[Coco] Playing games from floppies

[rietveld rietveld]

OK.   I am definitely missing something in the translation.


>>>> If I insisted on to play games from floppies, what is my best way to go
>>>> today?
>>>> (Please don't suggest sdc or dw, thank you.)

Quick answer?

Buy a disk with the game u want already on it and put it in the disk drive and play it I guess





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Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 1:59:06 PM, you wrote:
> I'm not sure we are on the same page but the easiest way is to buy a SDC
> then copy games from that to a physical disk.

Guess, you missed my quoted text:

>>>> If I insisted on to play games from floppies, what is my best way to go
>>>> today?
>>>> (Please don't suggest sdc or dw, thank you.)

Kandur





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> Rich kids bought (and still buying :) game cartridges,
> poor kids like me bought floppies. That's why I have
> over 100 floppies with coco stuff on them, but no games at all.

> Thanks anyway.

> Kandur

> Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 1:12:19 PM, you wrote:

>> might be able too sell u something cheap.
>> You don't need to be a rich kid to play with floppies these days


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>> Got those already. What is the next step?

>> Kandur

>> Monday, December 18, 2017, 11:07:47 PM, you wrote:
>>> Ebay 502 disk controller and a 502 floppy disk drive.

>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>>>> Hi,

>>>> In the golden days of the early eighties, rich kids used to buy game
>>>> cartridges, plopped them into the coco and played the games. We poor kids
>>>> had to wait for the aftermarket game casettes, loaded them from a casette
>>>> player, then we could play the games too.
>>>> If I insisted on to play games from floppies, what is my best way to go
>>>> today?
>>>> (Please don't suggest sdc or dw, thank you.)

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