Marathon: RED in digestible chunks...

In recognition of the fact that not every Marathon player with internet access is using a Macintosh sitting directly on a T3 line (or even, necessarily, a Macintosh), several of the larger archives are being segmented into chunks small enough to download and stick on a floppy. A little explanation is needed, though, because these segments aren't like a lot of segments out there...

Normally, what is done is the file is stuffed and binhexed, and then the binhex file is chopped up into chunks. This requires the user to attach all the pieces at the other end before debinhexing.

What I do is to stuff the archive, and segment the stuffed version into floppy-sized pieces. (I had originally tried to make them self-extracting, but that only seemed to corrupt them...) I then binhex the pieces. This has two advantages:

  1. If the download doesn't go perfectly, you know which piece needs to be redownloaded, and
  2. The pieces put themselves together at the end (saving you, the downloader, the hassle of doing it yourself).

It also means that if you do tack the pieces together before debinhexing, you'll end up with a mess...

HINT:

Because of the brain-dead (IMHO) way web browsers go about handling encoded files, you'll have many fewer headaches if you get the files in reverse order if you're using a web browser (that is, get the 17th chunk first, then the 16th one, and so on). Do not get the first one until your browser has finished debinhexing the other sixteen...

With all that said, here are 17 pieces that, once combined, will expand into the utterly frightening (and very, very hard) Marathon: RED scenario. Enjoy!

Marathon: RED Segment 1 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 10 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 2 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 11 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 3 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 12 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 4 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 13 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 5 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 14 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 6 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 15 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 7 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 16 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 8 (1.3 MB) Marathon: RED Segment 17 (1.3 MB)
Marathon: RED Segment 9 (1.3 MB)  

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