Temple Termagant
Posts: 14
Joined: Friday, 10th February 2017, 22:33
The Trunk builds archive is not complete.
Devs, thank you so much for having a trunk builds archive, but I have one somewhat tiny request.
Apparently, trunk builds started back somewhere around 0.5. I put the trunk builds archive link into Wayback Machine a while back, and it was a treasure trove of builds to explore!
However, robots.txt decided to come one day and be very irritating. Now, no matter what I do to this day, I cannot get into the website through the Wayback Machine.
I really want to try some old trunk builds, just to see what the devs were thinking of back then, but the trusty Wayback Machine is not being very nice. It would be very nice if whoever runs the builds archive website could put everything on that website, not just current builds back to 0.14 builds. Also, I would like to play the old release candidates for the versions such as 0.6 that were released before the official versions were.
Besides, without every version released back to the very beginning (0.1), the "archive" isn't very complete, is it?
I would love to play both old versions of the game and old trunk builds.
This is the website I am talking about: http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/archive.html
By the way, I have never run a website for archived versions of a game before, so I absolutely no idea how difficult it really is to pull this off.
I hope there is some sort of a way to get every single version ever released onto that website.
If there are any alternatives that still would have a 100% complete archive if there is no way to make the website complete, please reply!
Also, I don't know the reason for this archive being incomplete, so could anyone please inform me on this?
Thank you!