“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

In 1991, the first Space Quest was remade using Sierra's new (at the time) SCI, or Sierra Creative Interpreter, which allowed the game to switch to VGA graphics, as well as adding a point-and-click ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

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They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

And that’s because floppy disks are dead. At least, the 5¼in ones I once used are. My Facebook feed recently displayed news that C64 software publisher Psytronik Software has discontinued its budget ...

The 15 songs from 'Dookie' are coming to limited, intentionally-inconvenient, low-quality formats for the album's 30th anniversary.

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

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