[game_preservation] a useful site?

[Devin Monnens]

Ah yes, I had just looked this up not too long ago. The guy who makes this
is in Poland. I was up for getting one, but heard they were coming out with
an updated version.

http://www.torlus.com/floppy/

Right now, it's $120 US from the ebay store (roughly the same on the Polish
site).

I was actually curious what some thoughts were here on this type of
replacement for storage media. SD cards could have a 10-year lifespan as a
media standard, but we'll have to see (CD-ROMs have been around for way more
than 10 years and are still easy to purchase, though most have gone to
DVD-R). Using SD cards for floppy disks means if you have the disks backed
up, you can play them on the original hardware. This makes the original
hardware the conceivable bottleneck rather than the storage media.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


> Just to revive this, I forgot about this multi drive emulator - the SD

> card drive HxC Floppy Emulator.

>

>

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170601008079+&clk_rvr_id=245877427705#ht_6296wt_1141

>

>

>

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Thanks! I'm going to build one of those for my Amiga :)

> >

> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com>

> wrote:

> >>

> >> Devin, it's not for the 810 it's in the shape of a tiny 810 drive.

> >>

> >> The neat thing about it was crafting it to look like a mini 810,

> >> otherwise alternative modern storage (CF and SD cards) solutions have

> >> been around for years (early to mid 2000's) for most older computers.

> >>

> >> For Amiga:

> >> http://sensi.org/~tnt23/megadrive/

> >>

> >> Atari 8-bit:

> >> http://afs.atari.org/sio2sd.htm

> >> http://afs.atari.org/sio2ide.htm

> >> http://atarimax.com/ (a whole suite of USB, IDE and flash carts)

> >>

> >> Commodore 64

> >> http://store.go4retro.com/products/uIEC%7B47%7DSD.html

> >> http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php

> >>

> >> Apple II

> >>

> >>

> http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php

> >> http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/digital/SDISK2/english.html

> >> http://www.applelogic.org/PseudoDisk2.html

> >>

> >> Multi

> >> http://www.thesvd.com/SVD/

> >>

> >>

> >> There's also flash cards (USB loadable) for just about every vintage

> >> game console.

> >>

> >>

> >> Marty

> >>

> >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>

> wrote:

> >> > Thanks, Ryan! These are fantastic!

> >> > On that note, there was also an article in the latest Game Developer

> >> > regarding a micro SD drive for the Atari 810! This is a very sexy

> >> > solution

> >> > to the problem of failing storage media that I hadn't considered.

> >> > rossum.posterous.com

> >> > New drives for old machines are fantastic (and I'd buy one if they

> made

> >> > it

> >> > for the Amiga), but let's hope he doesn't decide to build any

> Universal

> >> > Robots!

> >> > -Devin

> >> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Ryan Arndt <ryan at igda.org> wrote:

> >> >>

> >> >> I saw this on twitter, wondering if its something of use to

> >> >> preservation

> >> >> efforts? I would like to share things like this on twitter and

> facebook

> >> >> as

> >> >> well. Do you think its worth sharing?

> >> >>

> >> >> http://www.gamepitches.com/

> >> >>

> >> >> Ryan Arndt

> >> >> Global Community Manager

> >> >> International Game Developers Association

> >> >> Website: http://www.igda.org

> >> >> Email: ryan at igda.org

> >> >>

> >> >> LinkedIn: http://j.mp/IGDAli

> >> >> Facebook: http://j.mp/IGDAfb

> >> >> Twitter: @igda/@certainlysocial

> >> >> http://facebook.com/ryan80e

> >> >> Skype: ryanarndt

> >> >>

> >> >>

> >> >>

> >> >>

> >> >>

> >> >>

> >> >>

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> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

> >> > --

> >> > Devin Monnens

> >> > www.deserthat.com

> >> >

> >> > The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

> >> >

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> > www.deserthat.com

> >

> > The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

> >

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