Bit Torrents for all things Amiga

Aegothis · 16 February 2005, 21:58

I notice that some use ftp or eDonkey, another solution is by Bit Torrent. Some of the Amiga Torrents are very large but go pretty fast and don't use up bandwidth. Maybe consider using torrents here also once you see how well they work?

http://torrent.mametitles.co.uk/
This site has lcollections of apps, CAPS, WHDLoad games, Demos collections. There's probably 10 Gigs of Amiga stuff.

Aegothis · 18 February 2005, 08:49

In case you are new to Bit Torrent, here are some links.
You can make a torrent with Azureus very easy and use it to download other torrents...
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...up.exe?download

You can upload your torrent to a tracker like Emu Paradise so everyone can connect to it. There's a torrent of Amiga emulators and 800 games right now also.
http://70.85.9.138:6969/

redneon · 18 February 2005, 10:12

Personally, I just use www.torrentspy.com. It searches loads of BitTorrent websites. Do a search on there for "Amiga Tosec" at the mo. I got every one of those last week.

Aegothis · 19 February 2005, 23:00

Cool. Good site.

Aegothis · 21 February 2005, 10:05

A, um friend of mine just uploaded a nice torrent to torrentspy. It's also posted on Filesoup with a file that helps load the A500 games in WDLoad. It's a very complete and easy package, I've been using it for a few days. Probably the best emulator/game package on the internet.
http://www.filesoup.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=93637

Methanoid · 21 February 2005, 12:26

Coverage on these things is always too patchy.... It would be better if there were full sets of TOSEC'd files split according to alphabet (ie GAMES "A") rather than a single huge Torrent as quite often the seeder disappears before the whole thing has got around the network. There was the same problem with ED2K Amiga downloads.

redneon · 21 February 2005, 14:24

I agree. Although, I have been able to get all the Amiga TOSEC sets from torrentspy without any trouble. But to be honest, the best way to get them is alt.binaries.emulators.tosec on usenet. It's the first place any of the sets get posted.

Methanoid · 21 February 2005, 15:02

As a Sheffielder would U be with PlusNet? I have to confess I find too many ISPs have poor usenet coverage and I'd signed up for a ClaraNews account and then suddently PlusNet got their act together with great coverage. But I've always found emulator file coverage to be poor in the past... I'll have to check that all out again.

[idoru] · 21 February 2005, 15:19

alt.binaries.emulators.misc has had pretty much everything posted there in recent weeks - usually in full or/and update packs

redneon · 21 February 2005, 15:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Methanoid

As a Sheffielder would U be with PlusNet?

Nah. I prefer to be with ISPs who's primary customers are non-residential. I'm with Pipex at the moment. But I use newsfeeds.com as my usenet provider. I used to use Giganews but I didn't really like them.

fisken uno · 21 February 2005, 19:37

Mmm. BitTorrent is a wonderful p2p system. Speed is usually very very good so it could be very useful for CD32 images for example.

AMIGAZ · 21 February 2005, 20:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by fisken uno

Mmm. BitTorrent is a wonderful p2p system. Speed is usually very very good so it could be very useful for CD32 images for example.

mmm...too bad the same crap rips of CD32 games are floating around.
Hope someone erases them with some 100% pure quality rips.

redneon · 22 February 2005, 10:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by AMIGAZ

mmm...too bad the same crap rips of CD32 games are floating around.
Hope someone erases them with some 100% pure quality rips.

Get the Amiga CD32 9gb tosec set from torrentspy. I've played most of them fine. In fact, I've bought a pack of 100 blank CDRs and am working my way through the games. There's only 74 games in the set but every game I've looked for has been in there. I don't know how many games they made for the CD32.

Methanoid · 22 February 2005, 11:22

I downed about 2Gb of that 9Gb set but then it reported no seeds (ie incomplete coverage) so I gave up and deleted it. I think I'll stick to collecting via DVDR or CDR swaps

AMIGAZ · 22 February 2005, 12:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by redneon

Get the Amiga CD32 9gb tosec set from torrentspy. I've played most of them fine. In fact, I've bought a pack of 100 blank CDRs and am working my way through the games. There's only 74 games in the set but every game I've looked for has been in there. I don't know how many games they made for the CD32.

