How big is yours?

[Erax]

Jeez, who cares about the size ? Playing the game is the important part !

[dogscoff]

*bump*, for educational purposes...

[Andr�s]

Well my old computer has a small 3Gb so I have to optimize how I use disk space.
I reduced most pictures to 256 colors and and saved them as RLE encoded bmps, and zip mods I'm not using.
So even if I have nearly 200 shipsets, the entire se4 directory is less than 300 mb.

[dogscoff]

Awww.... Andres, that really disapponits me. I knew you had hundreds of races installed, and I was really looking forward to some astronomically huge HD install.

How dare you be so economical? You have to consume, consume, consume!

[Gryphin]

We should all chip in and get Andres a new hardrive for Yule

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:
Well my old computer has a small 3Gb so I have to optimize how I use disk space.
I reduced most pictures to 256 colors and and saved them as RLE encoded bmps, and zip mods I'm not using.
So even if I have nearly 200 shipsets, the entire se4 directory is less than 300 mb.

Well I have 1-gig on you as to drive, I have to look and see just how large it is (I can not bypass the EXE file ) I hace like 4 mods and 6 extra ship sets

[mlmbd]

Gryphin,

We should all chip in and get Andres a new hardrive for Yule

Count me in! Better, I will supply the HD and the pool money could be used for shipping!

mlmbd

[Andr�s]

I had posted this only as a comment and information, by reducing color depth to 256 colors and using RLE encoded bitmaps I could reduce the installed size of an average shipset to a little more than half a Mb with barely noticeable (if any) change in picture quality.
I don�t think I�m the only want who wants to save HD space, and this should be helpful for others.

I feel a little uncomfortable with this change of topic to "get Andr�s a new HD".
I don�t feel I have given you enough for such generosity. And I would feel obliged to repay you, if I get anything.

Adding a new larger HD to my old pentium II may help, but I can manage with this one, I just need to make some room from time to time. And there were other things that were higher in my priority list, increasing the 32Mb of memory should allow me to run 3dstudio more smoothly (and make shipsets without having to test my patience so much), and replacing the CD-ROM that does not work anymore.

Last year (2001) I was considering to get a whole new computer, but my economic situation this year wasn't as good as I expected (the worst part of course is that it wasn�t just me but everybody else around here) and there was always something more important than fixing a computer that after all keeps working.

For example I just spent $ 130 (arg. pesos that Last year used to be as good as american dollars), a sum that looks like a fortune for my devaluated salary that of course has not increased as all prices have, to get a new inkjet cartridge with only 22.8 ml of ink. After spending the whole week trying in vain to get a used recycled one because my old one was short-circuited and refilling it, that is what everybody does these days wouldn't help.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, mine is only a paltry 1.38 Gigs of disk space.
(24,129 files, 762 folders, 1,175,049,182 bytes of data, FAT32)

Not counting about 400megs on a RW-CD as a portable game install to carry to and from work, so I can play my game anytime on any machine (with a RW-drive, but they're pretty common now).

[mottlee]

Originally posted by mottlee:

quote:

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Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:
Well my old computer has a small 3Gb so I have to optimize how I use disk space.
I reduced most pictures to 256 colors and and saved them as RLE encoded bmps, and zip mods I'm not using.
So even if I have nearly 200 shipsets, the entire se4 directory is less than 300 mb.

Well I have 1-gig on you as to drive, I have to look and see just how large it is (I can not bypass the EXE file ) I hace like 4 mods and 6 extra ship sets

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OK OK OK 345 MB