----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> Sent: 1. Ĩervence 1999 17:45 Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
> Nick Humphries wrote: > > >Well, you could make installation a hell of a lot easier by not asking > >the user to find and install various external programs before you can > >get SimCoupe running. It's bad enough that you have to find, download > >and install the sound chip driver. IMHO everything should be in a > >single install set, and ideally as a single program. > > You can read gz files with zlib if you want to do it internally -- it's > sort of what it's for, really... > > >I disagree. It depends who you aim the emulator at. If you're going for your > >regular emulation fan, then most of them would only recognise .ZIP files or > >self-extracting EXEs. Any other type of compression (gzip, lha, arc, whatever) > >would require a more techie type of person who'd know about these less common > >(in PC-land) compressors. > > WinZip can handle gz files, and I think Zip Magic can, too. Right-click > and choose the extract option... hardly rocket science, is it? Zlib can > be used on Win32, DOS, a lot of UNIX systems, and probablly MacOS. I > *really* hope you're not thinking of placing sam disks in *DOS* > executables... that's just completely insane. > Also, I *really* hate to have to point this out, but zip's method is the > *same* as gzip's... The difference is that gzip compresses a single > file, which is all you need. Zip files would have the complication of > extracting the dsk or sad file from the archive. If there's more than > one file, which one do you use? Gzip is better for single files. End of > story. Please try to read some documentation on the subject. Most of the current Sam-related stuff at NVG and other servers is ZIPped (pk). So I preffer this way. Maybe we can include support for gzip and zip, but this only means longer code. Since GZIP is not able to pack more files together, I consider ZIP better. Imagine you have one ZIP with all Fred issues, and when you run it, emulator askes you what volume to you want. ZIP files can contain "file_id.diz" or other description .txt file. This is not possible when using gzip. (I think.) > What's wrong with zlib? Why the hell would people want to write > something new when gz is better and is easier to implement? > -- > Stuart Brady We have ZIP sources as well, and ZIP can pack multiple files. That's positive, isn't it? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aley [eili] Keprt - student, programmer (multimedia soft. etc.) phone: +420-68-538 70 35 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley ----------------------------------------------------------------