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30/03/2008 - Air Havoc Controller Revisited

I noticed a few months ago that Conspiracy has ended up on other abandonware sites. I'm all for the sharing of games, but it takes the piss a bit where you get a somewhat rare game up, then within a couple of months, it's not rare anymore.

Well, anyway, an awesome fellow who goes by the name of Thomusic sent me the full NRG image of Air Havoc Controller. He isn't very talkative. All he said was "i have", with "air havoc" as the subject. I said thanks and stuff, but he didn't respond. I've converted it to an ISO file for compatibility with non-Nero burning software.

Since I'm on Vista x64 and can't run 16bit applications (boo), could someone grab it and let me know if it's all in working order, virus free, etc.? Thanks.

I'd also like to make a huge shout out to the guy who runs Abandonware DOS, as it's the best new site I've seen in ages. He seems like a nice guy, too. Download Bloodnet off him, because it is an awesome game that I should have up here by now. I usually add it. Hmm...

-- Knyght


09/12/2007 - Fun with the UNIX command line

I was wondering how many people had downloaded stuff from anarchy, and since I don't track this in any way, was a bit perplexed at how to find out.

So I just grep'd through lighttpd's access log, and piped it into wc -l to count the number of lines (and thus the number of downloads). So first, I found out how far back my logs go:

root@c0ck:/var/log# head -1 access.log
*.*.*.* www.c0ck.org - [29/Apr/2007:18:33:36 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403
345 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3)
Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3"

Or in English: Around half six PM on the 29th of April, 2007. Then, for example to find out how many people have downloaded Dune since then:

root@c0ck:/var/log# grep "downloads/dune.exe" access.log | wc -l
81

UNIX is fun. From least to most, then, my downloads. Generally, lower numbers were added later and thus people have had less chance to leech them. Also, Darklands for example has actually only been downloaded once, because one of those times was me testing the links. Also things like people resuming downloads or whatever will mean they are not 100% accurate.

In reverse order:

That's a total of 359 downloads, and just to prove it:

root@c0ck:/var/log# grep "downloads/.*.exe" access.log | wc -l
359

Also, I'm very glad that the walkthroughs I made for Dune and KGB have been downloaded a total of 174 times - 80 for KGB, 94 for Dune - as they took bloody ages to write up. I hope you appreciated them :)

-- Knyght


07/12/2007 - Darklands

I added Darklands today because it's really really good (ok, the real reason is that I didn't have any RPGs on the site and I already had this on my hard drive, because it's really really good). I think you should download it and play it.

Oh, and this is also to prove that you can keep on top of your abandonware site and have a life, too. Not just to get me in Bunny's pants. That's just a bonus. A very nice bonus. Ok, maybe that's the real reason and the bonus is showing that it's possible to have a life and update yer site, you lazy bastards.

I currently have some ideas flowing around my brain. Maybe they'll turn into something tangible. Or maybe not :D

Oh, and Piney Gir rules.

-- Knyght


04/12/2007 - Terra Nova

Bunny - who is so much more determined than me to keep her rather excellent site maintained, as well as Abandoned Places - said we should have sex next time she's in Europe in exchange for me updating anarchy once in a while. That seems like a fair deal to me.

I've added the full CD of Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, an awesome power-armour game. That should be a good way to show my appreciation.

Hopefully I'll keep on top of things and update a bit more often :)

-- Knyght


29/04/2007 - New URL

Finally got around to getting a proper URL sorted (it's been what, 8 months?) after registering a new domain and migrating from apache to lighttpd (which I suggest most anyone with a webserver do). Anyway, the old URL no longer works, it just points straight to c0ck.org now (which currently does nothing).

I also removed the TART link since they no longer exist. I'll try to add a new game soon, but I promise nothing as I've got a few other c0ck.org projects being worked on and a busy (not partciularly in a good way :() life.

-- Knyght


08/10/2006 - KGB

I've added KGB, as well as it's re-released CD version, Conspiracy. I'd recommend saving me some bandwidth and just getting KGB though.

Oh, and I wrote a walkthrough for it, too, which again, took bloody ages to write up.

-- Knyght


05/10/2006 - Blockade

I've added Blockade, an old shareware game. It's good, go look at it.

Also, I wonder where the spirit of the community went? It barely exists anymore, everywhere seems to have their own community. I'm not sure I agree with it. I'd like to tackle this, but I wouldn't know how. Suggestions?

-- Knyght


04/10/2006 - Air Havoc Controller

Hi there, I've added Air Havoc Controller - rather obviously, an air traffic control game. Check it out.

-- Knyght


01/10/2006 - News

Not much of an update today, but I've added a link to the Dune manual, and I've written up a walkthrough (that took me ages so be grateful).

I've also refactored the code a little and enabled gzip compression, so it should be a bit faster for those on slower connections.

-- Knyght


29/09/2006 - Welcome

Looks like I'm back. I've had some extra time available, so here I am. While I can't promise that anarchy won't end up like BSOD gaming and Divide by Zero - entirely forgotten about in a week or so - I will try to keep it updated as often as possible with new (old!) games.

The focus of the anarchy has changed with this incarnation (it had none before), so please be sure to check out the about page. Also, you might note that the faq is rather empty, having not been asked anything yet, so please contact me if you have any questions (hyperlinks ahoy!).

Also, I apologise for the lack of domain name. I'm penniless. I'll get one sorted out in the next few weeks. I won't be adding any more games for a few days, either, since I need to refactor a lot of the code, because it, uh, sucks. Sucks real hard.

-- Knyght


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