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  1. Whatever will they think of next! 120 MEGA byte #floppies

    That is like almost TEN copies of doom!

    #retrocomputing

  2. Composition with floppies, using two different kind of fills: cross hatching and BenDay dots.

    CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

    Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/floppy/

    #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI #PlotterTwitter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #PenPlotter #Floppies #FloppyDisk

  3. Heyo all.
    Regarding retro gaming again, some of my favorite ones were for ms dos. These include shareware only games too! So, some of them were Mechwarrior 2, I spent more time customizing mechs than actually playing the game, and would often listen to soundtrack on a cd player too!

    Other ms dos games of note, include wolfenstein 3d, I made levels and edited sprites in that game as a kid.

    Doom of course too, fooled around with modding for it briefly and now I just play levels i find on doomworld and zdoom sites.

    Stunts, a fun racing game where you could make your own courses. So much fun!

    Quake, also endless levels and modding.

    Monuments of mars, fun little 2d platformer.

    Descent 1 and 2, great 6 degrees of freedom shooter. Played it online against friends a lot.

    Duke nukem 3d. Infamous, but the level editing for it was so easy to do and game itself was pretty fun, especially playing with and against friends online!

    Commander keen. Fun little platformer as well.

    Skyroads. Great f zero style game!

    Corncob 3d. Fun flight sim, you could even get out of the plane and walk wherever on foot.

    MegatronVGA. Mech game where you fought mechs in a maze.

    Sango fighter, fun street fighter clone.

    One must fall 2097, great street fighter clone with awesome music.

    Epic pinball, fun pinball game!

    Lemmings, great puzzle game.

    Stellar 7 and nova 9, battlezone style games that actually had a plot and powerups you could activate and hidden warps and other fun things.

    I played all these games and more on a Radio Shack Tandy 1000. Great machine!


    #trackers #dos #pinball #Msdos #retrogaming #gaming #shareware #floppies
  4. Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

    https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/10/diy-one-handed-hacking/

  5. Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

    https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/10/diy-one-handed-hacking/

  6. Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

    https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/10/diy-one-handed-hacking/

  7. Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

    https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/10/diy-one-handed-hacking/

  8. Ubuntu Linux 25.10 gets a rusty sudo, Firefox 144 learns how to profile, Cambridge wants to save the floppy disk, and DIY one-handed typing with Keyer.

    https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/10/diy-one-handed-hacking/

  9. If an organisation was big enough, they could buy floppies that were branded with that company's logo.

    These floppies though, are showing their age. Telecom Australia in case you're wondering, became Telstra when it was privatised. Floppy disk labels aren't the only thing coming un-stuck there.

    #RetroComputing #Floppies #Telstra

  10. Burning floppies is hard. I tought my USB drives started to die. Turns our it's just wild and old tech.

    Long story short, I finally found the working command:

    sudo dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=512 conv=notrunc,sync,fsync oflag=direct status=progress

    This is the slowest but most stable way so far.

  11. Burning floppies is hard. I tought my USB drives started to die. Turns our it's just wild and old tech.

    Long story short, I finally found the working command:

    sudo dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=512 conv=notrunc,sync,fsync oflag=direct status=progress

    This is the slowest but most stable way so far.

    #Linux #FDD #Floppies #RetroComputing

  12. Burning floppies is hard. I tought my USB drives started to die. Turns our it's just wild and old tech.

    Long story short, I finally found the working command:

    sudo dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=512 conv=notrunc,sync,fsync oflag=direct status=progress

    This is the slowest but most stable way so far.

    #Linux #FDD #Floppies #RetroComputing

  13. Burning floppies is hard. I tought my USB drives started to die. Turns our it's just wild and old tech.

    Long story short, I finally found the working command:

    sudo dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=512 conv=notrunc,sync,fsync oflag=direct status=progress

    This is the slowest but most stable way so far.

    #Linux #FDD #Floppies #RetroComputing

  14. Burning floppies is hard. I tought my USB drives started to die. Turns our it's just wild and old tech.

    Long story short, I finally found the working command:

    sudo dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=512 conv=notrunc,sync,fsync oflag=direct status=progress

    This is the slowest but most stable way so far.

