1.1 - Did someone say "pinball archive?"
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This article is from the General Pinball FAQ, by Keith Johnson keefer@access.digex.net with numerous contributions by others.
1.1 - Did someone say "pinball archive?"
Sure enough. We have our own dedicated rgp pinball archive, maintained by
Kevin Martin. It can be reached on the WWW at:
URL: http://www.pinball.org/
It can also be reached via FTP at:
Host: ftp.pinball.org
Directory: /pinball
However, due to many reasons, pinball.org has been non-existent for quite
awhile. If you stop by, you'll see a message promising it's coming soon,
really. Keep the faith, it should be there soon. HOWEVER, most of the
paths given in this document are still valid. So, for example, in question
3.4 it gives the file /Binaries/Images/ds_bb.gif. You can convert that to
http://www.pinball.org/Binaries/Images/ds_bb.gif and retrieve the image. So
disregard the rest of this question for now, it should be useful again pretty
soon...
It would be nice for everyone if you would check here first to see if what
you need is here before posting "Does anyone have rules for _____" messages
to the Net. If what you want isn't here, then make a request and more than
likely someone will be able to provide you with something. And in the
process, it makes the archive even bigger, which makes Kevin happy for a
couple of days. :)
In general, the WWW interface is much better, especially for beginners.
For FTP access, simply FTP to this site, login as anonymous and send your
e-mail address as your password, same as any other anon-FTP site.
If you're unfamiliar with FTP, basically what you would type is this:
% ftp ftp.pinball.org
username: anonymous
password: (type your email address)
[some welcome messages appear here]
ftp>cd /pinball
When here, you should grab the README file which describes the archive and
its mirrors and provides some helpful information for getting files from the
archive. Also, the Listing file provides a description of every single file
currently in the archive. Also, you can get the Latest file if you've been
here before to get the list of recent changes/additions to the archive. Both
of these are in the pinball archive root directory. From there, there are a
lot of other directories such as Rules (which contains all the rules sheets
written so far). Visit it, it's worth it!
-- Thanks to Dave Stewart <dstewart@eng.umd.edu> for suggestions.
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