Might be useful?

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* Alex Devlin wrote in alt.games.mame:
> I've just been shown a smart little program for compressing executable files.

> http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download (Win , Linux & Atari

> I managed to get mame32FXpp.exe from 37MB down to 7MB and it still be runs
> when packed.

> I know that in these days of huge drives that we might not need something
> like this all that often, but if you're still running with a small drive then
> it could free up some much needed space for you.

They used to use UPX to compress the exe. Took too much time and as you
say, these days, not really worth it.

--
David
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SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote in
news:acbgo2xt9s.ln2@news.gates_of_hell.com:

> * Alex Devlin wrote in alt.games.mame:
>> I've just been shown a smart little program for compressing executable
>> files.
>
>> http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download (Win , Linux & Atari
>
>> I managed to get mame32FXpp.exe from 37MB down to 7MB and it still be
>> runs when packed.
>
>> I know that in these days of huge drives that we might not need
>> something like this all that often, but if you're still running with a
>> small drive then it could free up some much needed space for you.
>
> They used to use UPX to compress the exe. Took too much time and as you
> say, these days, not really worth it.
>

I figured as much. I did notice on the site that it had been around for
awhile. I also vaguely remember using somthing like it years ago.


--
Alex Devlin

"Never knowingly understood."

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"Oenone" <oenone@nowhere.com> wrote in news:Nghte.28998$%21.3610@newsfe2-
gui.ntli.net:

> Alex Devlin wrote:
>> I figured as much. I did notice on the site that it had been around
>> for awhile. I also vaguely remember using somthing like it years ago.
>
> Reminds me of PowerPacker on the Amiga.
>

God I miss the Amiga days. I learned quite a lot about the OS as most of my
friends kept having errors when things didn't load properly. I used to spend
hours just poking around the files and seeing what everything was for.


--
Alex Devlin

"Never knowingly understood."

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PRoToCoL wrote:
>> Reminds me of PowerPacker on the Amiga.
>
> ah that brings back memories :-)
> You could have it flashing colour bars while it unpacked

Ah yes, those were the days....

Actually I used to swap games with someone who called himself Protocol --
you don't (or didn't) live in Birmingham (UK) do you?

--

(O) e n o n e

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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:08:53 GMT, "Oenone" <oenone@nowhere.com> wrote:


>> ah that brings back memories :-)
>> You could have it flashing colour bars while it unpacked

>Ah yes, those were the days....

>Actually I used to swap games with someone who called himself Protocol --
>you don't (or didn't) live in Birmingham (UK) do you?

Wow!....I did at the time *yes*
So who are you then ?

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Alex Devlin wrote on 19. June 2005:
>
> Also weird that I got a reply from you via email. I wasn't fully awake and
> for one awfull moment I thought I was using OE as my newsreader

May be I hit reply-by-mail? But then it should not show up in the
newsgroup.

Sorry anyway.
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SINNER wrote on 20. June 2005:
>
> * Alex Devlin wrote in alt.games.mame:
>
> [...]
>
>> Gmail gives you 1GB in 10MB chunks
>> (although it won't let you upload .exe's)
>
> You can either rename the file or zip without compression which is very
> fast. Oh, and it's 2 gigs now Between gmail and yousendit, I am good
> to go.

You also can send huge files from a Gmail account?

I wonder how much a 770 MB SVCD file bloats up when you send it by
email. Should be of one third, so just about to big to email it. *LOL*
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:11:01 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
<ankman@email.com> wrote:

>>>> ah that brings back memories :-)
>>>> You could have it flashing colour bars while it unpacked

>>>Ah yes, those were the days....

>>>Actually I used to swap games with someone who called himself Protocol --
>>>you don't (or didn't) live in Birmingham (UK) do you?

>> Wow!....I did at the time *yes*
>> So who are you then ?

>The guy you got your games from. ;-)

Could be.....I knew some very BIG names in the Amiga scene

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:41:46 GMT, "Oenone" <oenone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>PRoToCoL wrote:
>> Wow!....I did at the time *yes*
>> So who are you then ?
>
>You have an email address you can share so we can talk off-group?

sure .....protocol at blueyonder dot co dot uk

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Andreas Kohlbach <ankman@email.com> wrote in
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kman.de:

> Alex Devlin wrote on 19. June 2005:
>>
>> Also weird that I got a reply from you via email. I wasn't fully awake
>> and for one awfull moment I thought I was using OE as my newsreader
>
> May be I hit reply-by-mail? But then it should not show up in the
> newsgroup.
>
> Sorry anyway.

Andreas don't apologize*, it was just weird seeing an email from you
replying to a message in here.

I actually got a message from what seems to be a forum telling me there was
a reply to my message. But I only posted the message here. Can't remember
the name of the site or forum but it had "game" in the title.


*If you want to apologize for anything how about those Amiga CD's I was
holding for you about 3-4 years ago when you were getting ready to move and
had no address for me to send them to. (Remember that?) :-)


--
Alex Devlin

"Never knowingly understood."

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Alex Devlin wrote on 20. June 2005:
>
> Andreas Kohlbach <ankman@email.com> wrote in
> newsnly_broken_newsreaders_show_this_in_the_body.m2hdfsonns.fsf@usenet.an
> kman.de:
>
>> Alex Devlin wrote on 19. June 2005:
>>>
>>> Also weird that I got a reply from you via email. I wasn't fully awake
>>> and for one awfull moment I thought I was using OE as my newsreader
>>
>> May be I hit reply-by-mail? But then it should not show up in the
>> newsgroup.
>>
>> Sorry anyway.
>
> Andreas don't apologize*, it was just weird seeing an email from you
> replying to a message in here.
>
> I actually got a message from what seems to be a forum telling me there was
> a reply to my message. But I only posted the message here. Can't remember
> the name of the site or forum but it had "game" in the title.

That was the spammer I complaint for in the thread with Storewars.

> *If you want to apologize for anything how about those Amiga CD's I was
> holding for you about 3-4 years ago when you were getting ready to move and
> had no address for me to send them to. (Remember that?) :-)

Yes. I'm sorry. ;-)

Anyway, still have no address, visiting somebody else instead. may be I
have an address in a couple of months, if I can afford the flats here...

Where are you located?

F'up poster.
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