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<endrift>
I just dumped about a dozen SNES and N64 saves for a local friend and they were small enough to give to her on a floppy disk
<endrift>
I did not have a floppy disk handy unfortunately
<endrift>
19 apparently
<endrift>
I would need a 512 byte sector size for them to all fit I think, which was not the case on the USB drive, but there was still plenty free
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<cr1901>
Interesting, I would've thought 512 bytes would be the default for floppy disks nowadays
<cr1901>
Ohhh, parse fail... USB drive use different sector size
<andlabs>
floppy disk sectors are already 512 byte
<andlabs>
s
<andlabs>
except for some PC-98 commercial software that use 1024 for some reason
<andlabs>
or maybe thos enumbers are swapped IDK
<andlabs>
for hard disk storage the other secdtor size is 4096
<gewt>
unless you're compuserve, which is between 576 and 584
<gewt>
for hard drives
<gewt>
:p
<tunixman>
hahah
<andlabs>
never using compuserve, what's the joke there?
<gewt>
there is no joke. that's the caveat of using hard drives on compuserve backend machines
<andlabs>
huh
<andlabs>
weird
<tunixman>
yeah it was a wild time. powers of 2 were still in flux.
<tunixman>
hm actually I think it had something to do with the encoding and maybe the raw was a power of 2?
<tunixman>
I honestly can't remember.
<tunixman>
and didn't look it up I'm just spitballing here.
<qu1j0t3>
there were other examples (lispm? lisa?) sometimes itwould be 512+metadata
<gewt>
reason the sc-40 is 576/584 is due to the pdp-10 worksize of 36-bits. :P
<qu1j0t3>
ah yes
<tunixman>
ah yes of course. 2^5 varies with the age of the universe like the fine structure constant doesn't.
<tunixman>
wait, compuserve was pdps wasn't it?
<gewt>
yeah
<gewt>
pdp-10s, later sc-40 pdp-10 clones
<tunixman>
I'm surprised C doesn't mandate a 36-bit word.
<gewt>
me too
<tunixman>
to be fair it doesn't really mandate anything.
<tunixman>
I'm really hoping to translate everything to Rust for v2.1 of our SDK. 2.0 is C++ so we can at least try to use the compiler as a compiler and not a foot gun.
<qu1j0t3>
I wish it had
<qu1j0t3>
could have saved us a lot of needless pain
<qu1j0t3>
'sry cannot port c to 32 or 64 bit. Closed WONTFIX'
* qu1j0t3
is currently writing C for 8 bitter (avr of course)
<tunixman>
very cool!
<tunixman>
I misread the spec here initially and thought we'd want to target everything from 4004 up to x86-64 so our design is still informed by that because I'm too lazy to revise.