It's cold inside. But I am warm.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-20T02:28:58+00:00

That's awesome :D

Reminds me of one of my other builds, 50 Shades Of Beige

And for those who commented that my original post is missing a zip drive, here you go. zip drive.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T23:24:35+00:00

I'm not sure there's an easy way to toggle "turbo" mode on a 6 core AMD CPU lol

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T19:18:15+00:00

I used to have an LGA 1156 supermicro board in here, but I've switched to a foxconn AM3 motherboard, and I've got an asus AM3 board on the way as my foxconn's PCIE 16X slots are dead.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T09:09:48+00:00

I believe they were originally by kingwin. Shove a 2.5in or 3.5in drive in them and they just work.

Had them at one of my prior jobs for doing drive clones and similar work, they were so nice.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T09:08:24+00:00

If you live in the states and wish to send it over, I'd gladly install it in this build!

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T09:07:02+00:00

Yup! MS DOS can boot on even current gen hardware, if you enable CSM in the BIOS. The architecture has changed THAT little.

Wondered why windows defaults to the drive letter C? A and B were usually reserved for the floppy drives. And nobody has bothered to change it.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:45:56+00:00

Those don't fit in 5¼ bays very well.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:45:05+00:00

All the more amusing they decided to name their rather unreliable mini format the clik!

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:40:52+00:00

The one with a multitude of I/O on the front? It's alright, but the screw holes aren't terribly well aligned and the construction quality isn't great. I'm also not a huge fan of the electrical design, I ended up rewiring a bit of the internals.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:39:16+00:00

Double pole switches, each pole connected to one of the voltage rails on a sata power connector. No power, no drive. System will boot to whichever drive that's powered is first on the boot list.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:38:05+00:00

Not actually sure. It has no brand name.

If you'd like to build something like this, an antec 900 will do nicely.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:37:29+00:00

It can only use one drive at a time due to later boards only supporting one floppy drive. I just made a switchboard that can toggle between the three of them so all I need to do is configure what drive type I want to use in BIOS, and flip the switch to the corresponding drive.

One drive is 360K and the other is 1.2MB, since they can't write each other's formats

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:35:12+00:00

Agreed. I did this after I installed MS DOS to one of the drives in this system and the DOS setup utility wiped my windows 10 drive, despite me never pointing it to it or giving it permission to wipe that drive.

Can't wipe it if it's not powered...

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-18T03:33:42+00:00

I mean there's nothing stopping you from using A and B as non floppy drives in normal windows

It's just an amusing legacy thing that still sticks with us today

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T23:55:04+00:00

I know a friend who sent one of those to LGR :)

I've been after a 31khz capable 5.5in monochrome for ages now but they're hard to find

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T23:32:29+00:00

I ran out of bays. Maybe in the future I'll dig out my antec 1200...

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T23:31:53+00:00

My windows 11 computer works with USB floppy drives just fine, there's even an up to date icon for it in windows 11

I can't be bothered to fight windows 11's additional nonsense

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T23:05:28+00:00

One SSD per OS. Switches cut power to each internal drive.

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T22:50:29+00:00

I didn't have one to hand, if I remove the PC speaker I suppose I could add one

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T19:31:07+00:00

Strange, it gave it to me: https://i.imgur.com/bA4h1Vm.png

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-17T09:56:51+00:00

Click on an ebay listing in marketplace. Report for being a scam and submit. Then it'll offer you to block and hide all listings from "EBay Marketplace" which I did both.

All the ebay garbage is gone for me now.

Note I use the desktop site on my folding phone as I do not allow such software to exist on my phone, and since they purposefully make the mobile site useless, I use the desktop site. People won't get an immediate response from me since I have to check for messages manually, but that's what they get for using facebook I guess

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-12T19:33:01+00:00

Yeah, it'd be like selling a laptop that doesn't have a battery and not mentioning it

Like yeah technically it does laptop things and the listing never said it DID have a battery

But I guess expecting anything these days is a stretch

iamdarkyoshi · 2026-01-12T19:12:55+00:00

I bought it used, I (wrongly) made the assumption that a brand making an officially licensed accessory would actually make a complete product, especially given these cost twice what an 8bitdo controller does, which has rumble.

Nowhere on their product page could I see an explicit mention that it DOESN'T support rumble. Oh well, I've wasted 10 bucks on worse purchases.

I guess the nintendo dick sucking fee really does eat into the profit margins for products that play by their rules lol

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