Are floppy disks dead or do you still use them regularly? - Page 2

turrican9 · 29 March 2016, 16:39

Forgot to mention a few more reasons to why using real floppies or floppy emulators over whdload (or have all options) is that far from all games/demos/software has been converted into whdload slaves and that quite a few of the whdload games has bugs. Bugs will also differ between certain accelerators and systems. Sensible World Of Soccer is a very good example of a popular game never been fixed completely for whdload. So there are still very good reasons for using either real floppy disks/floppy emulator or both.

Lonewolf10 · 29 March 2016, 18:27

Sadly, as both my Amiga 600's are broken I only use emulated floppies these days for Amiga-related activities.

We don't use floppy disks at work either (to transfer data from instruments to the main network), as we either use USB memory sticks or intermediate network drives (for improved security and speed).

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29 March 2016, 16:39	#21
turrican9 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Norway Age: 47 Posts: 893	Forgot to mention a few more reasons to why using real floppies or floppy emulators over whdload (or have all options) is that far from all games/demos/software has been converted into whdload slaves and that quite a few of the whdload games has bugs. Bugs will also differ between certain accelerators and systems. Sensible World Of Soccer is a very good example of a popular game never been fixed completely for whdload. So there are still very good reasons for using either real floppy disks/floppy emulator or both. Last edited by turrican9; 29 March 2016 at 16:52.

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29 March 2016, 18:27	#22
Lonewolf10 AMOS Extensions Developer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: near Cambridge, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,924	Sadly, as both my Amiga 600's are broken I only use emulated floppies these days for Amiga-related activities. We don't use floppy disks at work either (to transfer data from instruments to the main network), as we either use USB memory sticks or intermediate network drives (for improved security and speed).

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