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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727 |
floppy disks
hi
does anyone know of a good place to buy some blank 5.25 inch floppies??
i cant really find any anywhere except ebay and they wont ship to the uk :( |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
Have you tried asking if they can ship to .uk? Have you tried ebay.co.uk? There's usually a couple of 10 packs on there.
Just remember to check if they are Double Density disks and NOT High Density if you intend on using them with C= drives. |
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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727 |
yeah i asked them if they ship to the uk and they dont :(
i want more than the odd 10 pack
ill keep searching
why do they need to be dd and not hd?? |
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Black Belt Jones
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 57 |
and careful what brands you go for.
i recently (2-3 months ago) bought a carton on sealed StorageMaster (Control Data) floppies off ebay. man, they were fucked. gone sticky over time. i wonder if theres already been a thread about brands to avoid, brands that degrade badly over time.. |
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Black Belt Jones
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Registered: Apr 2002
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Quote: yeah i asked them if they ship to the uk and they dont :(
i want more than the odd 10 pack
ill keep searching
why do they need to be dd and not hd??
1541's and im pretty sure all c64 drives are incapable of writing to High Density disks. i cant give you the technical lowdown but just believe it :) i got a pack donkeys years ago and learnt that the hard way.. i wont be seeing that $2 coin again ;-P |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
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5.25" HD disks are very different to 5.25" DD disks, you cannot use a DD drive for writing HD disks since they need a twice as strong magnetic field from the drive.
Btw, this is different for 3.5" disks though. There you can use HD disks in DD drives since the difference between HD and DD is much smaller. |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
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Maybe in theory, but in praxis this doesn't work very well either. You can write a HD disk in your PC floppy drive with d81copy, yes, but I made the experience that these disks work pretty unreliably in the 1581. Things get even worse if you try to write to a HD disk in the 1581. |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
In my experience 3.5" HD disks are just crap. Back when Amiga was teh shit, and HD disks started to make their way into my collection, I'd say that around 90% of my failing disks were HD.
Today when I need some pc floppy, I usuallly have to go through 4-6 pcs. before finding one that works. This regardless if it's a used or "brand new" floppy.
5.25" disks typically have only one bad block on one side.. now THAT's annoying ;-)
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
All of my 199x 3.5" HD disks which are DD formatted still work, while all 5.25" HD disks failed after minutes/hours. I remember when Smash Designs copied their demo on HD disks and gave those to people on a party, I could load the demo from such a disk on the party but when I arrived home, the disk was empty.
When it comes to nowadays 3.5" disks: Most of them are crap, but even more important: Those 20 EUR disk drives are REAL crap and destroy disks quite fast. |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
heh.. yeah I learned about the 5.25" HD issue the hard way myself ;-)
Actually all my 3.5" DD formatted disks are still working perfectly, both DD and HDs. So maybe it was just back when I frequently wrote them that they got busted.
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Inge
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 144 |
Quote: hi
does anyone know of a good place to buy some blank 5.25 inch floppies??
i cant really find any anywhere except ebay and they wont ship to the uk :(
A quick googling revealed the following sites:
http://www.retrotrader.com/
http://www.oldsoftware.com/floppy_disks.html
http://www.mfarris.com/
The last site actually sells MANY different types.
-Inge- |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
You know, 5.25" floppies make great cd cases :) |
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Tch
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Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 512 |
Quote: You know, 5.25" floppies make great cd cases :)
LOL! 8D |
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Nafcom
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 588 |
Quote: 5.25" HD disks are very different to 5.25" DD disks, you cannot use a DD drive for writing HD disks since they need a twice as strong magnetic field from the drive.
Btw, this is different for 3.5" disks though. There you can use HD disks in DD drives since the difference between HD and DD is much smaller.
"Btw, this is different for 3.5" disks though"
Not really, for many HD 3.5" disks don't work on 1581 e.g.
Tried it with mine. DD 3.5" work perfect though, but they are not easy to find (in Germany at least). |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
Here ya go..
www.mainstreetcomputers.net
Leave Feedback to Obet, let him know Eric sent ya..
He just came across several hundred 5.25" |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
I guess I should have mentioned he'll ship oversea's as well.
I think he's also selling a couple ntsc c-64 setup's. |
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markus sinalco
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Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 112 |
@maestro
Try go64.de thats a German site. They got pretty good
5.25 DD Disks. 3 Euros per 10. Maybe they ship to GB !?
Dont use HDs, they need a higher magnetig level and
will loose data ! .. Good Luck |
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Nafcom
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 588 |
Quote: @maestro
Try go64.de thats a German site. They got pretty good
5.25 DD Disks. 3 Euros per 10. Maybe they ship to GB !?
Dont use HDs, they need a higher magnetig level and
will loose data ! .. Good Luck
Yes, they also ship to abroad Germany |
