How big file wise was alpha 4

Makasouleater69 · May 30, 2014

Just wondering cause I see they aren't letting us download early, and it have a super slow 200kbs internet. Thanks for any help

techen · May 30, 2014

Makasouleater69 said:
Just wondering cause I see they aren't letting us download early, and it have a super slow 200kbs internet. Thanks for any help

I bought it today and it was 14.1 mb lol

Fluke · May 30, 2014

The actual game once installed currently takes 3.14GB, though I'm not sure whether that's smaller during download due to compression.

One thing that I've only just noticed though is that it installs the main files in your user/Appdata/Local folder for some weird reason. Only the launcher appears to live in the installation folder.

Dejay · May 30, 2014

The launcher is only 14mb but afaik the launcher downloads more. So can't say for sure how much is downloaded.

Mack · May 30, 2014

Dejay said:
The launcher is only 14mb but afaik the launcher downloads more. So can't say for sure how much is downloaded.

Alpha 4.03 was 1.6Gb download well (1.55 GB (1,674,400,801 bytes) to be exact !)

Makasouleater69 · May 30, 2014

Thanks very much guys.

JackGilligan · May 30, 2014

techen said:
I bought it today and it was 14.1 mb lol

14.1MB is absolutely gigantic compared to the 38K or so the original C-64 Elite had to work with!

CoderX71 · May 30, 2014

Arghhh ... been waiting so long for the Beta to open and now the installer is coming in at 400kb/s .... sooooo slow .... going to be midnight when it's done

trekman · May 30, 2014

JackGilligan said:
14.1MB is absolutely gigantic compared to the 38K or so the original C-64 Elite had to work with!

The original BBC model B version was even less than 38k

Robert Maynard · May 30, 2014

trekman said:
The original BBC model B version was even less than 38k

22kiB.

Mack · May 30, 2014

trekman said:
The original BBC model B version was even less than 38k

the Beeb only had 32k of RAM, yes 32,768 bytes.

For comparison, an empty MS word document (yes empty with no text in) is 12,504 bytes

The screen display used mode 5 (IIRC), which itself used 10,240 bytes leaving just 22,528 bytes for the computer & game to operate in, or in other words, less that 2 empty word documents!

Now, that's real programming for you !

Cmdr Esteban · May 30, 2014

CoderX71 said:
Arghhh ... been waiting so long for the Beta to open and now the installer is coming in at 400kb/s .... sooooo slow .... going to be midnight when it's done

My launcher says it's coming in at 0.15-0.24 MB/s - now about 75% complete. So no more than about 30 minutes or so I guess... Just posting to pass the time.

Do you see, Mr Braben, do you see what you have wrought?!

trekman · May 30, 2014

Robert Maynard said:
22kiB.

Mack said:
the Beeb only had 32k of RAM, yes 32,768 bytes.

For comparison, an empty MS word document (yes empty with no text in) is 12,504 bytes

The screen display used mode 5 (IIRC), which itself used 10,240 bytes leaving just 22,528 bytes for the computer & game to operate in, or in other words, less that 2 empty word documents!

Now, that's real programming for you !

The BBC model B was a grand old machine. I remember mine fondly.

Patrick_68000 · May 30, 2014

Mack said:
the Beeb only had 32k of RAM, yes 32,768 bytes.

For comparison, an empty MS word document (yes empty with no text in) is 12,504 bytes

The screen display used mode 5 (IIRC), which itself used 10,240 bytes leaving just 22,528 bytes for the computer & game to operate in, or in other words, less that 2 empty word documents!

Now, that's real programming for you !

I had read that the original Elite was taking less space than an email today