Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?

[biggiesmallz]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=153

 

[sandorski]

yup uTorrent is nice.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

130KB is bloatware. You obviously haven't dabbled in the demo scene.

Here's a 3D FPS in 96KB.

- M4H

 

[Nothinman]

1.5M /usr/bin/vim.full

Nope =)

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
130KB is bloatware. You obviously haven't dabbled in the demo scene.

Here's a 3D FPS in 96KB.

- M4H

sweet

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
130KB is bloatware. You obviously haven't dabbled in the demo scene.

Here's a 3D FPS in 96KB.

- M4H

That is really cool. I played through the whole thing and was really surprised at the quality considering the tiny file size.

 

[chuckywang]

Wierd. I was thinking of uTorrent as soon as I read the title of this thread.

uTorrent FTW!!

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Wierd. I was thinking of uTorrent as soon as I read the title of this thread.

uTorrent FTW!!

:beer:

 

[Cristatus]

Ok, this may not be small but Adobe Reader takes ~44MB and Foxit Reader takes..............2.58MB! It works on the same principle as µTorrent: gets rid of want the general population doesn't want, and keeps the rest.

 

[EagleKeeper]

What do you think ran on systems 15-20 years ago?

Fat/fluff was kept to a bare minimum.

 

[dali71]

Thanks OP, I had never heard of uTorrent before I read this, but this is now my client of choice.

 

[Smilin]

We put men on the moon with less.

 

[joincamp]

++ for utorrent

 

[theMan]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
What do you think ran on systems 15-20 years ago?

Fat/fluff was kept to a bare minimum.

yes, i wish they were still trying to cram stuff onto floppies.

 

[Nothinman]

Not to take anything away from the developers of µTorrent, the executable is compressed with PECompact2, so it's not really as small as the final binary.