Aceroms.com - Fully Operational

09 January 2002, 00:11

It appears dead to me. I had a few games to download and the server seems dead.

And if you go to the AceRoms site ( http://www.aceroms.com ) the entire TOSEC section they used to have appears to be missing :-(

The news is in French but I cannot see anything about The Amiga written there.

09 January 2002, 03:09

A few hours ago everything was fine but suddenly the link to "tosec roms" began to lead some other irrelevant page. Luckily I managed to download "it" before it disappeared and I'm willing to help anyone in need of getting something "specifically" from aceroms. I expect it to be up again though.

09 January 2002, 03:14

You mean you can FTP the server ?

I can't - I have a edited list of everything I want to download but cannot finish it now :-( I don't think the server is busy. I do a traceroute/ping and it takes ages to get there, I think a link in the middle is down or something.

Add this to the fact that the webpages have changed and Aceroms is not the place to be looking for TOSEC Amiga right now !

e.g. trying the following don't work.

ftp://202.101.177.172:8018/Tosec/Commodore Amiga - Games (K-O) (0.17)/King's%20Quest%20V%20%281992%29%28Sierra%29%28Disk%206%20of%208%29.zip

09 January 2002, 03:35

I mean I can ftp the games docs apps and installlations sections privately with specific user/pass for a period of time. I can't let this abused for my upload bandwidth is capped at 8kb

jmmijo · 09 January 2002, 07:24

Yes it appears to go into the middle of the MAME roms. It starts at about the title NAM 1975 or there abouts.

Since I'm not an HTML coder, I can't tell if the web page is working properly or if it's just this link.

09 January 2002, 07:29

Where have all adfs gone?

jmmijo · 09 January 2002, 07:44

I've tried connecting to some other TOSEC d/l sites and unfortunately they are too busy to allow me to connect to them.

andreas · 09 January 2002, 08:07

Yes, pity! Everything is gone now!
These ADFs were situated on an FTP, so I think that this FTP has just gone non-public now.
If I'm lucky, I can look @ home where I have my old "Temporary Internet Files" BEFORE (!) I go online from home.
It was an IP using port 8018. Hopefully I can play a trick on it this way.

jmmijo · 09 January 2002, 08:16

Jim, I was able to d/l from Aceroms, even though their TOSEC page is hosed. Some nice soul on this board had u/l the entire TOSEC list from Aceroms and I've copied and pasted this really long url into IE6 and low and behold there is was and I just completed the d/l to my drive.

ftp://aceroms:roms@202.101.177.172:8...20-%20Games%20(K-O)%20(0.17)/King's%20Quest%20V%20(1992)(Sierra)(Disk%206%20of%208).zip /url

I figured you wanted the non-German version. Also you could use this same format to d/l disk 7 and 8 as well. You need to change the %206 after the Disk in the parens, make it %207 for disk seven then %208 for disk 8.

09 January 2002, 09:18

Thanks for your help all, but it is indeed working now (the FTP that is).

I had a Getright DL list. I had edited it to about 1000's disks - the best of the collection I have on floppy (ok there were some disks I wanted but never could get back then !!).

It's fixed itself, I think it was a server problem - either their server or one between their server and my comp, the traceroute was very very slow & had high packet loss.

RetroMan · 09 January 2002, 14:23

Well @andreas, think you´re out of luck, I just tried it that way, and I cannot even establish any connection and ping to that site gives absolutely no reply

jmmijo · 09 January 2002, 17:08

Yeah I noticed that too but there were no timeouts which is the real indicator, at least my tracert didn't show any.

LaundroMat · 09 January 2002, 17:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Jim

I had a Getright DL list.

Getright (and similar tools) do hit the servers very hard. The problem could (have) be(en) related to this. I personally never use GetRight, because I know it aids in bringing heavy traffic to the servers, and it could deny other people a decent connection. (But then I have a very decent broadband connection, so I just don't need that kind of software. I'm in a luxury position, and that's a fine position to be idealistic and altruistic in

)

birdy-scc · 09 January 2002, 20:15

As long as you set the maximum downloads to one at a time you should be ok using Getright or Flashget.

jmmijo · 09 January 2002, 20:15

Yeah, you're correct LaundroMat about the position of not having to use apps like GetRight due to being on a broadband connection. You shouldn't have to use these kinds of apps unless on a dial-up connection.

I myself ran into a problem over at BTTR, I was banned for a day because their autobot thought I was using one of these apps

I don't but because the broadband connection is so fast and I was d/l 2 files at once, this most likely triggered it.

But now I take it easy on the server so others can have access too, not just users with bigger pipes

09 January 2002, 20:16

Yepp, its working again!... whipii =)

Ian · 10 January 2002, 00:55

Aceroms is now fully operational again. As I said in a previous thread, the FTP being down is a usual occurrence, normally at least once a week it happens. This is probably to allow them to update it and such like.

As too the actual web site, maybe someone forgot to dot the i or cross the t in the HTML code and it buggered it up, anyway all is fixed now.

