Recent content by Ship-Shape

It's nearly 2019. Could Japanese porn please jump to at least 32-bit genitals next year?

More pixels than an 8-bit NES game. (Or is that fewer pixels?)

This now opens on my system without need for an update. :cool: Can you please explain what you did differently this time?

Oh, I see it says .7z now instead of .rar. Will try again soon.

Figured it out: The poster's archive utility is too up-to-date. Needs to be more backwards compatible. Please read this thread for more info.

By the way, was having the same problem with another poster's archives. That thread is here.

Months later… …finally figured it out: The poster's archive utility is too up-to-date. Needs to be more backwards compatible. Please read this thread for more info.

Yeah, the answer to the file extension question would be interesting to know.

Thanks for lending a hand Casshern2. I managed to get nt.pro3x's archives open, but I had to use a different, more recent, operating system to do it. In that OS, I was able to get a utility with up-to-the-minute updates. This is not exactly convenient or ideal. For future reference, it would...

Anyhow, thanks for your interest in correcting this problem. Hopefully, we can get it figured-out and make everybody happy real soon.

A) 7zip is not available on all operating systems. B) Why should it be necessary to use the absolute latest version? Rar archive format has been around for ages, and I've been using it successfully for ages. o_O

No problem. Feel free to stick it wherever it feels the best.

Good thinking, but naive. The 2 smartphone corporations have certainly been making moves to eliminate local sync from their devices altogether. It's getting worse, not better, day by day.

I'll save my phone money until there's at least a 3rd competitor.

There are other prohibitive factors. Cost, even low cost, is a major factor, but it's far from being the only one. Generally, the smartphone market is a minefield of nonexistent privacy and platform slavery. Only having 2 competitors to choose from, who are both highly abusive, puts us all in a...