cm0002@lemy.lol to Game Development@programming.dev · 1 month agoKorean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage formatwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkKorean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage formatwww.tomshardware.comcm0002@lemy.lol to Game Development@programming.dev · 1 month agomessage-square62linkfedilink
minus-squaretaiyang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI actually had 5 and a quarter inch floppies as a kid and apparently they cap out at 1.2MB. They had pretty rad games, although I barely remember why we had like, hundreds of them, obtained second hand I guess.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.
minus-squareKelly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMy family’s IBM compatible had 5¼" double sided double density disks that held 360KB. But there was a lot of variations between platforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWe had hundreds with pirated games for our C64. Alongside miles of printouts to see which game is on which disk.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoBoxes with floppies of pirated games. Good times ☺️
I actually had 5 and a quarter inch floppies as a kid and apparently they cap out at 1.2MB. They had pretty rad games, although I barely remember why we had like, hundreds of them, obtained second hand I guess.
IIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.
My family’s IBM compatible had 5¼" double sided double density disks that held 360KB.
But there was a lot of variations between platforms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats
We had hundreds with pirated games for our C64. Alongside miles of printouts to see which game is on which disk.
Boxes with floppies of pirated games.
Good times ☺️