DOS ain't dead - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test

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

posted by DOS386, 12.12.2009, 10:04
(edited by DOS386 on 12.12.2009, 10:27)

> 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

Yeah, Linuxers unable to UNZIP and Windaubers unable to UNTAR , only DOSsers can both :clap:

> common widely used format; in the case of DOS the most common format was
> and always will be ZIP (I'm excluding ARC...!).

Poor compression wins :clap:

> does Winzip etc but the question then is can other programs unpack those ZIP's.

NO, and no need to introduce or promote ( already introduced :-( ) even more incompatible archive formats without any benefit justifying them.

> no GZIP etc etc. And normally no ZIPS for Linux... which is why I
> feel probably 2 packages might actually be best here.

Or even 3 (assume some bloated source package) : ZIP (50 MiB) , TAR.GZ (40 MiB) , TAR.BZ2 (30 MiB) , total 120 MiB :clap: Guess what I would upload: just one file, 7-ZIP'ped TAR , 20 MiB :clap:

> again similar comments re target audience... .PNG came about after DOS.... so

what is the problem ???

> again depends on target audience.

My audience for my releases are progressive DOSsers knowing what to do with stuff like PNG, TAR, OGV, 7-ZIP, & Co :-)

> Mind you I hear TGA's compress very well !!!

Evidence please ! Upload it :hungry:

sinclaj1 wrote:

> source code will be in a separate .zip inside the main .zip.

OK. Also try to make the inner ZIP uncompressed (Store) (I still love TAR ...).

> The documentation is going to be a .pdf but

you can't read PDF's in DOS :confused:

> I can throw a text copy in there too.

Much better.

> The batchfile isn't necessary anymore because everything's in the .EXE, so that solves that issue.

COOL :-)

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DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 22:21 (Announce)
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 21.09.2009, 23:16
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 23:48
    - GMail doesn't like zips either, rename too ! - Ninho, 08.12.2009, 23:53
      - GMail doesn't like zips either, rename too ! - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 04:35
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  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 09.10.2009, 22:56
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 10.10.2009, 08:28
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 10.10.2009, 10:47
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 22.10.2009, 05:16
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 22.10.2009, 15:25
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 22.10.2009, 18:39
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 22.10.2009, 18:47
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 08.12.2009, 02:10
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 09.12.2009, 22:04
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 01:45
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 04:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 11.12.2009, 07:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 10:35
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 13.12.2009, 18:22
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 14.12.2009, 02:24
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 11:11
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 13:59
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 14:28
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 14:36
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 14:38
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 14:56
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 15:40
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 16:02
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 16:20
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test ( off topic) - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 17:27
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 11.12.2009, 19:30
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 12.12.2009, 12:11
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 12:42
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 12.12.2009, 13:40
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        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 13.12.2009, 10:20
        DOS PNG support - rr, 12.12.2009, 22:11
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 19.12.2009, 14:40
        DOS PNG support - rr, 19.12.2009, 23:02
        DOS PNG support -- QPV, QPNG - Rugxulo, 20.12.2009, 00:09
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 20.12.2009, 07:32
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 15:31
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 16:39
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        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 12.12.2009, 17:00
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