the only download he has on his site is the mssapi stuff and I think only because that was a necessary requirement. I don't think by choice he whould have it. I would recomend not trying to use his site for the download as you can get this on bpc or other places. At 01:55 p.m. 16/12/2008, you wrote: >Hi, > >Quote > It also probably does reduce the cost of hosting the games. > I am not into this but it must cost devs here some cash for each mb > downloaded. > Therefore if the games are small enough it makes sence not to bother >with downloads. >End quote > >yes, that is true. Most web hosting companies charges a certain amount >for the amount of bandwidth you use. As a result if you have a lot of >e-mail, software downloads, unusually high number of people visiting >your web site, etc that all adds up and takes away from your bandwidth >alotment. >For example, USA Games has a commercial web hosting plan that gives us >quite a bit of bandwidth. I believe it is a 4 GB bandwidth alotment >per month. Everytime someone visits the USA Games web site, downloads >a file, or sends me e-mail via one of my USA Games mailing addresses >it takes a few points off of my bandwith alotment. If I should go over >4 GB a month I would then end up owing extra money that month to pay >for the extra bandwidth used. >Ian doesn't strike me as the type who would want to pay for commercial >grade web hosting plans, and also wouldn't like getting a bill at the >end of the month if someone happened to exceed his bandwidth alotment. >So this would be a very good reason why he might not want to offer >downloads. >Smile. > > >On 12/15/08, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think he wants a personal touch on who has the games, ie he knows who has >> them etc. >> It also probably does reduce the cost of hosting the games. >> I am not into this but it must cost devs here some cash for each mb >> downloaded. >> Therefore if the games are small enough it makes sence not to bother with >> downloads. >> He seems to be doing this is a hobby and seems to have the time to send >> things. >> My only regret is there is not a single link to get an installer to load all >> his games at once. >> However some of his games use 16 bit installers the others don't. >> At 12:54 p.m. 16/12/2008, you wrote: >>>Hi Allison, >>>Not to my knowledge. I am not sure why Ian doesn't want to put his >>>games up for download, but he likes delivering them via e-mail for >>>reasons of his own. >>>Smile. >>> >>> >>> >>>On 12/15/08, Allison Mervis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi all! >>>> Does anyone know if Ian Humphreys is planning to begin offering his games >>>> for download? I had him send me BG yahtzee when I had a different email >>>> provider, and I loved it, but GMail has always been funny about >>>> attachments, >>>> and it would really be faster if I could download them from somewhere. >>>> I'd >>>> love to check out more of his games. 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