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quake · Post by **quake** » Fri May 02, 2003 9:13 pm

Hey guys this is a really great site, but one question for the das games archive. How do you download the games??? I tried everything, with win zip, without win rar, but It seems when I download a game (quake 1) it says they're are no files to extract. So does that mean there is nothing there at all? I read the download guide but it didnt really help. I tried to save the file before downloading. And when it was done there was nothing in the folder I saved it in. Any ideas, thanx!

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri May 02, 2003 11:50 pm

Hmmm... it appears the link is broken, try downloading it <a href=http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download ... </a></html>. (Dosgamesarchive... where the links are never broken, the sun is always shining, and the air smells like warm rootbeer)

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri May 02, 2003 11:56 pm

quake wrote:Hey guys this is a really great site, but one question for the das games archive. How do you download the games??? I tried everything, with win zip, without win rar, but It seems when I download a game (quake 1) it says they're are no files to extract. So does that mean there is nothing there at all? I read the download guide but it didnt really help. I tried to save the file before downloading. And when it was done there was nothing in the folder I saved it in. Any ideas, thanx!

He's having the problem with DGA. And it's not a broken link; he's saying the zip file was empty.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat May 03, 2003 12:02 am

...Try downloading it on Dosgames.com... it doesn't. Archive seems to be okay, so I'll investigate that more.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat May 03, 2003 12:15 am

Sure enough, the file from Archive is also okay... I think the problem is entirely in quakes computer.

Quake: Redownload.

quake · Post by **quake** » Sat May 03, 2003 9:08 am

Hmm I tried redownloading but the folder was still empty. Do I need winzip? Last time I had it, and winzip said it was a bad file name or invalid or somethin.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sat May 03, 2003 2:28 pm

Try WinRAR or a freeware program called "Ultimate Zip".

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat May 03, 2003 2:48 pm

It seems to work okay with Winzip on my computer. (Currently XP Home ED)... what version are you using? As far as good Unzip programs, try WinAce. Come to think of it... I got that problem with Winzip a lot as well back with an older version... Winace cured all of that.

Post by **wardrich** » Sat May 03, 2003 4:17 pm

ya, and it seems to me that most (if not all) the files from DGA are in .rar form, which can only be extracted using winrar (or so i thought)

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sat May 03, 2003 4:36 pm

They can also be extracted with WinAce and Ultimate Zip. The only difference between WinRar and WinAce is that WinRar is the only one that can compile rars, and WinAce is the only one that can compile aces. Both can decompile all of it.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat May 03, 2003 4:41 pm

But I managed to unzip it with Winzip... is this a difference between the paid for edition (which I have) and shareware??? This is troubling indeed. ?=/

Post by **wardrich** » Sat May 03, 2003 6:44 pm

winace... thats what i ment... meh

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sat May 03, 2003 8:35 pm

Theres a thing with WinRAR: To extract all files, you need to click "File" then "Select all". Then click "commands" then extract files.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sat May 03, 2003 9:12 pm

Or you can highlight all of them, by pressing and holding shift and clicking at the top, scrolling down to the bottom (while holding shift), and click on the last file.

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