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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How about a full 100MB to honor the late not-so-great Zip drive?

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 11 hours ago

210 MiB for a mini-CD, 155 MB for a low-density mini-CD, 30-100MB for business card CD (b-card) and there were actually some games released in this format.

I don't know about actually getting such niche formats though, so I could also see a normal CD being used for multiple games (even more with shared assets/libraries). Or perhaps placing high enough in a contest like this, they author it for you onto the disc (with disc+mini-case art) for you.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And, to further honour the Zip drive, every game submitted must be corrupt and unreadable.