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Old 17-03-2004, 09:37 PM   #1
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I was wondering how many people would be interrested in cd image files as a download rather then a rip like most games you find on abandonware sites. The advantage of image files over rips is that you have complete games without missing movie files and such. The disadvantage is of course you need a cd burner (or at least a virtual cd rom drive) for it to work at all.
So how do you all feel about putting up image files?
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Old 17-03-2004, 09:46 PM   #2
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I think that's a great idea - it always gets to me when I download a game and find out it doesn't have sound effects or music or digitised speech. Although practically I think we'd have to supply a rip as a download next to the CD image because of not everybody having CD writers and also some people still only have dial-up access and downloading large files would be a no-no.
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Old 17-03-2004, 09:53 PM   #3
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Plus imagine how much space that would take up.... 7GB for 10 titles? Whooosh... maybe when I win the lottery
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Old 18-03-2004, 06:06 AM   #4
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images don't have to be large. I was thinking specifically about an image of master of magic. I'll check into how big that would be precisely.
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Old 18-03-2004, 08:04 AM   #5
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I think that is a very good idea, especially with the fact that I'm pretty soon gonna get broadband. The only problem (and its a pretty big problem as Kosta said) is the size.

edit: i thought i was going crazy when i wrote that name... funny.
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Old 18-03-2004, 10:50 AM   #6
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Good sugestion Picard... BUT.. as allready pointed out, the ONLY problem is the size...
The last few additions have been in the 20-40 MB range, and that is at the upper limit i guess..
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Old 18-03-2004, 01:31 PM   #7
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Good idea picard ...but parallel to cd images you should keep ripped games because not everybody(including me ops: ) has cd writers
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Old 18-03-2004, 04:06 PM   #8
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In the case of Master of Magic I have both a rip and the actual cd so as long as Kosta OK's that we could put them both up.
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Old 18-03-2004, 04:13 PM   #9
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I do believe there is a way to use CD images without turning it into a CD
and if there isn't... I oppose
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Old 18-03-2004, 05:37 PM   #10
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yea there is a way. I can't remember the name but It makes a virtual
cd-rom thenn you can extract the ISO image onto this "drive" and play from there.
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