Amarande Posted January 3, 2006 Some of you may have noted problems getting into the SUNET idgames archive the last few days. Upon contacting SUNET I received the following back from Emil Pedersen, an administrator - --On Monday, January 02, 2006 21:42:11 -0500 Amarande <amarande@lunasanguine.com> wrote: > Idgames (DOOM etc.) is listed on your front page. It has been a > standard FTP site for id Software game resources for quite some time. > > However, I attempted to access this directory to download some files > tonight, and got simply - "Forbidden" When attempting to access via > FTP, I also received a 'permission denied' error message upon > entering the directory. > > ALL other directories on SUNET's download archives that I attempt to > access are without problems. > > Has the idgames archive been shut down, is there an error, or what? > DOOM related sites do not appear to have any sort of information > about this, either ... > Hi. Idgames as well as other game related mirrors in our archive have been shut down to comply with our new content policy, the dangling link you found at our front page is now removed as it should. We've tried to inform the sites we know pointing to us, but have not been able to reach them all, and there are likely others we don't know about. If you find suck site, please take a moment and inform the owner so he/she could fix the site. Sincerely yours, Emil (No, I don't think Mr Pedersen meant to call us a 'suck' site. I'm pretty sure he meant 'such'.) Anyway, there goes probably the longest-running, most reliable mirror for idgames. (No, he didn't say what this 'content policy' is, nor do I seem to find a link to it on the SUNET site. Not like it matters now, anyway ...) Sigh. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted January 3, 2006 Shame, that was usually the one I used for getting stuff. Let's hope it's not the thin end of the wedge. Oh well, Berlin seems pretty good, I'm off to change my favourites... 0 Share this post Link to post
impClaw Posted January 3, 2006 Too bad they closed up, it was the mirror closest to where i lived.... 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 3, 2006 gargoylol said:THERE GOES IDGAMES2 ALSO :(((((( Master: ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames2/ Mirrors include: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/games/idgames2/ http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames2/ <-- new http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/ 0 Share this post Link to post
-_DLD_- Posted January 3, 2006 HURRAY FOR GRAZZA! And here I was thinking the end of the world was near... 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted January 3, 2006 Grazza said:Master: ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames2/ Mirrors include: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/games/idgames2/ http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames2/ <-- new http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/ none of them contain the planetquake folder, which the mods on planetquake then used for files before fileplanet existed. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 3, 2006 ftp://ftp.lublin.pl/mirror/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/planetquake/ ftp://ftp.lublin.pl/pub/games/planetquake/ Are these any use? DLD: Note that this is "just" a mirror going down. The primary idgames archive and the other mirrors are unaffected (unless there are any that mirror sunet). 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted January 3, 2006 ok, how about a planetquake folder containing a qca subfolder in it 0 Share this post Link to post
Ebon Posted January 3, 2006 Of course, gamers.org/pub/ is all there safe and sound anytime. NO WONDER IT'S SO CROWDED. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom_user Posted January 4, 2006 I was wondering why none of the links on Team TNT's site were working. Am I correct to presume that replacing sunet.se with fu-berlin.de will fix any broken links? 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 4, 2006 Yes, that will work in this case, as long as all the links are to the ftp, rather than the http address; the extra "pub/" in the path doesn't cause a problem. One needs to be a little careful because the paths for each site aren't necessarily the same. In general, the solution is to replace the first part of the URL (i.e. ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/ or http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/) with any one of the following: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/games/idgames/ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/ ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/ ftp://ftp.au.xemacs.org/pub/idgames/ http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/ http://youfailit.net/pub/idgames/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames/ http://mrtg.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames/ http://www.au.horde.org/pub/idgames/ Edit: The Greek mirror (ntua.gr) had been mirroring sunet.se, but have now switched to fu-berlin.de, and so are up-to-date again. I think the Australian ones are all basically planetmirror, but with a variety of different urls and interfaces. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lizardcommando Posted January 4, 2006 NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I always use SUNET for my Dooming needs. This sucks :(. 0 Share this post Link to post
SyntherAugustus Posted January 4, 2006 http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 4, 2006 Graf Zahl said:Too slow. And for downloads we are asked to use a mirror rather than the master server. 0 Share this post Link to post
Brad_tilf Posted January 5, 2006 Well, that may be the case (I saw that SUNET went down as well) but I am already in the process of recreating the archives for Doom and Doom2 maps on Doom Wad Station. I have a good chunk of the deathmatch levels online already and have created a php web frontend for people to check them out - here: http://www.doomwadstation.com/dm My goal (after I finish implementing the new design on the site) is mirror the archives frequently and do a similar type of web interface on the site for those archives. :-) 0 Share this post Link to post