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Post #AgSMY7CjzWHvpQGXfE by [email protected] |
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once again, I'm asking software companies to stop using april fools day as … |
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Post #AgSMu4QH0wnNZW44DA by [email protected] |
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cyberpunk2077 is the one doing it this year:https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/5… |
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Post #AgSN85L0PPvUSpHd9E by [email protected] |
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they estimate it'll take over 2 months of non-stop disk swapping to finish … |
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Post #AgSN87z8ZBDSfs4hyi by [email protected] |
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I would need to build a better hopper though. Right now I max out at like 70-10… |
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Post #AgSOQbJANmc8mioeLQ by [email protected] |
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@foone How about cassette? |
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Post #AgSOQbNQ7y16zuo2yW by [email protected] |
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@mjgardner yeah. or hell, vinyl! |
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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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Post #AgSOrqYpmViluQ8Vl2 by [email protected] |
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@tryst yeah. I worry that someday people will make the "you 3d printed the… |
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Post #AgSPKoEjVAnH6AXom0 by [email protected] |
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@foone That's certainly one way to do DRM."Don't copy that floppy,… |
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Post #AgSPKoIdGfufIGMvqq by [email protected] |
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@AT1ST yeah it's like a return to that period when CD-ROMs didn't have … |
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Post #AgSPgpBkdwT4QCeD8S by [email protected] |
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@tryst @foone I feel like the generation exists now, but isn't old enough t… |
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Post #AgSPgpFIQlIsbCJ2f2 by [email protected] |
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@Hayden @tryst that generation certainly exists. like, a few years ago I was do… |
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Post #AgSebg3CgleJwgeYEq by [email protected] |
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@foone Hear! Hear! Foone, I’ve also been wondering for a while now if anyone … |
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Post #AgSebg7oPdKsAyoEQC by [email protected] |
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@k0ffy They last factory making them stopped in 2012 or 2013, so no, they'r… |
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Post #AgSoR1kif14vboZFbc by [email protected] |
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@foone would it be possible to use some sort of magnetic mass-reading mechanism… |
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Post #AgSoR1pKNslTq6ivmy by [email protected] |
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@kboyd yeah, it's been done! there's been custom designed floppy drives… |
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Post #AgSoXHPtKoxdvZo60e by [email protected] |
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@kboyd I misread. all the drives at once? you'd really juts need 98,000 dri… |
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Post #AgStalVEQnlPsTmnj6 by [email protected] |
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@foone No, I mean, contactless reading of all the data in a stack. Like a trico… |
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Post #AgStalZUAzAO5fmCMC by [email protected] |
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@kboyd sadly not, no. Like, maybe you could read a whole disc at once by rippin… |
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Post #AgStjQMyNDEWwN3HuK by [email protected] |
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@mjgardner @foone the 8 bit Commodore machines use 300bps communication speed t… |
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Post #AgStjQRE7OdV9Z2gXQ by [email protected] |
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@clairely_undaunted @foone Except the #Commodore Datasette doesn’t work anyth… |
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Post #AgStjQVpqGK3NrCMim by [email protected] |
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But it’s stupid slow! 50bps, not 300bps! So prerecorded #Commodore 8-bit soft… |
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Post #AgStjQaRZ80bc9M2u8 by [email protected] |
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Honestly, I don’t know why @foone even bothers with floppies. (3/3) |
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Post #AgStjQeLKd7zoFB9yy by [email protected] |
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@mjgardner how DARE you! :) |
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Post #AgU6jlTjNqvqyGfKvg by [email protected] |
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@foone you have a...wat? I am intrigued how does it work? Like a PEZ dispenser? |
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Post #AgU6jlYL6icPCYp172 by [email protected] |
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@ppxl Kinda? Here's how it looks. You stack up floppies inside it, and ther… |
