On Jan 20, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Edward Franks wrote:It is going to get even worse. My current motherboard doesn't even support a B: drive!
What motherboard?
Asus P4C800 Deluxe. When I updated my PC this summer I went for one of the 800 MHz front side bus motherboards. Normally Asus has been very stable for me, but I bought a bit too early. After a few BIOS updates and one small BIOS tweak, I got my stability back.
Do you really? While I get nervous thinking about not having a floppy drive in my machine, it is entirely possible not to have one. CD-RWs are rewritable, and bootable on any motherboard made past 1998.
Not really, but it is convenient. I don't miss the floppy drive on my Powerbook so I know I don't need one. Two or three years down the road I'm not going to have one in my PC. I figure by then I'll buiold some nice quiet, small form factor box for my gaming needs.
I have backups of all my important stuff on high quality CD-Rs, so I'm pretty safe there. I'm also a sucker for CD-ROM compilations for ease of installation.
As for having older machines around, I feel it comes with the territory. I have an old 286 with a 3.5" high density A: and a 5.25" low-density B: that I use solely for backing up my open-box copy-protected games with a Central Point Option Board. It is slim and takes up no more space than, say, six games lying flat in two columns of three games each. It has VGA so I don't need an extra monitor for it, just an AT/XT keyboard adapter.
I agree. I've got a pair of Epson 1.2MB floppy drives (installed and a spare) for my retro gaming PC. If I was in dire need I could always use my model 5150 IBM PC. Who needs mo'slo when you can play Ultima 2 in all its CGA glory? ;-)
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Edward Franks
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