Hello there. I am a beginner and english is not my first language so i apologise in advance. I recently got into coding and chose object pascal as my first programming language and think it is awsome. I wrote a chess app in lazarus and wish to make it available for android and ios since everyone is like why cant i run it on my phone. I wish to rewrite it in castel game engine to make it available for more platforms. However i am unable to download the game engine. I tried souce forge, the official website, itch(DOT)io, GIT hub, but all the links leads to same problem. I tried using different networks, multiple devices to no avail. The download starts fine but midway through randomly pauses and then shows network error. I tried searching for FAQ for similar issues but was unable to find anything. I dont know if it is a bug or i am doing something wrong. Any help is appreciated!
Those are all different online resources, so the problem appears to be on your end.
Maybe it was a server issue. I was able to download it after 40 minutes.
thanks for the support
I see you downloaded OK in the end, happy to hear it 
For reference, we recommend our downloads from:
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Official downloads from Download Castle Game Engine - Free Open-Source Game Development Tool (the links at the top of that page, with icons). These are equal (just redirect to) to downloads on GitHub, Release Latest release of Castle Game Engine (Auto-Updated Snapshot) · castle-engine/castle-engine · GitHub .
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Last week I got a similar report to what you mention, and I set up an automatic mirror on SourceForge, Castle Game Engine - Browse /castle_game_engine at SourceForge.net . So you can also use this. On some networks, apparently downloading files from SourceForge is more stable than from GitHub.
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There are a few more options listed on Download Castle Game Engine - Free Open-Source Game Development Tool
, but above 2 would be my most recommended to get "the very latest engine version.
I think such interruption could be caused by increased size of the archive due to its growth after new examples were added. So there is one more reason to split 
Indeed our download size grew recently, although.. the interruptions we observed last week in the network were even after ~100 MB of download.
( This was in particular with GitHub downloads of Linux version, which were interrupted and interrupted again after a few retries. Mysteriously Windows zip downloads were more stable, which I guess has no explanation other than “random servers hiccup, some GH releases servers just happened to work better than others”. )
So, while we should split!, ultimately we will still suffer from this problem, even if engine size drops in half, to 0.5 GB. Unless we migrate to totally “network installer” where you download a small exe, which actually then downloads the rest (like FireFox installer, or Delphi for that matter). Which, I guess is an option, although with its own disadvantages (it is somewhat weird when you download a program, run it, … only to see that it really just downloads another “real” program ).