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http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/ The greatest Quake 1 Singleplayer site on this planet. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:15:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: inertia http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-355 inertia Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:07:45 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-355 Use 7zip on the big archive, or at least bzip2. By: Anonymous http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Anonymous Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:56:04 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-350 What about a .torrent? By: Spirit http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Spirit Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:41:20 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-348 Probably there will be one "all.zip", one "dateofthefirstone.zip" and then a couple of "monthly.zip" with new files that miss in the first one. The all.zip would always contain everything. I haven't really thought about this yet though. By: amoe http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-347 amoe Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:25:57 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-347 I support option B. Also it would be cool to have a pack containing all the speedmaps. Just a question, would the zip be updated every now and then, or would it just be a snapshot of the archive at a given time? By: Spirit http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-346 Spirit Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:08:19 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-346 Nah, that I won't do. Don't tinker with the zip files is a widely used "legal term" in the readmes and I really like it that way. That would also be a load of additional work (which is planned for some kind of launcher program at some point in the future) as many maps and mods come with non-standard paths. By: Bad Sector http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Bad Sector Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:02:10 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-344 a) Also, how about writing some sort of script that uncompresses all zip files in their respective directories (like foo.zip -> foo directory) and compress the whole thing using 7zip? I believe it will eat much much less space than zip. By: sielwolf http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-342 sielwolf Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:54 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-342 As always great idea Spirit, I have all my Quake stuff scattered over many cdr's, would be great to d/l all maps in one package; and pls make also a speed-mega-pack with all speedmaps. Thanks. By: Spirit http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Spirit Thu, 29 May 2008 18:22:53 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-341 ~1.7 gigabytes. As all files are zip already I will use "storing mode" with no compression. Compressing would be a waste of time. So it would be the same size. The descriptions are a couple hundred of kilobytes and the screenshots ~100 megabytes. By: negke http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-340 negke Thu, 29 May 2008 18:13:10 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-340 How much space does the entire archive use up now and how large would a zipped version be? By: Spirit http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Spirit Thu, 29 May 2008 14:26:17 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-339 Bandwidth is a non-issue even if it goes into the Terabyte/month range. :) The only problem could be the space (depending on what else I decide to host in the future) but that is still in the green range. If it would become a problem I would put the big zip on the http://shub-hub.com By: Gilgamesh http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Gilgamesh Thu, 29 May 2008 12:45:28 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-337 a) And about the bandwidth use, is it ok for your host? By: negke http://www.quaddicted.com/quaddictedcom/how-would-you-like-your-arrrchief/comment-page-1/#comment-336 negke Thu, 29 May 2008 07:51:49 +0000 http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=123#comment-336 a)