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[KalessinDB]

Disc.... Drives?

F'real, I haven't even bothered with an optical drive in years now. All USB sticks and downloaded stuff, it's wonderful.

[noiseredux]

oh I need optical drives. A lot of my older PC games are stuff I've picked up at yard sales.

[KalessinDB]

Fair. I don't PC game much, and when I do (especially for the older stuff) it's with the eXoDOS collection, which is allll packaged up for me.

That reminds me, I need to free some hard drive space and get Win3x0..

[fastbilly1]

oh I need optical drives. A lot of my older PC games are stuff I've picked up at yard sales.

I keep telling you the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player will fix that for about $20 shipped.

[BoneSnapDeez]

An optical drive and a 3.5" floppy drive is essential for any PC.

[noiseredux]

oh I need optical drives. A lot of my older PC games are stuff I've picked up at yard sales.

I keep telling you the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player will fix that for about $20 shipped.

lulz. If I hadn't found a cheap USB DVD drive for my laptop, I would've snatched up a 360 HD player for the sheer audacity.

On the flip, my gaming PC has a Blu-ray player in it... which I don't even know why. I don't have BR playback software, and have never seen a PC game released on BR disc.

[KalessinDB]

An optical drive and a 3.5" floppy drive is essential for any PC.

Legitimately don't think I've rocked a 3.5" drive in over a decade. The loss of optical drive is probably 3-5 years for me now, but 3.5" floppy drive? Easily over a decade. Probably because I'm not a collector when it comes to old PC games at all, I'm purely a player of them, so I'm just as happy downloading them as I am using the original media -- sometimes happier (like with the eXoDOS collection that gets it all set up in Dosbox for me).

But I will not look down on those of you who do by any stretch of the imagination, considering the crazy number of console games I have that could easily be replaced by the flash drives for those consoles which I already own as well

[noiseredux]

I picked up a USB 3.5" drive last year when my sister found a stick of old floppies w/ my handwriting on them. Had a bunch of DOS games, downloaded rap lyrics in html format, pictures of friends, and from what I could tell an RPG game that I was trying to 'develop' somehow. Good times.

But I figure it's good to have one, again, for yard sale finds.

[fastbilly1]

Oh I have all sorts of expired format drives hacked up to usb. But I did data backup as a side job for a long time. Sadly my 8inch floppy drive died and I cant get a compatible one at a price I am willing to pay - Shugart 800 - they go for $300+ on ebay. Luckily, few people outside of the government use 8 inch drives.

Edit - I should add the shugart was not a standalone usb drive, it was in an old "portable" pc, with a null modem connection to a usb modem. As far as I know, you cannot make a usb 8inch drive.

[BoneSnapDeez]

An optical drive and a 3.5" floppy drive is essential for any PC.

Legitimately don't think I've rocked a 3.5" drive in over a decade. The loss of optical drive is probably 3-5 years for me now, but 3.5" floppy drive? Easily over a decade. Probably because I'm not a collector when it comes to old PC games at all, I'm purely a player of them, so I'm just as happy downloading them as I am using the original media -- sometimes happier (like with the eXoDOS collection that gets it all set up in Dosbox for me).

But I will not look down on those of you who do by any stretch of the imagination, considering the crazy number of console games I have that could easily be replaced by the flash drives for those consoles which I already own as well

I have a 3.5" floppy drive for old RPGs (like Sorcerian, for instance) that never received CD-ROM or official digital releases.

I used to keep an ancient PC with a 5.25" drive kicking around, but I never used it. Most everything on that format I can just get on C64 instead.