Author Topic: A large war game (Read 3349 times)

sandbox · « **on:** July 29, 2003, 11:12:24 PM »

I was asked to download this file, which I did a few weeks back for a kid who likes to play games. I was told it's a pretty good one for OSX only. Version tracker had it for free at one time, I see that it's $5 now. But $5 bucks is OK if the game is worth it they tell me.

http://www.americasarmy.com/

gmann · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2003, 01:03:50 AM »

I bought the CD PC version a while back and gave it away, I thought I was getting the Mac version. I went to this site and after giving all of my info I found out it was download only. No way on a dialup. Perhaps they will put it on a Mac CD eventually.

Al · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2003, 05:04:40 AM »

Hey, that's a neat game, SB. Pretty steep requirement for what I have.

Even thou, I downloaded it and gave it a try. And again I say, pretty steep requirements for what I have....lol.... It worked, but slowly and grainy.

Will save it for one day when I have something fast enough.

bil207 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2003, 06:25:23 AM »

I believe that they are charging the $5.00 for bandwith. There are several sites that where AA is availible as a free download. You can get it for free at 3D Gamers.

Gary S · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2003, 09:00:40 AM »

My son and i tried to download it yesterday from 3D gamer, MacGameflies and it was corrupt. Took nearly 2 hours on cable. It takes up 1 gig of space on the HDD! That paid d/l from the Army is supposed to be a faster d/l. I don't know if were gonna waist the time though.

sandbox · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2003, 11:13:33 AM »

I don’t have the equipment to play it, all I did was download it. I know folks out there in TSLand like games so I just thought I’d point it out. My take on it was it’s a point and shoot thingy and it worked slowly even on a Quicksilver with the best video card on the market. I watch about 2 minutes of it and had enough.

Al · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2003, 12:19:04 PM »

Hi Gary,

I downloaded it from versiontracker yesterday @ 130KB/s took about 30 minutes or so via cable and I didn't have to pay.

The file worked fine, try it from there.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo...fo/macosx/20273

btw, anybody, the file came in as a bz2 file, what a bz2 file? Stuffit knew what it was.

kelly · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2003, 07:47:24 PM »

It's been out on the PC since forever.

Just another Online First Person Military Shooter.

Only it happens to be made by Uncle Sam as a recruiting tool.

Caused one of the bigger Comment Threads when it was announced.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/17/army/

sandbox · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2003, 12:35:40 AM »

Hey Al, that’s where I got mine! DSL Max 48KB/S averaged about 40KB/s and about 134 min. I went to a friends today and downloaded it on his cable Max 127/kb/s averaged less than 100kb/s download took 65 min.

Thanks for the link Kelly, I was hesitant to post it at first, hoping it wouldn’t cause a fuss. I wondered why it was free? I don’t have games so I’m in the dark there and when it looked like a amusement park video I just took a walk.
If it wasn’t for the download request I wouldn’t know it existed.
I prefer the local shooting gallery myself, though it’s been a while since I’ve visited.

gmann · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2003, 03:11:24 PM »

14 hrs latter and ONLY 90 MB to go. 4.5kps is very painfull.

sandbox · « **Reply #10 on:** July 31, 2003, 03:32:28 PM »

I figured it would be an 18 hour dialup download, your in the right ballpark.

Peter · « **Reply #11 on:** July 31, 2003, 05:35:38 PM »

QUOTE(gmann @ Jul 31 2003, 8:11 PM)

14 hrs latter and ONLY 90 MB to go. 4.5kps is very painfull.

Count yourself lucky- We almost never get over 3 kbps download, and average 2.5 on most days.

SB- you downloaded it- would it work on an eMac G4 700Mhz?

if so, would you compress it, and send me a copy please?

BUT NOT BY EMAIL!!!

Thanks

Peter

swhitset · « **Reply #12 on:** July 31, 2003, 06:43:26 PM »

Peter,

The download is already compressed. It is something like 300-400 MB to download, but it expands to something like a Gigabyte. I am trying it out on an 800 Mhz FP imac. I have the original so.. only the GeForce 2Mx graphics card. You might have the 4Mx? anyway, I will let you know how well it works.

Steve

gmann · « **Reply #13 on:** July 31, 2003, 09:20:18 PM »

Well after 19 hrs, download manager showed a complete download at 306.7 MB out of 351 MB. Apparently a large number of packet losses. I used Stuffit to expand and it pin wheeled at 5 seconds short of completion. I ran the process twice with the same results. Lesson learned.

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Author Topic: A large war game (Read 3349 times)