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Originally Posted by wackypanda
I'm guessing the main problem with offering installers is the size of the things?
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No necessarily, certainly not in the case of old games that take very little space anyway. It's the custom in abandonware websites, probably because that way the games are easier to play right after download, or because it's easier to find archives that way.
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Originally Posted by Expack2
I don't think this would be a problem, Japo. None of the Abandonia staff members gave me concerns regarding my zipped archive for the Lost Mind of Dr. Brain containing the original installer. |
Yes, up to now, when there's any difficulty, each game has been decided individually, by whichever updater was in charge of any particular case. But nowadays, as more and more of the new additions to the abandonware catalogs will begin to be for Windows in a greater proportion, we need to come up with defined conventions for them.