Pages: [1] 2 :: one page |
|
Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
witchking42
Freelancing Corp
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 14:10:00 -
[1]
Edited by: witchking42 on 26/04/2010 14:10:46 Sony ganks 3.5 floppy disks.
I was with you since the Atari ST - I had you in my trusty Amiga, I even had you in my many PC's until a few years ago...
Gone are the days of the 60 disk install!
Farewell my square little friend....
WK-101010
|
Crumplecorn
Gallente Eve Cluster Explorations
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 14:35:00 -
[2]
07 -
Did this sig become irrelevant while I was gone? Let me know! |
Exploding Tukey
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 14:38:00 -
[3]
-Sniff-
Rest in piece old floppy. The start of my pirating days.
Old memories of installing Windows 3.1 from 11 floppy disks. Games like Monkey Island and Commander Keen.
I will miss you.
|
Vogue
Mercurialis Inc. RAZOR Alliance
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 14:39:00 -
[4]
Edited by: Vogue on 26/04/2010 14:39:35 Only 2 months ago did i stop fitting floppy disk drives to my PC. As the new case i had did'nt have a 5.25" bay to 3.5" floppy adapter. My first floppy drive computer was an Amiga 600.
As you can format USB sticks with a bootable version of Windows 98 MS-DOS you can still muck about as if you had a floppy disk.
Origin games had the stupidiest floppy disk installs. Some weird compression system that tooks ages to work.
|
Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network Dignitas.
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 14:59:00 -
[5]
Sayonara my friend.
You gave me Windows 3.1, Dune II, Duke Nukem 3D, Terminal Velocity, and many more. On my Amiga you gave my countless games and its desktop implementation Workbench.
You'll be missed.
o7 ________________________
Store | Apply |
Neyro7830
Gallente Red Federation
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 15:00:00 -
[6]
Originally by: Exploding Tukey Commander Keen
I nostalgia'd
|
Mr Reeth
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 15:10:00 -
[7]
It was floppies and reruns of 70's sitcoms that got me through my childhood insomnia... still haven't found any games I like as much as I liked those old Maxis titles like Simearth and Simant.
o7
|
Exploding Tukey
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 15:17:00 -
[8]
Originally by: Neyro7830
Originally by: Exploding Tukey Commander Keen
I nostalgia'd
you can download them all for free now off their site!
http://www.commander-keen.com/
|
Taua Roqa
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 15:41:00 -
[9]
please insert disc 6
**** off floppies.
(and yes my PC does indeed have one :D)
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8439/dscf0723x.jpg
|
Grimpak
Gallente Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 15:55:00 -
[10]
Originally by: Taua Roqa please insert disc 6
**** off floppies.
(and yes my PC does indeed have one :D)
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8439/dscf0723x.jpg
instalation of windows 95 on floppys.
...how many were? 30? ---
Quote: The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.
ain't that right. |
|
Exploding Tukey
|
Posted - 2010.04.26 16:11:00 -
[11]
Originally by: blogs.msdn.com How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on?
Thirteen.
In case you were wondering.
And those were thirteen of those special Distribution Media Format floppies, which are specially formatted to hold more data than a normal 1.44MB floppy disc. The high-capacity floppies reduced the floppy count by two, which resulted in a tremendous savings in cost of manufacturing and shipping.
(I'm sure there are the conspiracy-minded folks who think that DMF was invented as an anti-piracy measure. It wasn't; it was a way to reduce the number of floppy disks. That the disks were difficult to copy was a side-effect, not a design goal.)
(For comparison, Windows 3.1 came on six floppies. Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two. And yesterday, one of my colleagues reminded me that Windows NT setup asked for the floppy disks out of order! I guess it never occurred to them that they could renumber the disks.)
|
Nefrin Maldoes
Minmatar Outer Rim Survey and Salvage
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 12:20:00 -
[12]
I shall never forget the joys of my first games: Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. Each contained on their own 3.5" disk, with enough room left over for 10 save games.
Now I own the complete series of each game, contained on a few DVD-ROMs.
Originally by: CCP Shadow 2010.04.05 21:12 Well discussions about other games are allowed *rejoice* in Out of Pod Experience, but not EVE General.
|
Rawr Cristina
Caldari Omerta Syndicate
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 14:07:00 -
[13]
still the best game ever made (Frontier) only took up half a floppy disk
- Malyutka (The Virus) - |
Phosphorus Palladium
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 14:52:00 -
[14]
Edited by: Phosphorus Palladium on 27/04/2010 14:53:05
Time to buy 3.5 floppy disks then!
Compact Cassettes have doubled and more in price since they went out of production.
Hi-Fi Stores will BUY your USED metal CC's for good rl iskies.
|
Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 17:47:00 -
[15]
Heh, I still have a collection of stuff on 5.25" ds/dd floppies.
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
|
Toshiro GreyHawk
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 18:02:00 -
[16]
Well ... I still use the damned things. Mostly to make text back ups of things I've written. It seems a waste to use a CD just to back up a few hundred lines of text. You can pretty much put a novel on a floppy disk. I've got my 170 page masters thesis on an 8" single sided, single density floppy and those were only like 360k.
Of course, for larger scale back ups I either use another computer on my LAN or burn DVD's.
The thing is ... I wonder how universal that boot from USB Drive ability is ... In the past - there was always a basic boot device for the computer. 8" was replaced by 5.25" which was replaced by 3.5" so you had to transition media but it was still the same idea. I remember Zip Drives and Jazz drives coming along but nothing ever replaced the floppy disk as the bottom level boot device.
Of course the real kiss of death will be when they drop support from the bios ... Then you won't even have the option of hooking up something.
