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My barely adult child likes to map network drives on A:.
Old Timer/me:
You are going to regret that if you try to copy any file sets larger than 1.44 MB.
Inspired by the earlier E: vs F: post
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Ah, the past returns with interest.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Multi-file zips! Problem solved! 
God, that takes me back. 
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Save icon has been a rock to the memory of floppy disks.
To replace the floppy save icon, they will have to revert to the briefcase or go more modern with a backpack.
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I once experimented with "updating" my own load/save toolbar buttons using a variety of USB stick and hard drive icons, with arrows pointing into (save) or away from them (load).
Turned out to be confusing even for those who have never seen a floppy disk, and I ended up reverting to the tried-and-true. I think we're stuck with it forever. 
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Wait I'm not that old yet.
Right? Guys?
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David O'Neil wrote: Multi-file zips! Problem solved!
True war story: Our product installs are rather large, so we used to distribute them to our field service folks as ZIP files. Some of them would forget to unZIP them with the proper options, so I made them self-extracting ZIP's. One of the variants of our current product includes some rather large test data, so it's .exe was a little over 5GB.
It turns out Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 won't run executables larger than 4GB. Back to ZIP files we go... 
Software Zen: delete this;
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ARJ, my favorite archiver was ARJ.
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englebart wrote: You are going to regret that if you try to copy any file sets larger than 1.44 MB.
There were 2.88 Mbyte floppies as well (not very common). That would half the problem.
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Sheeoot, I cut my teeth on 360k floppies. The AT class bullies had 1.2mb 5.25" drives and thought they were so big.
On my DAW I mapped the backup USB drive to B:
Felt weird, looks weird, um, seems ok so far.
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We had a cannibalized chassis with two 1.2MB floppies, no hard drive.
We used it to boot Windows for Workgroups 3.1 so we could play network Hearts card games against each other.
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I don't think the OS imposes any restriction on the use of drives A: and B: for any purpose.
I'm looking at an ancient Win7 VM right now, which uses B: to host SQL database backups. Never in its lifetime has any software complained about anything unusual.
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Back in our day, we had to carry our floppy disks through 5 miles of snow. And we liked it that way!
Jeremy Falcon
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IIRC, MS-DOS had A and B hardwired to be floppy disks, as there wasn't anything else. A was the boot disk and B was data -- IF you were lucky enough to have ***2*** floppy drives!!! 
When hard drives became common, they were always mapped to C, since A and B were reserved. When CD drives became common, they were always mapped as D -- I have no idea if that was a requirement or just a popular convention. In the 90's I was on as many as 5 projects in a year (all different clients) and every client had the same mappings.
Today? Laptops come configured with C as the boot disk. AFAIK it's not a requirement under Windows, so it's probably 30+ years of convention.
When I rebuilt my desktop a year ago, I mapped the M.2 boot disk as C, while D is the files SSD, and E is a hot SSD backup. It never occurred to me to map the boot drive to anything other than C. 
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BryanFazekas wrote: Today? Laptops come configured with C as the boot disk. AFAIK it's not a requirement under Windows, so it's probably 30+ years of convention.
I believe at one point in time it was possible to install Windows on a hard drive that wasn't necessarily C:...in fact I distinctly remember seeing Windows 2000 installed on a drive E: somewhere - OS files were on E:\Windows, E:\Program Files, etc.
I think this broke a lot of bad assumptions from poorly thought-out apps, and nowadays to avoid that you can ONLY install the OS on drive C:. It's been a while I've seen any option in Windows installers that would leave me to believe you have any sort of choice.
But still, any code I write that needs to know always queries the system even for the most basic things, rather than assuming C: even exists at all.
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BryanFazekas wrote: When CD drives became common, they were always mapped as D -- I have no idea if that was a requirement or just a popular convention.
Just convention. I had a Win98 machine that came with two cd drives (one a burner) and they were on M: and N:
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One of our vendors has a camera calibration program that looks on a floppy drive for the files to do the validation. I got sick of carrying the floppy everywhere and mapped the A: drive to a server and disabled the floppy drive in Device Manager.  Looks weird, feels weird, but works. 
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Played this game addictively for the last 10 days...
(even started a second playthrough, which I suspect is unusual, this is more of a single playthrough kind of game)
Anyhow, also been surfing the Steam discussion forums about it. There are both lots of people having technical issues, and a lots of people who play happily without issue. I feel sorry for the devs, they must struggle with a strong case of "work on my machine".
Side note, looking at the bugs or bad experiences report, it seems like most of the issues come from Unreal4 if I were to guess, which I find kind of surprising for such a successful engine!
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I started recently with "Resident Evil: Village" - wanted to test my new RTX 3060 and the ray tracing thingy. Boy that game (and the GPU) delivers! Have never seen better graphics/lighting before. And the game is super addictive, although a bit too intense for 40+ toddler like me. Highly recommended!
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Super Lloyd wrote: it seems like most of the issues come from Unreal4
Asmongold (twitch/YT game streamer) has been playing this game lately and loves it. He did show a very weird world rendering bug live on Stream and now that I read your post, I wonder if the bug he had/saw was related to this UE4 bug(s)?
Interesting.
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My nephew finished the game but found that he couldn't save his progress once he completed it. He's playing it on an XBox Series X. He said he googled the issue and stated that others are experiencing the save game issue as well. He's a huge Harry Potter fan (understatement of the decade) and he is pissed due to that bug and he's been talking my ear off about it.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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