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Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:41 am
by Pype.Clicker
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Floppies are there. period. that's enough for people to want to write code to support them -- not mentionning all those tutorials about floppies, while you can virtually count available tutorials about USB storage with one hand (or you were more successful than me with google).
You remind of Lino Commando, James T. Klick and Nick Stacky ? well, Tracy Legacy is one of them too...
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Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:49 am
by kataklinger
The question is how long they will remain?
Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:03 am
by Pype.Clicker
kataklinger wrote:
The question is how long they will remain?
no. the sole question is do
you have use for one and motivation to write one. All the rest is off topic.
Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:08 am
by JAAman
hey, i put a FDD in all my current computers, and i use them regularly (and my brother at school, is required to turn in assignments of Floppys), FDDs are simple and easy to use, i far prefer them for emergency booting, and they have many other easy uses also
and there really great for OS testing, since i can simply copy my files onto the disk, at test boot it on any computer in the world (most of them still have FDDs) -- including computers i don't own, and i don't have to damage the OS, or install anything (hard or soft)
and when im done, i remove the disk and you would never know i did anything at all
also, 1/2 of my test computers here at home don't even have CD drives (or are unable to boot from them)
Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:08 am
by Warrior
OT: Till yesterday I thought Lino Commando adn James T. Klick were names of real people..
Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:27 am
by kataklinger
JAAman wrote:
also, 1/2 of my test computers here at home don't even have CD drives (or are unable to boot from them)
Well, I guess that is your problem
I'm not telling that you shouldn't support FDDs (altough I'm not planning to support it at all), but that it isn't something that you must support.
And network booting is much better for testing at home
, And yes it's much harder to implement booting from network. But no one doing OS development because it's easy.
Re:Floppy Code 32BIT
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:02 am
by Dex4u
My OS has ended up with two floppy drivers, one users BIOS and the other pmode driver, there are some things that a BIOS based driver can do, that needs a lot of work with a pmode driver, eg: loading from usb fobs.
I also think that the fat12 driver, is much harder than the floppy driver, its self.