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RandyT:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on May 06, 2014, 01:01:25 pm ---How many of your remember making a 5 1/4 inch floppy double-sided by using a hole punch?  :laugh2:

Even though I knew it would screw up your drive's heads in the long run (or rumor had it that it would) I still did it to save money.  (P.S. - My 1541 drive never died).


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Meh.  That was just a rumor started by the disk manufacturers to keep you from doing it.  The 1541 would go out of alignment mainly from the copy protection used by commercial games, which would bash the head into the stop for some reason.  Any self respecting c-64 nut could do an alignment on their 1541 themselves, thanks to the good utilities which were available to assist.  They claimed a special disk was necessary, but it really wasn't.  Any good quality, commercially produced disk without copy protection worked fine.

I used to go to the computer shows of that era, and the bulk disk sellers always sold the good punches.  Slipped over the corner of the disk and made perfect square notches in exactly the right spot for less than $10.  I probably still have it around here somewhere   8)

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: RandyT on May 06, 2014, 09:26:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on May 06, 2014, 01:01:25 pm ---How many of your remember making a 5 1/4 inch floppy double-sided by using a hole punch?  :laugh2:

Even though I knew it would screw up your drive's heads in the long run (or rumor had it that it would) I still did it to save money.  (P.S. - My 1541 drive never died).


--- End quote ---

Meh.  That was just a rumor started by the disk manufacturers to keep you from doing it.  The 1541 would go out of alignment mainly from the copy protection used by commercial games, which would bash the head into the stop for some reason.  Any self respecting c-64 nut could do an alignment on their 1541 themselves, thanks to the good utilities which were available to assist.  They claimed a special disk was necessary, but it really wasn't.  Any good quality, commercially produced disk without copy protection worked fine.

I used to go to the computer shows of that era, and the bulk disk sellers always sold the good punches.  Slipped over the corner of the disk and made perfect square notches in exactly the right spot for less than $10.  I probably still have it around here somewhere   8)

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Nope nice try.  The reason for advising against notching the discs was to do with manufacturers that incorporated a dust protector sleeve in the disc jacket, where if reversed could damage the disc and the read head of the disc drive.  Obviously not many disc manufacturers incorporated the sleeve design, to keep costs down.   

RandyT:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 06, 2014, 09:44:16 pm ---Nope nice try.  The reason for advising against notching the discs was to do with manufacturers that incorporated a dust protector sleeve in the disc jacket, where if reversed could damage the disc and the read head of the disc drive.  Obviously not many disc manufacturers incorporated the sleeve design, to keep costs down.

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Never had an issue with a head being damaged.  Thousands of disks (am I giving myself away here?) and many hundreds of hours on the drives, many different brands of floppies, all notched.  Those drives were built like tanks.  Then again, they were always in sleeves, and not left to collect stuff which might contaminate the insides.  But as the saying goes, YMMV.

Since we are deep in C-64 territory....Against my better judgement, if anyone wants to have a laugh at some really early stuff by me, check out the attachment.  Remember, I never said I was a musician  :lol  But I wasn't too bad with C-64 assembler.  Interesting note about the graphic I made for "digidrumdelivery":  This crappy little demo was released into the wild a few months before an OMNI magazine cover appeared with a strikingly similar concept.  Coincidence?

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: RandyT on May 06, 2014, 10:36:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 06, 2014, 09:44:16 pm ---Nope nice try.  The reason for advising against notching the discs was to do with manufacturers that incorporated a dust protector sleeve in the disc jacket, where if reversed could damage the disc and the read head of the disc drive.  Obviously not many disc manufacturers incorporated the sleeve design, to keep costs down.

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Never had an issue with a head being damaged.  Thousands of disks (am I giving myself away here?) and many hundreds of hours on the drives, many different brands of floppies, all notched.  Those drives were built like tanks.  Then again, they were always in sleeves, and not left to collect stuff which might contaminate the insides.  But as the saying goes, YMMV.

Since we are deep in C-64 territory....Against my better judgement, if anyone wants to have a laugh at some really early stuff by me, check out the attachment.  Remember, I never said I was a musician  :lol  But I wasn't too bad with C-64 assembler.  Interesting note about the graphic I made for "digidrumdelivery":  This crappy little demo was released into the wild a few months before an OMNI magazine cover appeared with a strikingly similar concept.  Coincidence?

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Sorry I made a mistake there.  The dust protector sleeve was inside the plastic jacket of the floppy to clean off dust that could touch the head.  Not the sleeve that you stored the floppies in. My bad.  :whap


I dug out this little fella and now I can play Paradroid without messing around with Vice.  Its like a Jakks, and has loads of games on it.  I would love to know how to get more games in it.  ;D

Fastrucken:
One of my all time favorites is Racing Destruction Set. It suck all of my free time. You could build your own track or modify your car and even change the gravity

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