Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Phil Katz, what a sad story

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  • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting story with a sad and premature end. I’d not heard of the guy before today.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NES roms were the way to go. You could pack the emulator + a couple of games in a single 1.44MB floppy no problem.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

    www.retroreversing.com/nes-emulation

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