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Posted by Cas
- March 23, 2022, 11:59:22 PMDVDs are a very particular case because there still is indeed a good reason for using them in some circumstances. They're simply the cheapest storage form per gigabyte. If you write something to a USB stick and you give it to somebody, you want it back, but if you give a DVD, that's no problem. Besides, DVDs seem to not rot like some writable CDs did, so you can expect them to store your data for a longer period of time if you don't touch them than flash drives.
There's another curious thing about physical storage media with time. Floppies and CDs may have been considered uncomfortable because of being large. I really never thought they were too large, but say they were, it made sense for 3.5" floppies and if even that was too big for you, then came standard SD cards. But now things have moved to the other end of the spectrum, since micro SDs are terribly uncomfortable for being so small!!! In my opinion, the perfect size for portable media was that of 3.5" floppies. They just had to be made to have more capacity. They're not as easy to misplace as an SD card.
I think the true reason that these two inconsistencies occur is that the market now is focused toward cell phones, not computers. It's that. One more reason for me to hate cell phones
There's another curious thing about physical storage media with time. Floppies and CDs may have been considered uncomfortable because of being large. I really never thought they were too large, but say they were, it made sense for 3.5" floppies and if even that was too big for you, then came standard SD cards. But now things have moved to the other end of the spectrum, since micro SDs are terribly uncomfortable for being so small!!! In my opinion, the perfect size for portable media was that of 3.5" floppies. They just had to be made to have more capacity. They're not as easy to misplace as an SD card.
I think the true reason that these two inconsistencies occur is that the market now is focused toward cell phones, not computers. It's that. One more reason for me to hate cell phones
Posted by Overdrijf
- March 23, 2022, 05:56:04 PMI have a couple of colleagues who are nearing retirement, and neither of them had one anymore.
Posted by KyLiE
- March 23, 2022, 05:20:55 PMI'm writing this post from my MSI GT80S Titan SLI. Optical drive? Check! 
Posted by Overdrijf
- March 23, 2022, 07:13:44 AMAlso: it is "ten years from now" now, and not only are floppy disks still out of style, you're practically a dinosaur if you still have a cd-rom/dvd drive.
Good thing dinosaurs are so cool. Although that's mostly literal ones.
Good thing dinosaurs are so cool. Although that's mostly literal ones.
Posted by Cas
- February 06, 2022, 08:01:36 PMOh... I don't remember when I first posted, ha, ha. It's been a long time too!
Posted by afullo
- February 05, 2022, 02:22:36 AM8 years (and 2 days) have passed from my first post in this community... 
Posted by SuperBrian
- March 14, 2014, 08:58:27 AMThat explains why I can still see all my Zakstunts-tracks in one directory. I haven't accompanied all the track-files with a highscore yet. Thanks for the advice about splitting the directories at 80 tracks.
Posted by Duplode
- March 14, 2014, 01:31:28 AMQuote from: SuperBrian on March 13, 2014, 05:44:48 PM
I remember that from an old version of Stunts I had, but I have not encountered the problem since the download of my last file-package. For instance I have a map with all Zakstunts-tracks ever published and I can still see them in game. I don't know why? Maybe because the original exe-file is cracked?
Strictly speaking, the limit is 256 files. That only corresponds to 128 tracks if you have high score files for all of them, so your ZakStunts archive directory will be fine as long as you don't drive the tracks. Incidentally, Competition Archive competition directories have to be split at ~80 tracks, as each track is usually accompanied by at least one replay.
Posted by afullo
- March 13, 2014, 07:00:44 PMMaybe the exe was tweaked in order to bypass the limitation. 
Posted by SuperBrian
- March 13, 2014, 05:44:48 PMQuote from: afullo on February 03, 2014, 11:56:29 AM
Another reason to delete a track is that Stunts is able to manage at most 128 .trk files. If this number is reached, the track selector do not display the whole set of tracks available.
I remember that from an old version of Stunts I had, but I have not encountered the problem since the download of my last file-package. For instance I have a map with all Zakstunts-tracks ever published and I can still see them in game. I don't know why? Maybe because the original exe-file is cracked?
Posted by afullo
- February 03, 2014, 11:56:29 AMAnother reason to delete a track is that Stunts is able to manage at most 128 .trk files. If this number is reached, the track selector do not display the whole set of tracks available.
Posted by Chulk
- October 29, 2012, 03:41:05 PMPosted by CTG
- October 29, 2012, 11:39:51 AMQuote from: zaqrack on October 29, 2012, 10:12:14 AM
It already does... come on, a floppy disk! when have you last used a floppy disk?
Less than a year ago. But it was hard to find a computer with floppy disk slot.
Posted by zaqrack
- October 29, 2012, 10:12:14 AMQuote from: Duplode on October 28, 2012, 08:28:54 PM
The question isn't too surprising. There is a clear tendency towards abstracting further and further away from the file system, however bizarre that may sound to us. Hell, chances are that ten years from now knowing what is that funny square thing used as the "Save" icon will tag us as dinosaurs.
It already does... come on, a floppy disk! when have you last used a floppy disk?
Posted by BonzaiJoe
- October 29, 2012, 09:22:58 AMThat's because fate is trying to tell you to get back to Stunts