Can I use the Arnold games?
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:41 pm
Hi,
I have started downloading the whole Arnold archive (I've already got quite a lot of it, but I should realy have a full set of games to match the GB database), but I thought I should try a few games before I got too far with the downloading. I did the "Verify available files" option and selected "games". It didn't find any of the games.
I tried to manually set-up the first game (1000 Miglia) which didn't work - after the intro it just gave me a flashing cursor.
I have just installed eMule and chose the three GB CD files, but after half an hour I have managed to get a total of 12K on CD1 and 240K on CD2. CD1 has stopped now and CD2 is downloading at an incredible rate of 0.4K/Sec (16 days to go till it finishes!).![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Am I right in thinking that I have to, either:
1) run eMule every day for several months to get the files,
2) download each game separately from the GB site,
or
3) manually set up every Arnold game
If so, why on Earth doesn't GB support the Arnold archive? As far as I know, everyone who knows anything about C64 games will know about Arnold and will probably get their games from there, so it is beyond my understanding that is wouldn't be supported. The HVSC is suported, and I would say that Arnold is the game equivalent.
This just doesn't seem right. Is there something I don't know about?
Apart from the game problem GB looks really useful and I've been playing the HVSC through it all day
Paul.
I have started downloading the whole Arnold archive (I've already got quite a lot of it, but I should realy have a full set of games to match the GB database), but I thought I should try a few games before I got too far with the downloading. I did the "Verify available files" option and selected "games". It didn't find any of the games.
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_confused.gif)
I tried to manually set-up the first game (1000 Miglia) which didn't work - after the intro it just gave me a flashing cursor.
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_confused.gif)
I have just installed eMule and chose the three GB CD files, but after half an hour I have managed to get a total of 12K on CD1 and 240K on CD2. CD1 has stopped now and CD2 is downloading at an incredible rate of 0.4K/Sec (16 days to go till it finishes!).
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Am I right in thinking that I have to, either:
1) run eMule every day for several months to get the files,
2) download each game separately from the GB site,
or
3) manually set up every Arnold game
If so, why on Earth doesn't GB support the Arnold archive? As far as I know, everyone who knows anything about C64 games will know about Arnold and will probably get their games from there, so it is beyond my understanding that is wouldn't be supported. The HVSC is suported, and I would say that Arnold is the game equivalent.
This just doesn't seem right. Is there something I don't know about?
Apart from the game problem GB looks really useful and I've been playing the HVSC through it all day
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Paul.