I miss the days when games were like this. No “family sharing”, no worries about if you got the game on Steam, GOG, or wherever else… just floppies and you played or leant out the game as you wanted.

@gpowerf And when you were so fed up with your parents playing the same game over and over again and hogging the computer, 6-year-old you could always run the finger over the exposed part of the floppy to make it unplayable and free up the magic box for yourself.

😇

@trinsec hey didn’t you have backups? And of course it still works. Yes… my main Linux box in 2023 does indeed have a floppy drive 😄

@gpowerf @trinsec If you know of #floppy "players" compatible with modern PC, I'm interested. Especially ones for the 5" 1/4, I have #Apple2 softwares to #backup. (Also interested in adaptators for the original hardware.)

@Bigou @trinsec these USB ones work fine. They are generically branded and readily available.

Ignore the Commodore logo, I stuck that there 😄

@gpowerf @trinsec Thanks, but that only cover the 3.5", not the 5"1/4. (And even then, since most old 3.5" compliant Apple hardware can right on both side of the floppy, there is still compatibility problems on that front.)

Still, thank-you for the info. 😉

@Bigou @trinsec sorry I didn’t read your toot carefully. I think five and a quarter is beyond dead now 😄

@gpowerf @trinsec Not totally, since my dad's Apple//e still work. 😁

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