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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: metaphyzxx on February 02, 2005, 09:14:28 am

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: metaphyzxx on February 02, 2005, 09:14:28 am

I just had to express my depression now.  I'd made playing freespace2 an annual event, but it's one I think I'll have to shed now.  I was getting ready to install it, only to have found out that my roommate had sat on disk 1, so now I'm unable to install it.  I think I'll weep for a while now.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Col. Fishguts on February 02, 2005, 09:16:50 am

Download the ISO from somewhere. Since you own a copy that should even be legal.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: metaphyzxx on February 02, 2005, 09:22:43 am

I've actually been trying for well over a week to track down the .ISO.  I'm finding that if someone isn't already a member of the FS community, then they don't even know the game exists.  And to think, I was actually just about to MAKE ISO's of the game, cuz I had a feeling something might happen to it.  It just hurts to think that what had been an annual tradition (and a very fulfilling one at that) might have to pass because of a single broken disk.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Goober5000 on February 02, 2005, 10:31:30 am

:welcome:

The Babylon Project has set up a bittorrent tracker at www.tbp-bt.com :)

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Flipside on February 02, 2005, 10:34:19 am

And if you're only playing it annually, you need to get yourself some SCP and re-discover the fun of the daily dosage ;)

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: pyro-manic on February 02, 2005, 10:52:07 am

MatthewPapa has the ISOs hosted. Send him a PM or check his site (www.game-warden.com) for info. I think there's a waiting period (bandwidth limitations) but he should be able to help :)

Oh, and

:welcome:

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Goober5000 on February 02, 2005, 10:57:23 am

Eh, no.  He took them down for a few months because someone posted them on an active forum and he lost all his bandwidth.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: pyro-manic on February 02, 2005, 11:28:04 am

I'll shut up then :D

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: MatthewPapa on February 02, 2005, 02:41:47 pm

They will be up in the future.....I am kinda pissed though I almost had to pay like a lot of money ($180.) There will be tighter control of who downloads next time.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Flipside on February 02, 2005, 02:46:04 pm

P-Word the FTP and people can get it by request?

I still have my suspicions as to what happened there....

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Flaser on February 02, 2005, 08:11:22 pm

TBP has torrents running AFAIR.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Goober5000 on February 02, 2005, 09:10:30 pm

*cough*

Quote

Originally posted by Goober5000
The Babylon Project has set up a bittorrent tracker at www.tbp-bt.com :)

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Setekh on February 03, 2005, 06:39:47 am

And they're doing a great job at it, too. :)

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: metaphyzxx on February 03, 2005, 06:41:55 am

Oh wow, I can see my joy be complete.  Do you know if the torrent stream is all 3 disks, or can I just get D1?  Cuz otherwise it's almost a waste in bandwith since I still have disks 2 and 3 in pristine condition...  oh well, maybe I can pull it overnight.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Setekh on February 03, 2005, 07:06:01 am

The torrents vary. It's probably safest just to go for the whole hog - once it passes 800mb, you can be pretty sure that it'll be all 3 discs. Welcome to HLP, btw. :)

:welcome:

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: metaphyzxx on February 03, 2005, 07:08:18 am

Thanks, I feel at home.  And soon I shall convert others!!

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Fury on February 03, 2005, 08:07:52 am

800MB is nearly one cd-image. And because all three are compressed into one rar file, you need to download all of it. However, I am considering making a new torrent because for some reason Alcohol 120% decided to make CDROM-XA format ISOs instead of standard ISOs. Not that Nero or any other decent burning software has trouble with that.


Edit: New torrent running, and each CD-image is in it's own RAR file. Helps you to get one or two missing CD's. We hope you would still seed even that much as long as possible.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Fury on February 03, 2005, 10:58:20 am

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Originally posted by Setekh
And they're doing a great job at it, too. :)

Thanks by the way. Other TBP staff does not really have much to do with tbp-bt.com, a few of them try to seed every now and then which is of course helpful. Nobody however comes ever near the amount I have seeded (almost 60 GB). There one user account which has more, but that's either bad data or a hacked BT client which sends fix0red data to confuse trackers. Hit and runners only make things worse.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Marauder on February 03, 2005, 05:46:31 pm

Do you absolutely have to burn the .iso files on a CD-ROM?  Can't you extract the files directly onto the hard drive?  I don't have a CD burner...:(

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: terren on February 03, 2005, 06:56:04 pm

there are programs that emulate CD-ROM for you. alcahol 120% I think, ISO buster might also work.

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Fury on February 03, 2005, 11:14:04 pm

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Marauder on February 04, 2005, 05:11:44 am

Thank, guys! :D

Title: Woe of Woes
Post by: Getter Robo G on February 09, 2005, 11:20:09 am

And for those that can't (or just don't now how to use them like myself) I also have a complete .rar file between 200-300mb of the FS2 vanilla installer so just mesage me sometime if any of you need it to install directly. Seems my 6 complete copies and 27 copies of disk 3 are now unneeded. ;) It was used by two peeps so far who then overwitten with SCP and has had no probs so far...l8tr