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Originally Posted by Doink
Abandoned games will be getting much larger so I thought it would be a good idea to get a headstart.
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While I agree with this statement I think the bigger question is whether Abandonia will ever host ISO (or any of the other CD image compressions). There are still plenty of old DOS games not on the site that are small enough to host. We won't run out of games any time in the
near future. The issue will be as each year passes very few of the newly eligible games will qualify because we are at the point now (1993 and on) where most anything of any quality was released on CD. The first abandonware site that has the bandwidth to be able to host CD based games is going to become very popular very fast.
I guess my point is that the compression method chosen today is not the issue and will do nothing to prepare Abandonia for what is going to transpire. A new business model will need to develop and the bandwidth technology and availability will no doubt have to change.