It is a joke, good one though!

Just wasting those nice floppy`s..

No what would have been a joke would have been to use 360k, 5.25 " floppy diskettes 😉

I do however remember not a joke of an install for OS/2 back in the day, something like 16 or 20 diskettes.

I still have a copy of DOS 6.2 sitting in a box, custom ordered on 360K 5 1/4" floppy disks, thus it takes up over 20 of the things. (Forget the exact count off-hand.)

To that end, I wouldn't be surprised if this was real, but it does seem pretty ludicrous that this was a better solution than just buying a $20 DVD drive. :P

We kinda did this over in Biggest program to ever be released commercially on floppy disks already.

OS4 Warp can be installed from 150+ floppies.

Looks like a waste of perfectly good floppies to me. 🤣

Does windows 8 even support floppy drives?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Looks like a waste of perfectly good floppies to me. 🤣

Yeah that what iam try to tell.. 😒

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Does windows 8 even support floppy drives?

It does along with all the other legacy ports (PS/2, parallel, serial).

Some make strange bragging claims of owning floppy versions of CD only games.

Sure its a joke, they are only formatted 1.44MB. Microsoft would still be using that extended format they used in the 90's that would ensure at least one disk (towards the end of the install maybe disk 3705) would be bad.

leileilol wrote:

Some make strange bragging claims of owning floppy versions of CD only games.

It makes you wonder about the intelligence level of the people making those posts. 7th Guest was part game/part interactive movie and those movie files are huge using the compression techniques of the day. There's no way you'd fit even one movie on a 1.44mb floppy. The size of the movie files alone precludes shipping the game on any amount of floppies.