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1. No. For an obvious and good reason.
by IAmBroom 1y ago
1. No. For an obvious and good reason.
- empath75 1y agoYou absolutely could put in disks upside down.
- sdetheridge 1y agoI recall doing this on my BBC micro with 5.25" disks. In fact, some disks were deliberately designed for this, and had a 'notch' (which you would cover with some tape to make read-only) on both the left and right, so you could set the read-only state for each side individually. The version of Elite that I played had the standard version on one side, and a version for the "BBC Master" (which had an extra 64KiB RAM) which had more colours than the standard version, on the other.
- bzzzt 1y agoWe're talking about 5,25 inch floppies. It was easy to insert those in any way imaginable including several wrong ones ;)
- IAmBroom 1y agoYep, my memory was bad. In my defense, so were 5.25" floppies. Literally the worst.
- IAmBroom 1y ago1. (edited) Yes, but you couldn't run it. 1.a. ...unless you altered the shape of the floppy. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/5.25-inch_floppy_disk.jpg/512px-5.25-inch_floppy_disk.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/5....