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I miss going to conventions and hamfests. And seeing The guy.

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I miss going to conventions and hamfests. And seeing The guy. you know the one. The guy who sold floppy disks of shareware for $5 a disk. and he'd have whole walls with little disk-racks loaded with copies of all the hits.

And, you know. He'd have boxes of cracked registered games, but those would be kept under the table and cost $7 a piece.

Those days are gone, but not forgotten.
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>>3076024
you paid for cracked disks? sucker. even the pirates warned against that. all you had to do was give your contact blank disks. no charge
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>>3076024

4 years ago I bought 15,000 floppy disks from the last batch made in the UK before they stopped being produced. I really wanted to do a sort of at-cost piracy ring for Amiga games over the internet, but my modest attempts at getting it off the ground failed.

I ended up giving them all away to a local retro games group last year.
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>>3076162
You're doing God's work, son.

I enjoy that I can keep games. Even a modern FPS on a single floppy disk. Since I do a lot of work with older tech, it's nice having the options available.

Pictured: A Steam banner I made for this game that is larger than the game itself.
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floppies are still produced where I live. is there anything cool I can do with the little suckers?

I love them but they're too small and I'm not creative enough.
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>>3076183
Crack them open and use the magnetic disk inside like a frisbee.
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>>3076218
when I was a kid my dad brought an assload of floppies home. we didn't have a computer though, so picked one up and started messing with it. cracked it open and was surprised to find out how it worked. then I used it as frisbee.

anyway, I was thinking of something like storing lesser known or otherwise crappy DOS games. would be fun digging through a box of them looking for something to play.
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