8-Bit Theater eBooks (PDF)

[sircrowbar]

Once again - eBook archives of the 8-bit Theater are online!!

I will post links with the torrent files on wendsday (01/28/04)

1, 2, 3 & the all new 3.75

Attached is a zip file with 4 torrent files, one for each archive.

[Introduction]

Thumbs up!

EDIT: A little slow loading...

[transcend]

Yay! Crowbar, you are again our savior. Thanks for moving these over.

[Kurosen]

Are these torrent links ready to post on the main site for everyone who missed it the first time (and for those wanting 3.5)?

[sircrowbar]

I am happy to see such a quick responce!

As far a the slow loading time, the only way to change that is to reduce the number of pictures in the files. I asked arround, and most people prefered the 100 episode count for each book. I normally do not make them that large, but there were alot of episodes to archive. Anyways.....

I am glad everyone is enjoying them!

[sircrowbar]

They are up and running, and have 4 trackers registered. I would prefer to remake the torrents with the newer "unencriped" eBooks before they go public.

Give me about 15 minutes....

[Sakae]

Awesome! Now I've got my own archive on my HD.

[sircrowbar]

The torrents have been updated, and ready to go public!!

(I do not have permission to post the web links publickly, but I can ask for it)

[Evil Black Mage]

yay/thanks/cookie!

[Sunflare]

Don't forget to warn me when you finish the 301-400 pdf, so I can put it with the others on the website :D

[stuper of thought]

does anybody think that there should be another mirror in case there's something going on with the above links?

[Viper Daimao]

just use the torrent. the more people the better

[stuper of thought]

just curious cause you never know what'll happen.

[sircrowbar]

redunancy is always a good thing, but the torrents will be seeded at leased by me for as long as there is interest in the files.....

[stuper of thought]

so you're saying that you're indifferent about it?

[sircrowbar]

I work on the net, so I am well aware of it's constant state of change.... so as far as how people downlad a file can change litterally on an hourly bassis.

Yes, I am indifferent. Ony due to my exeperiences with file sharing....

[stuper of thought]

got a mirrior with the pdf's setup at www.freehomepages.com/superdogman/. however, the files are zipped right now and are called 100, 200 and 300.

oh, one other thing, the ones i uploaded have all of the extras plus i them made with acrobat 5 so i'm not sure if it'll work with all of the older readers but i do know that it'll work with acrobat reader 4.

[sircrowbar]

that is cool with me.... thank you for the support!!

** Update **

[url]www.freehompages.com/superdogman/[/url

I checked the link, and it is already dead.....

[stuper of thought]

got it fixed. i left out an e after home so that may have been why it didn't work.

[sircrowbar]

cool, it works great now..... I would put up some kind of decoy front page to keep the "bots" from erasing your website.... (has hapened to me before)

[stuper of thought]

what would you suggest as a decoy front page?

[Tark]

heheh i just shared them with my entire reznet lan, im gonna get everyone hooked on 8bt!

thx for having the files as well as the torrents, useful for peeps without a compatible client.


for a good client try shareaza 1.9, it searches eMule and Gnutella 1 and 2 as well as torrents.

http://www.shareaza.com/

heh, im running my old pc as a web server, anyone messes with it and i can charge them with trespassing and/or invasion of privacy....suckaz!

[sircrowbar]

what would you suggest as a decoy front page?

My favorite is a braging page.... I beat Final Fantasy IV in 6h 14m.

It is easy to grab a few screen shots for any game on the net...

Pick one, make up some crap, and make it look like it has a reason for being there.

Or just copy someones homepage and repost it...

[Hannibal_]

Yo these pdfs are COOL Man ! Thx ;) :)

[sircrowbar]

you are very welcome!!

[Codemonkey85]

First of all, thank you very much sircrowbar for being wonderful enough to grant us these archives!

Now, I have a question... I wanted to download them with Bittorrent, but I can't get it to work (presumably due to my firewall). I looked on the internet forever, and I know that I have to open ports on the firewall (6881-6889 I think), but I have absolutely no clue whatsoever how to do that. And like I said, I've been looking on the internet forever.

Long story short, how do I get Bittorrent to work with a firewall?

[Cow Bell Man]

Keen! Now I can save them on my hard drive and save up some internet time. Thanks. ^_^

[Quackzilla]

wtf! no workingness!

[Maester Danron]

whenever i click on the torrent link it says that the website isnt responding and whenever i click on the web link it comes up with sum french page!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Quackzilla]

actually, the french page is a lycos host page, where free (lycos) web sites go when they die

[Maester Danron]

i found a torrent and i was woundering how u run them??????????

[lymerion]

You need to download Bittorrent. Go here.
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html

[Dauntilus]

Both the first set of links and www.freehomepages.com/superdogman/ do not work for me. The first set give me a french site, and the superdogman link gives me a error 404 file not found. I can not do bittorrent because of my firewall, so is there any other way I can get the pdfs?

[Quackzilla]

i found a torrent and i was woundering how u run them??????????

Thanks for telling us where you found it.

[natowarhead]

the torrent links keep telling me there is no page and the pdf links always give me lycos... french style.

[sircrowbar]

I finally got around to creating a stable torrent tracker, it is on a dedicated server that is up 24/7 and has a 100 mbit connection!!

Happy leaching!!

