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Saadi
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So today I created an installer for cs2d 1.0.3 which is not big (8.18 MegaBytes^^)
It includes an UnInstaller!
I created it for those people, who have a slow internet connection and do not have winRar or something like that...
If you want to test it look here plz:
> http://www.file-upload.net/download-216275/Setup.exe.html
>>you must wait here: http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/105377/Setup-exe.html
2 much critic dont fits in here!!!
I hope DC wont get angry

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DC
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installers are ugly shit since most of them write some garbage in your registry and you can not see what they do exactly. an installer could just install a trojan in your system directory without your knowledge. however I can offer a "crap shit fuck (= installer)"-version and a normal version if you want so. this should not be a problem at all.

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no that installer does nothing in the registry, i configured it like this...
@DC: But maybe you shuld offer cs2d in 2 ways:
by .rar and as an installer...
So the people which thing rar is big shit use the installer and those people who say installers are big shit use rar (that is really the best solution!)
The files are still the same but exe is better compressed

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thats what I just said
maybe I'll do this with the next release.

and btw: an exe is not necessarily smaller than a rar archive! I would even bet that an exe is bigger because it has to come along with the decompression algorithm. Notice that cs2d is compressed with zip which is not as good as rar in the most cases! zip is more acknowledged so I used this instead of rar in order to reach more people. e.g. win xp is able to extract zip without any extra tools. nearly every user is able to extract these files because they are absolutely common in the internet.
another benefit of archives is that they can be uncompressed to a temporary directory. you are not forced to install anything to have a look at it. open and play - you do not have to delete anything if you do not like it since it is just temporary. thats luxury. an installer can not offer this

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Lee
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man, 10 mb for an awsome game's good enuf, we dont really need an installer, and if it doesnt write to the registry then its not a true installer bc it wont show up on the windows programs list
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