You are going away, to some place isolated… in space, of course. You will only be around one other person. You can take an allotment if 1GB of personal media with you (text, video, music, games, pics, etc.) that you will be able to access in your free time indefinitely at will.
The other person will also take 1GB with them, but you won’t be able to talk to them until you’re on the journey.
You will have access to any knowledge resources to perform your function and keep you alive. You will never return to a point where you can get new external media. Any additional media you ever access would have to be created by you and or your travel partner with what you have access to.
You will also not know the sex of your partner, but they have willingly taken the same risks to embark on the journey as yourself, and will have a similar mission.
Since size is paramount, I’d probably fill about half of this space with NES, GB, and SNES roms and the emulators to play them as well as a few highly replayable classic PC games (CIv, SIm City, X-Com, Warcraft 2, Doom) and some small programs to edit/create images, and a small compiler and text editing tool (maybe Pascal based as another commenter suggested). The rest would be filled with a tremendous amount text books in a compressed archive, both fiction and non-fiction.
Ebooks.
It’s still probably not close to enough for my ebooks, but at least it makes a dent. Even terrible quality video adds up fast.
ROMS of retro games.
Bro forgot to bring an emulator… Enjoy staring at binary code or something.
wouldnt be an issue if you have the hardware to run said roms.
You get used to it, I don’t even see the code. All I see is Red Plumber. Coin. Mushroom. Pipe.
The real fun is doing software emulation running inside your mental calculations.
Random name, npc, map generators for tabletop roleplaying. It’s just text and lookup tables. You can fit a lot of that in 1gb.
Porn
50/50 chance amirite
An emulator and a shitton of old roms. The further back you go, the smaller they get. I’ll probably splurge on a few choice games over 100mb with good pvp or co-op to play with my partner, but the vast majority will be under 5mb.
My old Pii-200 dos box has literally humdreds of games on a 1gb hdd
Every Atari 2600 game ever made is like 2MB compressed :)
GZDoom + supporting .WAD files: ~130MB installed.
Ultimate Doom Builder: ~35MB installed.
Foobar2000 + .mod file support: ~13MB installed.
OpenMPT: ~21MB installed.
Okular: 230MB installed.Fill the rest up with community maps/mods, tracker files and ebooks.
flabbergasted that this was more or less how i was going respond to the question
This is 4kb.
Just saying.
No … that’s 4k not 4kb
No it is 4kb.
Thanks for incorrecting me.
Seems you didn’t read the description. The executable that produced that output was 4 kilobytes in size.
It’s 4kb it’s the demo scene.
To expand, the rendered to video output is much more than 4k, but the file that produces the output can be small like that, this is usually done by doing a bunch of math to generate the output dynamically.
You can kind of equate it to how a video game can generate 120 frames of 4k footage every second indefinitely, but the game itself is limited in size.
Recording the output takes up space, but you don’t need to record it if you can generate it in demand.
kkrieger is 128kb, try it… still mind blowing and from the times of Doom3!!!
That’s only about 5% of the text of Wikipedia. Maybe I’ll take just the top 100k articles.
500,000 pages of ASCII-encoded books.
Only 128 characters? You’re gonna have issues converting everything to ASCII when you can’t even write “café”.
So? I’ll take some characters that aren’t 100% correct, if I can read 4x as many books that way.
Text of an average book is 100,000 letters; with a very smart and optimized compression/prediction algorithm (which hopefully is far smaller than 1GB), it is reasonable to expect a single char to be less than half a byte in size, so 50kB per book (saving without covers of course), this would mean around 20,000 books in a GB (not really, the compression algorithm probably also takes quite some MBs)— which should be enough for quite some time.
Text of an average book is 100,000 letters;
I’m not sure where you’re getting that value. The low end of word count for a novel is 50,000. If we say the average word is only 5 characters, we’re looking at a quarter million letters and another 50,000 spaces for a short novel (200-250 pages). Throw in some more for punctuation and formatting, of course. If you’re a fan of big epic fantasy/sci-fi you’re probably closer to a million words.
Even 7zip can compress a large text file to less than 25% of it’s original size. The installer is less than 2MB. There are even better compression algorithms for text than 7zip though.
OK, it seems I can bring my current music library. I experimented with it a bit now, and I guess I could get used to 12kbps Opus or 12.65kbps AMR-WB (they sound comparable). It kinda sounds like off-tuned FM radio, not the much more awful artifacts of MP3 or AAC.
Although… can I bring a cassette tape player? It’s analog, so tapes won’t fall under this limit. Then I could possibly digitize it. Similarly with movies on film. I don’t know what equipment I can take though. Movies on film, photos on paper, books on paper, music on tapes, hmmm… I guess that would be some games then. What counts under the media though? Just the games themselves, emulation software, entire OS?
A guide to learning and programming language and a compiler for said programming language. Maybe Godot.
What are you going to do with the other 900mb?
Make a video game
MIDIs of my favourite melodies, some actual music, probably just my favourites from my playlists over the years, ASCII encoded books and ROMs of old games with an emulator
Use 150mb to put a low quality version of Firefly that I used to have on a Nokia phone around 2007/2008, and the rest will be my collection of ebooks.
I’ve got more than 1gb of books, but I can trim down the file size by stripping formatting and saving as plain text, and there’s a few series I could go without reading for a long time.
