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Glorious Trainwrecks Klik & Play Pirate Kart (Pt. 2)

SpindleyQ
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you could have just asked

I didn't realize I'd stopped seeding this.

For context: Pirate Kart II was a game jam that ran for a single weekend, with the express goal of creating as many games as possible. I decided that the goal was to be larger than the Global Game Jam, by quantity. It's a collection of 529 games, made by 102 people in a span of 48 hours.

I spent five months after the jam lovingly putting together the perfect launcher for these games, incorporating every single idea the community put forward, no matter how absurd.

This is not just a zip with a bunch of exe files inside. It's among my favourite things I've ever made.

It's on archive.org now, as well as properly being self-hosted as, like, a file on a webserver, so it should never get lost in the shuffle again.

Probably best run in a Windows XP VM. There are a lot of 16-bit Klik & Play games mixed in with more modern runtimes.

Though, if you happen to have a real Windows 3.1 machine kicking around, there's a special Windows 3.1-specific launcher, stolen from a real shareware CD-ROM, that contains only the Klik & Play games.

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SpindleyQ
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just noticed that there's a "#Glorious trainwrecks" tag here and was poking around in it.

when I set up the tracker in 2010, I set up my server to auto-seed the torrent. At the time, I knew the bandwidth costs could be significant if I just exposed a web link to the file and it got any amount of actual attention (this later happened with the IGF Pirate Kart), but I never intended it to be difficult to access.

but, time marched on, my adhd went unmedicated, and in 2020 I found myself paying for 3 distinct servers, hosting random assortments of junk, the oldest of which I couldn't even SSH into because it was running a version of Debian that didn't support modern cryptography. that one was running the tracker and the torrent seed. I spent a fairly exhausting two weeks backing everything up and getting everything running on a single, modern VPS.

but I forgot how the bittorrent tracker worked - the way I remembered it, the tracker supported "web seeds" and would handle seeding the torrent for me. but I see now that's not how it worked; instead, the torrent was set up to be seeded by running "rtorrent" 24/7 on the server. I did not transfer that setup over.

but! I did keep the backups. and I was able to restore the original .exe, just now.

I'm uploading it to archive.org, and in the meantime, feel free to just download the exe direct from my server with a boring old web link. My Linode has, like 4tb of bandwidth per month now, you won't make a dent. https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/files/GloriousTrainwrecksDotComKlikNPlayPirateKartPartIIKlikHarder1.0.exe

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SpindleyQ
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Kind of! I'm reasonably certain that the installer won't run under Windows 3.1, but I believe once you've installed it there should at minimum be a folder with a 3.1-compatible launcher that should run OK under DOSBox. I believe the main launcher will allow you to filter out the Klik & Play games, so on modern Windows you can just kind of treat it as two separate game bundles if you have a Win3.1/DOSBox setup handy.

However, there's a special feature called "dust in the kart" where the launcher will generate a randomly glitched-out version of any Klik & Play game, and that will really only work on a 32-bit system, so the ideal really is some kind of Windows environment that can run 16-bit and 32-bit stuff side-by-side.

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