wget?

[BubCity]

Thinking about the size of the downloads for 4000 games, and reuploading them to my server. With my slow connection I'm guessing it would take me a month to get all the games onto my local machine, then loaded into the arcade.

I have shell access, so wondering if I be able to use wget to put the files directly to my server? If so, you'll have a new customer. If not, that would be a deal breaker, so please tell me I will be able to.

Note, the files must be in .zip .tar or similar. .rar will not work because I don't want to install unrar and all it's dependancies.

Thanks :)

[Citizen]

Yes, that would be perfectly fine with us, wget is a great tool :)

Would putting all games in one tar.gz work for you?

[BubCity]

That's great news!

But you didn't have to reply so quickly. I don't get paid till next weekend :p

It doesn't matter to me if it's one big file. However some others may prefer if the files were composed of separate game categories. For instance, some may prefer not to have adult oriented games or shooting games, and some may prefer to use only certain categories, such as cartoons and classics. Just a thought worth sharing.

[Citizen]

They'll still be in separate folders, but zipped under one archive. The mass game adder allows you to select which folders to install. Let me know when you make the purchase and I'll be happy to upload a tar.gz version of it.

[BubCity]

Let me know when you make the purchase and I'll be happy to upload a tar.gz version of it.

Thanks citizen, will do so. Actually, if I make some ebay sales it may be sooner than next weekend.

On another note, I will be hosting it at BubCity.com (still under development), which is running WordPress MU (http://mu.wordpress.org). I plan on doing some modifications which will automatically create an arcade account when members sign up in the main site, thus will have registration disabled for the arcade. From there I want to create ways for Bub City members to display their games and/or scores as a widget inserted into their blog. Then finding ways to include their friends' game scores, maybe insert the actual game into their blog using a tag of some sort, or maybe by creating pages with games, and whatever other ways I can use the arcade to encourage interactivity.

I'm not a coder, just a master of copy/paste hackery. I typically depend on help I find at joomlancers.com. The prices are certainly right, but the skill levels are spotty at best, and the language barrier doesn't help much either. I'd rather pay a little more for more experienced programmers. Would the SAA team be interested in developing some of these applications?

[Citizen]

Let me know when you make the purchase and I'll be happy to upload a tar.gz version of it.

Thanks citizen, will do so. Actually, if I make some ebay sales it may be sooner than next weekend.

Cool!



On another note, I will be hosting it at BubCity.com (still under development), which is running WordPress MU (http://mu.wordpress.org). I plan on doing some modifications which will automatically create an arcade account when members sign up in the main site, thus will have registration disabled for the arcade. From there I want to create ways for Bub City members to display their games and/or scores as a widget inserted into their blog. Then finding ways to include their friends' game scores, maybe insert the actual game into their blog using a tag of some sort, or maybe by creating pages with games, and whatever other ways I can use the arcade to encourage interactivity.

I'm not a coder, just a master of copy/paste hackery. I typically depend on help I find at joomlancers.com. The prices are certainly right, but the skill levels are spotty at best, and the language barrier doesn't help much either. I'd rather pay a little more for more experienced programmers. Would the SAA team be interested in developing some of these applications?
Sounds interesting. We may be able to do this for you... I've done wordpress mods before, but I'd need more details before I could give a quote.

[BubCity]

Well, this is just good news all around. I'll be in touch soon, after I've purchased and installed it. Then I'll have a better ideal of what I need done.

Peace! :D

[Citizen]

Sounds good!

[BubCity]

Yes, that would be perfectly fine with us, wget is a great tool :)

Would putting all games in one tar.gz work for you?

Hi Citizen, I've completed the purchase and ready for that giant tar.gz file :D

[BubCity]

UPDATE UPDATE

I hope you didn't put too much work into re-archiving files. I managed to get unrpm working on my server, so I can use the gamepacks in your repository. Yay! So... I won't be needing the tar.gz files after all.

On the other hand, other linux users on shared hosts who allow shell access will appreciate the tar.gz files, so maybe a good idea for you anyway.

I'll get back to you about customizations in a week or so, when I've got an idea of where I want to go with this.

Peace! :cool:

[BubCity]

I guess you're not real big on Linux, eh? :o

wget is working great, except for the files with spaces in their names, such as

Fire & Dreams.rar
Fish and Fishing.rar
Flying and Space and Alien.rar

...and several others. Can you please provide these files to me without the spaces?

Also, maybe changing it in the downloads archive would show us L users that you're L-friendly ;)

[Citizen]

I believe you can use %20 to replace spaces. Let me know if that does it for you.

[BubCity]

Yeah, I tried that and it's not working for me. I don't know why it is, but that works with some files or servers, and not with others.

[Citizen]

Ok all spaces have been replaced with _

[BubCity]

Worked perfectly.. Thanks! :D

[Citizen]

No problem. Just a heads up, I've got an update for SAA coming out today. It will be downloadable from the my downloads section. Updating is very easy, as I'm sure you will see.