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What's with the Internet Archive?
kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007

I probably don't have to tell you how much of a fan of Temporal I am. I still recommend it whenever I have a chance so when the official website became inaccessible I used an old version of it in the Internet Archive to provide a download link. Yes, there was a number of archived copies in the Internet Archive; now, however, it says that the Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt so when the page is dead and the domain on sale you also can't see older versions of it! doesn't that kill the very basic idea of having an internet archive at all?.

Well, rant apart, I'm now uploading the latest version of the game to my Google drive since even on the Depot page the author didn't provide a download link.

Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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A quick google for "renboy temporal game" revealed this mirror:
http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f3549.html

I haven't tested if their download actually works. :P

Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000

To be honest, it sounds like a bug - they didn't deliberately design it that way. Have you tried contacting them and suggesting the improvement? :)

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kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007

Thanks Dennis. The download link works, it's not the latest version but it doesn't really make that much of a difference now that the site is down.

To be honest, it sounds like a bug

Hmm, yeah, could be. I'll see if there's a way to contact them. Thanks.

raynebc
Member #11,908
May 2010

Robots.txt is a mechanism used by websites to declare that they don't want to be mirrored/archived/etc. in any automated fashion. I've used at lease one command line utility that creates a local mirror of a website that honors this, I can't remember if it had the option to override it.

Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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They do honor robots.txt on purpose. But I'm not sure they can account for sites that have been recently locked down by a different owner.

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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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If you provide a link to the game, I will attach it to the Depot page.

kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007

Thanks Matthew, that would be nice.

I uploaded the latest version here hoping that people would know that they have to download the .zip and not just the .exe (I don't get the Google Docs format for uploaded .zip files). I don't know of any other place hosting the latest version.

Todd Cope
Member #998
November 2000
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I put up a copy on my site. Here is the link.

kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007

Todd Cope said:

I put up a copy on my site.

Thanks. Matthew already put a copy on the Depot page of the game, too.

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