I remember having to install a game from floppy disks in 1998. I think it needed 4 or 6 floppy disks total. I can't recall what game it was. The think had to crank and rumble to get the game installed.
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man, sounds really nice
never gotten to use a floppy
The internet was a special place back then. I remember reading things about people laughing at the idea of using credit cards online (because it would be so unsafe).
It was mostly anons - you didn't see everyone's face and name plastered everywhere, screen names were the norm and you'd get to know a person by their screen name.
It was the steampunk age of the digital era. Before floppy drives we recorded our data on cassette tapes.
what kind of cassette tapes? i've listened to lots of music on cassette tapes, but didn't know they were used for other sorts of data
The same kind. This was the storage device of the first computer I had as a kid.
I think I got on just after tapes. We had giant floppy disks the size of small plates
never touched anything Atari, this looks really cool, love the design
Used one of these back in the day…
Normal ones in many cases. Loading games via cassette tape was typical.
It was a great time. Memories of fighting with 1994 Photoshop…
wait, photoshop existed that early on?
Even before that if you had a Mac. I think first developed in the late 80s but not sure.
Photoshop didn’t come out until 1990. Before that we used complete bullshit.
Paint maxi
Even the early versions of Photoshop didn’t have layers or even undo. We had to save multiple versions of files and then mash them together to make effects. I had portable hard drives full of numbered working versions of files that I was editing.
Yep 👍🏼
Not gonna lie, even the early versions of Photoshop weren't great. They were just miles above anyone trying to compete.
i miss this, yet i've not even lived in this time
Duke Nukem?
That's one of the ones I played, so maybe? Not sure though.
Command and Conquer was my favorite back then. Duke Nukem was fun with the cheat codes though, especially at the strip club. 😅
I think Sim City was on floppy
Both were, but for some you needed more than one case of floppy disks. It was a tragedy when they broke down after many uses.
it was the one good thing about CDs - except for scratches the data was practically bulleproof... not only was the data pressed into the aluminium foil it was protected by one of the earliest wide commercial applications of reed solomon forward error correction
i forget precisely it was maybe 2 or 3 3.5" 720kb floppy disks on the mac (circa 1991), iirc
there was loads of more time where the number of disks got ridiculous, 1995 the installer for red hat linux was 7