Post #1378657 · Elektrine

2026-01-05 16:54 UTC

And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu. They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.

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@Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2026-01-05 17:46

I installed Office 97 from 49 floppies on a bunch of office computers. We didn't have CD-rom drives, so we requested the floppies from Microsoft (this was a free of charge service). Took me a week. Got into graphic novels, as I was waiting for each floppy to load.

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@iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2026-01-05 23:20

I watched a video where a dude wrote his own filesystem for floppies so he could run and play factorio from floppy disk. It was quite entertaining.

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@ICastFist@programming.dev 2026-01-06 12:25

Watching Basement Brothers play some old PC88/98 games and using several actually floppy diskettes is incredibly entertaining. Those also only had like 300kb of storage

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@Hazor@lemmy.world 2026-01-05 17:41

I remember when Doom Ultra HD 8k came on 40k floppies. Back before we even had 2k displays. It took nearly 2 days to read it all into RAM (mind you, I had a cluster of 200 computers just to *have* enough ram...) and ran at about 0.01 FPS on my 640x480 CRT. And you had to read about 73 more floppies every time you loaded a new map. Ah, the good old days.

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