Comments for "Star Wars Floppy Disk" Video at VideoSift.com

By ChosenOne

ChosenOne (http://www.videosift.com/member/ChosenOne) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:55:06 -0700

Best use of a floppy I've seen in a long time.

By Crosswords

Crosswords (http://www.videosift.com/member/Crosswords) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:03:28 -0700

forget vinyl, 3 1/4" is where its at.

By thinker247

thinker247 (http://www.videosift.com/member/thinker247) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:48:41 -0700

After viewing countless hours of disgusting and perverted pornography, this is what really makes me finish.

By GDGD

GDGD (http://www.videosift.com/member/GDGD) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:10:50 -0700

I am pretty sure, that all things considered, this is the geekest thing I have ever hear/watched.

At least until someone makes a cake that looks like a lego design of mario wielding a frosted papercraft companion cube.

By 8383

8383 (http://www.videosift.com/member/8383) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:41:42 -0700

This is what we nerdy types do with our time when the more popular people are out having sex.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://www.videosift.com/member/MarineGunrock) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:08:33 -0700

This makes me grin like an idiot and brings me to my *happy place.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:08:34 -0700

Adding video to channels (Happy) - requested by MarineGunrock.

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:19:13 -0700

By CrushBug

CrushBug (http://www.videosift.com/member/CrushBug) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:13:30 -0700

Imperial March should be mentioned somewhere, since its that and not the main title theme.

By Xax

Xax (http://www.videosift.com/member/Xax) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:42 -0700

How is this done?

By jmd

jmd (http://www.videosift.com/member/jmd) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:18:08 -0700

Unless theres something on the floppy itself hitting the head to make the sound (kind of like a music box), its fake.

Stepper motors in these drives do make a noise similar to this, but #1 you cant alter the frequencies of steps to this degree to create multiple tones, and #2 youll note that while the head moves at the start of the tone, it does not continue to moved through to the end of the tone, especially the long tones. Therefore its not the stepper motor making the sound.

By RedSky

RedSky (http://www.videosift.com/member/RedSky) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:22:10 -0700

>> ^thinker247:
After viewing countless hours of disgusting and perverted pornography, this is what really makes me finish.

You sir, are a god among men and an example for us all!

By sometimes

sometimes (http://www.videosift.com/member/sometimes) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:58:45 -0700

Best use of a floppy I've seen in a long time.

I think this is the only use of a floppy I've seen n a loooong time.

By randomize

randomize (http://www.videosift.com/member/randomize) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:21:37 -0700

What's a floppy?

By Alak

Alak (http://www.videosift.com/member/Alak) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:19:14 -0700

Were they not originally called a 'Diskette' ?

I was going through my garage the other day and found a box of unsed, still wrapped 5 1/4" Floppies.

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:18:29 -0700

I use my floppies as bite guards when I'm gaming.

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:48:58 -0700

>> ^jmd:
Unless theres something on the floppy itself hitting the head to make the sound (kind of like a music box), its fake.

Stepper motors in these drives do make a noise similar to this, but #1 you cant alter the frequencies of steps to this degree to create multiple tones, and #2 youll note that while the head moves at the start of the tone, it does not continue to moved through to the end of the tone, especially the long tones. Therefore its not the stepper motor making the sound.

I just love people, who with zero information on something, other than a blurry video, and with some tiny amount of information, make bold statements like 'it's fake'.

Did you know that you can do this entirely in software with the disk drive of the commodore 64? Granted, it's a different assembly (5.25" drive with its own CPU and controller), but same principle. While I can't find anything on how it was done in this case, I think you'll find it's real, and then your 'its fake' call seems pretty dumb.

By Grimm

Grimm (http://www.videosift.com/member/Grimm) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:17:18 -0700

I was gonna say the same thing about the C64. I know personally from 20 years ago that this could be achieved on C64 drive so was not skeptical that someone could not pull the same thing off today.

By Throbbin

Throbbin (http://www.videosift.com/member/Throbbin) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:20:48 -0700

This is sad. Amusing, but sad.

By Payback

Payback (http://www.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:32:58 -0700

"Pick up your mouse and strike me down, and your journey to the DVD-HD will be complete..."

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:09:53 -0700

>> ^Crosswords:
forget vinyl, 3 1/4" is where its at.

I was obligated to downvote this comment for stating the wrong disk measurement.

By StukaFox

StukaFox (http://www.videosift.com/member/StukaFox) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:12:28 -0700

It's almost if someone did something pointless, yet utterly cool for the technical know-how involved, then video'd it for our amusement . . .

By jmd

jmd (http://www.videosift.com/member/jmd) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:28:33 -0700

I knew the c64 could do this with the 1541 drives (Ive owned 2 types of em, and modded one with jiffy dos chips), but my experience with newer pc drives have lead me to believe the low level of hardware access needed, to control the stepper directly, was not available. Anyone have a link that says different?

By WolfDemon

WolfDemon (http://www.videosift.com/member/WolfDemon) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:01:49 -0700

I wanna hear the whole song now!

By BoneyD

BoneyD (http://www.videosift.com/member/BoneyD) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:51:01 -0700

For you, WolfDemon

By fdisk

fdisk (http://www.videosift.com/member/fdisk) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:59:59 -0700

Brings back memories of sending head banging commands to the C= floppy drives. Sometimes it was to missalign them to get out of doing work and sometimes it was to realign them to play games... Good times. Good times.