I watched a video where a dude wrote his own filesystem for floppies so he could run and play factorio from floppy disk. It was quite entertaining.
And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu.
They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How usable did it end up being? Like would he frequently need to change disks? Or just during startup?
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He mostly needed to change disks when the music changed. Apparently most of the game is loaded at the loading screen.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
Watching Basement Brothers play some old PC88/98 games and using several actually floppy diskettes is incredibly entertaining. Those also only had like 300kb of storage
Hazor@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I remember when Doom Ultra HD 8k came on 40k floppies. Back before we even had 2k displays. It took nearly 2 days to read it all into RAM (mind you, I had a cluster of 200 computers just to have enough ram…) and ran at about 0.01 FPS on my 640x480 CRT. And you had to read about 73 more floppies every time you loaded a new map.
Ah, the good old days.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I installed Office 97 from 49 floppies on a bunch of office computers. We didn’t have CD-rom drives, so we requested the floppies from Microsoft (this was a free of charge service). Took me a week. Got into graphic novels, as I was waiting for each floppy to load.