Zipped Files

[Wayne]

Hi,

Can I please request on future releases that you don't use colons in the folder names?

FIRST WAVE 9:19:18
SECOND WAVE 9:25:18

The colon is a directory separator on MacOS and although the Finder will cope and represent them as a / some utilities will still read them as a ":" and it may cause problems.

I'd also prefer Australian date format but I realise I'm pushing my luck there :D

Thanks,

Wayne

[CJM]

I can't get the second wave to open. The destination file could not be created? I'm not a computer wiz, so am I doing something wrong? Didn't have any problem on the first wave.

[Skarg]

I had that problem too, I think because I had been reading the previous beta zip by just clicking on it, and the new zip has similar folders, so I think the operating system's built-in way of handling zip files may be getting confused and not wanting to overwrite the previous files. By extracting or copying the new contents to a different location on your computer, I think you may get around that problem. That worked for me, anyway.

[CJM]

Thanks Much! I'll give it a try:-)

[CJM]

Skarg,
Thanks again it worked.

[XRaysVision]

I just didn't see the sense in Zipping them. They're relatively small for any sort of storage or transmission these days. It's a pain for those of us with MacOS and iOS.

Or, was this a just part of the nostalgia; recalling the days of 300 baud acoustic couplers and Compuserve?

No, seriously, don't Zip them...

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by XRaysVision

I just didn't see the sense in Zipping them.
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No, seriously, don't Zip them...

It does make sense, in that it's only one file to download. So a lot less clicks but there is negligible space saving.

[philreed]

Originally Posted by Wayne

It does make sense, in that it's only one file to download.

Agreed. One file is a lot easier for me (personally), than tracking several different files.

[brandonm]

I recently updated the zip file this morning to address these concerns with folder names and strip out some extraneous junk that macOS adds to compressed files.

There have been reports that on Windows 10 machines, you might be downloading the file into a protected folder and the file won't open properly. The solution is to download it and uncompress it inside an unprotected folder.

If anyone is still have an issue uncompressing the file please write us at kickstart@sjgames.com with a description of your issue as well as what OS and compression application you are using to uncompress the file.

Thanks! -Brandon

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by XRaysVision

Or, was this a just part of the nostalgia; recalling the days of 300 baud acoustic couplers and Compuserve?

Oh, in that case it's be a flat text file and you'd rely on XMODEM-1K or ZMODEM, with the forums full of arguments as to which of those were faster next to the complaints that they weren't supporting Compuserve B, along with the arguments as to whether MNP5 or V.42bis resulted in faster data transfers.