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Size doesn't matter.I used the 3 inch, the 3.5 inch and the 5.25 inch, I never used the 8 inch, they were before my time.
Size doesn't matter.I used the 3 inch, the 3.5 inch and the 5.25 inch, I never used the 8 inch, they were before my time.
Tell that to @AncientBoi - he prefers the smaller ones.Size doesn't matter.
I've seen them used on the Amstrad CPC and other French computers. Nintendo had a modified variant used for the Famicom Disk System.Tell that to @AncientBoi - he prefers the smaller ones.
Hey AncientBoi here's a stiff 3 inches for you
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Yeah we had them for the CPC, later Spectrums used them too after Amstrad bought them out (they were both UK brands). And yeah I remember reading the FDS ones were similar.I've seen them used on the Amstrad CPC and other French computers. Nintendo had a modified variant used for the Famicom Disk System.
Only difference with the FDS, is that Nintendo press a watermark into the mould used to authenticate a legitimate disk by the drive, and would boot if the Nintendo logo was in the correct spot.Yeah we had them for the CPC, later Spectrums used them too after Amstrad bought them out (they were both UK brands). And yeah I remember reading the FDS ones were similar.
Turbo Dick was truly the long lost sequel that Moby Dick always deserved.Only difference with the FDS, is that Nintendo watermark pressed into the mould used to authenticate a legitimate disk by the drive, and would boot if the Nintendo logo was in the correct spot.
Here are a few examples of bootleg disks which bypassed this:
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I feel like I should hate this guy for making a temporary solution become permanent, but he seems pretty cool.Want to know why the Windows Format Utility is limited to 32GB for FAT32? Because the guy who wrote it only had a 16MB memory card and figured it was enough for NT 4.0's lifetime.
Nice! I never could get my hands on one but I did have a friend with one.. My first copier was a V64 for the N64 , which already used CDs or parallel port for transfers.. Did you keep it? I still have my V64 and it still works fine.
Ooh, if we're talking about the sounds made, I loved it on the Amiga - games could program the floppy drive controller directly, and the different copy protections used made different noises. You knew it was serious when it got all low and grindyI love the sound of floppies seeking at startup! I have both a 5.25'' and 3.5'' drives in my mini tower, but my motherboard sadly died. Gotta find a new mATX mobo...
Want to know why the Windows Format Utility is limited to 32GB for FAT32? Because the guy who wrote it only had a 16MB memory card and figured it was enough for NT 4.0's lifetime.
Or that you were about to have a read error and have to pirate the game all over again.Ooh, if we're talking about the sounds made, I loved it on the Amiga - games could program the floppy drive controller directly, and the different copy protections used made different noises. You knew it was serious when it got all low and grindy
I feel like I should hate this guy for making a temporary solution become permanent, but he seems pretty cool.
NT 4, like the original version of NT (3.1), supported NTFS, which supported 256 TB volume sizes, though no BIOS of the time, let alone drives, supported that. FAT32 was a bandaid until we could get everyone running on NT and using a real filesystem, and 32GB should have been sufficient for the low-end consumer products in that timeframe. It still blows my mind that with how smart all these devices are that use 256GB SD/USB drives are that they don't take advantage of a far more robust and journaling file system, especially when power can be lost at any time. FAT32 should have been retired and forgotten decades ago.
WTF is that?Remember when floppy disk boomboxes were a thing? They were often used for practicing music rather than something for a consumer to use.