Look what came in the mail today!

[Goatmeal]

Look what arrived in today's mail: a box containing all 763 diskettes for the latest QFI Demo - version 2.0 !

At ~45 seconds per diskette, I figure I'll finally be able to play the 2nd QFI Demo in about 9½–10 hours from now...

And the label's boast is true — Games by Infamous Quests ARE the standard in PC animated graphical adventure gaming!

[Bad2DaBone]

Why does it need so many discs, lol.

[DrSlash]

Why does it need so many discs, lol.

Let's do some simple math:
763 360k diskettes contain 763*360 = 274 680 KB

One MB is equal to 1024 KB: 274 680 / 1024 ~ 268 MB, which is a pretty normal size for a full-length AGS game.

[Goatmeal]

Why does it need so many discs, lol.

Let's do some simple math:
763 360k diskettes contain 763*360 = 274 680 KB

One MB is equal to 1024 KB: 274 680 / 1024 ~ 268 MB, which is a pretty normal size for a full-length AGS game.

Right you are, DrSlash.   

I looked at the size of the uninstalled 2nd Demo file (in MB), multiplied by 1024 (to go from MB to KB) and then divided by 360 (to go from KB to the number of single-density 5¼" diskettes).

I think it worked out to be like 759.xyz diskettes, so I just added a few more knowing full well that not every diskette would use the complete 360 K of disk space available on it...

It'll take a while to install (9½–10 hrs), but on the plus side, it supports CGA and EGA !   

[Lupin]

You know when you are old if you can actually remember when floppy disks were floppy :p

[Sslaxx]

You know when you are old if you can actually remember when floppy disks were floppy :p

Good old 5¼ discs... very much preferred the 3½ versions though...

[Myrddin Starfari]

I'll take the game in punch cards any day.

[MusicallyInspired]

I remember the fun of cassette tape drives on the Tandy CoCo3. Still have one, actually. Though, I can't ever get it to work. Tons of tapes with games on them too.

[Goatmeal]

I remember the fun of cassette tape drives on the Tandy CoCo3. Still have one, actually. Though, I can't ever get it to work. Tons of tapes with games on them too.

Ah, duplicating CoCo games were the easiest with cassettes -- as long as you had a quality dual-cassette recorder.

Tape A to Tape B, baby!   

[Goatmeal]

I'll take the game in punch cards any day.

While taking a college FORTRAN class in the early 1990s, our professor would hand out used punch cards to each student as bookmarks for our textbooks.

He also claimed that General Motors and NASA still had millions upon millions of dollars invested in punch cards and punch card technology... which were absolutely worthless and obsolete at that time (which is now almost 20 years ago)!