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once again, I'm asking software companies to stop using april fools day as … | |
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cyberpunk2077 is the one doing it this year:https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/5… | |
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they estimate it'll take over 2 months of non-stop disk swapping to finish … | |
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I would need to build a better hopper though. Right now I max out at like 70-10… | |
Post #AgSOQbJANmc8mioeLQ by [email protected] | |
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@foone How about cassette? | |
Post #AgSOQbNQ7y16zuo2yW by [email protected] | |
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@mjgardner yeah. or hell, vinyl! | |
Post #AgSOrqUE3e2Dg7ypZg by [email protected] | |
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@foone One day, people will ask "What is a floppy disk?" and I fear t… | |
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@tryst yeah. I worry that someday people will make the "you 3d printed the… | |
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@foone That's certainly one way to do DRM."Don't copy that floppy,… | |
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@AT1ST yeah it's like a return to that period when CD-ROMs didn't have … | |
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@tryst @foone I feel like the generation exists now, but isn't old enough t… | |
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@Hayden @tryst that generation certainly exists. like, a few years ago I was do… | |
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@foone Hear! Hear! Foone, I’ve also been wondering for a while now if anyone … | |
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@k0ffy They last factory making them stopped in 2012 or 2013, so no, they'r… | |
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@foone would it be possible to use some sort of magnetic mass-reading mechanism… | |
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@kboyd yeah, it's been done! there's been custom designed floppy drives… | |
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@kboyd I misread. all the drives at once? you'd really juts need 98,000 dri… | |
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@foone No, I mean, contactless reading of all the data in a stack. Like a trico… | |
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@kboyd sadly not, no. Like, maybe you could read a whole disc at once by rippin… | |
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@mjgardner @foone the 8 bit Commodore machines use 300bps communication speed t… | |
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@clairely_undaunted @foone Except the #Commodore Datasette doesn’t work anyth… | |
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But it’s stupid slow! 50bps, not 300bps! So prerecorded #Commodore 8-bit soft… | |
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Honestly, I don’t know why @foone even bothers with floppies. (3/3) | |
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@mjgardner how DARE you! :) | |
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@foone you have a...wat? I am intrigued how does it work? Like a PEZ dispenser? | |
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@ppxl Kinda? Here's how it looks. You stack up floppies inside it, and ther… |