What are good games I can fit onto a floppy disk?
Epic Pinball.
What kind of Floppy disk?
>>3194069
3.5 inch.
http://www.dosgames.com/g_small.php
>>3194070
1.44MB?
>>3194080
Yup
Minesweeper.
Dangerous Dave 2
>>3194101
is this a dangerous dave
Pretty sure you can fit some of the Commander Keen games on a single floppy, since I have the official floppy of IV.
>>3194065
Jill of the Jungle
>>3194065
EGA Trek
>>3194065
For what system?
https://archive.org/details/eXoDOS_Collection_v2.0
>>3194572
Windows 98. It's an IBM Aptiva from 1998.
>>3194065
All the games if you have enough floppy disks.
>>3194065
When I was just a bitch ass kid, I had a 133Mhz pc in my room with no network connection. When pokemon blue came out I downloaded it on a 14k modem on my dad's computer. I remember crying when I found out it would fit on a 1.44mb floppy disk, my only means of transferring files.
It was glorious.
>>3194772
This literally means nothing and is not a constructive response in any way.
>>3194774
How did you download Pokemon Blue when it first came out if GBC emulators didn't even exist?
>>3194065
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VjHE-65v0k
>>3194781
not that anon but i remember this is how my buddy played it when it came out. i dunno what gb emulator was available at the time. something tells me it was gb$ something. ahhh now that i try to remember i think there were 2 gb emulators available then
>>3194769
Anything that actually needs Windows 9x to run isn't going to fit on a floppy.
>>3194781
They did have emulators back then, not perfect, but I do remember them having a simply gui. I believe the pokemon blue I downloaded was a fan translation too.
Scorched Earth
>>3194065
Pong
Dyna Blaster - ~870kB
Lemmings - ~460kB
Lotus 3 - ~1.21MB
Wings Of Fury - ~550kB
>>3195136
>Lotus 3 - ~1.21MB
I'm sure he's looking for old office software, anon.
Gotta mention kkrieger
FPS with Doom 3/Half Life 2 quality graphics that takes all of 95 kilobytes because it was programmed by warlocks.
>>3194115
CK is really pretty shitty though. Go play Genesis platformers instead.
>>3195185
>Doom 3/Half Life 2 quality graphics
>>3195185
i actually really like kkrieger, shame its like 3 levels long
>>3195185
I remember when this buggy shit was first released, lotta people who thought it was a ruse and a virus. But it's really just buggy shit with a really small HDD footprint, which is admirable.
>>3195193
You should look back at how shit Doom 3 and Half Life 2's graphics look these days
>>3194065
Whoa, it's the save icon!
That's pretty cool, I didn't know people made figures out of stuff like that. It's kind of weird though.
>>3194781
Blue isn't a GBC game, it's strictly GameBoy.
And even then, early GBC releases were backwards compatible with OG GameBoys.
Liero. If you had this game, your childhood was awesome.
>>3195315
This fucking game. So many good times.
>>3194065
Unless I'm mistaken about one of these:
Deathtrack
Tankwars
Scorched Earth
Keen Dreams
Red Baron
Simfarm
Skyroads
>>3195315
FUCK YES i used to play this split screen with my friends all the time we had a blast
Liero > Worms
>>3195285
Mmmm this is some quality bait.
>>3195149
Lotus 3 is not Lotus 1-2-3
>>3195195
How dare it not being longer, when it's half the size of the fucking splash screen of a normal game
>>3195185
Checked on wikipedia
mfw it's 96k for real
>>3194793
no$gmb
>>3195576
kkrieger was a demo developed to showcase a procedural generation tool by that company or demo group. When started up, the program would spend a couple minutes generating all the assets it really used. I forgot if they were generated into RAM or onto disk as well. Easily a couple dozen MB or so. Then it ran from that data. Lots of people associate procedural generation with lol-random and landscapes. krrieger goes well beyond that. All textures, many models, all levels, are procedurally generated. So what these 96k contain is effectively a bunch of generators, seeds or settings, and a small 3D engine. Engines on their own aren't big, at all. Just a bunch of hardware calls, rarely more than a few kB. The size of games is largely assets, not code
>>3195559
Lotus 123 Release 3
>>3194774
My first pokemons was on emulator too, tho it was only in English in palette town, think I got stuck on the drunk old man sleeping in the road.
>>3195601
id made doom 3, not epic
>>3194065
NES emulator + 3-4 ROMs
>>3194065
Sopwith 2.
>>3194065
street rod
>>3194065
kings of the beach
>>3194065
indianapolis 500
>>3195592
Mmmmh, such excitment. Calculating numbers.
45+45... wow, such gameplay.
68/2... fuckin' tight controls
466-462... it even has a level editor.
Fuck me hard. Best game ever. GOTY 1987
>>3195561
Yeah, but it's awfully strange to make a game that advanced, and have that little use of it made. What about allowing extra levels? Though I'd understand if it imposed limitations and would refuse to run with more content than one floppy's worth, even a 720k or 360k floppy.
