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Socoder -> PC Gaming -> No Floppy drive! |
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| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 10:25 | |
HoboBen
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As I grab Civilization, the four disk floppy original, what do I notice? My laptop has no floppy disk drive!  I suppose I could use the external one that I very occasionally use for my mac, assuming it's USB and not firewire... If I can find it! -=-=- blog | work | code | more code |
| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 10:55 | |
Jayenkai
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| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 11:04 | |
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hyruleknight |
that sucks, maybe it came with a floppy drive that you can switch out with the CD drive mine came with both a CD and a floppy drive. changing them out can be a pain so i just leave the floppy in since i don't use any CDs on my laptop much -=-=- i like green haired girls... |
| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 14:42 | |
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Stealth |
I watched that entire video.. 
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| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 15:31 | |
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Yayyak |
I solved that problem by getting all my old floppy disks and creating images of all of them, and then burning them to CD. Does anybody remember the ads for those Zip disks? "A whole room of paper... 72 floppy disks... or 1 Zip disk." Wow, there was something that didn't last. A bit like DVD-RAM, really.
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| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 16:17 | |
Jayenkai
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Yayyak obviously didn't watch the video.. Copying all those floppies like that. You naughty naughty boy... -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Tue, 12 Dec 2006, 18:54 | |
Scherererer
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the majority of new computer now a days don't have floppy drives.. I've taken to pulling them out of older computers and re-using them, and i've also got an external USB one. The nice thing about floppy's is that they don't go out of date, its not like there was one drive with a faster read speed, and if it did the disk would die! 
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| Wed, 13 Dec 2006, 03:00 | |
JL235
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Well Instinct, that's not strictly true. I believe the Amiga's floppys were half the density of pc ones, and so there were some conflicts around that time. But I agree this trend of bad compatibility is far less with floppy disks. They were rather temperamental though. I'd keep one in my coat, getting it wet, banging it around for months and it'd still work perfectly. Yet other disks I had simply just left on the side for a while would break. |
| Wed, 13 Dec 2006, 04:44 | |
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mike_g |
My floppies for my amiga always seemed to break for more or less no reason. My laptops got a floppy drive but to be honest it dosent do much more than waste space as I never use it except in a couple of cases where I wanted to install some very old software. For everything else theres my pen drive.
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