Hello everyone,
My prize for the May MAGS competition was a CD that Klaus sent me containing every game entered into the MAGS competition for the 5 years he hosted it.
I took the CD and put it on my webserver so that anyone who wants it can download it to enjoy. There are some nice ones in there.
The zipfile is about 723 Megs in size, so it's large..
I will be uploading individual games this weekend so that they can be downloaded if someone doesn't want to get all of them. I will update this post then.
In the meantime, the games are at :
www.billandnicole.net/games/mags/CompleteMags.zip
Enjoy!!
Thanks,
Bill
Oooh.. a lot of gaps in my archive will be filled now. Thanks!
To make it all easier for everyone, I created a torrent for this download :D.
(If you are familiar with e.g. utorrent that is)
Now you will be able to download the CD, but not necessarily in one time.
You can stop downloading when you like and continue with it later when
you want so.
I also extracted all games, so now you can download the torrent and then select
the games you don't want to download and tag them as "Don't Download".
In other words: only download the games(s) you would like to have.
(thanx zabnat 4 the hint)
I will seed this as much as possible.
At least at day time (GMT + 01:00) I will be seeding non-stop.
(So, at night it might be offline sometimes)
You can download the torrent file >HERE< (http://www.freewebs.com/arj0n/-%20Data/CompleteMags.torrent) [use save as, not open]
(To Bill: if not OK with you, let me know and I remove the torrent immediately)
(To All: yes: it's completely legal)
Greets
Arjon.
I hope you created the torrent so, that each game has it's own zip file in there. That way you can also choose what games you want to download.
Zabnat thanx for the tip, that's more convenient.
I've changed the torrent into an "extracted files" version now
Happy downloading everyone :P ;D
For the DOWNLOAD-URL see 2 posts before this one...
Can someone tell me if the torrent works?
Download link has been updated at June 20th, 17:10.
Thanx.
Although I downloaded the file directly already, I've selected one game from the torrent and it downloaded perfectly. Great job [ Arj0n ]!
Thanx for testing the torrent Leon.
Woot, that's a great idea there everyone!!
Downloading using the torrent now!
I will upload each game to the www.agsarchives.com website!
On a side note, anyone know how I could share the files from my linux server via torrent?
Is there any form of torrent servers of any kind for linux out there?
Peder: maybe this is some info for you (http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=28869).
or this (http://news.softpedia.com/news/uTorrent-under-Ubuntu-in-3-Easy-Steps-49037.shtml).
Hey, thanks for the links but their of no help, I am running a Ubuntu Server. so no installing WINE on that :).
I found something called torrent-flux, but diddent get it working the way I wanted it to work.
Ill just have a look for some other ones untill I find something I like.
Allright, well, here's a List of Torrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-bittorrent-clients-available-in-ubuntu.html). Maybe you can find the client you need. Good luck anyway.
I would recommend rtorrent for linux.
Nice work getting these all together. I think I've already played them all but it's worth going back through to see if I missed any :).
doesnt Transmission come with ubuntu?
Bill, you're a legend ;)
I am also uploading all these now to this location:
http://www.agsarchives.com/game-files/mags/
Keep in mind that at the time I am posting this the upload is far from done!
It should be 100% done by tonight!
Quote from: Peder Johnsen on Thu 13/08/2009 19:47:18
I am also uploading all these now to this location:
http://www.agsarchives.com/game-files/mags/
Nice. I am soooo short on free time now :P
Since Warthogs is in there, would you mind replacing it with a more recent version? It's here: http://crystalshard.net/index.php?g=11
I will do! :).
[edit:]
Done! :P.
Thanks.
To those who might of been downloading using the torrent, I managed to mess my seeding up changing folder names etc, and diddent get it working again. (Not sure if there was anyone else seeding?) Though I am starting a new torrent that will contain all AGS games/engine versions and tools/mods.
I plan to update it monthly (is there a way to do this without having to make a NEW torrent everytime?).
You can download the current version from here:
http://www.agsarchives.com/torrent.torrent
Mind, as of today the torrent is a tiny bit messy!
I will hopefully sort this out for the next version!
This is a great test of my download speeds. ;D
15% of the way there and at 550-600 kb/s. Nice. Just thinking back...10 years ago I was happy if my dial-up connection got up to 4 kb/s. Heh, good times.
Thanks for the upload. I honestly haven't played a lot of AGS games so this is great for me.
Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Fri 14/08/2009 20:35:58
15% of the way there and at 550-600 kb/s.
Your downloading via MY torrent or? :o.
Because I can't see anyone downloading.....
