Afaik every registered user has access to the ISO cellar from the start. Wasn't this changed just recently?
I see no reason to change every archive to a different standard, but I see a reason to at least add support for 7ZIP. If I didn't, I wouldn't bother! Of course, I don't know how big a problem it is to add the support, since I'm not well versed in such technical issues.
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Maybe when archive sizes get too big to manage and people use formats such as .7z (another programme we would have to support on the user-end, which we can really do without since we have our hands full with dosbox as it is, most of the time) a lot more and server costs get prohibitive for less compressed archives...
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I really don't understand this insistence (I heard it before...) on having to support another program on the user's end: WinRAR already supports 7ZIP like countless other unarchivers! Only WinZIP doesn't, as a notable exception.
Even if WinRAR didn't: ZIP is also supported by 7ZIP of course, so then it would be just an issue of changing the support to another program.
In the end, the only grave problem I see is the lack of support from the site code of Abandonia for 7ZIP. And I guess until this happens any further discussion is futile anyway.
