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Retro Steam Deck mod launches games using floppy disks (www.club386.com)
submitted 5 days ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Strictly speaking this is probably more like retro-adjacent rather than truly retro gaming (though you could make floppies only for the retro games you play on your Steam Deck I guess), but a modder set up a system that uses Decky Links to launch Steam Deck games via floppy disks, QR codes, and NFC cards, simulating the nostalgia of physical media. I love the ka-chunk sound of a floppy being seated.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While I love that someone has done it. I'll never want to go back to juggling physical media.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

On disk 17 out of 37 of a Microsoft Office install in 1994:

GRONK-GRONK-GRONK-GRONK-GRONK

Disk error reading Drive A:

Abort, Retry, Fail?

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I tried to image a bunch of old floppies from the 90s recently. And about 1/3 had reda errors. Needless to say I wasn't able to fully preserve many of my games on floppy.