Castle Paradox

Torgtrog · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 4

Has anyone considered trying to convert the wiki into a downloadable .pdf?

I realize that the nature of the wiki might preclude that, but it might useful for somethings that are more or less static OR, make the whole document, with a stern highlighted, italicized & Bold warning that this is meant as a reference and that the wiki should be dbl checked for clarity/corrections. My reasoning behind this is that I work on my game on a laptop, and I don't always have a 'net connex. I would imagine that I'm not the only one.

At any, ty so much for a fun tool. Makes me breakout the ol' NES and the FF/DW series.

Greenwado · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:46 pm Post subject:

I second this motion, the computer I use to make my games almost NEVER has internet, I have to use a USB to transfer finished games...

EDIT: And a PDF would be useful in the case of the Wiki going temporarily down.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject:

Not a pdf, but I used to make a static html copy of the wiki every night using httrack. It could be unpacked in a folder on ones hard drive and viewed with no internet connection.

That is vastly better than a pdf because all the internal links still work.

Torgtrog · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 4

Hmm, I used to use Teleport Pro for archiving websites.. I'll check out httrack.

TMC · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:51 am Post subject:

I think an offline copy of either the whole wiki , or at least the HOWTO and other core documentation, would be great. I'm frequently without an internet connection too.

The httrack mirror worked fairly well, didn't it? Or did it have a high maintenance burden?
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:28 am Post subject:

Torgtrog · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 4

Tried out httrack. Worked very well, but I dl'd the printable version which weighed in at just over 1 gb. Offline website works just fine. On the offhand.. I inadvertently used castle paradox.. NO idea why.. several hours later, I was wondering "WTH?" 3.2 gb of data.. over like 6 hrs.. *DOH* (not a slow connex, slow xfer rate from the server). TY for the suggestion! Happy

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:13 am Post subject:

The hardest thing about using httrack is stopping it from downloading extra stuff that it doesn't really need to download. My mirror of the wiki takes up 76 megabytes.

Here are the arguments I use to expclude and include specific stuff.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:29 am Post subject:

I just updated http://mirror.motherhamster.org/ so you can download a tarball containing the mirror of the wiki for offline viewing. it is pretty close to 20 megabytes to download.

Torgtrog · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 4

Not worried about the file size, 1 gb is practically nothing nowadays. Having it available offline has made it easier to reference. Once again, TY for the tool and ty for the suggestion regarding httrack.