Doom I and II, Rise of the Triad. Windows 3.1. Anyone else old enough to remember floppy swapping?

  • Dyskolos
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    6 days ago

    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…

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      5 days ago

      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.

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        5 days ago

        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.