That is the main thing about floppies is that you could put a version of 98 on there and boot the damn computer. I've used that to restore bios' and with back up programs like ... Ghost.
When I got my new laptop a year and a half ago - I got a USB floppy drive with it - though I've not tried booting off of it.
Ah well ...
I imagine that someone will still be selling the floppies for a while - as long as someone is buying them.
Ha! Ha! Nostalgia ... I can remember when we'd modify the registration holes so you could use both sides of the single sided 5.25" and 8" floppies ... I even sold a little kit to do that ... but never made any money off of it. Ha! Ha!
Ah well ... the real joy of the early computers was - that they worked at all. Back then ... the idea of having your very own computer - that you could actually program yourself - was just fascinating. NASA, The Pentagon - and - YOU. It couldn't do much by today's standards but what it could do was profound. After writing a plethora of papers as a Creative Writing Minor and History Major, then all my grad school papers and finally the rough drafts and proofs for my professors of my thesis - on a Smith Corona Portable Type writer - when this buddy or my brothers' volunteered to help us type my Thesis into his Z80 computer so we could print it out on his Diablo daisy wheel printer - I was like - "I am gonna get me one of these!" and I did ... Ha! Ha!
.
Orbiting vs. Kiting Faction Schools |
Taua Roqa
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 18:19:00 -
[17]
ha i used some of those kits :D
5 1/4 disks make me nostalgic, i've long searched for a 5 1/4 drive i could use with my modern PC, but no luck, any one know how :P?
|
Praesentius
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 18:50:00 -
[18]
Sniff Sniff I really miss these guys. Especially this one. So many memories.
|
Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 18:51:00 -
[19]
Originally by: Taua Roqa ha i used some of those kits :D
5 1/4 disks make me nostalgic, i've long searched for a 5 1/4 drive i could use with my modern PC, but no luck, any one know how :P?
I actually keep an old packard bell 486 and a p2 floating around my apartment so I can toss in one of my 5.25" drives just in case.
You might check out ebay for a drive controller that will handle it, but you'd have to have an isa slot I'm thinkin, which means an old p3 at best...I doubt you'd find any that would work in a pci slot.
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
|
Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc. Ushra'Khan
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 18:57:00 -
[20]
Alas they finally go the way of the original floppies, 8" and 5.25"
I thought there demise had already officially pased for those that did not already have a disk drive for them. Just two nights ago, my father asked if my laptop could work a 3.5" and I laughed since it is 4 years old and it never had one.
Those were the gold old days
Slade
:Signature Temporarily Disabled: |
|
Cornaris
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 20:13:00 -
[21]
Nooooo00000000!!!!!!....
the world should have forgot about optical media instead. |
Natasja Podinski
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 20:19:00 -
[22]
they smelled good Please resize your signature to the maximum allowed of 400 x 120 pixels with a maximum file size of 24000 bytes. Adida |
Karma
Vortex Incorporated
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 22:07:00 -
[23]
Edited by: Karma on 27/04/2010 22:08:02 I really don't have anything more to add... except to say, why didn't ever MDs take over the place of floppies when it came to computers?
They were just as small and portable as the floppies (if not more so). You can write and re-write to them as if they were a floppy. and they could hold a ton more data... (1gb for HD-MD, not sure about the normal ones)
and... the drive could fit in the same space as a 3.5inch diskdrive.
be that as it may... it's still a sad day. my first experience with a diskdrive was with an Atari 520ST... then the Amiga. "It came from the desert" .. five disks, and any time the game asked you to put in disk 5, you knew you were going to die. cause that's the disk they put all the death-scenes on ;)
furthermore, I still have Monkey Island 2 on 5.25 disks somewhere around here.
|
Bodrul
Caldari Polaris Rising Black Star Alliance
|
Posted - 2010.04.27 22:45:00 -
[24]
anyone else feel old when things like these go out of fasion and discontinued? ........
Buy Animated Talking Video Avatars |
Goldman Suchs
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 12:17:00 -
[25]
lulz @ Toshiro why don't you save your work to a usb drive?
Less convenient, you could save your work to a DVD (or maybe a CD in your case). You know you can get rewritable DVDs/CDs? And you don't need to wipe them each time you save to them. I think it's the 'packet writing' option will treat them like a floppy disc.
|
Vogue
Mercurialis Inc. RAZOR Alliance
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 14:29:00 -
[26]
Edited by: Vogue on 28/04/2010 14:37:06 Toshiro the HP USB format utillity lets you create a bootable USB stick with a version of MS-DOS (including 'Windows' MS-DOS) you want HP USB memory key - MS-DOS
So you can use USB keys for motherboard\graphic cards bios updates.
I doubt floppy drive support will be dropped from BIOS. The PC BIOS anyway is a dinosaur and quite horrible in some ways compared to better Computer firmwares out there
|
witchking42
Freelancing Corp
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 14:55:00 -
[27]
The ultimate 3.5" disc....
3.5"
wk-101010
|
Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network Dignitas.
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 14:57:00 -
[28]
Originally by: Bodrul anyone else feel old when things like these go out of fasion and discontinued?
Yeah
It also feels weird to me to say 'the year 2000 was 10 years ago'. Only 10 years. ________________________
Store | Apply |
witchking42
Freelancing Corp
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 15:24:00 -
[29]
Interesting story on who is actually still using them...
BBC News Story
wk-101010
|
SemiCharmed
Clans of the Sanctums
|
Posted - 2010.04.28 15:30:00 -
[30]
Ahhh brings back memory's of a game called magic pocket, ahhh i used to love that game... --------------------------------------------
Remember Kids, Only YOU Can Prevent Fourm fires. |
|
|
|
|
Pages: [1] 2 :: one page |
First page | Previous page | Next page | Last page |