Don't Copy That Floppy

[rayesyn]

This vid's a bit long but nonetheless it gives a good laugh

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9045861006530293045&q=dont%27+copy+that+floppy

[Evil Baby]

heh.

I wonder if that was the first anti-piracy video ever made?


Hmmm how'd it work out for them?

[jayisthebest88]

I am the police, this is old.



Did people actually have 2 disk drives back then???or did they just copy and paste on to there harddrives and then copy onto a disc?

[plymouthhater]

I am the police, this is old.



Did people actually have 2 disk drives back then???or did they just copy and paste on to there harddrives and then copy onto a disc?

Dual floppy drives were quite common. Often people had a 5 1/4 and a 3.5 in their PC as the A & B drives.

In the very early days, pc's had no hard drives.

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=186&st=1

[haowong]

That actually makes me want to copy a floppy!
What were the clip producer/director thinking???

I always find it funny when older generations give kids "their" defenition of cool.
I was a kid at the time of this clip ... but I don't recall people like that rapper dufus considered cool....

[masterballer]

"yea you can now buy a game with a manual" looool like a game needs that....lmaooo

[ud666]

I think that's Jay Z.

[McLaren]

I'll bet anyone 100 bux that the rapper has never touched a computer in his life.

[sfu_lifer]

I am the police, this is old.



Did people actually have 2 disk drives back then???or did they just copy and paste on to there harddrives and then copy onto a disc?
HDs were pretty pricey back then. As were modems. As was RAM.
Most games came on floppies. You'd either go to Uni PCs which have dual floppies or to a buddy's house. Copy protection wasn't all that common back then. I remember some games forced you to get the manual and check certain words on a page in order to get in the game :lol:

[1madman1]

Lots of titles had copy protection back then, but it was usually in the form of asking questions about the manual (ie the Ultima series) or using funky code device (ie Altered Destiny's decoder ring). A few earlier titles used un-copyable disks (ie Ashes of Empire), but I think that became illegal in the later years.

I remember playing Wing Commander off of a half dozen 1.2MB floppies and having to constantly swap disks to load the different screens. I was so happy to finally get my 40MB HD (which had to be partitioned into 2 drives because FAT12 couldn't access more than 32MB!). It was SO much faster and easier than the floppies. I miss that old AST Bravo, some of the best gaming years of my life.

[ephemera]

erm, the commodore 64 had the 1541 disk drive, which was heavier and bulkier than the computer itself. And it had its own OS inside it. That meant you can unplug the stupid thing from the computer and it would still run.

It had its own ram and rom and game companies made some truely hardcore copy protections for it next to impossible to crack by rewritting its DOS.

There was no cut and paste back in the msdos (ugh) days. Just copy C: D: type of thing.

[rayesyn]

i remember having 2 disk drives :) 5.25" and a 3.5" most of my games were all on 3.5" :D

who can forget 'LEMMINGS' and 'Commander Keen'

I am the police, this is old.



Did people actually have 2 disk drives back then???or did they just copy and paste on to there harddrives and then copy onto a disc?

[curtis]

I remember booting dos off one 5.25" and wordperfect 4.0 off another 5.25" floppy, and having to smack the computer every once in a while to get it working...

XT Turbo!

i remember having 2 disk drives :) 5.25" and a 3.5" most of my games were all on 3.5" :D

who can forget 'LEMMINGS' and 'Commander Keen'

[MWM]

That rapper is the worst I have ever heard.

They should have had Lavar Burton rapping, that would have been sweet.

[weedb0y]

I remember having two 5.25's and one 3.5 even on my x86 with EGA graphics!

Things changed when I bought my IBM PS/2 with one 3.5 and a VGA graphics card with 2400 baud modem! dang

[LeeBear]

erm, the commodore 64 had the 1541 disk drive, which was heavier and bulkier than the computer itself. And it had its own OS inside it. That meant you can unplug the stupid thing from the computer and it would still run.

It had its own ram and rom and game companies made some truely hardcore copy protections for it next to impossible to crack by rewritting its DOS.

There was no cut and paste back in the msdos (ugh) days. Just copy C: D: type of thing.

The Commodore 64 didn't have DOS, it ran BASIC. You didn't need the disk drive because that was just an optional storage device... there was also a tape drive (yes you used audio cassette tapes) that could be used.

Anyone who's ever owned a Commodore 64 will remember the infamous commands:
Load"*",8,1
RUN

That's how you had to get most programs to run.

-LeeBear