I only use floppy drives now on my BBC Micro, which, in turn, I only use for its Hybrid Music System, either for listening to the music (which I'd have sampled digitally and turned into a CD by now if not for this problem (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/86714.html?thread=371898#t371898), or for using my Music 4000 keyboard, which is the only thing stopping me forgetting altogether how to play the piano or read sheet music).
I have a stack of games here, too. I just never play them.
It's funny. I used to play X*L*C*R (http://www.michael-grant.me.uk/xlcr.html) (a game I wrote) lots when I first got my Master (it was Heriot-Watt University's last eight-bit machine, and I intercepted it on the way to the skip in 1998), and when I first got a decent computer of my own in 2000, I had to deinstall the Tetris which came built into Emacs, as I otherwise just wasted far too much time playing it; but now I feel no compulsion to play games at all. The operating system I'm currently using (Fedora 8 Linux) comes with a bunch of simple games, but I've never played them even once.
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Date: 2008-02-17 12:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:18 pm (UTC)It's funny. I used to play X*L*C*R (http://www.michael-grant.me.uk/xlcr.html) (a game I wrote) lots when I first got my Master (it was Heriot-Watt University's last eight-bit machine, and I intercepted it on the way to the skip in 1998), and when I first got a decent computer of my own in 2000, I had to deinstall the Tetris which came built into Emacs, as I otherwise just wasted far too much time playing it; but now I feel no compulsion to play games at all. The operating system I'm currently using (Fedora 8 Linux) comes with a bunch of simple games, but I've never played them even once.
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Date: 2008-02-18 08:53 am (UTC)