[pentaphobe]

Alas most died on boxes of floppy discs which succumbed to a flood

I recently discovered some 50 odd floppies which survived, and a couple old 5" hard drives - so I'm hopeful! I assume most of the data will be pretty patchy by now (if not totally gone) but I'm gonna try some forensic recovery

If I manage I'll put the survivors somewhere for sure :)

Anywhere I can check out your renoise stuff? Always keen to find new stuff to boggle at

[avtar]

Not the person you were replying to but here’s someone who still uses Renoise for releases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Robot_and_Proud

[pentaphobe]

Oh cool, hadn't heard of this person - thanks!

[stuaxo]

The greaseweazle is a very cost effective way of reading old floppies.

There's a community on FB, you can occasionally but pre made drives, even without that, a board and a floppy drive is enough.

[pentaphobe]

Awesome, thanks - had no idea this existed (and great name)

[masfuerte]

I had more than a hundred 5.25" floppies from the 1980s and I successfully recovered all but two of them thirty years later. It's definitely worth a try.

[fzzzy]

Same, I had several hundred 3.5" floppies from the 80s and they were all fine when I ripped them. I think double density might be more reliable than high density.

[pentaphobe]

That's super impressive, and very reassuring!

What sort of memories did you find? (if you don't mind sharing)

Also: any tips for recovery? I'm so far assuming I'll just get them nice and cool, then do multiple raw read passes so I can then choose the individual bits which are the same across most passes

[masfuerte]

Mostly it was loads of 6502 software I wrote when I was a kid, and also some high school projects I did. It was fun to look through it.

The disks that worked just worked! I did try multiple passes on the two that didn't, but that didn't help.

[pentaphobe]

Oh that woulda been a neat bit of time travelling, glad it worked out!

I'm quietly hoping I end up finding a bunch of my old x86 assembler projects in these discs (well - excited and a little scared... perhaps better through the rosy glasses of nostalgia)

[npunt]

If you can get your hands on an Applesauce low level copier you may be able to recover them. https://applesaucefdc.com

[pentaphobe]

Will keep an eye out! Hopefully they get their supply chain back - sucks when small (great) ventures like this get gutted by shortages