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Here’s an observation about creating large disk images in OS X on the Mac using Disk Utility: it won’t work on FAT32 systems and the error message will be very strange.

Basically I created a 110 GB sparse disk image on an external harddrive and put a few GB of data on it. In the middle of copying data to it the disk image started to fail though, and in fact the whole image became corrupted and was unmountable.

The problem is that the external harddrive came factory formated for FAT32 which has a max file size of 4GB. So when the sparse image grew beyond that it broke.

Similarily if you try to create a normal disk image (not sparse) with a size greater than 4GB, you’ll get an error message. On my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.6 the error was ‘illegal seek’.

The solution was just to reformat the drive using the Mac’s own file system HFS+ which has a ridiculously large max file size (thousands of terabytes). After that you can go crazy with creating large disk images.

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Since we started counting, Konkret has now rolled over 10,000 rolls! Konkret might not be the most visited website in the world but 10,000 is sure a pretty big number anyhow for an RPG dice rolling utility.

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We have been thinking. Because of all the noise on the internet, with commercial spamming and too many unfinished tiny projects, it is pretty hard to promote an independent game these days. Maybe it is time to create a new website for indie game promotion. Put in some fancy voting system. Reduce the noise by only allowing finished and user verified games. It would be like the now apparently defunct DIY Games (which by the way had a sneak peek at Bouncy Hunters two years back), or like a complement to Mad Monkey.

If Norwinter does anything with this idea we’ll be sure to let you know here.

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