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| From: Don Judy
Date: 2000-04-21
Subject: Re: lynx format
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Veres Ferenc wrote:
>
> Hi Don Judy and others!
>
> > Some people are so foolish as to not have a C64 or 128 set up or available all
> > the time. In this case, the advantage of .lnx would be that the Plus/4 has a lnx
>
> Hehe, that's cool. But tell me how much of the internet users use plus4
> only. I think 99% uses a pc for connection, so they can use d64 easily.
> If you use a plus4 and modem, probably you use a unix shell account, where
> you (the 1% of the users) can convert the d64 to any format by cbmconvert.
> (if the plus4 lnx is compatible with the c64 lnx, but seems it is)
>
> That's why I decided not deleting but loving the d64 format on the ftp!
> (why? the big difference between 99 and 1)
>
> But ofcurse I see no problem with lnx, I've stopped converting the
> uploaded file to any format :) (sometimes, I make .prg from onefiled
> game's .d64.zip :)
Hi Lion,
Yes, I connect with a pc. It is temporarily a pain in the cassette port for me to deal with .d64 and getting files over to the Little Black Box. This will change.
I understand and appreciate the reasoning behind your preference of .d64 over
.prg, raw binary files, p00, whatever. Well actually .d64 can be a waste of space and download time, so it's good if you notice a one filer .d64 and convert to .prg. Work for you that you don't need really, but I personally reap the benefits if you do that and I thank you. I love the plus4 ftp site and have been going there for 3 or 4 years I think. 1 is better than 99, not to mentioning naming and keeping files together for download. Plus/4 lynx is compatible with C64 lynx, I'm glad you allow this format. Now if I could just find the program that makes Plus/4 self extracting archives I'd be set. Or a native Plus/4 .d64
file extractor which I'll try to write at some point if no one else does.
dj
dj
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