[metaphyzxx]

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.

[Col. Fishguts]

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

[metaphyzxx]

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.

[Goober5000]

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

[Flipside]

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

[pyro-manic]

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

[Goober5000]

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

[pyro-manic]

I'll shut up then

[MatthewPapa]

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.

[Flipside]

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

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

[Flaser]

TBP has torrents running AFAIR.

[Goober5000]

*cough*

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

[Setekh]

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

[metaphyzxx]

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.

[Setekh]

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.

[metaphyzxx]

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

[Fury]

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.

[Fury]

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.

[Marauder]

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...

[terren]

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