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Ooska
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How do I make a website that has .EXE downloads? Like a website where someone could download one of my games...

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Joe Cooning
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Upload your game to your server (preferably compressed in some way-like a .zip) and then use something like the code below in your html page (I'm assuming your using html).


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Ooska
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Hmmm. I dont know what you mean. I have a little Easy Designer Website. I can make a link to somewhere....

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Peter H
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you have to have a server that you get ftp access to, then you get a program like SmartFTP and "upload" the game to your server...

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Ooska
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OK, Ill do some research.

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Ooska
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Do any of you know of a good server that has ftp access?

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Peter H
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Posted: 9th Nov 2005 01:35 Edited at: 9th Nov 2005 01:36
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you would probably have to pay for one... (and usually the proccess of having "space" on a server that you can upload to is called "hosting")

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Ooska
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OH ok...I guess I just won't do that.

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Undercover Steve
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Why...14 years old? Dont mean to be anti-younglings, but when they start asking for free stuff....

free hosting is never free.
http://projectlance.net/beta/
hosting. Cheap. Your never to young (unless under 16 in the US) to get Hosting!
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Ooska
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Hey, I didnt know about all this server/space/hosting junk.

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Undercover Steve
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Well if you are an adult, then why didnt you know about servers? They have been chatted about intensivly around here:S. I knew about servers in 1990-1, when they first started being "Used" (as in many businesses used them).

free hosting is never free.
http://projectlance.net/beta/
hosting. Cheap. Your never to young (unless under 16 in the US) to get Hosting!
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Ooska
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Im not an adult

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Undercover Steve
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Then My comment was true. I was just saying, that a lot of people on here only want free hosting, and it is strange, as 50% of them are children. The other 50% are respectable adults. The adults dont continue to ask for stuff. So, I was just saying that it is annoying for people to do a bunch of threads about stuff that has been discussed.

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http://projectlance.net/beta/
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PowerSoft
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Comment wasn't really needed. . .

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Hey Jr, I bet you probably remember ad-free websites too. ahh, those were the days. No popups, free 56k connection services. Life was good.


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Deep Thought 42
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This website offers free file-hosting. You can load files up to 60mb.

http://www.savefile.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=11b3a3dcbc174c9d6905dbb0e0d4be7f

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Ooska
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cool! Thanks Deep Thought! Sorry for annoying you guys.

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Ooska
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Aw! Darn. That site dosn't accept .EXE. Thanks though!

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Undercover Steve
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I remember being charged by land lords 28.8k. No ads..was fun. You just couldnt support them back then. Oh god no pop-ups....was nice while it lasted, until bloody Javascript was integreted into server software:X

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Deep Thought 42
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@Ooska
highlight your .exe and all it's files. Right click one of them and go to "send to" and then "compressed(zipped) folder". Most sites won't upload the .exe directly. All your users have to do is extract the files after downloading the zip file.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 10th Nov 2005 16:03
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Compress EXE files into .ZIP or .RAR files...

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Thebeely
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Quote: " Do any of you know of a good server that has ftp access?"

You have http://www.50webs.com. It's really great if you want to make website for yourself. It doesn't support any scripting (except javascript), but you probably won't be using that (no offense)...

Quote: " Why...14 years old? Dont mean to be anti-younglings, but when they start asking for free stuff...."


Mod edit: Don't post your age here, please

Edit: sorry, didn't know...

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Ooska
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Posted: 13th Nov 2005 21:36 Edited at: 13th Nov 2005 23:02
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Ok, ill try

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Weee it worked!!!!!! Thanks. Now if only I could get a real website. How do you do that? Like x.com or blahblah.com

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Damokles
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Find a server to host it. (google helps)
and if you want it to end with .com, then you should pay.

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Ooska
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OK. Ill look into that.

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Nicholas Thompson
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123reg is a pretty cheap domain name service.. But for most domains (like blah.com) you have to pay. You can get free ones, like tinyurl.com do short ones, but they're not proper .com ones, more like "blah.antiblog", etc.

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Deadwords
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well, i'm not an adult already (don't flame me ), but i don't have free hosting. Free hosting is just plain crap full of ads. I'm not only a game devlopper, i'm also a website designer.

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Ooska
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Check out my website....I know it sucks. I made that on easy designer. No ads or anything. Except for a little thing that says "Made with easy designer" at the bottom.
http://ourworld.compuserve.co.uk/ooska22/Ooskagames.html

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You could always use filefront.com, they're pretty flexible, it's just that you're making people do a wait-in-line thing for a download. Even so, it's usually not more than 10 minutes for something not well known.


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Ooska
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ok

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I agree, defnatly read Ender's game, and at least two of the sequels..haven't read the rest though.

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Ooska
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I dare someone to head on down to the library (or somewhere) and just read the first 2 chapters of Enders Game. Youll be hooked.

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By the By, are you name "Ooska" after the wierd noise the Jawas sometimes make? If not, what are you named after?

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I should put the flash video my friend made for an English assignment, he only had like a week maybe two to do it. it's pretty good

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Ooska
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No, I am named after a word. Ooska means everything, anything, and nothing.

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Quote: "50% of them are children. The other 50% are respectable adults"

I'm a respectable young'n...

Quote: "The adults dont continue to ask for stuff. So, I was just saying that it is annoying for people to do a bunch of threads about stuff that has been discussed"

And I kinda resent that...some "children" know better...

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