.rar???

Neil3030

just discovered these files. they appear to be just like zip files. neone know anything about them?

vicadd

Yes - .rar files are just like zip files. There's a shareware program called WINRAR that will decompress them for you.

Lenny

I find that winrar file's are more compressed than zipped, the program it's self is much better to us (in my opnion), the interface is much more... harder than zip, but you'll get used to it quite quick

Paladin

I dont like it tbh.
Its too hard

Generally I only zip stuff to dcc/email to people, so its pointless using winrar since most ppl dont use it.

MiCr0

.rar is good for spanning several discs

Neil3030

well it obviously isnt that popular, seeing as it is the first time i have ever come across it on the net, after having the net for several years now.

but i'll admit it is good.

Lenny

it is quite popular on kinda homemade/dodgy sites
I am comming accross it more often now
I find it's used when I am dl a couple of file's that would then maek one big one

beserker

winace is the best archiver imho Neil. Way nicer than rar or winzip. Handled any file I've ever ran through it.

Gunn4r

.rar is in fact very popular with warez d00ds who generally compress iso's and 'rips' with it. Ace I believe is used by these same warez types as it is easy to write simple installers using it.

Canaboid

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Neil3030:
well it obviously isnt that popular, seeing as it is the first time i have ever come across it on the net, after having the net for several years now.

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LOL.

elexes

i think its very popular i use it the hole time all m m8's in collage use it over winzip all my files on my web site are rar'ed and most files i dl are also rar'ed

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what type of world will we live in when there is no world ?

Koopa

rar archives have the best compression ive come across, they usually also take the longest to compress (on maximum settings)

ace files are somtimes the same compression as rar, but sometimes as bad as zip, overall i think rar is the best

although if youre putting something on the net, youre best off using zip because everyone knows about zip files etc.

by the way, that small version of quake i did is a rar archive

Neil3030

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by elexes:
i think its very popular i use it the hole time all m m8's in collage use it over winzip all my files on my web site are rar'ed and most files i dl are also rar'ed

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I refuse to listen to anyone who mispells the word colllegde

po0k

I actually heard of .rar's about...oooooh.....5-6 years ago. My cousin had a CD with loads of crakd games on it. They were all in .rar format but I didn't have the net (or PC - just Amiga 600 - rmember them? ) so I couldn't use em.

while we're on the subject, can you salvage the data in a file that has been zipped, but when u go to unzip it it tells u that it doesn't have enpigh compression data?
Its the data.lbm file (i think) form the OPerationnFlashpoint demo. that's right, the big one. 30megs. D/led over 8hours on 28.8, and now this. I used GoZilaa cos Getright was getting uppity over meh not being able to shell out for the registration fee.
oh and thanks for the link. I'm getting WinAce now as i typoe.

Moriarty

*.rar's and *.ace's are far supperior to .zip for a number of reasons. They firstly almost always provide better compression than .zip. They are also recoverable if the file is damaged for some reason, so if your download gets fuxed up, the file can usually be repaired (handy for 15meg files and the like - *cough* )

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Gunn4r

15 meg files, you wouldnt be downloading ISO's now would you? tsk tsk

Stonemason

Hhahahaha amiga 600 you were had m8y should have stumped up for the 1200 or stuck with the 500.

Stone

Moriarty

id never do somin like that gunnar

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po0k

Ahhhh, stone I dunno, the A600 did everything I wanted ie: play games.
It came with the origional Geoff Crammond Grand Prix, Putty, and a game about 'Quavers' crisps. Oh and a nice mouse too
My cousins had one too but we never got around to serial linking them. Shame, Lotus2 linked would've rooled.

Still I revived it only this weekend, repaired the floppy after an abortive attempt to figure out how one works a few years ago after the power box (fuse actually as i later found out) blew.
PC floppys don't work apparently. Too high capacity. Ammmm, Sega Megadrive controllers work correctluy don't they?

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by [FCA]SyxPak:

PC floppys don't work apparently. Too high capacity. Ammmm, Sega Megadrive controllers work correctluy don't they?</font>

Re: the floppies- as far as I'm aware they were DSDD floppies (double-sided double-density) rather than the high-density floppies which came into standard use on PC's. Therefore their capacity was 740Kb rather than 1.44Mb.

Technically "PC floppies" do work- they just have to be the right variety - i.e.: as you correctly pointed out, - the lower capacity ones.

As for the Megadrive controller working on it, I believe the answer there is "oh yes". It was a standard 9-pin (?) serial connection.

Remember the "Bug" joystick that came out for the Amiga? That thing was dead cool

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Bard

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"We do know it was we who scorched the sky..."

po0k

heh, yeah, Mega drive controllers work, but hey're not serial (PC wise). But my ones seem to want to complement each otehr.........
I plug in the pad into game0 (mouse port), sega joystick (quickshot one £6 when I bought it) into game 1. then only the x-axis will work on pad and no fire butons and only y-axis and B fire button on joysk.........

Ps I read on a emulator site that the Amiga floppy format gets 880KB onto a DD floppy.
They're the same disks physically but totally differnet file systems.
I have to get my hands on a copy of 'Cross-Dos' for the amiga so i can copy the ROM image to my PC.
Also teh theme tunes from Lotus2 and Cannon Fodder rule.
PC floppy drives have same connectors but i think the timing chips are differnet, there are a plethora of jmpers on the back of the Amiga floppy, but only a few (some hidden too) on PC floppy.
Long Live retro in the days where a game won't work until u've downloaded 10 times its origional size in patches....

Stephen

Ah, the amiga... i have fond memories of my amiga 600 Megadrive pads worked just fine on it, except one of the three buttons (i think) didn't work. "ZipStick" joysticks ruled

Sensible soccer had a knack of making you break any joystick you chose to plug into an amiga