A FloppyDisk Album?

[Jay Vaughan]

> Someone did this in the late 90s, IIRC. I know Remyl included an EP and a video on a floppy with the “Disruptor” boxed set on Mental Ulcer Forges, but no way I knew anything about the tech, then.

The playback is the thing, imho.  What kind of formats can I provide.  I’m really thinking I will construct some way to get content built into different FloppyDisk media types, like a Hypercard stack, an MSDOS build, an Atari, Amiga build, and so on .. same ‘zine content, just different RETRO formats. 

BTW, I’ve already started distributing them on the various retro- groups out there, its kind of astonishing how many people need FD’s these days .. 

> It’s a great idea though, and hey! a music delivery format to rival the compact cassette scene, so I’m just piping up to say I’ll buy that release!



I’ll take a day to digest this, but I really like Mr. Picones idea of us passing around The Floppy here on the music-bar, everyone adding something to it, and then we publish it or whatever .. I dunno .. it just seems great.  Gotta think about the tooling .. 

What does everyone have for FD’s at hand, is the question .. ?  We could all use a common or exotic format, it sorta depends what everyone has .. I can do MSDOS, Hypercard, SGI, BeBox, Yamaha A-sampler, QY700, and probably a few other things I’ve forgotten about, hmm .. 

j.
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Jay Vaughan
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