FACTS AND FIGURES
Time for some calculation ! While we thought this issue would be damn thin,
many last - but really LAST - minute contributions hit my mailbox so that in
the end this is another fat enough issue, offering long hours of reading. You
may also notice that AliVeFIVE comes as an ST or Falcon version : except for a
specific intro and in-mag soundtrack there are NO differences between them.
Then why two versions ? Simply because the nice soundtrack I was given is 195Kb
once PACKED ! As a consequence the ST version broke the limits of a DD floppy
and creates a ZIP file that is too big to be transferred easily to your ST. To
solve this little problem I chose to use the smallest soundtrack I could find
for the ST version. It doesn't matter much since ST owners can't enjoy it but
the shell needs to find an *.mod file to work properly.
Naturally including both intros would also have caused size problems while
Falcon users will logically use an HD floppy to transfer to their machine.
Enough explanations, let's bore you with some figures now !
> Msx (7 files) about 300Kb unpacked and still 206Kb icepacked !
> Piccies (21 files) amouting to 670Kb unpacked now reduced to 290Kb.
> Texts (70 files) amounting to about 740Kb unpacked and 345Kb packed
> Extras : the ST intro takes 70Kb and the Falcon one 100Kb.
Final results :
* ST version would have been 1.6Mb big ! It should shrink to 760Kb packed
* Falcon version would be 1.85Mb big now hopefully reduced to about 1Mb.
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