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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: ATROPHY details
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 96 01:11:31 GMT
- Organization: E. Scrooge's Humbug Factory
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- C:DEMONSPOOLMAIL (Atrophy@otmltd.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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- > * Atrophy has no less than 10 Ham-8 pictures (16.5 million colour),
- > count in the other graphics and your talking a staggering 100+ MB
- > worth of gfx for the game!
- > * Over 3MB of some of the best sounding music ever
-
- Can someone check my maths here?
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- 100MB + 3MB=103MB
-
- > * Minimum disk swapping. As big as the game is, it still only comes
- > on 4 disks or CD
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- 4 * 880KB=3520KB or ~3.44MB
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- 3.44MB / 103MB * 100= 3.34% of the original size!
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- And that's only the gfx! These guys ought to be writing compression
- software.
-
- Paul
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