Why in videogames 💾 is always seen as the save symbol? I’ve never used one before so I don’t really know
This will be a living document. I'll update as people add info and corrections.
Please correct me because I know some of my info here is wrong and need info from more experienced people
Basics
What is a floppy disk?
- A floppy disk is an upgrade for a gun, you can find them throughout maps, and will get one as a reward for completing a run.
- They have different colors indicating the level of the upgrade.
- The upgrade you get from a floppy will differ from the upgrade another gets from it in the same run, as the upgrade is random based on color.
How do I use a floppy disk?
- When you reach a safe space, place it into the floppy drive and everyone will get an upgradefrom it.
- If you place it in your wrist, only you will get the upgrade.
- Some levels have no floppy drive in some safe spaces (last level specifically). You must put it in your wrist on these levels.
Where do I get a floppy disk?
- Floppies spawn in random locations in maps.
- Sometimes 2 spawn, often 1, rare report of 3, but none are guaranteed to spawn.
- You're guaranteed to get one you're given just for completing a run; you don't have to find that one.
What if I drop/lose the floppy during the run?
- It will stay where you dropped it for a few moments, perhaps 5-10 seconds.
- After the times up, it simply returns to where you found it.
- If you found it behind the safe space, it's lost to you.
When do I get the upgrade?
- The upgrades are unlocked for you in the store, if you complete the entire run.
- If you already have an enhancement given by a floppy disk, it's labeled a duplicate and you will get credits instead, the credit value depends on the floppy color.
You get no benefits from floppies without being victorious in the whole run
Floppy levels and acquisition
Survivor:
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free blue floppy guaranteed
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blue, or purple floppies can be found
Veteran:
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free purple floppy guaranteed
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blue, purple, or gold floppy can be found
Master:
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free gold floppy guaranteed
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blue, purple, gold, and red floppy can be found
Nightmare:
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free red floppy guaranteed
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purple, gold, and red floppy can be found
Finding a floppy above your level (ie a red floppy on master) is very rare. Same for finding the same level floppy on your current level (ie a gold floppy on master). You may find any floppy on any level, however it's exceptionally rare for the ones further from your level - above or below
Floppy colors and mea
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I recently got a IIc+ & have been using ADTPro to write 3.5" discs to play around with some software but have only been able to get images of 3.5" discs to work. Anytime I try to burn a 5.25" image to a 3.5" floppy it wont boot.
Is there any way to recompile or otherwise convert a 5.25" disk image to 3.5" and get it to work?
I do have a 5.25" external drive so could always buy a pack of discs and burn those or get a floppy emu or something, but if I can use the internal drive & the discs I already have on hand that would be ideal!
From what i know, the floppy only shared if players put it in the arcade machine during a game. I played few games yesterday and met this player who didn't store it but keep 2 disks to themselves after game, no matter how much i told them to store it so everyone can open new mods too. After game, i only saw 1 disk opened but i guess that is the bonus disk from the match since the guy didn't put anything to the arcade. Is there a benefits of not sharing or this player just being selfish?
So I've just dragged out my Amiga today for the first time in ages... Sadly, probably in the region of 40-50% of my old floppy disks that I've tried so far come back with read errors on them. It got me wondering, is it likely that after 30 years, it's just that the data on the disks is corrupted? If that's the case, I could find disk images online and copy them back on, presumably making the disks good for many years to come again.
Or on the other hand, is it likely to be the media completely failing, and they're just fit for the bin only now?
I like platformers, shooters, games like gauntlet, shootem ups, and hack and slash games. I would like the recommendation to have been only or are most commonly found on floppy
When I was young, my mother couldn't afford much, but I did manage to get a CoCo 2 one year and, a couple years later, a CoCo 3. I had a few game cartridges, but I never had much other third party software. If I wanted a specific program, I wrote it myself. I saved everything on 5.25" disks. It represented so many hours or my time - learning, creating, tweaking and testing. What I wouldn't give to recapture that intense capacity for knowledge and the ability to sit still for ten hours or more at a time learning BASIC and assembly language.
These days, I am a Linux and UNIX systems administrator and I don't program much anymore. I still have those disks. I can't seem to let them go even though it's unlikely that they'd even work after all of this time. I imagine I'll keep them forever - more as a connection to my youth than anything else. I miss my Color Computers and I miss that time. I don't live in the past, but I do like to stop and think about it once in a while.
I'm trying to write a floppy disk controller for an FPGA. That is, a component which will drive the control signals to the floppy disk drive (such as "motor enable", "write gate", etc.) to read and write data off the disk.
I removed a floppy disk drive out of an old computer and connected the ribbon cable to the GPIO pins of my FPGA board (picture). I had previously used this floppy disk drive with the computer it was in, so I am pretty confident it is still functioning normally.
