+Larry Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I have a vague understanding of what a torrent is. It would appear that all the Atari disks at Archive.Org are torrents. If I download a torrent, what do I end up with? And how to convert that to an ATR or write to a real disk? Color me confused... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) A torrent is just a container for whatever is posted, if you get a torrent downloader it will have a tab to show you what the content is, what you see there is what you end up getting, if it's atr's you will have a download location with atr's in it, ready to use on an emulator etc.. Just think of the torrent as a box that holds stuff. Depending on the content it may be compressed to save downloading time and size. by compressed I mean the items may be zipped or rared and not some fancy system that needs more work.. Have fun, ignore the myth about torrents being illegal, they are not but the content may be, Atari files are totally fine.. On windows I use qBittorrent, it's free and no hassle.. Paul.. Edited March 12, 2022 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrshoujo Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Larry said: I have a vague understanding of what a torrent is. It would appear that all the Atari disks at Archive.Org are torrents. If I download a torrent, what do I end up with? And how to convert that to an ATR or write to a real disk? Color me confused... Umm.. No, the disks available at Archive Org can be directly downloaded. You have to go to the link for each item where it says Show All Files for that depository item and any of the files in the list can be downloaded. You don't convert a torrent. It's just another protocol to downloading files which requires a Torrent Client. I recommend uTorrent 2.0.4. (Aka Micro Torrent - it's got a small file size hence the name) It's an older version without the bloatware but works for me. But like I said, the Archive Org files are directly downloadable. Post a link and I can likely find it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 Thanks to both of you. "But like I said, the Archive Org files are directly downloadable. Post a link and I can likely find it. " With that clue, I clicked on "SHOW ALL" and there in the listing was an ATR. Problem solved! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzzy1982 Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 You could also use a browser like Brave that supports torrents directly so you wouldn't have to muck about with client software. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Pretty inefficient way to deal with individual Roms or disk images - the .torrent file itself could in some cases be bigger than the file you're after. But I guess it's just how the archive works. On the subject (sort of), does anyone know if there's still ongoing effort to keep TOSECs going? I found a few on PB but poorly seeded and probably really old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I've not seen any movement from the TOSEC people in a long time, not seen any new dat files either... There's some posts on RUTracker.org, not stunningly seeded.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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