Using a Floppy Disk Drive on a Smartphone
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Bradford
I was trying to slipstream ACPI drivers on my new SSD for my Windows xp, but it asked for drivers for that connection. The only way I could install them is to use a floppy drive. I haven't used a floppy since the '90s and I was looking for USB drives on eBay. I finally found software that could just slipstream the drivers to the ISO. I just made it on the old HDD with the Windows 10 I cloned to the new SDD. The last time I really used a floppy much was 1993 and it was on an Apple II with a 5. 25 floppy drive. It might have been double 5. 25 drives, but I was 13 and can't remember for sure. My PreAlgebra/Geography teacher in school loaned me the Apple II for the summer of '93. The 5. 25 disk I was loaned had a neat greeting card creator with Garfield stickers that you put on the greeting cards you printed out. I didn't have a printer, but I was amazed you could do that on a computer. The only other times I messed with floppies was a computer class we had in 1992. We would play Where in The World is Carmen San Diego and the Oregon Trail, as a class in school. I thought that was so cool. I would occasionally hear the loud printer start printing and Mrs. Ferrell would say that's an e-mail from someone she knew over in Europe like Norway. The last time I used floppy disk, also 5. 25, I had found an old Apple II PC in the garbage and it worked. Later on I was given a stack of around 20 5. 25 disk by someone I knew because their teacher gave them to them in the late '90s. By then I was using CD ROM by 1998 though, the year I first got access to Windows 95/98 and the internet. I actually never used 3. 5 much. Mostly 5. 25 though. I love the wood grain case on your floppy drive and case on your phone. I was looking to buy a USB 3. 5 floppy drive on eBay until I found the software that slipstreamed drivers to the ISO. You gave me another reason to order a 3. 5 drive. I have to buy my tech on a budget so I have a 12 year old high end laptop and I'm always behind getting the new tech.
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I was trying to slipstream ACPI drivers on my new SSD for my Windows xp, but it asked for drivers for that connection. The only way I could install them is to use a floppy drive. I haven't used a floppy since the '90s and I was looking for USB drives on eBay. I finally found software that could just slipstream the drivers to the ISO. I just made it on the old HDD with the Windows 10 I cloned to the new SDD. The last time I really used a floppy much was 1993 and it was on an Apple II with a 5. 25 floppy drive. It might have been double 5. 25 drives, but I was 13 and can't remember for sure. My PreAlgebra/Geography teacher in school loaned me the Apple II for the summer of '93. The 5. 25 disk I was loaned had a neat greeting card creator with Garfield stickers that you put on the greeting cards you printed out. I didn't have a printer, but I was amazed you could do that on a computer. The only other times I messed with floppies was a computer class we had in 1992. We would play Where in The World is Carmen San Diego and the Oregon Trail, as a class in school. I thought that was so cool. I would occasionally hear the loud printer start printing and Mrs. Ferrell would say that's an e-mail from someone she knew over in Europe like Norway. The last time I used floppy disk, also 5. 25, I had found an old Apple II PC in the garbage and it worked. Later on I was given a stack of around 20 5. 25 disk by someone I knew because their teacher gave them to them in the late '90s. By then I was using CD ROM by 1998 though, the year I first got access to Windows 95/98 and the internet. I actually never used 3. 5 much. Mostly 5. 25 though. I love the wood grain case on your floppy drive and case on your phone. I was looking to buy a USB 3. 5 floppy drive on eBay until I found the software that slipstreamed drivers to the ISO. You gave me another reason to order a 3. 5 drive. I have to buy my tech on a budget so I have a 12 year old high end laptop and I'm always behind getting the new tech.
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John
You know, personally I think that a lot of the progress we've made in computers/devices/software has been negative. But this? This is a great example of amazing progress making things possible that weren't before. The fact that your phone has drivers for this should be mind-blowing to anyone who remembers the 90s (or even 00s. USB has it's flaws, but one thing it's done really great at is unifying the OS-hardware interface for many common devices. No longer do you need support for IDE and SCSI and SATA and whatever else - now it's just support for a USB block storage class. (Actually, the fact that your phone can act as either a USB host or peripheral is a miracle, too! And flat out wasn't possible 10 or 15 years ago)
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You know, personally I think that a lot of the progress we've made in computers/devices/software has been negative. But this? This is a great example of amazing progress making things possible that weren't before. The fact that your phone has drivers for this should be mind-blowing to anyone who remembers the 90s (or even 00s. USB has it's flaws, but one thing it's done really great at is unifying the OS-hardware interface for many common devices. No longer do you need support for IDE and SCSI and SATA and whatever else - now it's just support for a USB block storage class. (Actually, the fact that your phone can act as either a USB host or peripheral is a miracle, too! And flat out wasn't possible 10 or 15 years ago)
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Derealized
Back when I was a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. Never did I think the future would be quite like this, I mean a device that fits in your pocket and is more than powerful enough to play any game from that time. The size of everything now and just how everything compares.