    #Linux #FDD #Floppies #RetroComputing

  15. @eay @storytracer @netzpolitik_feed

    A tiny bit, #PunInPlainSight, off topic, but I did use a lot of those depicted 1.44 mb floppies.
    I'm so old, I even used 720 kb REAL #FLOPPIES.
    Then, mid nineties, came the Zipdrive, which was kind of a computer storage revolution.
    It started with "floppies" of 100 mb. Wow! Who needs that much room on a Wordperfect file carrying thingy?...

    #ICT #History

  16. Did you know that many USB #floppy drives can’t read 720 KB #floppies? Well, I know it now. 🤬

    The most annoying part is that the read/write head could read those floppies just fine. It’s just the silly #firmware of the external drive that messes things up!

    #retrocomputing

  17. Found a stack of old #floppies while searching for a lost radio charger, including some #ThrustMaster software. --Wait, No! It's not what you think!

    #floppydisk #msdos #win95

  18. Found a stack of old #floppies while searching for a lost radio charger, including some #ThrustMaster software. --Wait, No! It's not what you think!

    #floppydisk #msdos #win95

  19. Новое видео на канале!
    youtu.be/z9Z_fxc1w-M

    На PeerTube появится позже, так как peertube dot su решил опять прилечь :blobcatfacepalm:

    #Floppy #floppies #floppotron #floppydrive #floppydiskdrive #floppydrives #video #music

  20. It is kind of amusing that 6/21 consider the floppy's shutter to be the top, and 15/21 consider it to be the bottom.

    This is kind of extra funny because the "HD" text on the HD floppies is now upside down on most, but not all.

    What even is "up" on a floppy.

    #retrocomputing #floppies

  21. Today's pickups at the #fleamarket: an old breadbin #C64, plus #c1541 drive, IEC cables and a box of 5.25" #floppies, on the left another phat #playstation2 ("doesn't work" the seller said: will check what he meant later), on the right an Hitex HT-767 #famiclone (one with discrete chips inside!) plus a Kickle Cubicle #nes cartridge.
    And one of my cats exploring: Cenerina.

    #retrocomputing

  22. So. Went down to the archives (basement of horrors) looking for something else and came across these.

    Do you know anyone looking for IBM DOS 3.10 or the Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Upgrade on 5¼" floppy disc? 😂


  23. I spent a lot of time crimping IDC cables today to finish building my boards. One adapter for the PC-8001 to use floppy drives, and another for the Sanyo MBC-555 to speak RS-232.

    Both these boards are going to be open source: let me know if you have either of these machines and I'll send you a spare board if these end up working out when I test them.

    #rs232 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #sanyo #nec #pc8001 #pc8033 #pc8031 #pc80s31 #mbc550 #mbc555 #sanyombc #floppies #kicad

  24. I spent a lot of time crimping IDC cables today to finish building my boards. One adapter for the PC-8001 to use floppy drives, and another for the Sanyo MBC-555 to speak RS-232.

    Both these boards are going to be open source: let me know if you have either of these machines and I'll send you a spare board if these end up working out when I test them.

    #rs232 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #sanyo #nec #pc8001 #pc8033 #pc8031 #pc80s31 #mbc550 #mbc555 #sanyombc #floppies #kicad

  25. I spent a lot of time crimping IDC cables today to finish building my boards. One adapter for the PC-8001 to use floppy drives, and another for the Sanyo MBC-555 to speak RS-232.

    Both these boards are going to be open source: let me know if you have either of these machines and I'll send you a spare board if these end up working out when I test them.

    #rs232 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #sanyo #nec #pc8001 #pc8033 #pc8031 #pc80s31 #mbc550 #mbc555 #sanyombc #floppies #kicad

  26. I spent a lot of time crimping IDC cables today to finish building my boards. One adapter for the PC-8001 to use floppy drives, and another for the Sanyo MBC-555 to speak RS-232.

    Both these boards are going to be open source: let me know if you have either of these machines and I'll send you a spare board if these end up working out when I test them.

    #rs232 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #sanyo #nec #pc8001 #pc8033 #pc8031 #pc80s31 #mbc550 #mbc555 #sanyombc #floppies #kicad

  27. I spent a lot of time crimping IDC cables today to finish building my boards. One adapter for the PC-8001 to use floppy drives, and another for the Sanyo MBC-555 to speak RS-232.

    Both these boards are going to be open source: let me know if you have either of these machines and I'll send you a spare board if these end up working out when I test them.

    #rs232 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #sanyo #nec #pc8001 #pc8033 #pc8031 #pc80s31 #mbc550 #mbc555 #sanyombc #floppies #kicad