The most famous, but still extremely rare in the US, was the 64DD drive, an add-on for the Nintendo 64. Yes, different Nintendo consoles had floppy drives. Note the indentations/molding of the ‘I’ and ‘N’ in Nintendo A 64DD game pack The Nintendo Floppies A Famicom Disk Card. He has what is probably the most complete collection of different floppy drive formats on the planet, and they were all out on display this weekend. That’s just one physical format of a floppy disk, and there are dozens more.įor this year’s VCF West,, hardware necromancer and collector of rare and esoteric removable storage formats, brought out the goods. A single unlabeled 3.5″ floppy disk could be formatted as 360, 720, or 1440k IBM drive, a 400, 800, or 1440k Macintosh drive, an Apple II volume, or an Amiga, or an Acorn, or a host of other logical formats. It wasn’t always this way, and it was much more confusing back in the day when we had floppy drives. In those rare occasions where that won’t work, a USB thumb drive will do. It also was the first software product to use CAB files, then called 'Diamond'.Ĭomparison of DMF and standard 1440 KiB 3 1⁄ 2-inch diskettes:ĭMF in the form of a 1680 KiB Virtual Floppy Disk (VFD) image and IBM Extended Density Format (XDF) images are supported by Windows Virtual PC.Nowadays, if you want to transfer a file from one computer to another, you’d just send it over the network. The first Microsoft software product that uses DMF for distribution were the 'c' revisions of Office 4.x. An Apple Macintosh computer running Disk Copy 6.3.3 on the Mac OS 7.6 or later operating system can copy and make DMF disks. As a side effect, utilities had to specially support the format in order to read and write the disks, which made copying of products distributed on this medium more difficult. It allowed the disk to contain 1680 KiB of data on a 3 1⁄ 2-inch disk, instead of the standard 1440 KiB. Distribution Media Format (DMF) is a format for floppy disks that Microsoft used to distribute software.

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