VMWare Player may be a solution to the editor crashing

[dmpdesign]

oh eboots are ps1 games formatted to play on the psp hehe. ‎  I had about 100 gig of them ‎  uploaded for archiving on my webspace.

the windows xp vmware file is around 4gig.

[Holy_Diver]

Wow you have some serious space to work with... what is your hosting cost per year? You have like an entire harddrive to yourself!

Then I will definitely have to remote download that file. I will try to figure out how to limit the download rate via wget, but forgive me if you get another nasty email...

[Holy_Diver]

I'm remote downloading the main file at 56KB (limited from 130KB) ...eta 22+hrs. Did it ever cross your mind to compress the 4GB file btw?

[dmpdesign]

It did, unfortunately I am not the one who uploaded it, a guy from work did.

Now the process of zipping it would be to reupload it hehe..since i figure youre probably the only one who will download it, it will raise less of a stink with ipower to just leave it as is.

i have 1500 gig of space or some assanine amount to keep my files on btw.

[Holy_Diver]

1500 Gigs is a lot of space (to me at least) ...I'm just curious what your bill is (PM me if you don't mind/don't wanna say) ...if it's in the 100$ a year ballpark (about what most sites like this take to keep afloat) then that's almost worth the harddrive space alone (except they bitch if you transfer too much at a time)

Some other stuff about the host I can see from the control panel bothers me and the pages seem to load a bit slow, but anyway, I am a little curious about your plan. I'm always in the market for a remote host for different projects and stuff, but for the last few years it's never seemed worth the money, or there are always way more there than I need, or not enough features, etcetera. So I usually just stick with inhouse servers. I've never really needed a ton of public bandwidth (yet)

[dmpdesign]

I pay 5.95 a month hehe.

They advertise it on the main page as the pro plan (ipower.com)

There is some bullshit in their advertising though, notice the 'unlimited bandwidth' feature they advertise :P

I cant complain though, 5.95 a month is retardedly cheap for what I have.

[Holy_Diver]

I have the server image on my Vista machine (I think in one piece) ...it's just a matter of time until I get around with playing with it.

I feel bad about not working more with my project. What I need to be doing is placing monsters and adjusting their stats. If anyone wants to do this for the demo maps, I'd be happy to freeze their development and let others set up the monsters/playtest it. That would give me a chance to maybe start looking at later maps. I'd really like to see this evolve into a team effort, though I realize SoM is not exactly team friendly.

I'm pretty sure I have all the monster types picked out per map. So that it's just a matter of placing them / tweaking the stats. The monster I've selected for each map are generally different from o.g. Diadem of Maunstraut. So the job should be interesting at least.

[Holy_Diver]

Crud, my 4GB file is corrupted after download. This always happens for me with files this size. There's gotta be a better way to manage large files for download. I'm thinking multiple files like with .rar and checksums for each file. I was really looking forward to this

PS: Did you download the file on the server Todd and try it -- to make sure it's good? I'm pretty sure you have from your language, but just a thought / to be sure. In general however I don't think it's safe to download files this size in one piece.

[dmpdesign]

I have downloaded it, but I will do as you suggest and upload a .rar set instead this week.

Basically how I use the vmware is I just install SOM on the virtual machine and map a network drive to the pc hard drive where the project files exist. ‎  You could modify the registry to run SOM across the network but I find it runs faster if you install it with all the files on the local VMware drive.

It works pretty well.

[Holy_Diver]

I know you have a lot on your plate, but did you ever look into breaking up the big file?

Rar is probably not the best way to go. I'm sure there are great programs that will split any file up and generate a checksum list and checksum checker all in one fell swoop. But I've yet to need to use one, soo (though technically I guess I'm needing you to use one )