Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

Post by embedding-shape » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #109

embedding-shape wrote: post #102

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I ended up trying to look it up and found this: > Available options: [...] mark_watched: Mark videos watched (even with --simulate). Only for YouTube https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/c8680b65f79cfeb23b342b... So I'm guessing without that, it doesn't, so would have to add the flag for it to try to count it as a view.

I don't think that flag is related at all.

Post by hinkley » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #113

hinkley wrote: post #82

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There was a hacked driver you could get that would tighten up the tolerances of the stepper motor and get from 1.5 to 1.9 MB of data onto a single floppy, but sliding the tracks closer together. There was I believe at some point a game that shipped 1.5MB disks as a copy protection mechanism. But if you had this tool you could copy them anyway.

Are you referring to 2M/2MGUI? That didn't change the track spacing (which is fixed) but used bigger sector sizes (similar to how HDDs went from 512B to 4K physical sectors): https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27412/how... (Big fuckings to Wikipedia for erasing history, and kudos to archive.org for preserving it: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203124243/https://en.wikipe... )

Post by userbinator » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #123

userbinator wrote: post #113

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Are you referring to 2M/2MGUI? That didn't change the track spacing (which is fixed) but used bigger sector sizes (similar to how HDDs went from 512B to 4K physical sectors): https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27412/how... (Big fuckings to Wikipedia for erasing history, and kudos to archive.org for preserving it: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203124243/https://en.wikipe... )

No they definitely did more tracks, but it seems to be a smaller multiplier than I recalled. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12768/wha... 2-5% more tracks, 12.5% more sectors.

Post by ddingus » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 7:09 PM UTC

nxobject wrote: post #104

ddingus wrote: post #94

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Use some finer pitch graph paper and people could author "boot sector code" by literally coloring in the little squares with the necessary bits! Would be sort of like paper tape.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when high-school computing classes used Scantron-style optical mark cards... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP_Educational_Basic...