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Hope you managed to preserve these, I’d be keep to take a listen if they’re hosted online somewhere. I’ve been using renoise for 15 years on and off and while n

Hope you managed to preserve these, I’d be keep to take a listen if they’re hosted online somewhere. I’ve been using renoise for 15 years on and off and while nowhere near 100s of tracks a month I fondly look back on the first year I used it similarly - that combination of youthful energy and tracker software is really something special. Renoise has come a long way and is a joy to use.

pentaphobe 2y ago
Alas most died on boxes of floppy discs which succumbed to a flood I recently discovered some 50 odd floppies which survived, and a couple old 5" hard drives - so I'm hopeful! I assume most of the data will be pretty patchy by now (if not totally gone) but I'm gonna try some forensic recovery If I manage I'll put the survivors somewhere for sure :) Anywhere I can check out your renoise stuff? Always keen to find new stuff to boggle at
- avtar 2y ago
  Not the person you were replying to but here’s someone who still uses Renoise for releases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Robot_and_Proud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Robot_and_Proud
  - pentaphobe 2y ago
    Oh cool, hadn't heard of this person - thanks!
- masfuerte 2y ago
  I had more than a hundred 5.25" floppies from the 1980s and I successfully recovered all but two of them thirty years later. It's definitely worth a try.
  - pentaphobe 2y ago
    That's super impressive, and very reassuring! What sort of memories did you find? (if you don't mind sharing) Also: any tips for recovery? I'm so far assuming I'll just get them nice and cool, then do multiple raw read passes so I can then choose the individual bits which are the same across most passes
    - masfuerte 2y ago
      Mostly it was loads of 6502 software I wrote when I was a kid, and also some high school projects I did. It was fun to look through it. The disks that worked just worked! I did try multiple passes on the two that didn't, but that didn't help.
      - pentaphobe 2y ago
        Oh that woulda been a neat bit of time travelling, glad it worked out! I'm quietly hoping I end up finding a bunch of my old x86 assembler projects in these discs (well - excited and a little scared... perhaps better through the rosy glasses of nostalgia)
  - fzzzy 2y ago
    Same, I had several hundred 3.5" floppies from the 80s and they were all fine when I ripped them. I think double density might be more reliable than high density.
- npunt 2y ago
  If you can get your hands on an Applesauce low level copier you may be able to recover them. https://applesaucefdc.com https://applesaucefdc.com
  - pentaphobe 2y ago
    Will keep an eye out! Hopefully they get their supply chain back - sucks when small (great) ventures like this get gutted by shortages
- stuaxo 2y ago
  The greaseweazle is a very cost effective way of reading old floppies. There's a community on FB, you can occasionally but pre made drives, even without that, a board and a floppy drive is enough.
  - pentaphobe 2y ago
    Awesome, thanks - had no idea this existed (and great name)

pentaphobe 2y ago

Alas most died on boxes of floppy discs which succumbed to a flood I recently discovered some 50 odd floppies which survived, and a couple old 5" hard drives - so I'm hopeful! I assume most of the data will be pretty patchy by now (if not totally gone) but I'm gonna try some forensic recovery If I manage I'll put the survivors somewhere for sure :) Anywhere I can check out your renoise stuff? Always keen to find new stuff to boggle at

avtar 2y ago
Not the person you were replying to but here’s someone who still uses Renoise for releases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Robot_and_Proud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Robot_and_Proud
- pentaphobe 2y ago
  Oh cool, hadn't heard of this person - thanks!
masfuerte 2y ago
I had more than a hundred 5.25" floppies from the 1980s and I successfully recovered all but two of them thirty years later. It's definitely worth a try.
- pentaphobe 2y ago
  That's super impressive, and very reassuring! What sort of memories did you find? (if you don't mind sharing) Also: any tips for recovery? I'm so far assuming I'll just get them nice and cool, then do multiple raw read passes so I can then choose the individual bits which are the same across most passes
  - masfuerte 2y ago
    Mostly it was loads of 6502 software I wrote when I was a kid, and also some high school projects I did. It was fun to look through it. The disks that worked just worked! I did try multiple passes on the two that didn't, but that didn't help.
    - pentaphobe 2y ago
      Oh that woulda been a neat bit of time travelling, glad it worked out! I'm quietly hoping I end up finding a bunch of my old x86 assembler projects in these discs (well - excited and a little scared... perhaps better through the rosy glasses of nostalgia)
- fzzzy 2y ago
  Same, I had several hundred 3.5" floppies from the 80s and they were all fine when I ripped them. I think double density might be more reliable than high density.
npunt 2y ago
If you can get your hands on an Applesauce low level copier you may be able to recover them. https://applesaucefdc.com https://applesaucefdc.com
- pentaphobe 2y ago
  Will keep an eye out! Hopefully they get their supply chain back - sucks when small (great) ventures like this get gutted by shortages
stuaxo 2y ago
The greaseweazle is a very cost effective way of reading old floppies. There's a community on FB, you can occasionally but pre made drives, even without that, a board and a floppy drive is enough.
- pentaphobe 2y ago
  Awesome, thanks - had no idea this existed (and great name)