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arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkI Built a RAID of Floppy Disks. Oh no.m.youtube.combestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIf you got together 17 floppies you might have enough to run Doom on
minus-squarebestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 months agoHe runs Mac OS Chess on it. I don’t fully remember, but original DOOM came on one floppy, I think. Edit. Looks like it was four floppies. Probably the shareware version fit on one. Edit2: I’m just misremembering. Shareware Doom was 2.4 MB. Edit3: there was also a one floppy version
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYes the install media is on a floppy but the required HD space to run it is listed as 24MB.
If you got together 17 floppies you might have enough to run Doom on
He runs Mac OS Chess on it.
I don’t fully remember, but original DOOM came on one floppy, I think.
Edit. Looks like it was four floppies. Probably the shareware version fit on one.
Edit2: I’m just misremembering. Shareware Doom was 2.4 MB.
Edit3: there was also a one floppy version
Yes the install media is on a floppy but the required HD space to run it is listed as 24MB.