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02-07-2002, 09:14 AM
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Sligface: Files put on the internet for people to download are often "zipped" - this basically means put into a "package" so that they take up less space, and you can put more than one file into the package so your audience doesn't have to separately download each file (which usually takes a lot of time). To look at the files, you have to "unzip" them - there's quite a few programmes that you can download to do it with, Winzip being the most popular, I think. I think you can only get a 30 day trial free, though, and after that you have to pay for it (unless you're on a Uni server, which means you can use 30-day trial software indefinitely as settings are reset to standard every time a computer gets turned off (a pain when you have to reinstall IM, but convenient otherwise... )...

(As an aside, can anyone post a screenshot or two? Even if I can't play it (my home computer isn't net-enabled, and I can't take it home as it won't fit on the disk I have) I'd at least like to see what it looks like...

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: Teal ]
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