Is the drive broken? Is there a lot of bad sectors on floppy disks? This is not a sentence! The trash bin will wait, and most likely will not wait. Very exciting games can be arranged with a floppy disk - homemadeproposed by Instructables under the name bumpus.
The master takes the drive, floppy disk, rubber rings and screwdrivers. Of course, you can take several floppies so that players do not shoot the same floppy disk in turn. And a few broken drives, so that players do not snatch one drive from each other.
If there are any important data on floppy disks, they must be pulled out to the maximum using some efficient drive. The file cannot be read because of bad sectors - there is nothing to be done, if only to read individual sectors with special programs and pull out the part of the file that will turn out. It reads - well, it’s quite simple, pull it out, and that’s it. And now you can start making do it yourself interesting game.
The wizard looks at which parts of the drive are moving when installing and removing the floppy disk. To better consider everything, you can remove the covers, the board, but not the parts of the mechanism that are involved in the process.
Having removed everything superfluous from the drive, like a sculptor, the master adds a rubber ring, placing it so that when removing a diskette by pressing a button, it will shoot it for a couple of meters.
The wizard simplifies the floppy itself. There is also a mechanism in the drive that automatically pushes and pushes the shutter. It can interfere with a floppy disk while holding it. To prevent this from happening, the master removes the flaps from all floppy disks with which he is going to complete the floppy disk. Floppy disks themselves can be numbered for fun.
Now about the possible games and their sample rules. The simplest is a distance game. But it is also the most uninteresting, because nothing depends on the player here, but depends only on the characteristics of the floppy disk. Much more interesting is the hit accuracy game. Flying, flying - something like this was once modeled by novice programmers, only here everything is real. We put a plate on the floor, and try, tilting the drive in different ways, to get into it with a diskette.Quite quickly we remember the dependence of the flight range on the slope, and everything starts to work out. The smaller the diameter of the plate, the more difficult it is to get into it. Several players can shoot floppy disks, and periodically changing "WATER" - move the plate. You can also arrange floppy analogues of darts, skibol, towns, bowling alleys - all that fantasy and memories of Soviet slot machines suggest.