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by therein 322 days ago
I remember redownloading Liero over and over again and failing. And then cherishing it once getting a successful download. It would barely fail to fit into a floppy.
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Amateur. Use Flashget or Netants which download the file in 8 simultaneous chunks. I used to cheer the threads on last legs of a whopping 5m download. I hated servers which dont allow resume or even report file size.
If I remember correctly, unfortunately the HTTP server hosting Liero back then didn't support requests with the Range header.

But also likely I didn't have FlashGet on my cousin's computer which was the computer we were using to play it.