I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
OP said wrong answers only.
If fucking Citibank has one goddamn floppy drive living in a building somewhere I will shove a Frisbee down my throat until I can’t see it anymore.
Don’t forget to make up a Da Vinci virus to sink ships and blame it on hackers in case shit hits the fan.
Like in Superman 3?
Copy them
Copy that floppy!
World’s best swap drive.
Kind of hard to give right answers to something that time has rendered utterly useless. I guess you could sell it as an antique
Saw a post on mastodon in the last day or so that someone dug up a network card for the old 486 they had been working on getting back to life. Might be a use case there, as well as in aviation and medicine - fields that move exceptionally slowly and tend to have expensive equipment with long lifetimes.
Pirate Windows 95
95 was on CD. This might be enough to pirate Doom though
As I recall, my windows 95 CD-ROM contained a bunch of floppy-sized .cab files in a folder, so it’s entirely possible it was available as a set of floppies…
It was available on floppy. So was Win98.
Yep I had 95 on floppy. It was like 30 disks. That installation was hell, you had to sit there and swap disks for several hours.
When one of these is corrupted then it’s all for nothing lol. I mean CD Rom was so ubiquitous here by 95, 98 that this idea seems silly but I guess it existed.
It was more for upgrading 386 computers from 1992-1994 if I remember right. Or maybe we had a 486. I dunno. It was definitely pre Pentium. Back in the dark ages!
sure, use arj to compress doom to your disk:
c:\games\doom\ arj a -va a:\doom.arjIt fits on 4 floppies that way is I remember correctly.
- Pick some friends that you like
- Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
- Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
- Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
- Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
We use old floppies as coasters!
I have people all the time ask “these are so cute, where did you get them?”. RadioShack. 25 years ago.
Rick rollercoastered.
this…is a great idea!
Especially since I have friends who will go to some effort to find out what’s on the disk out of curiosity.They make really good coasters, will recommend.
Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad
Make sure to name the file inconspicuously but temptingly, relating to the old days, like Bill Gates confession.mp3 or DJ Mike Llama - Llama Whippin’ Intro.mp3
Poor Mr. Astley, forever known as Mr. Roll
He had his run during the 80s. He’s enjoying a second wind with the Rick roll.
It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up
I fuckin LOVE this!!! It’s absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!
I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.
Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out
Nah it’s awesome. Like you can then tell them “Hah you’ve been rickrolled” haha.
Make sure to use this version of the song
just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named
autorun.inf
and add the following to it with a text editor:
[autorun] open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe icon=icon.icowhile i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there’s probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven’t used windows in years.
I don’t think autorun worked with floppy disks, only with CDs and USB units.
I don’t think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference… A drive letter is a drive letter…
There are USB headers, PCI(-E) slots, SATA and some older ones. To get storage devices working on each one you will need a different driver.
Windows disabled autorun for USB sticks before win10.
Also if you list the devices on Linux they will show up as sd(a, b, c…) for SSDs, hd(a, b, c…) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2…) for NVMe drives. So yes the OS must be able to differentiate.
Windows assigning letters is just weird IMO.
Also to my knowledge the floppy would show up as disk A on Windows.
Have I just experienced youngsplaining?
Run Doom on them?
Don’t copy that floppy.
Buy doom on steam, download and backup the install files on the floppy
Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them…don’t.
Put a 240p rick and roll video inside and write cryptic labels on them. Spread them around the city and rest knowing that someone is going to go through hoops only to get Rick rolled.
OP said wrong answers only, not the only right answer
Oh man, make it a split zip file of 1.44Mb on each disk, hidden in separate places with hints. A Rick roll treasure hunt
“Rick and roll” 😆
don’t run Doom with them
DO IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO
Be wild! Copy that floppy!
Use them
Glue two on top of your flip flops. You now unlocked the floppy flip flops
If they have pics of John Kerry, they can be flip flopping floppy flip flops
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!
Insert them into your urethra!
Insert them into John McAfee’s urethra!
Forcefully insert them into your anus.
Sometimes a doubt your commitment to sparkle motion
Out of all the other mothers, I would never have dreamed of asking you.