Maybe that's why I'm so amazed by the Nintendo work boy. Imagining what might have been. Or when people make games like resident evil work on the gameboy. I don't know what it is about it. Suppose it's seeing how far old tech can be pushed or discovering something that was overlooked idk
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Back when I was a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. Never did I think the future would be quite like this, I mean a device that fits in your pocket and is more than powerful enough to play any game from that time. The size of everything now and just how everything compares.
Maybe that's why I'm so amazed by the Nintendo work boy. Imagining what might have been. Or when people make games like resident evil work on the gameboy. I don't know what it is about it. Suppose it's seeing how far old tech can be pushed or discovering something that was overlooked idk
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Jek
That little samsung usb c connector is seemingly responsible for some weird behaviours. By some accounts having the device plugged in and working was causing wireless signals to become weaker from interference. I had the same one and it was acting strange, after a small bit of searching I concluded that it was worth it to just buy a more reliable connector for the peace of mind. If it works it works, just if you encounter odd behaviour it might be fruitful to look into that little thing
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That little samsung usb c connector is seemingly responsible for some weird behaviours. By some accounts having the device plugged in and working was causing wireless signals to become weaker from interference. I had the same one and it was acting strange, after a small bit of searching I concluded that it was worth it to just buy a more reliable connector for the peace of mind. If it works it works, just if you encounter odd behaviour it might be fruitful to look into that little thing
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Cellion
i kinda wish they kept doing floppy disc stuff, not sure it just feels better in the hand and more satisfying to use. then again if they kept adapting it we would probably have the like half inch thick or thumb sized ones eventually with 100x whats on normal 3. 5 floppy disks. despite it not being like my time that they were a thing i still love the feel and whatnot of using them and the sounds, the clicking into place just seems so much more right to me
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i kinda wish they kept doing floppy disc stuff, not sure it just feels better in the hand and more satisfying to use. then again if they kept adapting it we would probably have the like half inch thick or thumb sized ones eventually with 100x whats on normal 3. 5 floppy disks. despite it not being like my time that they were a thing i still love the feel and whatnot of using them and the sounds, the clicking into place just seems so much more right to me
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Nod800
Actually, magic dosbox can use gamepads, flight sticks, keyboard, mouse and touchscreen controls. Wired through usb or bluetooth. I managed to even connect a usb dvd drive and ssd hard drive to my phone. Hell in magic dosbox you can even install and run and play with windows 95 and it's games. Try doing this while the phone is connected to a hdmi monitor/tv through cable or Chromecast.
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Actually, magic dosbox can use gamepads, flight sticks, keyboard, mouse and touchscreen controls. Wired through usb or bluetooth. I managed to even connect a usb dvd drive and ssd hard drive to my phone. Hell in magic dosbox you can even install and run and play with windows 95 and it's games. Try doing this while the phone is connected to a hdmi monitor/tv through cable or Chromecast.
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Aquaferme134
Its very interresting, but I hate smarphones so much. you clicking and flopping around reminded me just how much I hate using them. the only machines I really like are desk-top non-tower computers, those are for me. I am even considering having no laptop in my life. that way when I am not at My desk, I will not be on a computer, period.
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Its very interresting, but I hate smarphones so much. you clicking and flopping around reminded me just how much I hate using them. the only machines I really like are desk-top non-tower computers, those are for me. I am even considering having no laptop in my life. that way when I am not at My desk, I will not be on a computer, period.
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CHRISMENENDEZ
I'd imagine a Bluetooth keyboard would've worked just fine, but then aliens in 100 years, while digging up remnants of humanity from old servers, wouldn't think you were just playing a game in a weird-looking slim version of an IBM PC with a ridiculously tiny, yet very bright and colorful screen.
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I'd imagine a Bluetooth keyboard would've worked just fine, but then aliens in 100 years, while digging up remnants of humanity from old servers, wouldn't think you were just playing a game in a weird-looking slim version of an IBM PC with a ridiculously tiny, yet very bright and colorful screen.
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In
Just gonna throw this out there, a lot of phones can now plug into USB-C docks for ethernet, displayport, USB-A ports.
Version 2 of this video with a Model M, Floppy Disk drive and a CRT monitor? Bonus points if you add a USB or Bluetooth retro joystick like the one that comes with the Atari VCS?
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Just gonna throw this out there, a lot of phones can now plug into USB-C docks for ethernet, displayport, USB-A ports.
Version 2 of this video with a Model M, Floppy Disk drive and a CRT monitor? Bonus points if you add a USB or Bluetooth retro joystick like the one that comes with the Atari VCS?
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Mys.
I know this seems really pointless, but I could see having this setup ready to take on the go could be very helpful for a tech/digital archivist. It would especially be helpful for an archivist with few resources (like tends to happen at libraries or local museums and historical societies.
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I know this seems really pointless, but I could see having this setup ready to take on the go could be very helpful for a tech/digital archivist. It would especially be helpful for an archivist with few resources (like tends to happen at libraries or local museums and historical societies.
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