I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port ...

There have been a lot of retro projects and products over the years, especially on crowdfunding platforms, that try to bring the past forward to the present. A few of those let you actually relive ...

Ukrainian electronics engineer Oleg Kutkov successfully connected a 45-year-old 3.5-inch floppy disk drive to a modern Tesla via its glovebox USB port The vehicle’s underlying Linux kernel seamlessly ...

A Redditor named u/GreedyPaint is doing just that. They wrote a custom x265 video codec that compresses video to a resolution of 120 x 96 pixels at a silky smooth four frames per second. As such, they ...

A 3.5-inch floppy disk holds 1.44 megabytes. That is roughly 90 seconds of music compressed as an MP3 at a decent bitrate. It is also, as Ukrainian software engineer Oleg Kutkov demonstrated in a ...

There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy ...