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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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

IIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My family's IBM compatible had 5¼" double sided double density disks that held 360KB.

But there was a lot of variations between platforms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats