4 ms·

why? that sounds ridiculous... original files should suffice.

• paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Possibly because of disc protection based on intentional 'bad' sectors or bytes?
  • vaccinator 6y ago
    Another area where pirated copies shine...
• anyfoo 6y ago
  Because the assumption that software on floppy disks back then was entirely comprised of files in a normal FAT filesystem is wrong.
  • skissane 6y ago
    Also occasionally the original floppies contain interesting information in the unallocated space of the FAT filesystem – remnants of deleted files left over from the development process.
• LocalH 6y ago
  A file copy of the contents is not a preservation of the original media in its entirety. There might not even be any "files" to copy, depending on the platform (many Amiga games would bypass having a filesystem entirely and access data in a raw, direct manner). Working with disk images allows recovering "deleted" contents, or otherwise recovering data from "slack space" (say, if a file was edited and shortened, the data after the new end of the file in the final sector is likely still present).