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Poster: Wendell Date: Jan 27, 2003 6:21am
Forum: macromedia Subject: Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments?

I disagree with your point about making high-resolution TIFF images unavailable. You're talking about making hundreds of gigs worth of data available for downloading, and, for each, 100MB of "perfect" graphic data which could be further compressed with an archiver is somehow an issue? :-) Seems a bit silly... And I seriously doubt you'd have some overwhelming onslaught of people downloading those files anyway.

Regarding additional titles, this is an interesting concept indeed! I imagine that archive.org has some sort of legal representative who might be able to help "free" these? Personally, I would love to see some of the old way-out-of-print Sierra "talkie" CDs made available. Quality early multimedia! How fondly I recall playing King's Quest V for the first time, and being completely awe-struck when that bloody tree started singing to me. ;-)

And who can forget the ants.

*single tear*

-W

http://www.hoshinori.org/cube/tape/snowing_on_desert_lull.mp3

http://www.hoshinori.org/cube/tape/biciclette_rmx.mp3

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Poster: dbarnes Date: Jan 28, 2003 5:12am
Forum: macromedia Subject: Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments?

Please evaluate the feasability of using PNG, a lossless graphical format, instead of JPG. I want to scream everytime I try to read documents that were scanned and converted to JPG format..it's hard on the eyes!

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Poster: Wendell Date: Jan 27, 2003 6:33am
Forum: macromedia Subject: Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments?

I just had a thought about "load distribution"...

Why not make the files additionally available through an intelligent peer-to-peer network such as eDonkey or Overnet? It would simply be a matter of providing an ed2k link with the appropriate checksum in place, and the user would be able to download an ACCURATE version of the image. You could even state outright that archive.com will not provide support if concerned about such hassles. My point is that those who already use such services would know what to do, and I believe it would free up a great deal of your overall resources.

Hey, how about that... A GOOD legal use for these networks!

-W

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Poster: Sonic201 Date: Mar 23, 2020 8:23am
Forum: macromedia Subject: Find ABC Theater (Kidzup Interactive Learning Kits)

Find ABC Theater (Kidzup Interactive Learning Kits) Disk for me so you can upload the ABC Theater (Kidzup Interactive Learning Kits) iso/bin in the Archive.org

https://archive.org/details/ABCTheaterKidzupInteractiveLearningKits

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Poster: simon c Date: Feb 3, 2003 2:22am
Forum: macromedia Subject: Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments?

hey,

just wanted to thank everyone for the VERY helpful replies to this post. it's given me a lot more information from the community to work with as i continue to test out possible scenarios for the CD-ROM archive.

thanks again,
simon.