How many floppies did it take ...

[Reucht]

This is for people who were born in the eighties, nostalgia thread incoming:

Doom 2 : 4 floppies
Duke Nukem 3D : 13 floppies

All I remember for now, maybe more stuff comes back, how about you?

[Raziers]

This is cd, but i remember Baldurs Gate having like 8 cds that you had to switch all the time

[Deleted]

This is cd, but i remember Baldurs Gate having like 8 cds that you had to switch all the time

5. There existed a DVD version though.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Windows 7

4343 floppies?

[Keex]

jazz jackrabbit 2 was 14 if I remember correctly. it was a pain in the ass, since i made them myself to copy from one computer to another, and everytime the 10.-15. floppy was corrupt and i had to do the copy process all over. took the whole day ^_^

[Keller]

I remember warcraft 2 had like 200ish floppies.

[xskarma]

Ha, I'm too old. I remember sitting and waiting like 20 minutes to load a game from a cassete on an old Commodore (?) computer at my cousin's

As for disks, no idea, I remember vaguely that Police quest god-knows-which took like 9 or something

[Raqubor]

Hah I never had games on floppies. Got the stuff on CD from friends. 1 CD had like 80 games or more.

[Dariela]

I remember downloading Slackware and needing to find something insane like 145 floppies that didn't have any bad sectors. That was a bloody pain.

[Ingwe]

Wolfenstein 3d was 4 floppies i believe

[Deleted]

original super mario was 1 floppy

[Skizzit]

I remember installing Windows 95 off of floppies and I think it took like 28 or so. I was a TA for a drafting class in HS and had to install it on all 20 of the computers. It was like an assembly line of floppies moving disks from one pc to the next.

[Dariela]

Ha, I'm too old. I remember sitting and waiting like 20 minutes to load a game from a cassete on an old Commodore (?) computer at my cousin's

As for disks, no idea, I remember vaguely that Police quest god-knows-which took like 9 or something

Hehe, I remember cassettes.

[omglazor]

This is for people who were born in the eighties, nostalgia thread incoming:

Doom 2 : 4 floppies
Duke Nukem 3D : 13 floppies

All I remember for now, maybe more stuff comes back, how about you?

You sure about Doom 2? I remember it being a whole stack of them! (1.44s)

[Synithin]

Windows 7

4343 floppies?

A bit less but still a lot.

Roughly 1750 Floppy disks would be needed :P

Windows 7 ISO is around 2.5Gb (2500Mb)

A floppy disk can hold 1.44Mb

Giving 1 floppy disk could take several minutes to install. Lets just say 5 Minutes.

1750*5Minutes = 8750Mins
8750/60 = 146 Hours Roughly
146/24 = 6Days of non stop floppy disk swapping to install windows 7 xD

[Dariela]

You sure about Doom 2? I remember it being a whole stack of them! (1.44s)

Shareware vs Full Version?

[Chowderman]

Imagine just having a Notebook, thats right a notebook.

People coding and not able to afford the $1000 USD for a HDD, which at those times were ridiculous, like 256KB or something. So while they were coding, writing it all down, so when they went to continue the next time, they had to type it all out again...

[Melodi]

Most games I remember only took like 1-2 floppies, but they were nothing major. Stuff like Oregon Trail, Nigel's World, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? I didn't have a computer in my house until I was in 8th grade so all of my experiences with floppies came from elementary school and later saving documents to 3.5 inch floppies. When I got my first home computer most stuff was starting to be moved exclusively by CD's.

[Beace]

Yeah 4 floppies doesn't sound right for Doom2. I'm pretty sure it was bigger than that, I'm thinking 7 or 8.

Those were the days... arj'ing stuff down on the floppies to move things. Or you could copy things directly between computers through a serial link using special programs, except it was usually slower than doing it with floppies.

[Deleted]

Ha, I'm too old. I remember sitting and waiting like 20 minutes to load a game from a cassete on an old Commodore (?) computer at my cousin's

Advantage was, that it was a very easy thing to get a copy from friends games. No messing around with crazy DRMish copy protections. You just needed a cassette Player with 2 decks and an emtpy cassette ;-)