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Community => Adventure Related Talk & Chat => Topic started by: Kinoko on Tue 14/01/2014 06:21:18

Title: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Kinoko on Tue 14/01/2014 06:21:18
Hi dudes,

To anyone who I used to hang out with here (quite awhile ago), I was wondering if by any chance, you might happen to have stored away somewhere some old copy of the demo of a game-in-production-that-I-never-finished called "Gift of Aldora"? A few years back I had a HD die with no backups, and I have no copies of it myself.

I guess it might be called gift.exe or gift.zip or giftofalsora.exe ... I cannot remember, I'm afraid.

I suddenly remembered it and thought it'd be great to find a copy if there's one still floating around somewhere. If so, please shoot me an email at kinoko AT kinokofry.com

Thanks! It's a long shot but worth a try.
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Babar on Tue 14/01/2014 07:23:16
Does this mean you'll finally complete it?! :P

I'm sorry I don't have it, I downloaded the demo ages ago, don't think it was copied when I switched drives. I thought it might be in the AGS Archives (http://agsarchives.com/), but it seems no such luck. I know that the one I had was called "giftofaldora.zip", according to an old file list of AGS demos. I'm sure one of the AGS game hoarders will have a copy lying around somewhere, you'll just have to wait for them to show up.

So...welcome back? :D
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Kinoko on Tue 14/01/2014 11:31:08
Thanks!! That's very useful information on its own :)

Haha, this game is long, long dead in the water and that's a good thing. I'm actually embarrassed to remember almost everything about it, as we usually are with things from our younger selves. But, it was a lot of work and its a memory of the effort I put into games back then :) So I thought it'd be nice to have that memory available to show others a different time in my life.

It was recommended I ask Peder Johnson as he apparently has an archive of such things.
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Tramponline on Tue 14/01/2014 11:53:07
Another possibility might be the Internet Archive's WaybackMachine (http://archive.org/web/), Kinoko.

If the demo was ever stored on some website or other, just type in the the old url and search for it, there might be a chance that it's been archived over there.
I was able to retrieve some really old AGS games from the Internet Archives - while even the authors believed them long gone.

Might be worth a shot...

edit: Similar to this snapshot e.g. (http://web.archive.org/web/20070707015503/http://kinoko.futariba.com/)
      and this one (http://web.archive.org/web/20070629192246/http://kinoko.futariba.com/games/gift/index.html) ...just to wallow in nostalgia! ;)
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Stupot on Tue 14/01/2014 12:00:55
Hi Kinoko :-)

The aforementioned agsarchives is Peder's baby.

It might be worth asking Vince.  It seems he once mirrored it on an old site that no longer works (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=22799.msg287927#msg287927) but who knows, he may still have it on an old dusty hard drive somewhere.
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Kinoko on Wed 15/01/2014 03:01:26
No luck on any of those I'm afraid but thanks for the tips! I'd never heard of the WayBack Machine - that's incredible!
Title: Re: My old buddies - Anyone have an old copy of my "Gift of Aldora" demo?
Post by: Vince Twelve on Thu 16/01/2014 14:37:17
Yeah, unfortunately, when I cancelled that old site, I backed it up to a hard drive which since died and gone to the dump.  I was actually just last week searching all my files for something else that was on that site that I needed but appears to be lost.