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5.25" floppies are dinosaurs, 3.5" floppies are the new thing. Come on, man, join us in the 90's!
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I still have a box of 3.5's near my desk. They include the first programs I ever wrote on the PC with Turbo C.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I chucked all my 3.5 floppies out about 15 years ago. Now I regret not keeping some of them, like the PowerBasic disc and some of the BBS game programs I wrote with it, as well as my favorite WWII aerial battle simulator, Battlehawks 1942.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: WWII aerial battle simulator, Battlehawks 1942.
It's amazing the capability of some of those old games given how small they were, and before graphics cards.
I had a Star Wars game on floppy that featured dog fighting between X-Wings and Tie's.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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the 3.5 wasn't floppy at all. The 5.25 was slightly floppy to get real floppy you have to have the 11incher.
HAHAHAHAHA
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Google image search for 5.25" floppy disk (then filtered by size == icon) returns plenty of results. 
/ravi
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Image as in disk image, not picture 
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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One possibility would be to create a file (full of zeroes) of the correct size. You could then mount and format the "disk" in a virtual machine running Windows. Apparently, all versions of Windows still support 5.25 inch drives (if you can find one...).
5".25 sizes are as follows:
- 160KB - 163840 bytes
- 180 - 184320
- 320 - 327680
- 360 - 368640
- 720 - 737280
- 1.2MB - 1228800
Note that these sizes are RAW. Once some space is allocated for various data structures (BPB, FAT, root directory), you get the standard sizes that you are familiar with.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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DUH
That is so simple as to embarrass me.
My great brain at work; busily sleeping, I guess.
Thank you. I'm going to guess that i can use...
FORMAT A: ...or some such command on the fake floppy on the fake machine, and then, well, DUH, I have a fake floppy drive in there.
Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it was too obvious to be obvious.
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What was the 1.4 size ? I forget
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3".5
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Have you tried looking at FreeDOS? They have a Floppy edition that in cludes 720K disk images.
FreeDos Download Page
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Yes
Mind Reader sir; if you can do as well with the stock market, I want to be your friend !
Some of these fake floppies will be the old 160 size, up to the 1.4M size, and all the others in between.
I think think that Daniel Pfeffer's idea (a file of 0s, exactly the right size) is going to fix everything in my life forever, or at least until I die of old age.
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Outstanding Commander-In-Chief captures girl! (7)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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As I've not done one for a while I'll forgo the hour
Classic
Commander in chief = Cic
girl= lass
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not sure if CCC or new #metoo scandal 
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Sorry you've lost me ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A joke is never funny when you have to explain it, but here I go 
"Outstanding commander in chief captures girl" could literally be a newspaper headline about some higher up abusing women.
I mean, these kind of headlines have been pretty common these last few years.
Maybe it's about the new Weinstein or Epstein (who didn't kill himself).
So that's why I wonder if it's today's CCC or a new #metoo scandal
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No wonder I didn't understand it  what does #metoo mean ?
Edit
No worries I googled it
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 9-Mar-22 4:56am.
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pkfox wrote: what does #metoo mean ?
Have you been living in a cave the last few years? I mean, I know Addlestone is a little isolated but ... 
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I've always lived in a virtual cave Richard - and watch little or no news ( the referendum result was the last straw - and as for Brexit  )
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, they do say ignorance is bliss...
I recommended someone to stop following the news and Facebook just yesterday.
The media made her anxious and scared, first pandemics, caused by huge conspiracies, pedophile networks consisting of people in the highest places, the Chinese threat, and now a glooming (nuclear) World War III... 
Facebook was feeding her all kind of conspiracy theories, one more ludicrous than the other, and because she clicked them, Facebook gave her more.
Not saying all of it is true (like Bill Gates causing COVID for profit and power), but she believes so 
And to be honest, the reason I believe kids are happier than adults is because they don't watch the news
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You had never heard of the 'pound me too' movement?!?!?! 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Yeah, I kinda liked the "Clickbait Headline" look of the clue myself!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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