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(And I could have saved the above if I had looked it was already a post above this one smarter and clearer XD)
Har Har, very funny...
And not true, since it doesn't help if the staff knows what they are doing, but we don't know what they are doing. For example in lots of stored pages the embedded links are dead (lots of xpi-links in original AMO pages are broken, assume caused by spider probs or settings). So it's well possible they could have a size limit for embedded monster links too.
When they don't archive some files is because there might have been some barrier (server side like PHP or whatever interactive download progress that doesn't download files and doesn't let keep them). AMO, specially, had a lot of barriers, like the user agent. Depending on the user agent it didn't let download the file, or enabled the link or, I can't remember, maybe also Javascript, or cookies, or...
They didn't allow to download easily.
Archive.org now has even old games ISO files (CD images) so the file size is not a problem. I have seen files of GB hosted by them.
In this legacycollector case, looks like they got all site uploaded.
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But that "torrent" stuff is still a huge concern. I can't even download (right-click link and save) their 8MB "txt" file, although downloading much bigger zip or video files works easily. Wonder if that's also torrent-related or perhaps just needs more permissions (JS?)
I have a copy of the original torrent file and I can upload it here. I haven't doing anything with it because until a few days I hadn't installed my old µTorrent client. I upload here now.
It is just 41KB. A text file with info about its contents and where to bootstrap to find other people sharing it to download it. It's a binary file and, obviously you need a torrent client to download it.
I don't know, to date, if it is available (someone is sharing). I haven't checked.
But don't worry, you have the above roytam's website mirror, anyway, too.
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Does that mean, even if trying to download that giant "tar" file with a smartphone and public wifi (speed??), it wouldn't work either? Because it requires additionally to first install some (shady? suspicious?) torrent app too? Grmpf... Things can be so easy - with the right equipment and skills
Tar is a compressed file, so you only need 7-zip.
I haven't said anything like that
And you don't need a smartphone, or public wifi or whatever. One of the most important things with P2P sharing networks is patience. You can pause the download whenever your want and being a month downloading (after all you depend on the seeders (sharers) bandwidth, too).
You only need a bittorrent client, but I don't think there is one compatible with your windows 98 to date, and compatible with the latest torrent features (UDP "servers" (they aren't hosting servers)). You don't even need to download to the HDD. Plug your USB/SD card, and command it download there.
They are not shady programs or whatever. You only need to know how to setup them (loads of manuals out there) and nothing else.
But it is easier than all this. You have the files there (or roytam's mirror), just download what you need
. You don't need the full tar.gz.