As far as Aceroms is concerned, I can only advise you of one thing and that’s patience. If it's down try it again a day or two later because if we carry on as we are, soon there will be hundreds of threads all covering exactly the same thing that this one covers. (ie Day one: It's not working, day two: It's back up again)

10 January 2002, 01:00

heh we all panic quite easily don't we. let's just rename this thread next time it goes down and rename it back to normal when it's fixed

jmmijo · 10 January 2002, 06:41

That's got my vote Burseg

jmmijo · 12 January 2002, 04:14

Hmm, yesterday and today I seem to be having issues d/l from Aceroms again. Strange however as I can copy/paste the link into another browser window and some of the files will d/l while others will just return a cannot display window error

09 January 2002, 00:11	#1
Jim Posts: n/a	Aceroms - Amiga TOSEC Dead ? It appears dead to me. I had a few games to download and the server seems dead. And if you go to the AceRoms site ( http://www.aceroms.com ) the entire TOSEC section they used to have appears to be missing :-( The news is in French but I cannot see anything about The Amiga written there.

09 January 2002, 07:29	#6
Guest Posts: n/a	Aceroms.com -doesnt contain adfs anymore? Where have all adfs gone?

09 January 2002, 08:07	#8
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Yes, pity! Everything is gone now! These ADFs were situated on an FTP, so I think that this FTP has just gone non-public now. If I'm lucky, I can look @ home where I have my old "Temporary Internet Files" BEFORE (!) I go online from home. It was an IP using port 8018. Hopefully I can play a trick on it this way. Last edited by andreas; 09 January 2002 at 08:24.

09 January 2002, 20:16	#16
Guest Posts: n/a	Its back on online now Yepp, its working again!... whipii =)

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09 January 2002, 03:09	#2
oldpx Posts: n/a	A few hours ago everything was fine but suddenly the link to "tosec roms" began to lead some other irrelevant page. Luckily I managed to download "it" before it disappeared and I'm willing to help anyone in need of getting something "specifically" from aceroms. I expect it to be up again though.

09 January 2002, 03:14	#3
Jim Posts: n/a	You mean you can FTP the server ? I can't - I have a edited list of everything I want to download but cannot finish it now :-( I don't think the server is busy. I do a traceroute/ping and it takes ages to get there, I think a link in the middle is down or something. Add this to the fact that the webpages have changed and Aceroms is not the place to be looking for TOSEC Amiga right now ! e.g. trying the following don't work. ftp://202.101.177.172:8018/Tosec/Commodore Amiga - Games (K-O) (0.17)/King's%20Quest%20V%20%281992%29%28Sierra%29%28Disk%206%20of%208%29.zip

09 January 2002, 03:35	#4
oldpx Posts: n/a	I mean I can ftp the games docs apps and installlations sections privately with specific user/pass for a period of time. I can't let this abused for my upload bandwidth is capped at 8kb

09 January 2002, 07:24	#5
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Yes it appears to go into the middle of the MAME roms. It starts at about the title NAM 1975 or there abouts. Since I'm not an HTML coder, I can't tell if the web page is working properly or if it's just this link.

09 January 2002, 07:44	#7
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	I've tried connecting to some other TOSEC d/l sites and unfortunately they are too busy to allow me to connect to them.

09 January 2002, 08:16	#9
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Jim, I was able to d/l from Aceroms, even though their TOSEC page is hosed. Some nice soul on this board had u/l the entire TOSEC list from Aceroms and I've copied and pasted this really long url into IE6 and low and behold there is was and I just completed the d/l to my drive. ftp://aceroms:roms@202.101.177.172:8...20-%20Games%20(K-O)%20(0.17)/King's%20Quest%20V%20(1992)(Sierra)(Disk%206%20of%208).zip /url I figured you wanted the non-German version. Also you could use this same format to d/l disk 7 and 8 as well. You need to change the %206 after the Disk in the parens, make it %207 for disk seven then %208 for disk 8.

09 January 2002, 09:18	#10
Jim Posts: n/a	Thanks for your help all, but it is indeed working now (the FTP that is). I had a Getright DL list. I had edited it to about 1000's disks - the best of the collection I have on floppy (ok there were some disks I wanted but never could get back then !!). It's fixed itself, I think it was a server problem - either their server or one between their server and my comp, the traceroute was very very slow & had high packet loss.

09 January 2002, 14:23	#11
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	Well @andreas, think you´re out of luck, I just tried it that way, and I cannot even establish any connection and ping to that site gives absolutely no reply

09 January 2002, 17:08	#12
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Yeah I noticed that too but there were no timeouts which is the real indicator, at least my tracert didn't show any.

09 January 2002, 20:15	#14
birdy-scc Banned Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Glasgow Posts: 231	As long as you set the maximum downloads to one at a time you should be ok using Getright or Flashget.

10 January 2002, 00:55	#17
Ian Global Moderator Join Date: May 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 46 Posts: 2,287	Aceroms is now fully operational again. As I said in a previous thread, the FTP being down is a usual occurrence, normally at least once a week it happens. This is probably to allow them to update it and such like. As too the actual web site, maybe someone forgot to dot the i or cross the t in the HTML code and it buggered it up, anyway all is fixed now. As far as Aceroms is concerned, I can only advise you of one thing and that’s patience. If it's down try it again a day or two later because if we carry on as we are, soon there will be hundreds of threads all covering exactly the same thing that this one covers. (ie Day one: It's not working, day two: It's back up again)

10 January 2002, 01:00	#18
oldpx Posts: n/a	heh we all panic quite easily don't we. let's just rename this thread next time it goes down and rename it back to normal when it's fixed

10 January 2002, 06:41	#19
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	That's got my vote Burseg

12 January 2002, 04:14	#20
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Hmm, yesterday and today I seem to be having issues d/l from Aceroms again. Strange however as I can copy/paste the link into another browser window and some of the files will d/l while others will just return a cannot display window error

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