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Re: The Monster that is Windows
« on: July 03, 2004, 11:54:31 AM »
JaXanim, use instead Winrar.

It handle a LOT of archieving formats, like zip, ace, rar(!), and fully Amiga compatible lha!

The rar compression is superior but slower than zip.
But winrar can also create zip archives like winzip, and the compression speed seems the same.

It has a good feature the winzip sucks : file splitting.
Winzip only splits to removable media, like floppys (bah!) not to HD.

BTW: What specs have your PC ?
Win2000 can be very heavy for old machines. It also needs at least 64MB for working. with 128MB it performs quite nicely (as long your CPU is fast)

It needs a PII ou better PIII for good performance. With anything older it will surelly drag (correct me if i'm wrong).

If you have a modern P4 or AMD Athlon, go for XP !
I takes 4GB of your precious HD but I really recomend it.
It needs 256MB or more to avoid abusing the virtual memory.

It's quite stable and have some goods features win2000 lacks, like hibernation.

BTW2: If you really like the amiga mod music files, try deliplayer (http://www.deliplayer.com/) . It's the best mod player on the PC. It really sounds good (winamp also supports it, but the mods sometimes sounds bad)

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