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Hi, I got the same problem with the magic carpet 2 demo, 3 times.

mil...@btlip10.bt.co.uk (Richard Miles) wrote:

> Hi,

> i have just downloaded 3 demos from Electronic Arts Web page

> Magic Carpet2 13M demo - received a zipfile with signature file error. 

> Hi octane demo - 4M demo - received zipfile with signature file error.

> Need 4 speed demo - 20M demo - received 800K zipfile that expands to 1.5M 
> and has a text file saying that I need another 23M of non-existant files 
> to get it to work.

> This sucks.

> Is there something not quite right on their demo page or have I somehow 
> lost the ability to download binaries?....

I have had exactly the same problem - I'm currently getting hicotane
and MCII off ftp.mechlab.com or whatever and hoping the same thing
doesn't happen.

I mailed ea support and they replied about 2 weeks later telling me
that their demos have been downloaded close to 11000 times, and only 3
people have written with probs.  They also told me to check my modem
settings.  Bollocks..

I was able to get the Fade To Black demo out of the very same
directory with _no_ probs whatsoever.  Something's weird.




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[alp...@hunterlink.net.au      -        Newcastle, Australia]
[user friendly propaganda       -         tested on americans]
[mcdondalds for thought         -            plastic for food]
[8 out of 9 wimmin'             -                preferred it]

They seem to have discovered the -r switch on pkzip as the need4speed 
demo now has all 27M of necessary files in it.

However, they forgot the -p switch so it unzips without any subdirectory 
structure into the root and guess what, it still doesn't work!!!

You got a reply, how fortunate...maybe it took them two weeks to work out 
how to send e-mail....

You'd think that they'd actually try unzipping and installing their demos 
before making them available.

p.s. If anybody out there has the correct directory structure for the 
need 4 speed demo (apparently on the root directory PC Gamer October 
CD-ROM) will they please do a dir /s > c:direct.txt and post the contents 
of this file here.

BTW: the modem settings thing is pure shite as I (among others) 
downloaded these demos several times from a LAN connection on SuperJANET 
in the UK with the same problem every time.  It's a pretty bad state of 
affairs when your prospective customers have to download your demos off 
sites other than your own website.Great advert EA!

In the meantime lets hope that EA work this out and put a new nfsdemo.zip 
file on their webserver or post a batch file to correctly recreate the 
games' directory structure...no chance.