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Korean 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 format (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 1 day ago

We had hundreds with pirated games for our C64. Alongside miles of printouts to see which game is on which disk.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Boxes with floppies of pirated games.

Good times ☺️

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

IIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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