Re: [Q] Disk Flipping and Two Disk???

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> wrote in message news:Miz9i.285296$6m4.58706@pd7urf1no...
: "Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote in message
: news:46648826$0$20286$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net...
: > Albert D. Kallal wrote:
: >
: >> Well, that depends. Most games and manufactures did avoid using both
: >> sides
: >> of the disk. However, some did (since disks were expensive back then - a
: >> box
: >> of 10 floppy disks was $50 or more).
: >
: > Can you name even any programs that shipped on two or more single-sided
: > disks? Didn't pretty much everybody use the back sides?
: >
: > --
: > Linards Ticmanis
:
: Well, for sure the UCSD Pascal disks where
: single sided. and the package came with 2,
: or more disks. On the other hand, the UCSD
: system also benefited from having two separate
: drives to use to separate disks.
:
: So, no, they did not necessary use both sides.
: However, as others pointed out, it don't really
: seem that the "dirt" issue I pointed out was ever
: a real issue.
:
: And, I would have to say that *most* games
: that needed two sides were flippy disks.
: However, some exceptions obviously did exist...

FWIW, when I ran Atari computers and video game
systems in the 80's, many games were written for
Atari and Commodore, the Atari version on one side,
Commodore on the back. Hence, a flippy disk, but,
2 different platforms, and, never had a problem
using them on my friend's C=>64's.

Come to think of it, I've seen them with Apple II
on one side, and Atari on the back. May have one
or 3 of those here.

William Garber
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