Auran's old pages of past game releases have been deleted?

[e195087]

I was trying to do some digging into some information for a video surrounding Trainz 2006, but come to find out, the site is now a 404. Same for a couple other pages of the old games. What is this for? None of these sites have been archived since Auran excludes their link from the Wayback Machine. Sad times, there was some good information on those pages about the teams brought in to make content for 06, it was all very useful.

 

[rwk]

Auran is gone and N3V bought Trainz after 2006 sometime. Although the domain name still says Auran. And older products are no longer supported.

 

[sultan1966]

I posted a link here to an "internet archived" manual and manual only for Trainz 2006 and it has been deleted and declared "pirated software". I caution anyone else from posting links to ANY Trainz manual, if it is not sanctioned by N3V.
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Since neither crawlers, bots etc nor Wayback Machine/The Internet Archive are illegal in the US where I am at and N3V condones them as verified by the various robots.txt files above -
Here is the latest version of the Wayback Machine Internet Archive tgbot collection complete with AI Mode.
Direct Download for Collection available for Mac, Windows and Linux

Hopefully this info above will educate Trainz users on what is allowed.

 

[oknotsen]

Not sure what you are trying to achieve or who you are trying to piss off (or even if you are), but you seem to be overly enthusiastic to try and make a point without (in my opinion) actually making a point. I might be overlooking the obvious, but again I don't see it (or don't want to see it for the sake of "peace").

TRS2006 has been out of support for about 5 million years and you can even get a more recent version of Trainz for free.
The way the game works has not drastically changed between the initial version and TANE (I can't judge for versions after that). That goes for both content creation and running trains (but that again might be just my opinion). Since in that range a free version is available and the only thing you might be missing from 2006 is the routes (though aren't they also in a version on the DLS by now; not sure) I am failing to see the point of this topic and/or pointing to 3rd party websites for age old content (that likely is there illegal as it is not distributed there or hosted by N3V).

To the OP:
Maybe if you ask Zec nicely or contact support they are willing to dig up some information. Or maybe contact (people like) JCitron or PCAS1986 they can just supply you some information from their private archives.

 

[wreeder]

Maybe I can help to make sense of this issue. TRS2006 was packaged with 10 routes and their sessions that were created by 10 different groups of Trainzers. They actually used TRS2004 SP4 to build the routes since TRS2006 was under development. Auran was a bit more conscious of the hard work put into Trainz by members of the community and created a section on the old website to highlight each team and their members as a thank you for their hard work. That is the information that the OP is looking for. Based upon my past experience, the old website might still be there but it is difficult to pull up with modern browsers due to it being written in a really early version of HTML which uses tags that modern browsers don't understand any more. My only advice would be to try older browsers. I don't know if it is still in Win 11 but Win 10 did include Internet Explorer for just such uses under "program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe". Be very careful and only attempt to go to the auran site. It is not safe to use for general web browsing.

 

[JCitron]

What video are you looking for? The only one I can remember shows the UP Bigboy driving on the Toronto Trainz route and illustrating wheel slip and I don't have a copy of that, as far as I know.

As Oknotsen says, the overall operation isn't much different from TRS2004 through TS12.

 

[wreeder]

Maybe I should point out the OP is a YouTuber that makes game videos including a number of videos featuring TRS2006.