NES roms were the way to go. You could pack the emulator + a couple of games in a single 1.44MB floppy no problem.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Still remember my friend making a copy of doom 2 for me using pkzip… I think it took about 10 disks.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That would’ve been great. I don’t think I was aware of emulators until well after I’d stopped using floppies though. Looks like the first widespread emulator was iNES in 96 and then Nesticle in 97, though apparently someone made a very early Famicom one in 1990!
Damage@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Phil Katz, what a sad story
d00ery@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interesting story with a sad and premature end. I’d not heard of the guy before today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz