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Originally Posted by Dennis
From the Software Bisque website:
“The RealSky data was created using 512 byte sectors on the 18 CD-ROMs. This format was chosen to save space because there are literally a million files spread over the 18 CD's, actually 1.3 million files to be exact. When RealSkyView was written by Software Bisque many years ago, to access this data large hard drives were either non existent or cost prohibitive for most at best This of course has now changed for the better.”
I think that the above format seems to take a long time to read? On my computer, it takes a long time for the contents of the CD to display.
Cheers
Dennis
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When RealSky was released years ago. Very few people had more than 20 MB of RAM and most were still running Windows 3.11. Windows 95 had just been released. The maximum size of the view was thus limited.
To use Windows 3.11 you first had to install Bisques' version of Win32. It was quite an exercise to get up and running. There were some sample programs to experiment with on the Win32 platform. One of which was a copy of Freecell. This is the version I still use because it keeps a record of the games played in "entpack.ini" still applicable to XP and Vista. I started at game #1 and have now solved up to #25380 in 10 years. No I can't solve the #11982 but I have solved the rest.
Baz