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Old 02-01-2011, 06:26 PM   #6
The Fifth Horseman
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Originally Posted by machpants View Post
I have the same problems with the gamebook files. I tried "the way of the tiger" and the "bloodsword" ones. I tried windows unzip and 7zip

Edit; if you extract with 7zip it extracts a file without a pdf extension (just says filetype=file) whether you manually add the pdf extension or not the reader cannot open it
It's a GZIP compressed archive containing the archive you were supposed to receive. I'm guessing your browser requested the data in GZIP-compressed form but didn't decompress them upon reception.
The file you extracted from it is the original archive. Change the extension to ZIP and unpack it to get yourself a working PDF.

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Originally Posted by jeremytheclimber View Post
The 2 games I've tried so far are Ultima V and Arkanoid. I uploaded files to mediafire as requested Horseman.
I'm going to try a few others today and see what I get. Hopefully its something I'm doing that's easy to fix, I'm super psyched to find the Ultimas again!
The files aren't corrupted as much as cut off. Probably a connection error interrupted the download - it happens (modem? wireless? busy network? lots of network traffic between your PC and the rest of the network?). Redownload the games. The problem shouldn't repeat - if it does, report it here.
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