Info About the idgames Archive
In October of 2001, the powers that be (the new owners) at ftp.cdrom.com
restricted outside access to the idgames archive (as well as a number
of other archives), and cancelled the accounts of the maintainers.
Shortly after that, the maintainers, Frans P. de Vries and Ty Halderman,
started maintaining the archives using the former mirror at Gamers.Org.
A new hostname was created - archives.gamers.org - to be the
primary host for the archives no longer hosted at ftp.cdrom.com.
Here is information about the other
Community Archives
available at archives.gamers.org.
The hostname and path for the idgames archive is now
archives.gamers.org/pub/idgames/.
Access is by FTP, only, so that the web server is always available for
serving our web pages.
If you wish to do an upload, you must go directly to
archives.gamers.org and upload to the /pub/idgames/incoming directory.
Other sites mirror this primary host, and you are encouraged to use
one of those mirrors. Here is the .message file
from the archive that lists the idgames mirrors.
We also provide these additional enhancements here at Gamers.Org:
- ftptree
- a graphical representation of the entire idgames tree.
- Each night, a map of the
idgames directory structure is generated. A new graphical ftptree
is generated if this structure differs from the previous night's
structure. As per the above note, incoming and newstuff are not listed.
- ftpbush
- a shallower graphical representation of the idgames tree.
- Like the full ftptree, but with most of the alphabetical subdirectories
pruned off to reduce the size of the file.
- last24hrs
- a sorted and hyperlinked version of the LAST.24hours file.
- The LAST.24hours file is generated hourly and
lists the files that were added or changed in the past 24 hours.
After the mirror, the contents of the LAST.24hours file is filtered
to remove incoming and newstuff references, sorted alphabetically,
and then hyperlinked to provide easy access to additions made during
the 24 hours prior to the mirror taking place.
- last7days
- a sorted and hyperlinked version of the LAST.7days file.
- The LAST.7days file is generated every midnight and
lists the files that were added or changed in the preceding 7 days.
The same operations are applied to the LAST.7days file as were
applied to the LAST.24hours file.
Comments about these features can be addressed to
John Van Essen
<jve@gamers.org>