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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I watched a video where a dude wrote his own filesystem for floppies so he could run and play factorio from floppy disk. It was quite entertaining.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

How usable did it end up being? Like would he frequently need to change disks? Or just during startup?

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

He mostly needed to change disks when the music changed. Apparently most of the game is loaded at the loading screen.

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