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A Game Programming Mystery: 2 Formats on a 1-Sided Floppy

trixter.wordpress.com — As an IBM PC historian, one aspect of my hobby is archiving gaming software. I ran into something I’d never seen before: A disk which claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo. What I discovered has officially blown my mind. (Programming)

Made popular Sep 30, 2008

Submitter: MrBabyMan

Top 5 of 137 Comments

+71 Valujet on 09/30/2008

2 formats one side.... sounds dirty.
+58 ogre2112 on 09/30/2008

Someone take this guys geek ID card away from him!
+56 Soval on 09/29/2008

Just wow!
+51 donkevin on 09/30/2008

That's pretty cool stuff. Thanks for finding something good, MrBabyMan. If only I understood digg's algorithm that lets EVERY one of your stories hit the front page. :P
+37 protogenxl on 09/30/2008

A true example of "They don't make them like they used to."

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A Game Programming Mystery: 2 Formats on a 1-Sided Floppy

Top 5 of 137 Comments

+71 Valujet on 09/30/2008

+58 ogre2112 on 09/30/2008

+56 Soval on 09/29/2008

+51 donkevin on 09/30/2008

+37 protogenxl on 09/30/2008