offensive_Jerk
Veteran Member
Do commercially produced floppies (let's say IBM formatted 360k disks for simplicity's sake) offer any quality advantage over if you were to just create a floppy from your own PC?
I'm not even sure what technology was used to produce software back in the day, but curious if it is any better than just writing a disk yourself.
I know there were tricks some software vendors did to try to curb piracy that you may not be able to reproduce on a normal drive.
If you burn a CD at home, it's a digital copy, so theoretically the audio/digital quality would be the same, but I'm sure the commercially produced CDs themselves are sturdier than a CD-R when it comes to reliability.
I'm not even sure what technology was used to produce software back in the day, but curious if it is any better than just writing a disk yourself.
I know there were tricks some software vendors did to try to curb piracy that you may not be able to reproduce on a normal drive.
If you burn a CD at home, it's a digital copy, so theoretically the audio/digital quality would be the same, but I'm sure the commercially produced CDs themselves are sturdier than a CD-R when it comes to reliability.