PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 29, 2008 @05:03AM from the golden-age-of-programming dept.

This past weekend, Trixter — a self-proclaimed IBM PC historian — picked up some old software for his archive. What he didn't count on was a couple of additional Avantage titles that had never been released into the wild. If this weren't enough of a find, one of these titles provided Trixter with an interesting puzzle: the diskette for Mental Blocks is apparently hand-formatted to work on both C64 and IBM (on a single side, not the "flippy disks" of old). Quite an interesting little piece of history.

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Interesting by AndGodSed · 2008-09-29 05:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

What tickles me is the "hand-formatted" part. How was that done?
well... off to rtfa....

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Re:In my day, we had to hand format disks by I'm+not+really+here · 2008-09-29 08:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Real disk writers use butterflies.

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