(links will be updated tomarrow)

[Quackzilla]

cool

you > [some witty comment in the form of a single noun with relevance to the current circumstances]

[sircrowbar]

Untill I have a webspace setup, you can get the torrent files from www.suprnova.org or from PhoenixTorrents (http://www.phoenix-torrents.com/index.php?showtopic=9001)

-- or --

I have attached a zip file on the fist post in this thread!

[Mike McC]

Keen. Perhaps Kuro should do something along the lines of an official announcement about these, hmmm?

[tyr888]

maybe someone can help me with this.

first, i want to say that it's wonderful that someone did this.

thanks.

anyway.

i downloaded shareaza as someone posted that they thought it was ok.

i download the zip files, which are just shortcuts, far as i can tell.

downloaded book 1.

have adobe reader 5.1.0, but it can't decrypt the file.

can someone help me view the book?

[lymerion]

I had the same problem myself. You need Adobe Reader 6 to view the files.

[tyr888]

thanks a lot!

here's the link to adobe reader 6, a free download

Adobe Reader 6 (http://download.com.com/3000-2378-10000062.html)

[sircrowbar]

Wow, what a responce!!

#1 - Downloaded 141 times
#2 - Downloaded 86 times
#3 - Downloaded 88 times
#4 - Downloaded 87 times

I wounder if it will break the old reccords.....

[tyr888]

and, pray tell, what would the old records be?

[sircrowbar]

for the orriginal torrents, it was arround....

#1 - 300
#2 - 250
#3 - 250
#3.5 - 200

[tyr888]

oh, you mean since you put up zipped files?

[Quackzilla]

m3h, acrobat need to follow microsofts example and have optional automatic updates

by the way, thank you so much for the files, they are 4\/\/350/\/\3 (awesome)

[sircrowbar]

Crap....

It has been brought to my attention that the books 1-3 are encrypted.... The original books I made were pasword encrypted with the password "NuklearAge". I eventually replaced them with ones that were un-encrypted so the eBooks were easier to read in older versions of acrobat as well as 3rd party viewers. When I re-relesed the torrents, I must have used the wrong set.

To remove the encription simply pred 'Ctrl+D' and click set the security option to "No Security" and then 'Ctrl+S' to save it.

When book 4 is released I will change the torrents to include only the un-encrypted ones....

Sory about that guys, my bad.

[behemoth]

I personally think brian should put out 8 bit in paper form like monthly comic books. I know i would subscribe. 8 bit kicks ass

[tyr888]

i believe the upfront cost of making a comic, and the costs of production and delivery and such are quite high. not to mention, if he was to send them to people who
would 'subscribe'. if he sent them to retailers, it would be quite a large amount of the comics, and, honestly... every comic shop i see is always empty. if it was to single
subscribers through this site, i don't think sales would be high enough to support it well enough.

then, sadly, there is one last serious problem. people who don't pay. no matter how
good a group of people are, there will always be those that don't. that would require
getting people to call, collection agents and such. and involve paying THEM upfront
as well.

all in all, i would imagine there are way too many upfront costs, and no real way to be
definite that the sales themselves would be able to support it. if my predictions
happened to be right, that would result in price increases, to afford the mag itself.
at which point, there would likely be less people buying.

in my own opinion, i think the best thing would be to do it as it is being done now,
for as long as he decides to do it. yes, it WOULD be great, but i believe the cons
out-weigh the pros here.

not that it's any of my business, but i just thought i'd put in my profesional
opinion.

[sircrowbar]

the other "big" issue is that he would be infringing on Square-Enix (owners of Final Fantasy). They would want there cut too, not to mention editing rites. The would prob find a way to take the characters away from Brian as well.

Oh well - That is corperate business for you....

[tyr888]

yea, tha'ts true. but hey, tha'ts the way it all works. the game saved square, they
won't just drop it like that. but even if it was original characters, it would still face
all of the issues that i pointed out, and quite frankly, i would not face all those
hassles.

[Nakor]

Wow, that download was really fast! The second book was downloaded at over 1 Mb/s (1024kb/s)!

Although I just now realized that I had to update my reader . . . I thought it was supposed to automatically do that, but I just discovered to my displeasure that I'm a mile behind in updates -- I had version 4.0. >_<

Anyway, those are great! Thanks. :)

[sircrowbar]

Sweet!

Book one past the 400 mark last nite! - And it is STILL being downloaded!!

[Corneria Guard#4]

Um...I have win98 2 edition on my computer....would I be able to update Adobe to 5.0 and download it? Also, I use AOHELL and 56K. Please tell me I could d-load this easily....

[stuper of thought]

sorry but unless you can find it on kazaa, download.com or some archive on adobe's website, you'll have to update to 6.0. anyway, about the question, the best way is for someone who has broadband download it and burn it onto a cd for you unless you want to go through hell and try downloading it with what you have.

[sircrowbar]

Um...I have win98 2 edition on my computer....would I be able to update Adobe to 5.0 and download it? Also, I use AOHELL and 56K. Please tell me I could d-load this easily....

I can arange a direct file transfer or send it a peace at a time through email, but the best thing for you is to get the unincrypted versions (non pasword protected) as they can be opened in older versions of Acrobat.

[behemoth]

Umm... I have a solution to the square problem... if you brag them with fresh cherry pies, they might provide funding to put 8 bit into a monthly comic book subscription form... cuz pie is cool.

[sircrowbar]

Dude! - You need to run for president!! You've got my vote....

[Oda]

... Just...

[behemoth]

Oda is a geek *nod nod*

[Mashirosen]

Four page closing.