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Bah, amateurs. Pros only use one drive.

 

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I didn't realise it until now, but I miss floppies.

Those annoying sounds are associated with some of the best gaming experiences of my life.

Tell me about it. Right now I have a 3.5" USB floppy drive hooked up to my computer while I test the floppies on my old OLD games. I was originally planning on listening to music on headphones while doing so, but quickly turned it off because I realized that part of using floppy drives is listening to them in order to spot problems.

And my ear for that has remained pretty good, almost 20 years after I stopped using them. I tested two games yesterday, both released in 1993, one that came on 9 floppies and one that came on 8. the 9-floppy game had 3 disks with bad sectors (of which the program asked me to reformat 2 of them) and is probably useless. The 8-floppy one, however, is in perfect condition. At first I thought the 8-disk one was börked as well due to the odd sounds I heard, but it turns out that 7 of the 8 floppies are stuffed to the brim - not a single byte or sector free on the disks. (Last disk has roughly 40k free.)

Unfortunately I'm coming across games that are on 5.25" floppies, and even though I do own a B: drive (several, in fact) I just can't be arsed to install one to test the disks.
 

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WinUAE (Amiga emulator) has floppy drive sound emulation you can enable for you nostalgia fetishists, it's pretty cool.

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He rams the horses of another chariot with his chariot wheels at roughly the 1:00 mark, and all we get are flying sparks?

Those horses should be bleeding strips of meat after having those wheels cut them up at that speed.
 

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True, it's not perfect but check out those animations and those physics and that blur + bloom, a AAA quality arcade racing game indeed, and it's only €22 on Steam!

 

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Another good reason to hate crap like that: those games provide Jim Sterling's YT channel with constantly increasing viewership, and Mr Sterling himself with a steady stream of revenue.
That, by itself, is enough to negate their lulzy value.
 
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