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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 07:43:07 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   I had actually forgotten how LONG it takes to unpack files stored on a floppy disk.

   No wonder we all loved those lavish phonebook-sized manuals back then.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:02:12 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

     @stooovie It is! I'm writing instructions on installing software from original floppy disks to DOSBox Staging (or whatever) in Linux.

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     Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping (stooovie@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:02:13 JST Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

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     @HauntedOwlbear What's that, Veil of Darkness?

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 08:05:10 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

     @stooovie (The actual challenge is ensuring a consistent mount point when swapping disks. Same with multi-disc CD-ROM titles.)