How's the audio on those games? mp3 or no audi tracks at all?

Duke · 22 February 2005, 12:38

TOSEC uses WAV files for audio tracks.

AMIGAZ · 22 February 2005, 18:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by redneon

Get the Amiga CD32 9gb tosec set from torrentspy. I've played most of them fine. In fact, I've bought a pack of 100 blank CDRs and am working my way through the games. There's only 74 games in the set but every game I've looked for has been in there. I don't know how many games they made for the CD32.

Where did you find the tosec bunch?
Torrentspy is just a bittorent client, right?
I use BitTornado.

mr_0rga5m · 22 February 2005, 21:10

The CD32 torrent was listed on ThePirateBay recently .. I myself grabbed it (9gb) over a coupla days and then left it on for a week for the slow leechers. :P

AMIGAZ · 22 February 2005, 21:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_0rga5m

The CD32 torrent was listed on ThePirateBay recently .. I myself grabbed it (9gb) over a coupla days and then left it on for a week for the slow leechers. :P

Found the torrent d/l'ing

Thanks for the info

AMIGAZ · 22 February 2005, 21:50

average d/l speed right now is 3k/s

*whistling along*

LaundroMat · 23 February 2005, 13:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by AMIGAZ

Where did you find the tosec bunch?
Torrentspy is just a bittorent client, right?
I use BitTornado.

Torrentspy's a website; some kind of BT search engine.

Methanoid · 23 February 2005, 14:21

And there was me thinking it was Spyware for BitTorrent!!!

onkelarie · 23 February 2005, 23:30

Running steady overhere... However, I do miss Arabian nights in that TOSEC list...

AMIGAZ · 24 February 2005, 07:52

To bad not all of the CD32 releases are in this package, guess approx. 30 games are missing or even more.
Think I have to do some Ebay:ing

Puzzle · 13 April 2005, 13:08

Quick question: When I use BitTorrent, will it only upload the things I've downloaded (or are about to download)?

manicx · 13 April 2005, 13:16

Not sure if I understood your question. When you are downloading a file through Bittorrent you are leeching. This means that you download and upload from and to peers. If you finish download, and you want to share, you are seeding which means that you have 100% of the file and you just upload. If you are using Bittorent 4.0.X, you can set up the upload rate with the scrollbar at the top. With previous versions, you have to use command prompt.

Puzzle · 13 April 2005, 13:32

I see. I was just wondering wether it shared my whole harddrive to other BitTorrent-users...

I use Azureus, by the way.

Miggy2TheMax · 13 April 2005, 14:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Puzzle

I see. I was just wondering wether it shared my whole harddrive to other BitTorrent-users...

I use Azureus, by the way.

The only thing that bittorrent uploads is data that you have downloaded
through .torrnet files. So no it does not share you drive. If you wanted
to share other stuff you'd need to create that .torrent file yourself and
let ppl downloaded that .torrent file and only than can you share other
stuff. I hope that answers your question.

Puzzle · 13 April 2005, 14:09

Thanks. I was a bit worried that it would share my whole drive.

manicx · 13 April 2005, 14:27

Haven't used Azureus, but in several P2P clients, you set up a folder that you have files and you share. eMule and Shareaza are two P2P I use and work like that. Usually, you share your downloads folder.

25 April 2005, 00:53

Thanks for the info on TorrentSPy, great Site! Are there more of the same that have Amiga related files? I haven't tried Bittorrents before. I am not sure which client would be best, there are so many.

chocolate_boy · 24 May 2011, 19:39

The links in this thread all seem to be dead now.

Anyone have any good torrent links for loads of WHDloads, pain setting them all up individually.

TCD · 24 May 2011, 19:41

Why don't you grab KG's packs from his site : http://kg.whdownload.com/kgwhd/ ?

chocolate_boy · 24 May 2011, 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Why don't you grab KG's packs from his site : http://kg.whdownload.com/kgwhd/ ?

Ah first I've seen of these, game disks and setups already made, just a copy and drop job?

