← Back to context Comment by doormatt 23 days ago Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick. 2 comments doormatt Reply oniony 22 days ago That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB. lupusreal 23 days ago Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.
oniony 22 days ago That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.
lupusreal 23 days ago Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.
That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.
I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.
Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.