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DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 11.12.2009, 15:40

> I was suggesting merging files into
> the EXE as that also makes stuff easier to manage.
I agree to this; packing things together into the same file makes life easier for the user. And it even can allow better archive compression.

> As personally I prefer
> smaller and less stuff when something is unzipped but again that's
> personal preference.
I certainly agree to less stuff (i.e. less files), that's certainly convenient. However, I don't really care about the actual space the files take up anymore. My old computers all have at least 40 GiB hard disks that I don't have time to fill anyway.

Programming things they way they don't take up space unnecessarily (such as stack, heap, tables that could better be initialized online) is necessary for me, but I don't squeeze out every possible byte.

> I disagree, probably a ZIP and a *nix friendly format are required or just
> ZIP. I see tar/gzip et al as fine if target is *nix but NOT if the target
> is for DOS/Windows, unless the target audience are very likely to have
> those tools but as I'm sure you appreciate the majority of people don't
> have them under DOS/Windows. So I guess that comes down to who this game
> is being aimed at? If it's mostly DOS/Windows people I would use the most
> common widely used format-in the case of DOS was and always will be ZIP
> (I'm excluding ARC...!).
Right, don't use "obscure" formats in case the file should go to normal users. I'm not certain about this in case of beta versions, but I'd still suggest Zip just because it's a game. It shouldn't require a PC expert to play it.

> > The 7-Zip archiver even creates normal (compatible) Zip files with
> > better compression than some other programs.
 >
> So does Winzip etc but the question then is can other programs unpack
> those ZIP's.
This is why I mentioned that they are compatible. I'm using 7-Zip regularly to pack Zip archives and no one complained about these so far. (I know that most people in question don't use 7-Zip and probably not WinZip either to unpack them.)

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