I thought ... I'll triple-check.Indeed! Despite both Edge and FireFox "eating" chunks of my bookmarks over many moons, I've managed to cobble some back together.
PS - About a 12 hr. delay in posting.
Identifying Lost Mods
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I thought ... I'll triple-check.PS - About a 12 hr. delay in posting.
@jarred! you're getting good at rescues so this project might interest you. As you'll see in the OP @Quintillus started 2 spreadsheets (links in OP) with detected broken Civ3 downloads and fixed a few. Then he went on holiday for a bit and I got stuck into it rescuing some more. Other's offered help and then it kind of got forgotten about as we all got busy lol! However the spreadsheets are still there for you or anyone else interested in helping to restore lost mods.
On a side note if we can eventually kick off the idea of putting bulk Civ3 mod collections onto webarchive then what's cool is that you can view inside zip archives and select some of the individual files (ie mod zips) inside it and even get links to them such as what Jarred and I have been doing with the Atomic Gamer trick. So in theory some of these broken links listed in the spreadsheets could be replaced with links to copies of the mod inside the bulk collections.
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On a side note if we can eventually kick off the idea of putting bulk Civ3 mod collections onto webarchive then what's cool is that you can view inside zip archives and select some of the individual files (ie mod zips) inside it and even get links to them such as what Jarred and I have been doing with the Atomic Gamer trick. So in theory some of these broken links listed in the spreadsheets could be replaced with links to copies of the mod inside the bulk collections.
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Cheers! Odds are you may have already fixed some in the lists anyway as that's what I discovered when I checked all my existing rescues against it heh.
Oh and I should say if you have done or will do rescues in any threads that I'm not already in then keep tagging me as you have been, as a moderator will need to update the authors post to redirect them from the dead link or dodgy squatter site to your post with the download instructions. Then they truly are fixed in these spreadsheet lists.
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Oh and I should say if you have done or will do rescues in any threads that I'm not already in then keep tagging me as you have been, as a moderator will need to update the authors post to redirect them from the dead link or dodgy squatter site to your post with the download instructions. Then they truly are fixed in these spreadsheet lists.
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A useful link I found, I'm posting it here for the future https://web.archive.org/web/20080516063246/http://www.atomicgamer.com/gameModifications.php?id=102
^civ3 link there has both modpacks and scenarios that can be saved
Also, I didn't know 3ddownloads became AtomicGamer. Des this mean broken 3ddownloads links might be available in the AtomicGamer backups?
^civ3 link there has both modpacks and scenarios that can be saved
Also, I didn't know 3ddownloads became AtomicGamer. Des this mean broken 3ddownloads links might be available in the AtomicGamer backups?
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Oh wow.. you found the directories.. this will be very useful for Civ3 rescues! And there's a ton of Civ2 stuff in there too! I'll have to go through it for my Civ2 mods preservation project and add it to the Civ2 lost websites cataloging too. Thanks heaps! 
EDIT: Darn.. the Civ2 downloads fail and because they're all dated 2001 I doubt I'll be able to find the archive file (using our usual trick) all these downloads ended up in as they only back to 2007.
I didn't realize they merged into them either. I guess it's possible then.
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EDIT: Darn.. the Civ2 downloads fail and because they're all dated 2001 I doubt I'll be able to find the archive file (using our usual trick) all these downloads ended up in as they only back to 2007.I didn't realize they merged into them either. I guess it's possible then.
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I've added links to the AtomicGamer spreadsheets. Can't remember why I didn't three years ago, I think at the time the focus was on the other ones. But they should all be visible now. The offer continues to add more people as editors, with jarred! now being one as well. I don't think I can set the whole Internet as an editor.
Ahh I forgot about the other 2. Makes sense as I remember doing a lot more work than what I was seeing in the first 2 lol.
EDIT: Just found these sites hosting a few Civ3 mods..
https://www.gamefront.com/games/civ...ED_AT&direction=DESC&search=&category_id=7501
https://www.lonebullet.com/mods/g/civilization-3-mods-469.htm
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So, I did a lot of searching around today and did quite a bit of editing to the non-AtomicGamer Scenarios sheet. There's a lot of missing files. But, I did find some on InternetArchive and others were reposted later in the thread, so there were some finds, too.
I spent some time trying to find 3ddownloads' files since they became AtomicGamer and the old 3ddownloads files were available there at some point (https://web.archive.org/web/20080516063246/http://www.atomicgamer.com/gameModifications.php?id=102). While searching I found this archive: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_atomicgamer. It wasn't useful and it's more difficult to search through and all the archives are BIG but it exists, so I wanted to share it.
How I did end up finding the 3ddowloads files was pretty straight forward. I arranged the files in the usual backup by name which is essentially by date for these: https://archive.org/details/atomicgamer?page=47&sort=title. I scrolled to the bottom to see what was after the dated files and BAM there are backups by genre and from some other sites. So I look into the strategy backup to find civ3: https://ia601303.us.archive.org/vie...r_Strategy.1of4/AtomicGamer_Strategy.1of4.tar
and there's them.
So, I did a lot of searching around today and did quite a bit of editing to the non-AtomicGamer Scenarios sheet. There's a lot of missing files. But, I did find some on InternetArchive and others were reposted later in the thread, so there were some finds, too.
I spent some time trying to find 3ddownloads' files since they became AtomicGamer and the old 3ddownloads files were available there at some point (https://web.archive.org/web/20080516063246/http://www.atomicgamer.com/gameModifications.php?id=102). While searching I found this archive: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_atomicgamer. It wasn't useful and it's more difficult to search through and all the archives are BIG but it exists, so I wanted to share it.
How I did end up finding the 3ddowloads files was pretty straight forward. I arranged the files in the usual backup by name which is essentially by date for these: https://archive.org/details/atomicgamer?page=47&sort=title. I scrolled to the bottom to see what was after the dated files and BAM there are backups by genre and from some other sites. So I look into the strategy backup to find civ3: https://ia601303.us.archive.org/vie...r_Strategy.1of4/AtomicGamer_Strategy.1of4.tar
and there's them.
To me, the AG files all should be findable by someone who knows how and where to look and are archived somewhere that should exist for the medium-term. The non-AG files are most likely missing for real and need to be restored by another forum member, which is a much more time-sensitive endeavor as old timers stop logging in or pass away. Makes sense to focus efforts there first.
Well done, I looked at the 4 spreadsheets and you've smashed a tone of them, great work! @Quintillus will be happy! Thank you!
That's interesting, I was not aware of the Atomic Meltdown backup collection, I wonder what differences there are in its content versus the final backup collection we've been using these last years (ie same stuff but organised different or unique content not in the final backup?).
I was aware of the non-dated atomic backups in the final collection though as there's a CivFanatics one, as you mentioned the 4 strategy ones, and a few others ones of interest all of which I sifted through a number of years ago (before this project I think so god knows where my posts are about it haha). However I didn't realise the 4 strategy one included the older missing 3D downloads, that's good then.
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That's interesting, I was not aware of the Atomic Meltdown backup collection, I wonder what differences there are in its content versus the final backup collection we've been using these last years (ie same stuff but organised different or unique content not in the final backup?).
I was aware of the non-dated atomic backups in the final collection though as there's a CivFanatics one, as you mentioned the 4 strategy ones, and a few others ones of interest all of which I sifted through a number of years ago (before this project I think so god knows where my posts are about it haha). However I didn't realise the 4 strategy one included the older missing 3D downloads, that's good then.
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