TCD · 24 May 2011, 20:05

Yup, everything is preinstalled, so just copy and play

antonvaltaz · 24 May 2011, 20:20

Also KG's files can be downloaded individually from http://www.whdownload.com/ (if you only want a specific few).

chocolate_boy · 24 May 2011, 20:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Yup, everything is preinstalled, so just copy and play

Perfect!

Quote:

Originally Posted by antonvaltaz

Also KG's files can be downloaded individually from http://www.whdownload.com/ (if you only want a specific few).

Grabbing them all, got a 4 gig CFCard in my A1200

16 February 2005, 21:58	#1
Aegothis Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bellevue/MI Age: 40 Posts: 14	Bit Torrents for all things Amiga (Gigs of apps, games, demos to d/l) I notice that some use ftp or eDonkey, another solution is by Bit Torrent. Some of the Amiga Torrents are very large but go pretty fast and don't use up bandwidth. Maybe consider using torrents here also once you see how well they work? http://torrent.mametitles.co.uk/ This site has lcollections of apps, CAPS, WHDLoad games, Demos collections. There's probably 10 Gigs of Amiga stuff. Last edited by Aegothis; 18 February 2005 at 08:50. Reason: added to title

21 February 2005, 10:05	#5
Aegothis Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bellevue/MI Age: 40 Posts: 14	WDHLoad Torrent!!! A, um friend of mine just uploaded a nice torrent to torrentspy. It's also posted on Filesoup with a file that helps load the A500 games in WDLoad. It's a very complete and easy package, I've been using it for a few days. Probably the best emulator/game package on the internet. http://www.filesoup.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=93637

21 February 2005, 12:26	#6
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 47 Posts: 1,441	Coverage on these things is always too patchy.... It would be better if there were full sets of TOSEC'd files split according to alphabet (ie GAMES "A") rather than a single huge Torrent as quite often the seeder disappears before the whole thing has got around the network. There was the same problem with ED2K Amiga downloads. __________________ The thoughts of Chairman Methanoid at http://methanoid.blogspot.com

21 February 2005, 15:02	#8
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 47 Posts: 1,441	As a Sheffielder would U be with PlusNet? I have to confess I find too many ISPs have poor usenet coverage and I'd signed up for a ClaraNews account and then suddently PlusNet got their act together with great coverage. But I've always found emulator file coverage to be poor in the past... I'll have to check that all out again. __________________ The thoughts of Chairman Methanoid at http://methanoid.blogspot.com

21 February 2005, 15:19	#9
[idoru] Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: UK Posts: 246	alt.binaries.emulators.misc has had pretty much everything posted there in recent weeks - usually in full or/and update packs __________________ [idoru]

18 February 2005, 08:49	#2
Aegothis Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bellevue/MI Age: 40 Posts: 14	In case you are new to Bit Torrent, here are some links. You can make a torrent with Azureus very easy and use it to download other torrents... http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...up.exe?download You can upload your torrent to a tracker like Emu Paradise so everyone can connect to it. There's a torrent of Amiga emulators and 800 games right now also. http://70.85.9.138:6969/

18 February 2005, 10:12	#3
redneon I'm great Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sheffield / England Age: 30 Posts: 34	Personally, I just use www.torrentspy.com. It searches loads of BitTorrent websites. Do a search on there for "Amiga Tosec" at the mo. I got every one of those last week.

19 February 2005, 23:00	#4
Aegothis Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bellevue/MI Age: 40 Posts: 14	Cool. Good site.

21 February 2005, 14:24	#7
redneon I'm great Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sheffield / England Age: 30 Posts: 34	I agree. Although, I have been able to get all the Amiga TOSEC sets from torrentspy without any trouble. But to be honest, the best way to get them is alt.binaries.emulators.tosec on usenet. It's the first place any of the sets get posted.

21 February 2005, 19:37	#11
fisken uno Commodore's biatch Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sweden Age: 32 Posts: 670	Mmm. BitTorrent is a wonderful p2p system. Speed is usually very very good so it could be very useful for CD32 images for example.

