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Originally posted by Kovacs
I really want to download Neverwinter Nights... but the jeuxlinux.com ftp server is down, and I don't think that fileshack or fileplanet are going to give a nice url to wget in console mode... and I don't fancy trying to do a 1.2GB download through my browser.
Quake 2
Tuxracer
Duke Nukem 3d
Rise of the Triad (GL version - hacked it out myself!)
Quake 1, once I get the SDL port written (GLX doesn't work very well)
Kmines
Kpat
Originally posted by LavaDevil94 ya i am (28k), bittorrent can resume downloads, thats why i can only download big files with bittorrent (i once downloaded a 505 .rar file, it took days, and the header file was corrupt )
I don't see how bittorrent would be any faster, but if your interested more in file integrity then that is the way to go. The DL is 170 MB or so, and I don't know if there would be enough people hosting the linux version on bittorrent to make it worth your time. The program is split pretty good into a couple of .tgz files (one for data, one for source and one for setup), and if it would help at all I could host them on my FTP site and you can DL them seperately, each would be a smaller DL, and maybe that would help.
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well, the whole point of my using bittorrent is that bittorrent can pause and resume downloads, thus enabling me to disconnect and then reconnect (my isp drops me every 9 hrs) and so the download probably wont be corrupt. if i download it from anywhere, itll probably be only about 3kbps.
Maybe in your case it would be worth the 12 bucks to order the CD from them. I will warn you in advance, vega strike is a bitch ('scuse the french) to compile on Linux. They include an install script that I had to modify to get the thing to compile correctly, and I spent about a 2 days locked in dependency hell (Need Python 2.2 or greater, OpenAL, my OpenGL header files were out of date, one of them had a variable declaration that had changed in a newer version and had to be altered by hand, I had to find and install all of the SDL packages, blah blah blah...etc,etc,etc.....)
My offer stands about FTP though. gFTP allows you to pause and resume DL's, so it's worth a shot, if you want.
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