I found some 5 & 1/4 inch floppy disks
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written Sep.21, 2006 by Carpediem2100
I found some 5.25" floppy disks when rummaging through my old
belongings. These were purchased at Radio
Shack (click).
Note that this disk has 2 notches
(click), one notch on either side. We cut an extra
notch
ourselves to make a single sided disk into a double sided disk.
Now, some people think 3.5" disks are strange enough, so to
them,
5.25" disks must be like the "Model T" of portable storage media.
(Actually, our school had a new [Commodore?] Vic-20 computer
where some games loaded via cassette-tape. This was
much
much slower than a floppy disk.)
Two of these 5.25" disks have Commodore 64 games on them, but I have no
way to be certain. The Commodore 64 was the hot home computer
on
the market before I learned of the Apple home computer. (I
can't
remember which of my friends had a Commodore 64.)
Games
listed on the adhesive label:
Disk1 side A
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Quest For Tires
Jungle Hunt
Moon Patrol
Football
Disk1 side B
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Gyruss
Spy vs. Spy
Quix ? (Spelling? Qix)
Wizard of Wor
Oilswell
Park Patrol
Grid Runner
Disk2 side A
------------
Supertrek 64 (Win-trek ancestor?)
Disk2 side B
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Le Cheapskate de Software "Copy-Q"
Some of the
commands for the Commodore 64
LOAD "$", 8 --> program
listing
LIST
--> program listing
LOAD "*", 8,1 --> load first program
SAVE "title",8,1 --> save program
VERIFY
--> ?
The other 5.25" disk had games for a computer at school. It
was
the Commodore PET. Unlike the colorful Commodore 64, the PET
only
had a monochromatic display. It appears that this disk was
used
at least during 1986 (see dot matrix
printer list).
Some commands
for the Commodore PET
HEADER"name", I20, D1 --> format disk
COPY D0 TO D1 --> copy disks
DSAVE "title", D1 --> save
SCRATCH "title", D1 --> erase (file?)
(?) --> verify
cA (Shift + A) --> decode (what does this do?)
DLOAD "title", D1 --> load
DL (Shift + L) "title", D1 --> load
?DS$ --> drive check
for the game TANKS, alter line 250 to change the graphics.
