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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/20/2021 5:44:32 PM

RyanCrierie

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So whatever happened to all the data?

Someone got a partial (1,449 files saved out of 4,833 files) dump here:

https://archive.org/details/WargamerGamesDepotArchive20160514.tar

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This is my attempt (as of 2016-05-14) to archive the 4833 computer wargame scenarios hosted at the Wargamer's Games Depot and at high risk of being lost. I was able to archive all of the metadata but only 1449 of the scenario files--the rest seem to be already missing.

The 1449 scenarios in this pack cover 71 different computer wargames. These are the most common:
Steel Panthers: World at War (528 scenarios)
Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank (127 scenarios)
The Operational Art of War: Century of Warfare (109 scenarios)
Age of Rifles (84 scenarios

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/21/2021 2:03:56 PM

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the latest owners of "the wargamer" have pretty much abandoned any pretense that they actually care about wargaming, and now that we're about 4 content migrations into site rebuilds, they've pretty much sh!t-canned any of their pre-2010 archives.

anything you wanted from the Wargamer.com glory days is gone, and at best you might find some partial data archived at The Wayback Machine

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/21/2021 8:43:23 PM

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Hello,

I'm not sure if I may point you to a different website here. But there is a side which has a lot of the existing steel panthers and TOAW:

https://www.alternatewars.com/Games/Games.htm

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Hapshott

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/21/2021 8:43:58 PM

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/28/2021 9:40:36 PM

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I've had time to actually go through the metadata and match it with valid ZIP files:

https://archive.org/details/WargamerGamesDepotArchive20160514.tar

SP1: 577 items, 2 saved (below 1%) -- NOTE this has some SP2 stuff, due to poor organization
SP2: 317 items, 1 saved (below 1%)
SP3: 11 items, 11 saved (100%)
SPWAW: 626 items, 536 saved (85%)
SPWW2: 106 items, 0 saved (0%)
SPMBT: 199 items, 130 saved (65%)

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 4/29/2021 1:18:20 AM

RyanCrierie

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I managed to rip a lot of stuff from old internet archive copies of the Wargamer's Scenario Depot today using a site downloader:

LINK to main page

LINK showing everything inside it

I managed to recover:

SPWAW: 496
SPWW2: 61
SPMBT: 124
SP2: 1

The reason for the distribution is I think rather simple:

Internet Archive (and others) chose what to save based on popularity -- the more people downloaded something, the more likely it was to be saved.

In the early 2000s; running DOS was becoming harder and harder -- DOSBOX wouldn't come out until January 2002; so SPWAW was more popular at the time; since it was a native Win9x app.

So all the SP1 and SP2 scenarios were not archived because at the time, nobody was playing them.

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 5/2/2021 12:44:37 AM

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RE: Wargamer.com Games Depot - Where is it? - 11/15/2021 6:15:21 PM

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Dear God, I'm not sure if you are still doing this, but you are doing literal Divine Work. Thank you so much for that. And please keep up the good work.

(Sorry for the thread res, but I figure it is worth it.)

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