Hello people!

I retrieve many files of the former Microprose ftp site from the web.archive.org and some other sources.
There is the list of files i can't find yet (or unsure for the file authentity):

1. /mps-online/demos/ATRDEM.ZIP - not found
2. /mps-online/demos/GREENS1.ZIP - not found
3. /mps-online/demos/PGDEMO.ZIP - the only founded copy is incomlete (125,760 bytes of 1,316,735)
4. /mps-online/new-versions/M1FIRE.ZIP - not found
5. /mps-online/new-versions/MPSLONG.TXT - not found; probably it is just a part of /mps-online/MPSLONG.TXT file
6. /mps-online/new-versions/MPSNL993.TXT - not found; due to description the file is misplaced (must be in /mps-online/press-releases/)
7. /mps-online/new-versions/NEWEXE.ZIP - not found; due to description it probably contains FOOTBALL.EXE from UFV131.ZIP
8. /mps-online/new-versions/PGVER3.ZIP - founded copies have different sizes than original file
9. /mps-online/new-versions/readme.txt - it is impossible to identify a file with such name
10. /mps-online/new-versions/REX849.ZIP - founded copies have different sizes than original file
11. /mps-online/new-versions/SLUMFI.ZIP - founded file "slumfix.zip" has different name and size than original file
12. /mps-online/new-versions/SOSKEY.ZIP - not found
13. /mps-online/new-versions/SS2V3.ZIP - founded copies have different sizes than original file
14. /mps-online/new-versions/SW202.ZIP - founded copies have different sizes than original file
15. /mps-online/new-versions/UFV12.ZIP - not found; probably superceded by UFV131.ZIP
16. /mps-online/utilities/directx.zip - unknown which version of DX it is; i substitute it by a copy of DX 3.0a as most recent version at the original file timestamp
17. /sh-online/demos/fmcdem.sea - not found; no idea which game this demo file belongs to
18. /sh-online/demos/sttng.zip - not found; probably it is early "Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity" demo mentioned sometimes (not the later demo CD which is much bigger than 3 Mb)

If you have one of the files listed above, please let me know how i can acquire it.
I plan to share retrieved "ftp.microprose.com" as a torrent soon.

As promised, i share the recovered files as a torrent. Here is the magnetic link:

1magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9721F01D29035B0C8033A5EC466954CE8FC5B9C2&dn=ftp.microprose.com&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker1.torrentino.com%2fannounce%3fpasskey%3d00000000000000000000000000000000

Think I found ATRDEM.ZIP here:
http://cd.textfiles.com/sprintos6/GAMEDEMO/AK/

Thank you for your support, but what we are missing is named "atrdem.zip", not "atrdemo.zip".
The file you found is not even original "atrdemo.zip" but a slightly modified and repacked copy of the "atrvesa.zip" file. We already have it in original too.

Yellow Horror wrote:

Thank you for your support, but what we are missing is named "atrdem.zip", not "atrdemo.zip".
The file you found is not even original "atrdemo.zip" but a slightly modified and repacked copy of the "atrvesa.zip" file. We already have it in original too.

Sorry, I probably missed the o. I searched using file description and saw the filename pop up.

This guy on another forum took Yellow Horror's reconstruction of ftp.microprose.com and stashed it on "firedrive.com"
http://www.firedrive.com/file/124C182778FAB7B8
http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/topic/10 … capeexe-update/

In the other thread:
Red Storm Rising MT32 Upgrade
Cloudschatze says they were looking for "mpsrol.zip". I remembered Yellow Horror's post, and went back to try to grab it from Yellow Horror's archive.
However, mpsrol.zip inside his archive was a 3KB HTML file explaining that the Internet Archive server hosting "mpsrol.zip" was down! I've seen this before, thought I downloaded a ZIP file from Archive.org when instead I downloaded an Archive.org error message in HTML format saved as the ZIP file in question.

So I went to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ftp.micro … iles/mpsrol.zip myself, and of course it was working now.

So Yellow Horror's archive needs a little work yet.

Yellow Horror, you had better check your archive for other files like this! Easy way is to check all ZIP files for corruption, verifying/testing them with 7zip or your favorite tool.

When I get a free moment, I'll try looking for the rest of your missing files.

I hope you looked at:
http://www.darklands.net/files/mpsfiles.txt
ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/linux/tux/tux/n … os/mpsfiles.txt
to reconstruct it! 😀 If not, they might give you some ideas for files you are missing.

I can tell this will be a candidate for alternative hosting at archive.org (even though you got a lot of it from within archive.org) - perhaps at the FTP Site Boneyard: https://archive.org/details/ftpsites

Another note: I did another quick look through Google searching for "ftp.microprose.com/pub/" and snagging URLs when I saw them.
Which found some other missing files from your archive.
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … iupdatev1.3.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … sions/dk4_6.zip
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ons/eawv1-2.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ns/eawv1-2F.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ns/eawv1-2G.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … rsions/f305.zip
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ons/f4108us.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ons/mpaddon.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ns/mw3v11uk.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ns/mw3v12fr.exe
ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-v … ions/update.exe

here's a start for more:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ftp.microp … 0&sa=N&filter=0

.. I think you still have a lot to do. Let us know if you need/want more help.

They probably didn't get transitioned from BBS to FTP, but has anyone has ever come across the "MPSTANDY.EXE" and "DIGITAL.BIN" files that comprise MicroProse's Tandy jukebox? I imagine the archive might have been named MPSTJB.ZIP.

I thought I'd post up a few FTP search engines, for those who don't know - they DO exist. It's rare these days that they find things for me that Google cannot, though.

As of today:
MAMONT - Total files found - 1 Bil. 722 Mil. 723 Thou. 079
http://www.mmnt.ru/int/

NAPALM - Searching 535,362,558 files (5493.36 TB) in 19,587 FTP servers
http://www.search-ftps.com/

FileWatcher.com - "Search over ten billion files" (meh)
http://www.filewatcher.com/

FileSearching.com - Total size: 6323.6 Gb, Files: 2,390,502
http://www.filesearching.com/

GlobalFileSearch.com - http://globalfilesearch.com/

FileMare.com - http://filemare.com

FTPSearch.co - http://www.ftpsearch.co/

Stiletto wrote:

Cloudschatze says they were looking for "mpsrol.zip". I remembered Yellow Horror's post, and went back to try to grab it from Yellow Horror's archive.
However, mpsrol.zip inside his archive was a 3KB HTML file explaining that the Internet Archive server hosting "mpsrol.zip" was down! I've seen this before, thought I downloaded a ZIP file from Archive.org when instead I downloaded an Archive.org error message in HTML format saved as the ZIP file in question.

So I went to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ftp.micro … iles/mpsrol.zip myself, and of course it was working now.

Thank you wery much for your message. Glad to it, i found not only correct mpsrol.zip but also two other files previously copied incorrectly from the Waybackmachine:
\mps-online\demos\FDF14.ZIP
\mps-online\new-versions\asndgsmv.zip

There is the new magnetic link:

1magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8BED8EE11944AB5776D8BE876CCB7145779C74B8&dn=ftp.microprose.com

Another note: I did another quick look through Google searching for "ftp.microprose.com/pub/" and snagging URLs when I saw them.
Which found some other missing files from your archive.

Technically they aren't "missing" because my archive is a "snapshot" of the Microprose FTP as at certain date. They were not on the site at that date. But i try to find them and then think about including them into archive. Thank you anyway.