Doom I and II, Rise of the Triad. Windows 3.1. Anyone else old enough to remember floppy swapping?
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My first copy of Win95 was on floppy, 13 if memory serves me.
My first computer only had two 5 1/2” floppy drives. Everything required a swap.
I wonder if that's what my parents mean when they say they used to be into couples swapping.
Just a couple of floppies. Swapping around. Swinging those floppies. Just a couple of swingers. Swinging and swapping floppies......
.........and then sleeping with each others wives.
My friend’s came on 24 floppies. Maybe you had double density disks or whatever those higher capacity ones were called.
I remember reading this joke press release about how Microsoft was renaming itself to Moft. Their name appears so much in Windows that the shortened name would let them use one less floppy disk and it would save them so much money. After feeding 24 floppies into a new computer one time I completely believed the joke and embarrassed myself by telling other people the big rename was coming.
Mine may have come with more than 13, but it was for sure not 24. So it is likely I had high density, or double. In true windows fashion, I never purchased these, my roommate’s friend left them in my dorm room and I never saw him again.
I remember finding Keen Dreams and the original Duke Nukem on 5¼ at a dollar store and having to use my grandma's old computer to copy them onto 3½. Think I had a 150Mhz Packard Bell running Windows 3.1 at the time. I still think Keen Dreams sucks, I cannot reckon with that game having already played Secret of the Oracle. Original Nukem holds up though, chunky retro fun.
I also remember getting fitted for my first pair of glasses and then running across the mall to get Space Quest V from a Babbages or some place. I was enthused the whole ride home about how clear I'd be able to see my video games.
... I was always destined for Lemmy.
There's like 5 games here, how did you count up to 90s.
old enough to remember floppy swapping?
I'm old enough to remember floppy flipping.
I'm old enough to remember 8" floppies that were actually floppy.
There we go, look at this poser with his stiffies /s
To be fair, they're so much smaller it's difficult to tell...
...one hole-punch for double-sided, two holes for double-density!..
I used to run DOS 5.2 from a 5.25" on a Tandy 1000. The floppy was infected with the Stoned virus.
The situation was averted shortly thereafter, when Microsoft prevented the blockchain from being recognized as Stoned.
Well, there's a series of words in a seemingly-coherent sentence I never expected to read.
That's awesome. MS is still scanning for an almost 40 year old boot floppy virus.
with no context, it sounds like MS is trying to prevent blockhains from using drugs.
3.5" floppies were for rich folk. I waited for my games to load from cassette tapes.
I saw this and all my joints ached. RotT was one of my groups' favorite games.
I have lots of SW on floppies. Don't use it anymore, but I still have it! Windows down to ver 1.1, OS/2 2.0 and up, dBase III, Turbo Pascal, etc.
Yeah absolutely. Feels very nostalgic to see floppy disks.. Used to have lots of pirated games as a kid.
And the games were a lot of fun. Every game felt like it was exploring something new. Fun times.
I used to love the swag in the box. Ultima used to have cloth world maps.
These youngsters and their modern floppy witchwork. We real cavemen used tapes. And they were so much cooler than punchcards 😁
Nothing beats "insert disk 3592"after a day of loading only to see disk #3592 sadly had an error. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but...
A tape loading error after like 10 minutes always felt bad. I had a handful of games that I could never play.
Being able to fit like 5 games on a single tape was pretty cool though. Better than these mountains of floppies.
Hehe, yeah tapes had their up 'n downs. But for an impatient dude like me, they were infuriating... Still lightyears ahead of typing in hex-data from hundreds of pages in magazines for weeks, just to end up with a mildly working version of snake.
And nowadays a cheap phone is a gazillion times more powerful in every possible aspect. Never even dreamed that big and here we are.
Rise of the Triad fuck yeaaaa
...going all john woo!...
Looks like the image has about 90 pixels in it too
Was about to ask if that image came from one of those floppies
I see this picture and I hear the music for E1M1.
Nice.
I miss ROTT. I played it on dosbox a while ago along with Dune.
There's a remake yes?
In name only. It's a different kind of game entirely. Original was a strategy game. The new one looks kinda awful.