![]() Although good luck getting quality game cover art to fit on a micro SD card label. So perhaps extinction of the old is for the best after all. And even if you still use old systems, hardware exists to have them talk to new storage tech with relative ease, giving you an even bigger dash of freedom. Although they’ll then probably remember that, actually, SD cards and SSDs are way better. Games for the C64 basically can come in three different physical formats (Cartridge, Tape, Disk) and each of those can have different filetypes. And while one bloke in the US soldiers on selling the later (and decidedly less floppy) 3½in format, that business is on borrowed time too.īefore long, the floppy disk will exist solely as a Save symbol in apps too lazy to think of a better design, clicked on by people oblivious to what the medium once represented, while old folks look on with rose-tinted specs and remember the good old days. It’s not like hipsters will suddenly be strapping disk drives to their legs – there’s no revival on the way, of the kind vinyl and cassettes enjoyed. Despite valiant recycling efforts, we’re at the dregs stage, and no-one is going to produce more. Now, there aren’t enough disks to go round. Death of the disk This not-really-floppy isn’t quite dead. This made possible ambitious fare like Little Computer People – a kind of proto- Sims/ Tamagotchi mash-up that when reworked for tape made it appear like the titular LCP had received a lobotomy. And they were freeing, due to allowing a computer to get at arbitrary data on demand. And that was hell on cassette, forcing you to rewind and fast-forward a lengthy tape to get to the bit you needed.īy comparison, floppy disks were fast. Later, turbo-loaders reduced this to a more palatable five minutes, but by then many games were multi-load. But every single time you loaded an early C64 title, it’d take 20 minutes to get through the process. You might get angry on firing up your PS5 and it deciding in that moment to download a colossal update.
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