Re: Defender Of The World (DOTW)

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

The Name writes ...
> 
> I tried downloading the game from Dave's webpage, from GROUND in two
> spots.  I can't get the thing to Un-shrink!  It comes up as a DAMAGED
> archive.
>

     Just downloaded dotw.shk under Netscape from Ground at ...

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/apple16/Games/

It transferred to the GS and unShrinked fine. (So, also, did dotw.bsq.)
 

     The usual reasons for a corrupted download of a good file are ...

The ftp site was accessed via http:// instead of ftp://

A binary file was downloaded as text

The ftp program or browser employs "helper" programs which try to
process the file instead of just downloading it

The file was downloaded to 'the screen' instead of to a file on hard
disk; under a browser, right-click or shift-click on the file name to
get the option to "Save link as ..."


 
> I tried about 5 times downloading it from Daves page, and I just tried
> about 5 times each with the BINSCII archives on Ground (GAMES/DEMOS),
> and no luck.
>

     This is an earlier version of the DOTW-- much less stuff and not
nearly as close to being a 'real game'. Evidently, the files are all
binscii-ed .shk files. I tried dotw.3 and dotw.31. Dotw.31 (8k) is
corrupted-- based upon the too-small file size, it was probably a bad
upload. Dotw.3 (132k) un-binsciis and unShrinks fine. Anyway, the file
to download is dotw.shk in the ... apple16/Games/ folder.

 ....
> 
> Please email any replies to this post, as well as posting.  The
> news-server at my ISP sucks.A

     Okay.



Rubywand