The $35 external floppy drive that saved my Quake mod backups

I mean, I thought my old CDs were fine for 15 years, but when I finally dug them out last month that drive was the only way I could read any of them, and now I'm wondering if anyone else has had to burn their custom WADs to newer discs just to keep them alive?

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finley9393d ago

Did you ever check the discs for that white rot stuff some CD-Rs get over time? I heard a retro computing podcast mention it a while back, and it made me paranoid about all my old backups. Same thing happened to me with some Doom WADs I stashed on cheap discs in the early 2000s, and about half of them were toast when I tried to read them last year. I ended up re-burning everything onto a few high-quality M-DISCs and now I keep a second copy on a plain old USB stick, just in case. It is a pain, but better than losing all that work, especially when the mods are no longer anywhere online.