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Re: floppy disk question

Newsgroups comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Date 2017-02-03 13:24 -0800
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Subject Re: floppy disk question
From Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com>

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On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 12:17:33 PM UTC-6, qkumba wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, is this a nostalgia thing that you would want floppies as a recording media instead of using an emulator that, under Prodos can access 32 Mb drives, and even under Dos 3.3, there is very little switching or flipping disks?
> 
> The plan is to release the game on physical floppies, hence the need for physical floppies.

qkumba is correct. Floppies for those who want the nostalgia and thanks to his ProRWTS driver, the game will also be ProDOS compatible for hard drive use.

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