[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

A full overview of all adventure games released in the Zork Series. These can be episodes, remakes/remasters or sequels, created by either one or several companies. As long as the IP is used, we'd ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

so that 'it was possible to read from the floppy disk to the PC, but it was not possible to recover (copy) further data from the PC.' Intentionally setting up bad sections is a basic and effective ...

You know the Guardian who takes away your inventory if you do something bad, like kill a character? You can trick him, by dropping everything you carry after or before preforming the act. The ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

Hope and anticipation, agony and elation – the endless cycle of emotions we go through during the annual PC release schedule. Following on from the BAFTA-nominated Frostpunk of 2018, one of the ...

This is the latest iteration of the much-applauded Xbox controller, designed by Microsoft for console and PC gaming alike. Its comfortable and intuitive design lends itself just as well to the ...