neutrino78x
Experienced Member
How many retail products were there in 5.25' format (that still exist and are useful), after all?
Games, chuck, games!
--Brian
How many retail products were there in 5.25' format (that still exist and are useful), after all?
Games, chuck, games!
Hmmm, I guess I'll have to dig some of the old games up; One on One, Pyroto,... I only played them when I was working on SIMCGA; I found them boring.
When or if the Kryoflux folks get their write support working you could have that USB read/write floppy interface. It's based on an Olimex microcontroller (not sure if it's using ARM or AVR or what). Combine it with a DBIT interface and you have 8" support too. I have both interfaces but as I'm only (as of now, at least) interested in the reading part I'm only following the write support development out of the corner of my eye.[..]I'd actually like to find a way to hook up an 8" drive in a similar way. I'm thinking that with a microcontroller and a better understanding of how the floppies work, though, it should be very possible to create a usb-interfaced floppy controller that would work.[..]
lol, well for example SimCity, tetris, pacman, space invaders, the newer game ZZT from 1991 also works on an 8088 (and it is in text mode).
Of course it is better to have an EGA or VGA card in your IBM PC instead of CGA, since EGA colors were a lot better. There are several 8 bit ISA VGA cards on ebay right now. My 5150 is in storage right now, but when I get it out again (or buy another, since technically it is my dad's 5150, he bought it in 1982 when I was 4), I plan on putting one of those VGA cards in it.
--Brian