I think this was my first game as a little tacker. Text based.
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day agogaming off floppy discs as a child
Dang. I’m a little younger than you. We had floppy disks when I was in year 1 & 2, but I remember having a Powerpoint project where some of the kids’ Powerpoint files were too big to fit on a floppy.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
This one’s more my era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombinis
Zozano@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
Mutha fuckin Zoombinis
It’s on Steam BTW.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 27 minutes ago
Haha yeah I know! I was actually watching a streamer (who mostly streams completely unrelated stuff—Photoshopping thumbnails for others’ aoe2 YouTube channels) just a few weeks ago, and the topic of Zoombinis came up. She’s apparently the moderator of the Zoombinis speedrunning records. Which…is apparently a thing.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I played those too when they came out
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
University was a horror of finding out your assignment was too big to save on the floppy you had picked, and going through your whole stash trying to find one it would fit on, or having to delete some file share game before you lost the whole thing.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Dayum, you were using floppies to hold multiple different unrelated files? Like a USB today?
Nath@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Most of us carried around about 10 floppies in a case. I had a fancy case that held 15 floppies and expanded out like a little set of stairs.
Most files we carried around were well under 100kb. We didn’t carry photos around, digital cameras weren’t a thing and we didn’t scan photos unless they were going into a specific file or something.
If I did have to carry a file that was larger than 1.44mb, I used arj to compress it and split the archive into 1440kb volumes. Arj had better compression than zip.
Catfish@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Yes? Had to get them to campus to print and drop in the department office box to get stamped by 5pm or points off.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Damn, that’s just wild to me. As I said above, I came in near the end of their era, so just storing one project on there was at times stretching the limits of what they could do. It’s kind of incredible to think of how far we’ve come.