>>3198041
96k is a common size limit in demo competitions
He's talking about Lotus Sprit Challenge 3. Sorry for ruining the joke guys
>>3198048
>Lotus Sprit Challenge 3
A typo, but a good one. Sprit is slang for fuel in german, and the cars in that game surely were fuel guzzlers.
That said, only the first game was the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge. Lotus 3's full name is Lotus III - The Ultimate Challenge. Matters, because you drive more than Esprits in it
>>3198047
I wasn't talking about what size the program itself should be, I was saying it probably should allow extra levels, and be at least a bit friendly towards that option.
>>3198175
if they could have fit more levels in 96k, they might have done that. You certainly won't find a level loader or plugin architecture in that size.
It's a demo, an interactive graphics and tool demo. It's not meant to be modable, extensible or anything like that. The size of the binary was the hard upper limit they could not exceed, that was the primary goal.
>>3194101
definitively the best MSDOS game!
>>3198180
not having large amounts of moddability, I could understand, I'm sure even new textures would be quite difficult since they were procedurally generated, I just meant more levels, for which the tools wouldn't be very friendly or flexible, and I don't mean provided tools, I mean whatever tools could theoretically be made would end up being unfriendly and inflexible
>>3198181
What you describe is a file loader that's dynamic and not hardcoded. Won't fit in the 96k
>>3198191
>I mean whatever tools could theoretically be made would end up being unfriendly and inflexible
kkrieger itself was made using the werkkzeug, which is purpose built for procedural generation. The game is a showcase of what you can do with it
>>3198192
okay, so the insertion of extra data wouldn't have to be handles by the actual file, it would need to be done more externally
Does Wizardry count? The early games fit on a single floppy but you were wise to create a duplicate for saves.
>>3198208
the game included mapping sheets?! that changes everything
>>3198218
Just telling the kkrieger guy that his recollection of Doom 3 & Half-Life 2 graphics are just a little hazy. Good for 95kb, not Doom 3 & Half-Life 2 good.
>>3198208
The IBM version of W1-5 mangled the game mechanics. Don't play those.
>>3198234
how so?
>>3198234
I was just posting the picture. Most other versions for 1-3 also came on a single disk.
A bit weird is the case of V which had 9 floppies on the Apple II but only 1 for the PC98.
>>3198243
Not that strange considering the PC98 version was released on a 640K floppy.
The Apple II floppies were 140K and some game data would necessarily be redundant across all the disks.
>>3198398
what was the physical size of both floppies?
>>3198406
They were both 5.25"
>>3198398
Did Apple never switch to higher densities?
Kosmonaut / Skyroads
Kings of the Beach
>>3198654
>PC platformers
>>3198473
Apple only switched to higher density when they went to 3.5" disks. The original Disk II used a Shugart SA-400 drive mechanism with Apple's custom controller board; this was singled sided, 35-track. Later Alps-supplied Disk IIs are 40 track drives, but they never updated the OS software to take advantage of it. Most likely this was because they'd already created a ton of compatibility issues by switching from 13 to 16 sector formatting in 1980 and then the switch to ProDOS in 83, so they probably didn't want to cause still more problems.
>>3198234
What's the definitive Wizardry port?
>>3199884
Probably one of the Japanese computer ports.
>>3199890
I've heard the PSX versions are good in that they allow you to move parties from wiz5 to wiz trilogy, so it's essentially like a classic PC version but cleaned up.
>>3194065
NetHack.
>>3195423
Dead set, this game was cool, but so fucking rage inducing at times....
>>3201186
You can do that on the computer versions. It's even possible to import from the FM Towns port of 5 to the PC98.
>>3194065
Doom mutators; mods that reference and manipulate graphic lumps from an IWAD. Here are a few good ones:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/zdfrf9ok22eoynx/doommutators.zip
You need the Doom IWAD for these, and the ZDoom source port:
http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/zdoom/
>>3196776
No, Lotus 3 is a britbong racing game related to Top Gear on the SNES.
>>3205418
>related
how so?
>>3194065
Dang. I really can't think of anything. MAYBE Wolfenstein 3D?
Zork Trilogy
>>3194065
'sup.
>>3194065
Chrono Trigger can fit in with compression.
>>3195185
It's highly compressed and takes a longish time to install or even load, and it lags on my toaster.
i just googled the capacity of a 3.5 inch floppy dick
back in the day i used to rock a genesis with a magic drive attachment and disc drive
anything on genesis basically
>>3205942
Even with 7zip at Ultra compression it still comes in at 2,71 MB.
>>3205945
>It's highly compressed
procedural generation
>takes a longish time to install or even load
performing the generation
>it lags on my toaster
the engine is unoptimized/generic, to stay small
>>3205958
what was the result?
>>3194793
My got Pokemon Yellow on an emulator when I was a kid, in Japanese before it came out in the US. None of the other kids at school believed me.
>>3206351
very little there desu
>>3206147
Good to go then!
