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Title: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: GuruSR on October 20, 2016, 02:58:10 PM
I wanted to share one of the programs I got finished with the forum, for feedback and such, but the installer is enormous (due to all the graphics in it) and I would rather not add it to the forum's current bandwidth use.

Anyone have suggestions on free webspace for sharing software?  I'd rather not put it onto sites that only offer a link with a ton of ads.

GuruSR.
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: anta40 on October 20, 2016, 06:08:29 PM
Google Drive or Dropbox?
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: jj2007 on October 20, 2016, 08:06:17 PM
Quote from: GuruSR on October 20, 2016, 02:58:10 PMthe installer is enormous (due to all the graphics in it) and I would rather not add it to the forum's current bandwidth use.

That is a laudable attitude :t

But go ahead, if it's within the 512k you are allowed to attach, nobody will complain :biggrin:
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: GuruSR on October 21, 2016, 12:48:31 AM
Quote from: anta40 on October 20, 2016, 06:08:29 PM
Google Drive or Dropbox?

I have both, but the issues with that is, there is too many complains about the downloads failing.  I've seen and had too many experiences with fails in both, those are equally not a grand idea.  There just doesn't seem to be a free webspace for programmers to share stuff aside from SourceForge.

GuruSR.
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: GuruSR on October 21, 2016, 12:55:32 AM
Quote from: jj2007 on October 20, 2016, 08:06:17 PM
That is a laudable attitude :t

But go ahead, if it's within the 512k you are allowed to attach, nobody will complain :biggrin:

Definitely enormous according to that 512k!  It's 1400k larger.

I would have loved to find a better format for the "skin" setup, since I had to use BMP (gah, I know), to avoid any sort of issues with colors going off in compression, plus I wanted uncompressed and adding support for JPEG or some other format, meant more file testing to ensure the "skin" (I call it that but it's not really) doesn't cause the software to crash due to malformed files.

GuruSR.
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: anunitu on October 21, 2016, 01:36:58 AM
Might go for a file splitter and do it in bits and pieces. I think even 7zip might have an option to split files.

Checked,and 7zip does allow file splitting.
Title: Re: Best free place for hosting downloads?
Post by: GuruSR on October 23, 2016, 06:07:17 AM
Quote from: anunitu on October 21, 2016, 01:36:58 AM
Might go for a file splitter and do it in bits and pieces. I think even 7zip might have an option to split files.

Checked,and 7zip does allow file splitting.

Then that means someone has to either have 7zip or go through the process of installing it.  Makes people want to avoid stuff like that, and I'd rather make it so people aren't put out with having to try something.

Why I was hoping for space somewhere that actually I could put in some instructions on.

GuruSR.