← Back to context Comment by doormatt 11 days ago Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick. 2 comments doormatt Reply oniony 9 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 10 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 9 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 10 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.