cm0002@lemy.lol to Game Development@programming.dev · 3 days 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-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1393arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square70linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squaretaiyang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days 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-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days 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-up5·3 days agoBoxes with floppies of pirated games. Good times ☺️
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoIIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.
minus-squareKelly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days 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
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.
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 ☺️
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