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@movq oh my! floppy disks! 😳
@movq oh my! floppy disks! 😳
@movq oh my! floppy disks! 😳
@prologic Yeah, from when I was a kid and stuff like that. Some kind of “family heirloom”. 🥴 Fun fact, we might be looking at a lot of money: One new floppy sells for about 4 EUR in Germany these days. Granted, lots of these will already be broken, but still …
@prologic Yeah, from when I was a kid and stuff like that. Some kind of “family heirloom”. 🥴 Fun fact, we might be looking at a lot of money: One new floppy sells for about 4 EUR in Germany these days. Granted, lots of these will already be broken, but still …
@prologic Yeah, from when I was a kid and stuff like that. Some kind of “family heirloom”. 🥴 Fun fact, we might be looking at a lot of money: One new floppy sells for about 4 EUR in Germany these days. Granted, lots of these will already be broken, but still …
@movq let us know if you find anything good on those floppy disks! 🤣 Play good old classic MS-DOS games or something 🤔
@movq let us know if you find anything good on those floppy disks! 🤣 Play good old classic MS-DOS games or something 🤔
@movq let us know if you find anything good on those floppy disks! 🤣 Play good old classic MS-DOS games or something 🤔
Haven’t found much of public interest yet, but a bunch of floppies with software that my grandfather wrote in the 1990ies. 😲 Also these lovely little listings: https://movq.de/v/e4eed0225e/ Zoom in, they were printed on a dot matrix printer. 🥰
Haven’t found much of public interest yet, but a bunch of floppies with software that my grandfather wrote in the 1990ies. 😲 Also these lovely little listings: https://movq.de/v/e4eed0225e/ Zoom in, they were printed on a dot matrix printer. 🥰
Haven’t found much of public interest yet, but a bunch of floppies with software that my grandfather wrote in the 1990ies. 😲 Also these lovely little listings: https://movq.de/v/e4eed0225e/ Zoom in, they were printed on a dot matrix printer. 🥰
There is lots of old BASIC programs … Often a total mess, by today’s standards. Line numbers everywhere and GOTO 950. Oh my goodness.
There is lots of old BASIC programs … Often a total mess, by today’s standards. Line numbers everywhere and GOTO 950. Oh my goodness.
There is lots of old BASIC programs … Often a total mess, by today’s standards. Line numbers everywhere and GOTO 950. Oh my goodness.
Also, the lack of libraries is worth noting. I’ve come across one program that uses some UI library, but everything else appears to be self-contained. That’s good and bad. For example, there was no such thing as sqlite yet, so I’m seeing a lot of custom line-based file formats: “3 bytes for an ID, 10 bytes for a name, 40 bytes for a description, …” The code then literally reads 40 bytes to get the description, meaning there had to be space padding in the data file. 😱
Also, the lack of libraries is worth noting. I’ve come across one program that uses some UI library, but everything else appears to be self-contained. That’s good and bad. For example, there was no such thing as sqlite yet, so I’m seeing a lot of custom line-based file formats: “3 bytes for an ID, 10 bytes for a name, 40 bytes for a description, …” The code then literally reads 40 bytes to get the description, meaning there had to be space padding in the data file. 😱
Also, the lack of libraries is worth noting. I’ve come across one program that uses some UI library, but everything else appears to be self-contained. That’s good and bad. For example, there was no such thing as sqlite yet, so I’m seeing a lot of custom line-based file formats: “3 bytes for an ID, 10 bytes for a name, 40 bytes for a description, …” The code then literally reads 40 bytes to get the description, meaning there had to be space padding in the data file. 😱
Almost done. No games. Mostly driver disks or software packages like “Corel Draw”. Nothing I can share legally. 🙁
Almost done. No games. Mostly driver disks or software packages like “Corel Draw”. Nothing I can share legally. 🙁
Almost done. No games. Mostly driver disks or software packages like “Corel Draw”. Nothing I can share legally. 🙁
@movq I started programming with Delphi and when I had a look at my old code, it was an awful mess, too. The worst and funniest thing I remember was when there was a time where I knew if, but didn't have a clue that I could use begin and end to group statements. So whenever I wanted to do multiple things on a certain condition, it was a copy-paste hell of the same ifs over and over again…
Alright, finished. (Took a break for a while.) There were some disks that were formatted as IBM XDF, so I couldn’t read them using OpenBSD. As I have OS/2 still available, I was able to use its “XDFCOPY” tool – which, to my surprise, is basically like UNIX’s dd. 😲 It creates image files that I can mount on Linux, nice. I have not yet found out how to use them as images in QEMU, but I haven’t spent much time investigating.
Alright, finished. (Took a break for a while.) There were some disks that were formatted as IBM XDF, so I couldn’t read them using OpenBSD. As I have OS/2 still available, I was able to use its “XDFCOPY” tool – which, to my surprise, is basically like UNIX’s dd. 😲 It creates image files that I can mount on Linux, nice. I have not yet found out how to use them as images in QEMU, but I haven’t spent much time investigating.
Alright, finished. (Took a break for a while.) There were some disks that were formatted as IBM XDF, so I couldn’t read them using OpenBSD. As I have OS/2 still available, I was able to use its “XDFCOPY” tool – which, to my surprise, is basically like UNIX’s dd. 😲 It creates image files that I can mount on Linux, nice. I have not yet found out how to use them as images in QEMU, but I haven’t spent much time investigating.