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Hi

Where can I download the OS from the links in the download section don't work.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask about making some direct download mirror links in the future, but I think the only thing we got for now is an official torrent.
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If you would like to make direct mirror links that would be greatly appreciated.
Please go ahead and let me know so I can include the link on the main site.
The ISO was being hosted by Archive.org but they got hacked and the site is now down.
The torrent is fast though. There are 100+ seeders at the moment.
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LeoNigro wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:13 pm If you would like to make direct mirror links that would be greatly appreciated.
Please go ahead and let me know so I can include the link on the main site.
I would, but the ISO torrent was just under 6GB, so I can't just plop it on my Dropbox and call it a day...and I doubt zipping the ISO up would help much.

I'm sure somebody will make a direct download mirror link eventually. Sorry.
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LeoNigro wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:13 pm If you would like to make direct mirror links that would be greatly appreciated.
Please go ahead and let me know so I can include the link on the main site.
The ISO was being hosted by Archive.org but they got hacked and the site is now down.
The torrent is fast though. There are 100+ seeders at the moment.
Thank you for your work in making the CommodoreOS available.

I used the uTorrent client to download the iso, but I noticed the hash of the iso I downloaded is not the same as reflected on the General page describing the file in the uTorrent client, which states

Total Size 5.53 GB (5.53 GB done)
Created On: 12/21/2023 12:23:44 AM
Added On: 10/14/2024 2:35:39 PM
Hash: 9A61FF24ED613961006EF2787B752EB2A34A9CA6

Can you confirm what is the correct hash for "CommodoreOS-20231213.iso"?

For MD5 I show it to be 0100557ED15BC429131CC25CABBB8646
For SHA1 I show it to be 5632884E9B3F5E012B1BED71366DCDEA8A3917AE
For SHA256 I show it to be B25F772E8AD947993F8BA29A86827A67715B979C5E46A7D2E5B3ADA01C111084

If I can get confirmation, I am happy to host it publicly on Google Drive until archive.org returns
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I also could not get it to work so installed transmission on my Truenas and I'm now seeding. in one day my ratio is 18.3 :D

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@commodon

That's really weird as the hashes are built during the ISO creation process.
We did have some shenanigans regarding usage of a zip file on launch.
It turns out ZIPs between Windows and Linux are not necessarily compatible.
So I had to quickly remove the ZIP file and get back to the ISO.
Perhaps the file was overwritten in one way or another during the process and that changes the hash? I don' know.
That said, I'm pretty confident the torrent is legit and hasn't been tampered with.
I'm hosting it. I'm using the same ISO repeatedly for testing and everything looks fine.
I'm a little surprised there's an issue as I really felt I tested it and checked.
If it's botched it is unfortunate, but fixing the md5 etc at this point with 100+ seeders is a bit late, so there's little I can do.
Thanks for alerting me to the issue though.
All I can say is, that if you don't trust the ISO then that is your prerogative, and hopefully I'll do better on the next release.
The torrent being downloaded should be from the commodoreos.net website
The ISO file is being hosted from the correct source....which is my computer, right now.
If it was substituted I'm almost certain the ISO of those people in the midst of downloading wouldn't work at all
and we'd start to hear complaints about it.
Hopefully, that has allayed your fear about downloading. But if not I understand.
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As a huge Commodore and retro computers and gaming fan, I was extremely excited to install this fantastic looking and loaded with features OS as my daily driver after seeing it featured in a few new videos that came out this week covering the new C64 computers.

Just my luck, the direct download link doesn't work, and I'm one of those people who doesn't want to learn about or mess with torents. Is anybody going to post a new link for this thing?

There's at least one video in the last few days covering this OS and the new C64 computers and cases that has well over a hundred thousand views if not more by now, so there's a ton of people out there who want to try this OS and it might even help them decide to buy the new Commodore hardware, so it feels like the boat is leaving the shore and the opportunity is being missed.

Don't mean to be negative. You did a fantastic job with this OS, so hopefully somebody will get up a working direct download link so this thing can get the appreciation it deserves among the retro community.

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I just downloaded the files from the torrent and with the 4 files, there is the iso, an md5, sha512, and instructions file. The values inside the md5 and sha512 return the matching values of the ISO that is included. If you're looking at the torrent details and the hash that it shows, I'm not sure what that is reflective of. I am able to mount the ISO and I'll install it soon to test it out! Thanks for providing it!

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Commodon wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:08 pm
LeoNigro wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:13 pm If you would like to make direct mirror links that would be greatly appreciated.
Please go ahead and let me know so I can include the link on the main site.
The ISO was being hosted by Archive.org but they got hacked and the site is now down.
The torrent is fast though. There are 100+ seeders at the moment.
Thank you for your work in making the CommodoreOS available.

I used the uTorrent client to download the iso, but I noticed the hash of the iso I downloaded is not the same as reflected on the General page describing the file in the uTorrent client, which states

Total Size 5.53 GB (5.53 GB done)
Created On: 12/21/2023 12:23:44 AM
Added On: 10/14/2024 2:35:39 PM
Hash: 9A61FF24ED613961006EF2787B752EB2A34A9CA6

Can you confirm what is the correct hash for "CommodoreOS-20231213.iso"?

For MD5 I show it to be 0100557ED15BC429131CC25CABBB8646
For SHA1 I show it to be 5632884E9B3F5E012B1BED71366DCDEA8A3917AE
For SHA256 I show it to be B25F772E8AD947993F8BA29A86827A67715B979C5E46A7D2E5B3ADA01C111084

If I can get confirmation, I am happy to host it publicly on Google Drive until archive.org returns
If you read the posts following yours it appears these concerns have been cleared up, so I'm hoping you'll post a direct download link. I see at least one new video posted a few days ago covering the new C64 computers and OS 2.0 now has well over 200 thousand views, when a day or two ago it was only over 100 thousand views, so it is trending right now among the Commodore and retro crowd.

Many of these people are probably excited to try out the new OS and this should help the C64 sales too, so I'm hoping a download link is up ASAP before people forget or move on in frustration of not being able to download it. Not everybody wants to use Torrents. Since it appears what software is included is freeware or abandonware without copyright conflicts, I bet a lot of people are eager to try this great looking OS

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