of conditions. And P&P clients aren't that reliable either.

Fileplanet works fine depending on the hour apparently. Sure, it won't help if you have to be up at 3am for a clean download. (At the moment of the writing, there are about 300 places left, but the hour isn't really appropriate in the States so.)

Title: Downloading
Post by: Cyker on October 19, 2003, 04:00:46 am

True, but at least with P2P systems you can RESUME!!!!

This is why I really hate FP.... 2 hours of DL'ing, 5% to go then ZWIP! "You are 399 in a queue of 400." ... aaaaaaa...... :confused: :eek:

And then later: "Downloading. 1% complete."... £$#%&*@!!! :mad: :hopping:

Title: Downloading
Post by: Thylrial on October 19, 2003, 04:50:00 am

I could resume downloads with FP fine when I had a few problems with that server. But as it was only short interruptions, perhaps the donwload was fine.

Or, more likely, the problem is linked with the queue? I have to admit I have yet to be on a queue on FP, so I cannot say how it works with Getright (or another program) when you do have to wait.