Subj : Re: 5.25" disks
To   : Dr. What
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 18:27:48

 DW>  DW> The 5.25" diskettes on floppydisk.com are all recycled.
 DW>  DW> And they aren't recycling them anymore according to their web page.
 DW> 
 DW>  pa> Good to know; they've all worked well, for me - but I hear ya.
 DW> 
 DW> Ya, it's sad.  This is why I always recommend that people update their
 DW> vintage hardware to use floppy emulators - especially if they like to
 DW> use them a lot and they have 5.25" drives.
 DW> 
 DW> The clock is running out on 5.25" floppy disks and 3.5" disks aren't
 DW> that far behind.

I agree with you - thats actually my next C=64 project; I recently got around 200 original software (and user data) disks in a collection... I have to figure out how to use my SD2EIC solution to backup 5.25"s from the 1541 drive to my SDCard... I wanna get all 200 disks backed up.

I prefer to run on current solutions, but you always find the coolest stuff on actual disks IMO - for example, I found a KILLER computer store C=64 demo that lets you enter yer computer store name and C=64 price and runs thru a demo that would be displayed in-store... so rad; gotta get that one uploaded to archive.org and csdb.dk as neither one have it!!

Another rad thing about actual software; the C=64 Flight Simulator 2 boxed set comes with so much rad documentation, flight maps, etc etc... I can't wait to sit down for an hour with that game!



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