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10-02-2008 07:00 PM

Eagle of Fire

I just tryied it and you're right. When you click on download, the link take you to the exact same page with the download link removed.

That's a pretty poor desing choice for a web site...

10-02-2008 06:35 PM

madcrow

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

LTF - Abandonware France is a warez site, since it allows people to download non abandonware titles. It's even written plain in the menu: non abandonware.

I'm surprised you linked a warez site, but since it was in french you may just have overlooked it. My first language is french though, and it's quite visible from first glance...

Actually, the "non-abandonware" secition doesn't have games actually available to download. It lists them as may have some extras (like boxart or music) but as far as I can tell, you can't actually get the games themselves...

09-02-2008 10:30 AM

dosraider

Yay me is on double post spree ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by WendyMann

Hello anyone
I downloaded the game from the above link, but it does not look like a executable file, its name is lesman.7z and it does not run in DOSBox using that name. I tried changing the file extension from .7z to .exe but still no luck. Please advise - my sister has been stuck on this game for ages because of the error 51 which the forum says is a bug in the game, so I downloaded from the above link because a member later said this one works.

Please advise re how to run lesman.7z under DOSBox.

Many thanks Wendy

And you hardly can pretend that Wendy is an absolute dosbox beginner.....

I rest my case.

05-02-2008 10:17 PM

dosraider

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adamg

To unzip a .7zip file, [/i]...lots of blablabla how to install 7Zip....[/i] If you need further instructions, feel free to ask.

As I already stated, I use 7Zip.
But if you think it's so simple that a 'readme' solves all problems and will avoid those ever repeating same questions, tell me why the help forum here (and everywhere)is filled with questions about dosbox ........

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adamg

P.S. I grew up using DOS and Windows 3.1, I know what a window and command prompt is. I used the command prompt version of UHarc, using maximum compression, and it took precisely 7 min 46 sec to compress MDK. If I am missing something, feel free to share.

And I'm not very eager to go in an endless discussion about -yet again- compr ratios. Are you a crew member of 7Zip by any chance?
Anyway, you win, congrats, you just won the special olympics.

BTW, on a side note: My first bought PC was on CP/M, it wasn't my first, but the first I bought, so your 'grew up on Dos', doesn't really impress me.

And now I'm out of this topic, it's useless and really boring.
KTHXBAI.

05-02-2008 09:55 PM

Geezer

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTX2GvO

Actually there is ALREADY a site Dedicated to abandoned ISO's. (games)

It's called ISO ART - Lost in Cyberspace and it's run by Gargantuan Orangutan.

And he 'happens' to be a (more like The) moderator in the ISO Cellar.

OK there is no dedicated bandwidth, So ISO Art has to use external hosts for it's ISO's.
As a matter of fact 90+% of the Cellar ISO Links are on ISO Art and Vice Versa.
So it's basically the same place. :cool:

The ISO cellar is great at what it does but isn't what I had in mind. Where are the reviews, discussion forums, extras etc? There is nothing in the ISO cellar to create interest in the games. It certainly could turn into something greater if Abandonia brought the downloads in-house and treated the games like the ones they currently host.

05-02-2008 09:23 PM

GTX2GvO

Eh Adamg. Dosraider is more than Twice your age.
So if he didn't figured out how to open a compressed file by now, he will never learn.

Dosraider was actually Playing the n00bs with his [*irritant voice is here again*] remark.

05-02-2008 08:49 PM

_r.u.s.s.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adamg

you actually told him how to uzip an archive? rofl

05-02-2008 08:36 PM

Adamg

dosraider - "As some 100 topics a day:
What must I download? I don't understand all this stuff 'cause I'm compy n00b. Can you PLZ give me a beginners explanation? From A to Z in easy steps. KTHXBAI."

dosraider - "And check your UHarc facts again, you missed a lot it seems.(Especially how to run it in a comm window)."

To unzip a .7zip file, first you must download 7Zip. Open your internet browser, and go to http://www.7-zip.org. Once you are there, click on the "Download" link on the left side of the screen, it's three lines below "Home". If you can't figure that out, go to the appropriate link that follows for which operating system you are using. (Most likely you are using Windows if you don't know what your using.)

7zip for Windows download; http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z457.exe

Detailed instructions for downloading 7zip for other operating systems can be found at this page; http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Once 7zip is downloaded, start the program and follow the instructions to install it. After 7zip is installed, all you need to do is double-click on the archive you want to open with it. If you need further instructions, feel free to ask.

P.S. I grew up using DOS and Windows 3.1, I know what a window and command prompt is. I used the command prompt version of UHarc, using maximum compression, and it took precisely 7 min 46 sec to compress MDK. If I am missing something, feel free to share.

E.O.F. - "If you really want your actions to have any kind of sense, talk to Kosta. He's the only one in this whole forum who can actually do something for you."

Very well, I'll look-up Kosta and talk to him about it.

r.u.s.s. - "you know, the results may and will differ on what are you trying to pack"

Yes, of course. Different data will compress at different ratios.

Sebatianos - "Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole idea of switching archive types was to lighten the bandwide usage... how does having double archives (in both format) help?"

That's a good question. The archives are hosted on Abandonia, but the only difference would be that instead of having one choice, they could download a larger .zip archive or a smaller .7zip. The file would only be downloaded once (If the person was being responsible.), but if they downloaded the .7zip instead of the .zip, they would have saved Abandonia over 24 MB of bandwidth in the case of MDK.

Hopefully they wouldn't download both the .zip and the .7zip, since that would definately not help us any. But I don't see why they would do that, unless they couldn't figure out how to open one of them. But, hopefully they would download 7Zip first and figure out how to use it before they downloaded anything from here. I'll try to contact Kosta about all of this.

05-02-2008 08:22 PM

GTX2GvO

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sebatianos

Hopefully there will be a sort of a sister site that would deal with full disk images only (like ISOdonia or something)

Actually there is ALREADY a site Dedicated to abandoned ISO's. (games)

It's called ISO ART - Lost in Cyberspace and it's run by Gargantuan Orangutan.

And he 'happens' to be a (more like The) moderator in the ISO Cellar.

05-02-2008 06:46 PM

Sebatianos

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adamg

So, how does having both Zip and 7Zip archives available for download sound? It wouldn't reduce bandwidth as much as dumping Zip completely. But, it would still help, and questions/problems would be kept to a minimum. A help page could be put up telling people where to get 7Zip, ect. It would probably best to limit 7Zip archives to, say, 10+ MB downloads. Does that sound like something worthwhile? :wondering:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole idea of switching archive types was to lighten the bandwide usage... how does having double archives (in both format) help?

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