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Posted: June 9th, 2006, 7:44
by Dr. kitteny berk
I said a download manager not The shoddy ms one :)



Getright ftw!



Read your PMs first though, some tricks for downloading easier :boogie:

Posted: June 9th, 2006, 8:22
by ProfHawking
downloadthemall > getright

Posted: June 9th, 2006, 8:23
by Dr. kitteny berk
ProfHawking wrote:downloadthemall < getright

Posted: June 9th, 2006, 8:41
by Dr. kitteny berk
Just to be clear, getright is browser independent, *very* rarely crashes* once a download is going

It's also very good at doing stuff in the background, and is happy to do what you want it to



*Just don't try to hook it into IE7
*sometimes it'll freeze for 2 minutes if you start a big download with 4 parts enabled

Posted: June 9th, 2006, 9:21
by Dr. kitteny berk
Thoughts so far:

The x64 download is shaky as hell, and i can't find an sfv or md5 to verify.

Posted: June 10th, 2006, 0:47
by FatherJack
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright
GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.

Posted: June 10th, 2006, 2:01
by Dr. kitteny berk
FatherJack wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright
GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.
That. it's one of very few apps i actually own.


also: fista takes about an hour to install, requires a user to hand for the first 5 minutes, then is pretty much fine by itself

Posted: June 10th, 2006, 7:18
by Dog Pants
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
FatherJack wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:getright
GetRight is one of the few shareware-type pieces of software I have actually registered and purchased. Registering doesn't give you much more than the free version, but I felt I just had to reg it. It's probably handled terabytes of downloads for me, and is greatly improved over any versions people may have tried 2 or 3 years ago.
That. it's one of very few apps i actually own.


also: fista takes about an hour to install, requires a user to hand for the first 5 minutes, then is pretty much fine by itself
Better than XP there then. Bet it looks all cartoony though *cringes and sets to look like Win98*

Posted: June 10th, 2006, 17:02
by spoodie
ProfHawking wrote:downloadthemall > getright
I've discovered downloadthemall makes my browser unstable and causes some strange quirks, I wouldn't recommend it. I would switch to getright but I've already downloaded 60% using the downloadthemall firefox extension. Ah well.

Posted: June 10th, 2006, 17:05
by Dr. kitteny berk
Dog Pants wrote:Better than XP there then. Bet it looks all cartoony though *cringes and sets to look like Win98*
Actually, i'm finding it pretty nice, it seems a good middle between windows classic and luna

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:08
by Stoat
Re: Getright.

Why does it insist on starting over from 0% again when it gets to about 60% of my Fista download?
It's fucking annoying.

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:09
by Dr. kitteny berk
because a lot of the servers seem to have resuming turned off now.

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:16
by Stoat
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:because a lot of the servers seem to have resuming turned off now.
Totally, or a limited number? It seemed to be resuming well enough even after the first restart.
Oh well, I might see if I can find a torrent instead.

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:26
by Stuk
Will investigate this at some point, although I don't really want to install it on my main comp, and the old one would probably explode if I tried it on there...

...but to chip in on the downloaders debate, I use Star Downloader, and that's damn good. Works beautifully with FlashGot extension for Firefox as well. And they do a free version.

Remember trying GetRight, and not liking it...the icons didn't look very pretty either. The do do a good site for searching file mirrors though.

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:31
by spoodie
I lost 2 downloads that were very near completion, so I just downloaded it at work.

Also: http://www.tech-recipes.com/microsoft_v ... s1426.html (if you can get the link to work)
Which states you would be better off trying the 32bit version regardless of your CPU as Fista 64bit insists on 64bit drivers, apparently.

Posted: June 13th, 2006, 15:35
by Dr. kitteny berk
there are workarounds for the driver stuff, but it can be interesting.


also, the x64 version will fail on boot if certain drivers are unsigned (again, workaroundable)

Posted: June 15th, 2006, 2:44
by Dr. kitteny berk
Last little Fista related toy for now.


To remove Fista's bootloader

1) boot off the Fista dvd
2) go to repair this installation
3) select command prompt
4) navigate to your dvd drive
5) Run boot/bootsect.exe /NT52 all /horse

This'll restore you back to the standard xp bootloader, then you can go and nuke the Fista partiton :)

Posted: June 15th, 2006, 12:29
by Stoat
Image
Answers on a postcard to:

OMGWTF,
c/o a concerned citizen,
City 17

edit: Hooray, I'm not alone! Lots of noise on the GetRight forums about this. Looks like I'll have to hunt down an older version.

Posted: October 7th, 2006, 11:49
by TezzRexx
Uber bump.

I'm tempted to install this on my spare harddrive. How does it handle games now?

and is the shiny-ness worth it?

Posted: October 7th, 2006, 11:51
by Dr. kitteny berk
apparently it handles games pretty well. give it a go and report back :)