Quote from: Peder Johnsen on Fri 14/08/2009 20:22:06
Though I am starting a new torrent that will contain all AGS games/engine versions and tools/mods.
Great!
Quote from: Peder Johnsen on Fri 14/08/2009 20:22:06
I plan to update it monthly (is there a way to do this without having to make a NEW torrent everytime?).
No, you can't. You'll have to create a new one whenever you want to add something to the existing torrent...
Maybe create monthly torrents or something?
Yeah, it will end up being a monthly thing most probably.. depends how much new(or old for that matter) stuff ive gotten downloaded!
Given the way Bittorrent works, it would probably be best to keep older torrents active, and have the monthly torrent consist only of the new games for that month.
Yeah, I guess thats a good idea Radiant!
[EDIT:]
Ok, so I've just went through all the older MAGS entries and downloaded whatever I have managed to find.
Here is a list of all the games I haven't YET found:
2001-07
Fad of Devil's Hash
2001-08
Monkeyville
2003-06
Barry Snotter and the Meaning of Life
2003-09
Terence Independent Terminator
If anyone has any of these I hope you will help and upload them for me so I can download them and add them to the torrent and to www.agsarchives.com.
Most of them are available.... read your PM.
I'm only missing:
Fad of Devil's Hash
MuuYeeb the Ghost
Monkeyville
Barry Snotter and the Meaning of Life
Terence Independent Terminator
Quote from: Leon on Sun 16/08/2009 02:52:50
I'm only missing:
Fad of Devil's Hash
MuuYeeb the Ghost
Monkeyville
Barry Snotter and the Meaning of Life
Terence Independent Terminator
You've managed to find "Indiana Jones And The Lost Chamber"?
Yeps, it's a re-release by Abstauber.
On the games page (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1150) he explains it all.
Geez, I've checked that post when it was posted but didn't realize for now that Indiana Jones and the Secret Chamber of Schloss Brunwald is the same game as Indiana Jones and the Secret Chamber... ::)
I could have known. :(
Good thing is: your [and my and Peders] wanted mags list is now narrowed down by one, only 5 to go! ;)
I have started the research for the remaining 5 games.
Both Terence Independent Terminator and Barry Snotter and the Meaning of Life is made by the same guy, though unfortnatly he also has shown his interest of finding those games so he most probably wont have a copy.
Monkeyville was appearantly made by a person named "Nickboy77". I havent found much info about him here, but I've searched google for the same nickname and found a couple of places including some websites which looks like it MIGHT belong to the creator! I've also found an email adresse which I will try to see if I get in touch with him!
Iæve found emails to the creators of both Fad of Devil's Hash and MuuYeeb the Ghost but I guess there is small chances of them having the games..
Well, you're really on to it Peder ;)
Hopefully all or some of them will react, otherwise we can consider these 5 missing MAGS as been 'lost forever' :'(
But I fear the worst scenario... try stay optimistic.
I'm afraid not. I tried already. I'm trying alternative ways now....
UPDATE
The research I did to find the author of MuuYeeb the Ghost paid off!
He uploaded the game for me and it is now hosted at agsarchives.com!
ENJOY!:
http://www.agsarchives.com/game-files/mags/2002/2002-12/MuuYeeb_the_Ghost.zip
Nice job peder!
Only 4 to go...
Woahhhh!!! :o :o Way to go Peder!!! ;D
Thank you :P. I only just "accidently" logged on my gmail account, and there was a reply from him in my inbox!
I had totally forgotten about it hehehe..
It had been in my inbox since 20th of August even ;) hehehe.
Hopefully we will manage to track down the last 4 to!
The author of Monkeyville said diddent think he had it, but that he would look through some stuff and let me know if he would find it! :). So lets keep our hopes up for that one!
After some digging in archives I found a name would could be in the possession of Fad of Devils Hash (http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/downloads/). I wrote an email and guess what: HE STILL HAD THE GAME !!!!! Thanks for digging and dusting Abstauber! You can download the game from my page (http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/downloads/).
Yet another game for the (M)AGS museum saved. Only 3 to go.
ps. It runs under DosBOX, you only need CWSDPMI.EXE
Nice find Leon!
Ill add this to my server right away! ^^
Quote from: Leon on Sun 18/10/2009 20:56:46
After some digging in archives I found a name would could be in the possession of Fad of Devils Hash (http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/downloads/). I wrote an email and guess what: HE STILL HAD THE GAME !!!!! Thanks for digging and dusting Abstauber! You can download the game from my page (http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/downloads/).
Yet another game for the (M)AGS museum saved. Only 3 to go.
ps. It runs under DosBOX, you only need CWSDPMI.EXE
Well done Sherlock 8)