Oh, and I forgot to mention - Skeletonbow, I don't think I'll be removing those duplicates of DirectX, DLL and other libraries, it's a good idea, bu I'm not actually a developer/programmer, so I wouldn't want to delete any DLLs or DirectX libraries that I might need. What would you recommend to speed up the process to automate the process? I also use 7-zip. I'll try that now, thanks! I do have lots of musical and opera videos that could do with compression. :) Great idea, I totally forgot about that as I practically never compress things as I mostly just keep things I use. The only real downside was it took an incredible amount of CPU time to convert everything with all 8 CPU cores being maxed out throughout the whole process whenever I had it in action, making the computer not so responsive. I didn't keep statistics on it but it was rather impressive and freed up significant disk space. Skeletonbow: Yep, the overwhelming amount of files I converted made enormous savings. the installers, I haven't thought of that! Thanks! However it's a good suggestion to compress everything, esp. In mid nineties most games had about 500MB or less, some even still had 90MB or even 60MB.
#UNINSTALL DOSBOX PC#
In 2001 we had a 40GB HDD and few years later (2002-4?) when we got a new PC we had a 120 or 150GB HDD (and back in the actual 90s, when we had Win 3.1/DOS, we had 20GB or less), and if you ask around, most folks from Europe in mid or late nineties thought that a 1GB of space was huge, because if you even look at games from that period, the biggest ones had 1GB max (2 if they were huge), and that's from the end of the nineties. In that case it's just wasteful and illogical, because why keep things you don't need? That way they pile up.Īlso back in the 90s 500MB was a lot of space, so unless you were really rich at that time or had access to really large HDD for that time, you're just misremembering it. As well as wasteful and hypocritical, unless you missed that part about me keeping only one of each version of Dosbox I need. ) And it's quite accurate.īasically, if you think a hundred dollars is not much, you're rich compared to most of the world's standards, and that includes many countries in Central and Eastern Europe (where food, clothes, games and furniture - basically everything except rent - cost similar amount of money like they do in Western Europe, but you earn less), and I find your approach of "oh hey, keep duplicates of the same dosbox folder because that's just cherrypicking (since I clearly said the games I have use the same one), but delete all other duplicates, are you sure you did that?" very offensive, implying that I haven't actually done that. Take a look at, it can be an eye opener for you. I'm from Europe, but many aren't, so you can't go around pretending like 100$ is something everyone can spend on things you don't really need (since unless you're an avid collector you can just clean up that 1TB of data).
In Europe it's usually about a thousand to thousand and half if you're from Central or Eastern Europe. And we're not even talking about third world countries where people can have a monthly average wage of 200 dollars or less. if you're living alone and have to pay rent - I'm not talking about myself right now though, fortunately I do have a house.). Where it's normal to have 500$ or less to spend on entertainment (actually, if you have that much you're considered rich in C/EE, usually you don't even have 200$ to spend on fun if you aren't making more than the average, esp. It's an absolute waste to keep multiple copies of the same dosbox folder when you don't need to, or other duplicates or things you know you shouldn't be keeping.Īlso, if you think a 100$ is a small amount of money/cheap, you're speaking from your point of view as a Canadian, someone who's making more than twice as much money based on the national monthly wage compared to that of a person in Central or Eastern Europe, which are first world countries with some exceptions (or maybe none now?), by the way. Because that's how I have gigabytes of filled up space - small files that add up to lots of GBs of space.
By the way, it's not cherrypicking, everything matters.
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