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keep it in a safe place (media.piefed.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by CallMeAl@piefed.zip to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 90 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You think that's bad? The secretary at my first job was told to keep that 5 1/4 floppy safe. So she stapled it to a cardboard divider in her binder.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

How’s your back doing?

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

i made it... six years older than my dad when he was told he needed his first back surgery so i got that going for me.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

She’s in a rest home telling stories about the time she scared her co-worker by making a duplicate of an important disk and stapling it to a binder.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.

I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.

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[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

you can tell it's old, because it's not neodymium magnet

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

what the hell how did i get this cesium magnet

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[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

weed at y

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[–] Azrael@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Sky & is a

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

We sky bad

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[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago*

above

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world -2 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I don't think that would damage it.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

I agree. I purposely applied magnets to floppies and like...maybe 9/10 had issues but generally it was a non-issue.

Now...filling a floppy disk with shaved off match head dust..

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[+] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world -10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

I think your parents might've put a giant magnet against your head as a child, because you're completely reasonable and resilient like a floppy disk.

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[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

drives are actually not that vulnerable to magnetic interference. if they where... well we are sitting on a giant magnet all the time (earth)

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Floppy disks are more resilient than that. I've seen videos with people testing it. It took a more powerful magnet to corrupt the data on it. I should test it myself. I don't think a magnet like that would do any harm.

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[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Age might be a factor though. Recently I found a stash of floppies from around 2002, which were definitely good when they were stored. I think I was eventually able to extract only about 20% of the data.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

noooo my floppy stash

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Better get to backing up those lo-res titty pics sooner rather than later.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's my original copies of Quest for Glory. Version 1!

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That being the case, you might want to back up your original copies of Quest for Glory, Version 1. Is it the original 1989 EGA release or the 1992 VGA remake? I've never heard of the game before your comment but I read about it on Wikipedia out of curiosity. The game is quite a bit older than me. I find it interesting.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

I have both but i have the EGA copy installed. I've been very very carefully copying them from system to system with the disks (and a usb disk drive) as an emergency backup. Fortunately by game 4 they had CDs.

part of why i don't want to do linux. my DOS games! (not serious, i am pretty sure i can find a version of dosbox that works on wine or some easier solution)

i am a big fan of The Coles. it might show

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Dosbox has a Linux port. I played Phantasmagoria with it. Have you created a .img file of the disk?

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

probably not. i have just been copying the same files from dos whatever version it was when we got So You Want To Be A Hero (it wasn't quest for glory back then, there was a copyright issue with the name) and ignoring my disks, hoping the disk mice haven't decided to eat the magnets out of the floppy.

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