Hi Raul, I am sure Shaun and Sarah were trying to be helpful, but I do agree that is beside the original point I was attempting to make in my post. As you explained it I am one of those who uses open source formats and technology quite a bit and some things have become standardised across all platforms. The zip format is one of those things that is now supported by Unix, Windows, and Mac. Even Windows XP can open them without winzip, pk zip, unzip, or any other extraction tool. I personally feel if someone is going to redistribute a game, music, document, etc to redistribute it in a common format, and not use proprietary formats. An unrelated but related idea here is since I like storing music on the computer I use mp3 rather than real media. Real media is ok, but I can't drop it in winamp, a portible mp3 player, Windows media player, mpg123, you name it. I don't need any special player to play it as mp3 has become one of the most common portible and commonly used and supported music/audio formats.
Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > I think you are missing the point. When you see and use a common > archival method such as gz or zip and you are asked to install a piece > of software just to unpack one or two occasional games, some might not > see the value in doing so. > > Recently on another gamers list, someone posted a walkthrough for a text > adventure game. They posted it in word format. A few days later he was > asked to remove it and instead post it in plain text. This was for a > similar reason. Not everyone uses word and not everyone wants to go and > install a word viewer just to read a text adventure solution. This is > a similar issue. Not everyone uses rar, this is regardless of how easy > or how free it might be installing a compatible rar extractor. > > Cheers. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
