Re: Well, that's unexpected (Speedball reboot)

On Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:30:03 GMT, Geeknix
<usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:

On 2024-10-31, Geeknix <usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:

On 2024-10-29, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

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Remember "Speedball"? You probably don't.
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    [Then again, this being Usenet and that most of us
     are old fogies, maybe you do]

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I remember Speedball, I loved it, probably because it was one of the few
games I had on Amiga. My parents were never happy buying games so most
of what I had was demo disks.
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So of course I played it a lot. One day my father wanted to take it to
work to swap with another Amiga owner. I warned him not to take the disc
on the pot lines, those massively magnetic pots would wipe the magnetic
discs.

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I just re-read my message, pot lines is nothing to do with whacky bacci,
he worked in an aluminium smelter plant with high mechanism.

Thank you, I was wondering.

Not that I thought it had anything to do with weed, but... where the
hell are there massive magnetic pots occuring naturally (or even
man-made in everyday areas) that are strong enough to wipe disks? It
seemed like the sort of thinking that makes people believe cellular
towers cause AIDS (or whatever nonsense it is those people believe).

But in an aluminum smelter? That I can believe. It takes a lot of
electricity to smelt aluminum, and that can result in strong
concentrations of magnetic flux.

Sucks about your floppy disks, though.

I was always pretty lucky with floppy disks. I had a few go bad, but
those were almost always repurposed disks (like those cheapo AOL
floppies they used to send in the mail, before CD-ROMs became a
thing). The disks I purchased from stores were quite reliable. I won't
deny that on occassion I lost a few files due to bad clusters, but
rarely had bad sectors.

Then again, I tended to treat the disks well; kept them out of the
sun, in a dry place, in their sleeves, in a disk box, and most
definitely well away from powerful magnetic pots used to smelt
aluminum. ;-)