Gunstar

Do you mean the bios on your Incognito? I'm pretty sure my bios is the latest...?

Of course if a member doesn't have an about me or blog section typed up yet, then it doesn't show those options to click.

Here is a link, but if you just click on my avatar (or anyones) and go into the profile, right under the dark grey bar at the top of the profile there is a lighter grey bar underneath that has choices: ACTIVITY, ABOUT ME and BLOG. For future reference.

Hilarious! I wonder sometimes what people are thinking when they post stuff that would obviously effect their "permanent record" when dealing with things in real life! I have a couple idiots like this in my own extended family!

But sooner or later the floppies (and part for the drives disappear) will die and new sources are already scarce, so one day I probably will be converting some floppy drives into more modern equivalents, but keeping the form-factor.

What you say is true, and I also use them for dumps as well, and with 2 happy 1050's and 2 Indus GT's I can do 4 at a time in syncromesh and ultra speed modes. But especially multi-disk games is what I use them for. If it's a single disk game I generally load an .xex from an SIO or cart device. I do still have some original floppies for some many of the .xex's though, just to use the disk drives a bit more once in a while; because I'm a hardware guy and I get as much joy out of just putting hardware to use as I do the software it loads, (and I don't mind the load times, but I do at least upgrade for fastest tape & floppy drives) And yes, half my hardware hobby time is spent on drive up-keep, but I enjoy it all the same. But I love playing my Atari multi-disk RPG's and Synapse Electronic Novels and Omnitrend's Universe on multiple floppies.

Welcome back to magnetic media! I have the SIO2PC, SDrive-max, etc., but I also have had an extensive floppy collection, so I never ditched my disk drives, I use them all. Variety of media is what I like, new and old. I also still have and use a 1010 tape recorder, though it's been upgraded for turbo speed; actually 4 times as fast as an early standard C64 1541 disk drive now! But still less than 1/4 speed of a standard 810/1050 (yes, standard Atari disk drives are 16x faster than standard Commodore drives!)