[Coco] Resolution, size and usability

[Sean]

I suggested the .torrent idea awhile back. I would recommend joining
and contacting the folks at: http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/

They specialize in emulation and classic hardware/software (of varying
legality..), and even host magazine torrents.  Having it on a site
like that would almost guarantee seeders.
Who knows, it might even get more people interested.

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Wesley Haynes <wlhaynes at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>>
>> Maybe the solution is a distributed effort. All of the large files should
>> be put into a "raw" directory on the server(s), and people can download
>> them, futz with them, then upload the new smaller versions. Maybe some way
>> to be able to vote them up or down (ok, now we're getting into a site design
>> area - making the problem a little more hairy, sorry), then after a period
>> of time, that issue is "frozen", and the winner with the most votes gets to
>> be "it" for the final.
>
> I was thinking along these same lines, but I wonder if we can ever please
> everyone with just one or two versions. Opinions here and on the Rainbow
> group seem to range between the two extremes of maximum quality vs. minimum
> size, and I'm afraid any effort to meet in the middle may just leave
> everyone unhappy.
>
> Maybe bittorrent is the answer. Who cares how many different formats there
> are if they are all available via various torrents? A site like
> maltedmedia.com may choose to host whichever versions they prefer and maybe
> even host the .torrent files which point to all the other versions. One
> possible problem with this approach could be whether or not we're a large
> enough community to have enough seeders to keep this going.
>
> Wes
>
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