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ZIPs vs. Self Extracting Archives

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 12, 2006 - 11:19am

I'm considering switching from ZIPs to self-extracting archives for the app downloads. This wouldn't be an installer, just a standard self extractor created by 7-zip. Run the EXE, it asks where to extract to, you click OK. I think this will be easier for the less-technical end users. And it shouldn't impact any users on limited rights machines as it isn't an installer.

Any thoughts?

Back!

Submitted by Ashes for Tears on April 11, 2006 - 1:22pm

Hi guys! Sorry for the long absence; school, home, and a bunch of other responsibilities just came crashing down about my ears. I hope to find you all well, and hopefully I haven't missed a lot.

Cheers!
Ashes

Working portable games (not crappy solitaire type ones)

Submitted by dyce on April 10, 2006 - 11:38pm

Doom! 1 and 2
you need the WADS though, and i use jDoom cuz its shiney. I also downloaded the old model pack (10mb)
the program does a autoscan for the wads
u might want to search google for zdoom, because jdoom probably needs a high end comp (3d!)
http://doomsdayhq.com

Truck Dismount
RAGDOLL PHYSICS!!!!!
the dummy is in the truck and you can set up obstacles for him, like put jumps on, and make the truck go fast. get the highest score by hurting the guy a lot. they also have stair dismount where u push him down some stairs. its in 3d too, and it probably works on all systems since it worked on my laptop which had a 64mb of ram, some crap 4mb sis gfx card, and 500 mhz amd k6.

Nice site!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 10, 2006 - 1:26pm

You guys have a great site going here...I will be sure to tell all my friends about it! Biggrin

Aren't there a lot of games that are already portable?

Submitted by Ayavaron on April 9, 2006 - 6:01pm

I know of many games that are already self-contained and portable, so is there any reason why they aren't on the site?

ZSNES is a portable SNES emulater.

Nexuiz is totally portable and its a great game. Open Arena is also portable. There are really a lot of available games that are portable. So, basically, I ask why they aren't on the site.

Milkytracker: Portable music creation app

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 9, 2006 - 2:16pm

hi Wink

I want to recommend this music creation tool.

MILKYTRACKER

www.milkytracker.net

Info:
Fasttracker2 clone. Tracker style program for create music. Built-in sampleeditor.
Sopports following module music formats:669, AMS, AMF, CBA, DIGI, DSM, FAR, GDM, IMF, MOD, MDL, MTM, MXM, OKT, PLM, PSM, PTM, S3M, STM, ULT, UNI and XM
Export to: XM, MOD and WAV formats

Posting code with: code and pre

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 6, 2006 - 10:20am

As Thox helpfully pointed out, it appears I originally had the code html tag set to display block and I had disabled pre (which should be used for long blocks of code). I've corrected the issue in the CSS and a couple posts. But if you have a post that you used code to display a block of code, you'll need to update it to pre. If there are other posts that need updating, post a link here and I'll fix em.

As an example... here's some code inline using the code tag so it sits mid-sentence. And here's a:

pre example
with different stuff on each line
20 goto 10

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