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> it would have taken over five minutes to transfer on our 2400 BPS modem. Any file around one megabyte would take about an hour to download.

A few years removed from this, I remember the agonizing hours trying to download a plug-in for Escape Velocity. The Star Wars plug-in was something like 2.4MB, and your best hope was to do it whenever no one else wanted the phone line.




I think that Star Wars mod was something more like a colossal 5mb, based on this copy on archive.org (this link is file listing, not an actual zip download): https://ia800900.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/18...

I seem to remember the game taking wayyy longer to load with this mod active, haha... ahh good times :)


Oh man, I totally forgot about the Star Wars plugin. What an awesome game EV was. I regret never paying for it.


A friend and I spent a fair bit of time working on a Star Trek: First Contact plug-in, but it didn’t really go anywhere. Somewhere between normal use and programming is the odd art of ResEditing your way into a tool or toy you want.




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