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![]() yes MS + Mac + Sony are encouraging people to upgrade :P
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UHarc compresses better and faster than 7Zip, that's why many pirated games are spread around in this format, -(it even compresses mp3 files!)-, so why stick with 7Zip? Let us push UHarc down their troats. [/* Irritant little voice *] And what will happen when this whole 7Zip project will be terminated, abandoned, whatever? Will you recompress all the archives on AB to yet another 'better_than_zip_or_rar' archiver?
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If compress ratio is your goal, you really should try out UHarc once, beats 7zip completely. If 'n00b_compability' must be the goal: ZIP -(or RAR eventually)- is the way to go.
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![]() We use primarily ZIP format for compatibility reasons. RAR may be used for larger games, but only if absolutely neccesary.
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One Laptop and a Desktop. The Laptop has 1,46GHz and JUST 512MB of RAM. My Desktop is Just a P3 with 550MHz and a mere 320MB of RAM! And you want WHAT!! Longer compression times are equal to longer DEcompression times. I would highly suggest Abandonia keeps to either .zip (compatibility) or uses .rar (very known archive type). And Nothing else! :mad:
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![]() Djees man, you're worst than MS + Mac + Sony together.
*Force* people .... :mad: It's not because YOU like an application you're suddenly entitled to force it upon others. Even if I also have 7Zip -(yes, indeed)- I wouldn't dream to shovel it down in other peeps troaths. Talk about it, propose it, advise it, yes, but force ? No way josé. What's next? 8Zippy that's again a bit (0.05%) better? 9Zippy? (0.02%) better?
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Why is this? As mentioned before - user friendliness. Believe it or not, many people don't even know what WinZip is and extract directly via WinXP extractor (which isn't even able to extract all zipped files - I remember a few games The Horseman compressed, wouldn't decompress with WinXP extractor and some guests went into panic). And about archive size - games like Death Gate are great examples. The full game (with all the high-er resolution video and speach files...) is much larger then the version on the site, yet it doesn't hinder the gameplay. In fact, if somebody isn't sure weather ot give the game a go or not, such a person in more likely to download the ripped version (smaller file to download simply to try). And I think it happened only once, that a game really got rejected because of its size. It was Magic the Gathering: Shandalar. It was on the site for about 6 hours before Kosta took it down (because it took up too much space - among other things). It wasn't a problem, since it turned out to be ESA protected anyway (but that was a few weeks before the famous ESA clean-up). So why switch to any other compression tools to convert the archives on the site? For personal use - sure thing, most of our regulars started using it about three years ago, about the time (the EoF mentioned) the previous simular debate was held on the topic. |
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