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May 15th, 2003, 11:29 AM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
Not sure. The blank CD I have here offers 702 meg.
If I look at the properties screen for my shrapnel dir, it says it takes up 741 meg (777,617,052 bytes), but that that's 786meg (825,196,544 bytes) on disk. Confusing. I assume the "size on disk" figure is a product of Windoze' bloaty file system, and that the former number is the one that would apply if I were to copy the files to a CD.
What I will probably do is leave out (or zip up) a number of the less-used races.
I just thought this would be an interesting thread for anyone trying to save a little space.
Also I think I have screwed up my sounds folder.  Anyone know where I can download the enhanced sound mod? Doesn't seem to be on the Gold CD.
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May 15th, 2003, 03:12 PM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
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Anyone know where I can download the enhanced sound mod? Doesn't seem to be on the Gold CD.
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This may be what you want, Dogscoff
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Mod: Tampa_Gamer Sound Mod maintained by Tampa_Gamer Mod Version: 1.40 SE4 Version: 1.60+
Description: Space Empires IV Gold Version 1.xx (Compatable with all future Versions)
March 6, 2002 (verified February 1, 2003)
Tampa_Gamer Sounds Mod 1.40
This sound mod will replace almost all of your 60 original sound files.
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I just thought this would be an interesting thread for anyone trying to save a little space.
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This is a very interesting thread; I just wish my CD burner received with my windows 98 Gateway Computer, were compatible with the new XP Windows I installed; so I can do what your doing 
[ May 15, 2003, 15:11: Message edited by: JLS ]
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May 15th, 2003, 03:26 PM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
Thanks JLS. I think the problem may reside in the words "almost all " in that description. I deleted all my original sound files, not "almost all" of them.
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May 15th, 2003, 03:38 PM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
What if you were to zip up the entire thing, and just put an autorun file in there. You could have the thing automatically unpack to the HD when you throw in the disk!
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May 15th, 2003, 07:37 PM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
Hey dogscoff. I really like what you're doing. I'm too lazy to do it myself. Could you put your "optimized" cd image up for download when you're done?
*minus "se4.exe" of course*
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May 16th, 2003, 09:49 AM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
Good idea Urendi, except I'm on dialup and a 800 meg upload would not be fun.
I guess I could send you a CD by snail mail though, if you PM me your address. I think I'll probably "make the burn" next week, after I've spent the weekend on the KanesS images.
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May 16th, 2003, 03:40 PM
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Re: Reducing the SE4 footprint.
Lessee, 800 MB at ~3.5KB upload per second (pretty generous with my ISP), it would take...
*taps calculator keys furiously*
...approximately 3900 minutes, or 65 hours, or 2.7 days.  That's assuming, of course, that you remembered to turn off call waiting so you didn't get disconnected halfway through.
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