| This information has been sent to the various news sites
including Doomworld, but we'll repeat it here too. We've changed all
our links on this site to point to the new main download site instead of
cdrom.com.
The announcement:
As many of you may be aware, the master DOOM, Quake and Unreal community
archives at ftp.cdrom.com were closed last month. See this open letter
for background information:
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=220
We have now implemented our contingency plans for a replacement master
site, and are ready to re-open the archives.
Our thanks go out to Walnut Creek and Digital River for hosting the
archives on ftp.cdrom.com since late 1994, to all those who offered
assistance during the transition (in particular IHETS), and further to
all of you in the community who are making this all worth doing.
3D Gamers is now hosting the Community Archives for the DOOM-, Quake-,
and Unreal-engine games. Please see
http://www.3dgamers.com/about/archives.html
for further detail, some of which has been extracted in the information
below, and for live hyperlinks to the archives.
The new master server for the archives is
ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/
and the new primary download server is
ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/
(kindly provided by IHETS,
http://www.ihets.org/ ).
We strongly recommend that you use the primary download server or one of
the mirrors listed at
http://www.3dgamers.com/about/archives.html for all downloads.
The FTP addresses for the primary download site are:
ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames/ (DOOM-Engine)
ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames2/ (Quake-Engine)
ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/unreal/ (Unreal-Engine)
The only one of the three archives that is actively maintained is idgames/,
which contains user contributions for the games DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic,
Hexen and Strife. It is maintained by Ty Halderman. Feel free to upload
your contributions to
ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/incoming/
Uploads may be difficult while we work to relieve the load that the
master is currently under. So far only a few of the old mirrors have
switched over to the new master server, but more are expected to follow
once the old master archives have been removed completely.
Thanks again for your patience during the transition. Let's go play.
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Ty Halderman (
thldrmn@archives.3dgamers.com )
Frans P. de Vries (
fpv@archives.3dgamers.com ) |