Originally posted by Nicht Sehr Gut So I think I can safely say you probably never saw a commercial PC title that required you to (manually) make a custom boot disk mixing bits of your OS, BASIC, and various files from their floppy just so you can run their card game (notice that I didn't mention a hard drive?).

Hell no, me and my friend always needed to do bootdisks to get games running 'cause of low system specs, but no, I'm not that old that I've used a computer without a hdd.

I've used C64s and Apple IIes, but my first computer was a 386 full-tower. (The one disassembled in the attic. 😀)

Originally posted by [vEX] Hell no, me and my friend always needed to do bootdisks to get games running...

Except, of course, this wasn't a bootdisk to get a game working. You had to assemble the game onto floppy...by hand, to get it working. There was a time when that was considered acceptable. And no, I'm not talking about when there a problem, that was it's normal procedure for operation.

Fortunately, that's long gone.

Oh, I thought you said bootdisk, my bad.
Nope, I'm not that old and geeky 😜
Although I've got a Sinclair QL (missing video cable so I can't test it) that I got from a friend. He also gave me a Megadrive II and an Amiga 500 (which seems to have a broken floppydrive).
Plus I've got a broken C128 that I'd love to have fixed (and the of course turn the PC to a game database ;P). An old Game Boy (mono) which is getting pretty old, some vertical lines are dead.
The only thing that really works like it should is the good ol' NES 😁
Well, enough babling from me 🙄

Originally posted by [vEX] Nope, I'm not that old and geeky ...Well, enough babling from me 🙄

Ah... I see "good old days" syndrome already has it's claws embedded in you...soon you'll be telling kids, "You know, back in my day...we had to use these things called "floppy drives".

We already do. iSuck, therefore iMac.

Originally posted by Snover We already do. iSuck, therefore iMac.

All the Apple people did is "jump-the-gun". From what I hear, within the year, we'll be seeing commercial PC's without floppy drives.

Worst Idea Ever. Diskette drives are still essential for lots of things, and CDs are often overkill for small files. For example, why would I wait 2 minutes for lead-in and lead-out on a CD for a 5kB text file when I could put it on a diskette in under a second? Also, you need a diskette drive for RAID drivers in the Windows NT/2K/XP installer.

and we need Boot from USB Standard on Mobo's before that happens...which it isn't.

You're forgetting that the market is being driven by the "average user". They have basically stopped using it. We do...sure...all the time. But we aren't the average user.