[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless copy of ... on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in the drive, and ...

Graham confirmed in the project thread that it's possible to capture a flux image that has copy protection but it doesn't always work. After the floppy disk is imaged as a disk file (we hazard a ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...