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Classic Arcade Graphics Price Drop THREAD IS NOW: GROUP PURCHASE N0:2
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 05, 2007, 11:34:56 am ---50 DVD's or 100? 200gig drive or 400gig drvie? Which is faster / cheaper ? :)
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When you're talking 400gb raw and 200gb compressed/archived, the logistics of working with a 200gb archive are probably enough to make it not worth doing. The better way would probably be a bunch of single archives at 2-4GB each (NOT one archive split on 4gb).
RandyT:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 05, 2007, 11:44:33 am ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 05, 2007, 11:34:56 am ---50 DVD's or 100? 200gig drive or 400gig drvie? Which is faster / cheaper ? :)
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When you're talking 400gb raw and 200gb compressed/archived, the logistics of working with a 200gb archive are probably enough to make it not worth doing. The better way would probably be a bunch of single archives at 2-4GB each (NOT one archive split on 4gb).
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Anyone who makes an archive that big would need his head examined. I'm talking about compressing the individual files. There would be no benefit to handling something that large in a single lump.
RandyT
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: steveh on February 05, 2007, 10:54:20 am ---400gb would be near impossible to distribute efficiently. how many of us have 400gb of free space available on a single drive
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Dude! a 500gb external hard drive on a USB connection costs under £120 at retail price and significantly less from some suppliers.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 05, 2007, 12:07:45 pm ---Anyone who makes an archive that big would need his head examined. I'm talking about compressing the individual files. There would be no benefit to handling something that large in a single lump.
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Distribution in a single lump is much easier than in hundreds of individual ones.
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on February 05, 2007, 08:09:28 am ---Eventually most of the artwork will be available to the BYOAC community in one form or another. Right now most of us that originally donated have access to the artwork, but as a courtesy to Classic Arcade Graffix we'd prefer not to turn around and give his product to the whole community for free straight away; doing so would completely devalue the artwork that he's put a serious amount of time and effort into and wouldn't be fair on him, or others that have bought the artwork as business investments (like MameMarquees).
I'm putting together a web-gallery with low/medium resolution versions of everything, so everyone gets to take a look at the artwork.
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To add to what I posted in the other thread, here's the site I've been putting together:
http://artwork.joymonkey.com
Uploading everything is pretty tedious, but eventually everything will be up there and people outside of the original group buy will be able to browse through low-resolution versions of everything, then request the specific pieces they're looking for in full res.
The way I see it, it's better to have a quick look at a piece of sideart and decide if it's what you want that to download a 2gb version of the same image only to see it's not what you had in mind.
Again, none of this is going to happen overnight, but eventually I hope it will work out in everyones favor without stepping on anyones toes.