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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The raw capacity of a 1.44MB 3.5” diskette[0] is 2MB, 1MB per side. The FAT12 formatting chews >25% of its usable capacity. I realised this when the ‘backup’ systems for the Super Nintendo could write a 16Mbit cartridge to a single diskette.

This raises the question: Is a console game up to 2MiB eligible?

[0]: 3.5” are diskettes, 5.25” and 8” are floppies.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

[0]: 3.5” are diskettes, 5.25” and 8” are floppies.

Not a distinction that I ever heard, and I lived thought the 5.25" and 3.5" eras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I lived through all 3, and I’ve always called them diskettes. My recollection is they were called that in the original Sony documentation, which appears to be elided from my brief searches this evening.

I’ll chalk it up to colloquial laundering, much like all 8P8C ports and cables now being called ‘Ethernet’.