Unfortunately, while there are plenty of details online explaining what the low-level formatting of floppy disks should look like, the data I'm reading doesn't match up with that, which I explain below.
The disks I'm using are standard HD double-sided 3.5" floppies (1440 KiB) which I am able to successfully read/write using a USB floppy drive. Double and high density floppies use MFM encoding, so I know exactly what bit pattern to expect, but I'm not getting that.
The data line is assert low, and should have a pulse whenever there is a change in magnetic flux on the disk. Data pulses represent 1s and the absence of a pulse represents 0 (not of the data itself but of the MFM encoding of the data). So, for example, if the disk had a data byte of 0xc1 (11000001 in binary), this would be MFM encoded as 1010010101010010 (I've put the data bits in bold and the clock bits in non-bold).
My development board has a 50MHz clock, and I count the number of clock cycles between falling edges of the data line. I then transmit all of this information to my computer over serial cable so that I can analyze it. When I read a full track of the disk and plot the timings on a histogram, I get a different distribution from what I expect.
I expect to get a distribution with clusters at 2us, 3us, and 4us (corresponding to 101, 1001, and 10001), but instead I get a distribution of like 2.8us, 7.8us, and 12us, which doesn't even have the right ratios. And what's worse, I get lots of outliers where sometimes there is a 200us delay or even more. I use a 16-bit counter to count the clock cycles and about once a sector, the counter gets maxed out at 1300us.
After looking at this data for a while, I feel pretty confident that what's going on is that when the drive tries to signal back-to-back data pulses (as in 101010101.
... keep reading on reddit ➡Around 1999 my brother volunteered us to build a PC for a friend of his. He knew I'd successfully built my own PC already so he figured it would be a good idea to have me help out. I think we were doing it in exchange for a slightly dented PlayStation, which was an excellent deal as far as we were concerned. So his friend orders all the parts he wanted and drops the lot off at our house. Everything is there, it all appears undamaged, and we put it all together with no issues. First POST is fine, BIOS looks good, so we install Windows.
Some indeterminate amount of Windows time later, Windows is now installed, so its time for drivers. Now this is back in the day, where drivers either came on a CD if it was something fancy, or on a 3.5 inch floppy disk for everything else. We get the chipset drivers installed from a CD just fine, then it comes time for the network card drivers from a floppy. Grab the disk from the box, pop it into the drive and... the computer resets.
>UraniumSnail: Huh, that's weird.
It starts back up ok though, and loads back into windows. We can read data from the A: drive with no problem, so the drivers get installed. Pop the disk out, and move onto the next drivers, also on a floppy. Stick that into the drive and... it resets again.
>UraniumSnail: Hmmm. I think I see a pattern.
We are both a little apprehensive at this point, as neither of us have seen an issue like this before and we're worried in case we damaged something during assembly. We don't want to let down his friend and we really want that PlayStation, so we stop installing drivers to try and troubleshoot this floppy disk drive. First thought is to remove things from the PC until we have the minimum set that causes the issue. So, power down, remove network card, power back up, put disk in drive, it resets again. Power down, remove sound card, try again, same issue. Disconnect the CD drive, same issue. Remove all but one stick of RAM, same issue. Try swapping sticks of RAM around, same issue. Disconnect the floppy drive, same issue.
>UraniumSnail: Wait. What?
Yup, with both the power and data cables of the floppy drive disconnected from the motherboard it still causes a reset when we insert a disk.
>UraniumSnail: W. T. F.
I'm beginning to think this disk drive is haunted. It is literally NOT CONNECTED to the motherboard and yet it can still cause it to reset. Ok time for a bench test. Everything comes out of the case and onto the de
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Hi again, I have a question. I have two options, I can purchase a set of floppy’s with CoCo software on them, but zero blanks for me to use. OR, I can buy new ones, blanks - but I need to know if I can somehow write software to them from the CoCo archive. Is there a way to use drive wire or something like that to write coco archive programs to a disk through a minidisk drive connected to my coco?
I know this is old and it's possible that this could be difficult.
I was helping my grandpa clean out his house and we found cases of floppy disks that are labeled with birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays. All of these would have been taken by my grandma who we lost close to 15 years ago.
He has no way of getting data off the the disks and neither do we. I was wondering if there was a reliable way to get the data off the disks. Looking on Amazon I found some things that should work but the reviews say that they is unreliable at best.
We would love to have these pictures to show him in time for her birthday in a few months so any suggestions on how to do this would be helpful.
I think they are 3.5 floppy disks and there is easily 100+ drives and I will probably have to do them 1 at a time. I would be using a windows 10 laptop or a MacBook for this if that would affect it.
It would be incredibly helpful if there was a place to drop off floppy disks after the very last guy is defeated in the level. every now and then we find floppy disks after we pass the arcade checkpoint and at that point they can’t be shared anymore so it’s kind of a bummer.
