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Legacy_lunchbasket

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We need help obtaining Neverwinter Nights Linux-specific files.
« on: October 30, 2014, 01:30:16 am »


               

About a month or so ago, roadrunner shut down their services or something else happened. That doesn't matter. What matters is that a webpage hosted a few packages that fixed functionality in running that game natively on Linux. It was used in many a tutorial from years ago up until today. It appears that it was not mirrored anywhere else. So its sudden disappearance is a bit of a concern for having a good experience running NWN on Linux. There are three files needed, and I have managed to score one of them (nwmovies-latest.tar.gz).


The two files missing are:


nwlinux-beta.tar.bz2

md5: 3961f7464d3d5b7ac9f097aa9aa2f4d3


cursors.tar.gz

md5: 7be935418f0ececb5660f53b7a902b38


The website that no longer exists is: 


http://home.roadrunner.com/~nwmovies


You can see how they fit in to an Arch AUR package here: https://aur.archlinu...ckages/nwn-gog/


I and a few others have tried to find those packages all over the net.


Things we know:


1) There is a wayback machine copy of the site from some years ago - the versions on there are much older than the ones we now depend on. The md5sums are a good indicator if these are the right files.

2) There is a torrent floating around with a Linux version that includes the nwmovies-latest.tar.gz file - that's where we found the 1/3 files needed.


So, the question is ultimately: Does anyone happen to have an archive of these files sitting on a hard drive somewhere? You're our only hope.



               
               

               
            

Legacy_Skildron

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We need help obtaining Neverwinter Nights Linux-specific files.
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 02:46:05 pm »


               

I have all those files archived on my hard drive. If you have an E-Mail-Account that handles attachments of about 400KB, I could send them to you. Above that, I will try and contact David Holland and ask him what happened to his nwmovies site.


 


 


Edit: David told me he uploaded all nwlinux stuff here:


 


http://github.com/nwnlinux


 


There even is an updated version of nwuser that never made it on the previous download site.


 


Greetings


Skildron