fujidude Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Hey all. I have a question that I'm hoping to get some decent feedback on. Just what quantity of data would be used by all the floppy disk images (program and support disks), loose files, etc. of ALL the Atari 8-biit software that exists from now back to the beiginning? Don't be bashful. Even if you don't know a very good estimate for this, chime in with any info that you do know. How about you SIDE load folks? How big is the partition needed to "have it all" so to speak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waryl Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I think that: Games -- c.a. 1-1.5 GB Demos -- c.a. 0,5-0,8 GB Utils -- c.a. 0,5-0,7 GB Others -- c.a. 0,5-0,7 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobus Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 For the combination of commercially released titles and finished shareware/freeware, I estimate 4gb maximum. To clarify, I'm talking about executables and other content - not source code! For all the half written programs, hacks, screwing around, etc - perhaps three times that amount - perhaps a lot more :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 16GB? That's about 17,000,000 unique SD disks. We been busy! Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks everyone. That helps. That makes me think that 4GiB would probably be plenty enough for as far as I would want to go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 all games from atarionline.pl ~780MiB utils ~240MiB (plus 460MiB for other platforms, mostly Windows) demos and scene stuff ~ 570MiB I doubt there is more than 3 GiB total everywhere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 16GB? That's about 17,000,000 unique SD disks. We been busy! Bob ...you mean 170,000, don't you? (170,000 x 90,000 = 16,000,000,000) ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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