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Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Are there any working download managers capable of downloading from Terra-Arcanum and resuming said download when the connection dies and has to be remade?

Case in point. I have 3 real things I use to download with online.

Flashget works great, but some places just don't want to allow it.
Wackget is better, because it takes the new link (as long as it resolves to the same filename) and just adds it onto what is already downloaded.

The last method is via torrents.

The problem is, Terra-Arcanum won't work with them.
Flashget gets halted and it's dead in the water.
Wackget doesn't resolve the filenames properly. It just gives the <a>.hash string. So if I try to get the link again and keep downloading, it's different every time the page reloads.

So is there any possible download manager that will work for this?

The main thing I'm trying to download is the High Quality Town Maps. No way I can download them in one shot anywhere, I have dialup. The only torrent I have found with this is some stupid "Portable" thing. Where all the files are .dat and the readme says you need to use ThinApp to install and work it all.

Drog Alt · **Joined:** Jun 30, 2010 **Posts:** 544

Dial-up in 2011? Do you live in the mountains?

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Yes, actually. On a farm that's 15 miles from the nearest towns. Nothing else comes out this far.

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Ok, so I guess there are no DL managers that can resume this stuff.

Maybe there is someone that can create a torrent of the files I need and let me download from that?

Depending on the file size and your online time, I can generally get 100mb in a few days time. I typically download around the clock for larger files.

I mainly want the AWIP by rroyo and HQ Town Maps.

Drog Alt · **Joined:** Jun 30, 2010 **Posts:** 544

Forget about the HQ Townmaps. The difference in quality is hardly worth your time. They were just built using a different downscaling algorithm (bilinear vs nearest-neighbor), so there are no "jaggies", but that's about it, they aren't any more detailed.

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Ok, well even without that, the WIP thing is still 140mb.

There is just no way I can get it without it either being uploaded to a file share place that let's me resume with Wackget (pretty sure the MegaUpload one let's you do that).

Or if it's stuck in a torrent and hosted by someone with a steady connection pretty much from 9am till 5am.

Zanza · **Joined:** Apr 20, 2009 **Posts:** 2770

Its hard to believe in this day and age something as little as that can cause a problem.

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Yeah, well.

There are a lot of places without resume capability like that. Like everyone is so paranoid someone else will steal their bandwidth.

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

It's been a while since I used any P2P file sharing services, but have you looked on any others besides BitTorrent? I used to use Kazaa with a dial-up connection. The file you want might be lurking somewhere on one of those.

Grakelin · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:59 pm **Post subject:**

I vaguely remember stumbling across a torrent of Arcanum fully modded. Can't remember if it was with Rroyo's mod or Drog's mod, though. Of course, it could take you weeks to torrent it, but it could be worse.

Also, you'll have to leave it up to yourself if it is okay to get the pirate copy if you already own the original.

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

*shrugs* I have the original.

I'm just not willing to download the entire game. A GB file would take a month at the very least. And that's just too much time. Especially when all I need is a 140mb file.

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:46 pm **Post subject:**

Why doesn't somebody just mail this kid a disc? Do you live in the United States of America?

DarkFool · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:47 pm **Post subject:**

He's in Norway, if memory serves.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:53 pm **Post subject:**

Mega Manager

rroyo's WIP

HQ Town Maps

Tenkai · **Joined:** Jun 13, 2011 **Posts:** 7

Thanks, wayne.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:19 am **Post subject:**

Glad to know one of the Admin's hopped right on this. XD

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

The admin are certainly hopped right up on something.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:41 pm **Post subject:**

Smuelissimo wrote:

The admin are certainly hopped right up on something.

I still have the ban control open from removing those spambots, so I'd say the word you'd be looking for is "power."

Zanza · **Joined:** Apr 20, 2009 **Posts:** 2770

"In the wrong hands" you forgot to add by the judging by said threat.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:28 am **Post subject:**

Zanza wrote:

"In the wrong hands" you forgot to add by the judging by said threat.

I've only banned Smuel like two or three times.

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

It was four times, actually.

Not that I'm really keeping track, twisting and turning in my bed every night, revisiting the injustices that have been heaped upon me and planning sweet, sweet revenge as I imagine dark tendrils of despair reaching out and engulfing the corners of your mind, slowly chipping away at your sanity until all that is left is a crumpled whimpering heap on the ground that I shall look down on with contempt as I place my boot upon your neck and press down, feeling your pathetic struggles for breath, looking up at me first in anger, then desperation, then finally, as your writhing body gives out, an acceptance of your fate, as brought upon yourself by your own callous hand, your last thought being a whisper of regret for all your abuses of power and the helpless victims that you laid waste to, as you are now being snuffed out in turn.

Anyway, like I said, I'm not keeping track.

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:36 pm **Post subject:**

So Smuelissimo is an incarnation of Smuel?

What prompted the change from relentless troll to regular contributor?

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:44 pm **Post subject:**

Some topic touched a nerve, with him.

Smuelissimo · **Joined:** Mar 21, 2011 **Posts:** 292

TheDavisChanger wrote:

What prompted the change from relentless troll to regular contributor?

I was always a regular contributor. Y'all just didn't realise it at first.

Muro · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:03 pm **Post subject:**

Nothing says contributin' like asking to change the forum style to subSilver.

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