22 February 2005, 11:22	#14
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 47 Posts: 1,441	I downed about 2Gb of that 9Gb set but then it reported no seeds (ie incomplete coverage) so I gave up and deleted it. I think I'll stick to collecting via DVDR or CDR swaps __________________ The thoughts of Chairman Methanoid at http://methanoid.blogspot.com

22 February 2005, 12:38	#16
Duke HOL-Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Germany Age: 32 Posts: 515	TOSEC uses WAV files for audio tracks.

22 February 2005, 21:10	#18
mr_0rga5m Tik Gora :D Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Round yo momma's Posts: 1,273	The CD32 torrent was listed on ThePirateBay recently .. I myself grabbed it (9gb) over a coupla days and then left it on for a week for the slow leechers. :P __________________ BF++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+. +++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>. "Bill Gates is Microsoft. His wife has no comment." [16:38:45] <THB> why be hatin our cgi:irc brothers? [16:44:38] * THBollock has joined #abime.net [16:44:54] <THBollock> :) [16:45:39] * THBollock has quit IRC ("lol") [16:50:25] <THB> oh thats why Catflap <-- Imposter!! <cATFLAP> <-- The real deal.

22 February 2005, 21:50	#20
AMIGAZ Amiga-Mad Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sweden Age: 36 Posts: 1,285	average d/l speed right now is 3k/s whistling along __________________

23 February 2005, 14:21	#22
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 47 Posts: 1,441	And there was me thinking it was Spyware for BitTorrent!!! __________________ The thoughts of Chairman Methanoid at http://methanoid.blogspot.com

23 February 2005, 23:30	#23
onkelarie Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Spijkenisse / the Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 276	Running steady overhere... However, I do miss Arabian nights in that TOSEC list...

24 February 2005, 07:52	#24
AMIGAZ Amiga-Mad Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sweden Age: 36 Posts: 1,285	To bad not all of the CD32 releases are in this package, guess approx. 30 games are missing or even more. Think I have to do some Ebay:ing __________________

13 April 2005, 13:08	#25
Puzzle Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 99	Quick question: When I use BitTorrent, will it only upload the things I've downloaded (or are about to download)?

13 April 2005, 13:16	#26
manicx Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 960	Not sure if I understood your question. When you are downloading a file through Bittorrent you are leeching. This means that you download and upload from and to peers. If you finish download, and you want to share, you are seeding which means that you have 100% of the file and you just upload. If you are using Bittorent 4.0.X, you can set up the upload rate with the scrollbar at the top. With previous versions, you have to use command prompt. __________________ Love Kick Off 2? Visit the Kick Off Gathering.

13 April 2005, 13:32	#27
Puzzle Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 99	I see. I was just wondering wether it shared my whole harddrive to other BitTorrent-users... I use Azureus, by the way.

13 April 2005, 14:09	#29
Puzzle Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 99	Thanks. I was a bit worried that it would share my whole drive.

13 April 2005, 14:27	#30
manicx Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 960	Haven't used Azureus, but in several P2P clients, you set up a folder that you have files and you share. eMule and Shareaza are two P2P I use and work like that. Usually, you share your downloads folder. __________________ Love Kick Off 2? Visit the Kick Off Gathering.

25 April 2005, 00:53	#31
CageyBee Posts: n/a	Thanks for the info on TorrentSPy, great Site! Are there more of the same that have Amiga related files? I haven't tried Bittorrents before. I am not sure which client would be best, there are so many.

24 May 2011, 19:39	#32
chocolate_boy Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK Age: 30 Posts: 168	The links in this thread all seem to be dead now. Anyone have any good torrent links for loads of WHDloads, pain setting them all up individually.

24 May 2011, 19:41	#33
TCD Moderator Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 35 Posts: 22,494	Why don't you grab KG's packs from his site : http://kg.whdownload.com/kgwhd/ ? __________________ "I am Polka and that's why I don't like accordions" - CrazyOne, April 2013

24 May 2011, 20:05	#35
TCD Moderator Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 35 Posts: 22,494	Yup, everything is preinstalled, so just copy and play __________________ "I am Polka and that's why I don't like accordions" - CrazyOne, April 2013

24 May 2011, 20:20	#36
antonvaltaz Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Manchester, UK Age: 32 Posts: 509	Also KG's files can be downloaded individually from http://www.whdownload.com/ (if you only want a specific few).

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