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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 18:42:29 UTC Tagomago

   Finally creating .img files of my floppies from the 1980s (yes, I kept them all these years) with dd :blobaww:

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 18:58:04 UTC Tagomago

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

     @jens Via DOSBox or the real thing?

   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 18:58:06 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago I did that years ago with vgacopy.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 19:05:44 UTC Tagomago

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

     @jens Beautiful

   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 19:05:46 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago That was with the real thing. I kept a 486 as my home server until about 2006 or so, but then I lost a disk and learned a lesson from that.

     Before retiring it, I booted into DOS, and used VGACopy/386 to create images of all remaining floppies, most of which were just RAR archives full of stuff.

     I took me a bit to understand that it was just creating literal copies of the disk, so mounting the images worked really easily.

     Nowadays, those images are sitting on the newer home server.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 20:41:24 UTC Tagomago

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     • Benoit

     @benoit Yes!! 😁 Game binaries for the MSX system 💾

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Thursday, 28-Apr-2022 20:41:25 UTC Benoit

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago Wait... Around 16KB only?