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Title: ssd hard drive
Post by: loco07 on June 22, 2024, 11:09:11 AM
Can you run Fighter Ace from a SSD hard drive? ~S~
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Volron on June 22, 2024, 11:23:18 AM
Yes.  Prior to my account going, I was running AH on a SSD.
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Post by: AKIron on June 22, 2024, 12:10:30 PM
Anything you can run on an HDD you can run on an SSD. Are you asking about an external drive?
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Post by: Bizman on June 22, 2024, 12:17:38 PM
Can you run Fighter Ace from a SSD hard drive? ~S~
You can run pretty much anything from an SSD. The amount of read/writes has gone up as fast as the prices have come down.

Just make sure that you have backup copies of anything you'd like to keep as recovering lost data from an SSD is doomed to fail because of TRIM, wear leveling and data distribution assisted by a potentially failing cell will corrupt any data fragments in a second.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 22, 2024, 01:08:59 PM
Anything you can run on an HDD you can run on an SSD. Are you asking about an external drive?

Won't it be kinda hard to run Fighter Ace?

Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Skyyr on June 22, 2024, 03:22:37 PM
Won't it be kinda hard to run Fighter Ace?

Nah, I have FA 1.0 - 4.0 installs on my drive. They run fine.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 22, 2024, 03:28:34 PM
Nah, I have FA 1.0 - 4.0 installs on my drive. They run fine.

I stand corrected. 
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 22, 2024, 04:07:02 PM
You can always go the emulator route if the app is to old for Windows 10/11.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 22, 2024, 04:09:07 PM
You can always go the emulator route if the app is to old for Windows 10/11.

I just assumed it would be doing a phone-home thing to servers no longer there.

Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 22, 2024, 04:09:15 PM
Prices are good on SSDs right now and predicted by some to get better. Just say no to HDD.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 22, 2024, 04:10:52 PM
Prices are good on SSDs right now and predicted by some to get better. Just say no to HDD.

HDD?  It's like asking for a floppy drive on your next laptop.

Or even a CD player.  :O
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 22, 2024, 04:16:34 PM
HDDs spin opposite the Earths spin. Gradually slowing our planets spin. Save the planet, upgrade now!
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 22, 2024, 04:21:46 PM
HDDs spin opposite the Earths spin. Gradually slowing our planets spin. Save the planet, upgrade now!

4 tb drives for like $260.  Dang I feel old sometimes.

I remember when a friend came home with a 20 mb HDD for his Tandy.  20 INSANE mb!  I was green with envy.

Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Meatwad on June 22, 2024, 05:36:00 PM
HDDs spin opposite the Earths spin. Gradually slowing our planets spin. Save the planet, upgrade now!

If you spin a HDD backwards, satan talks to you
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: LCADolby on June 22, 2024, 06:33:45 PM
If you spin a HDD backwards, satan talks to you
  :rofl   :aok
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Shuffler on June 24, 2024, 10:52:43 AM
If you spin a HDD backwards, satan talks to you

I thought you heard the Beatles.  :neener:
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Post by: AKIron on June 24, 2024, 11:08:50 AM
Paul's not dead Jim.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: CptTrips on June 24, 2024, 12:09:49 PM
If you spin a HDD backwards, satan talks to you

Weird.  I did that once and just traveled back in time.

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Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: popeye on June 24, 2024, 12:11:45 PM
I remember when a friend came home with a 20 mb HDD for his Tandy.  20 INSANE mb!  I was green with envy.

My first HDD was 10MB for a Zenith Z100.  It was $1700 in 1981 dollars.    :old:
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 24, 2024, 12:36:33 PM
The first one I bought was a Seagate 30MB, $300. I had an Amiga 2000 with an IBM Bridgeboard. I was able to access the drive on the Amiga side through the Bridgeboard. Could even boot the Amiga from it. 
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: RELIC on June 24, 2024, 05:53:10 PM
Paul's not dead Jim.
:aok
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Meatwad on June 24, 2024, 06:53:43 PM
I thought you heard the Beatles.  :neener:

I heard a lot of garbled screeching and scratching, so it must of been Yoko
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Vulcan on June 24, 2024, 07:05:38 PM
The first one I bought was a Seagate 30MB, $300. I had an Amiga 2000 with an IBM Bridgeboard. I was able to access the drive on the Amiga side through the Bridgeboard. Could even boot the Amiga from it.

My first was a 20Mb Hardcard.

One of my favourite demos of the Amiga was it running Workbench, MS-DOS, and classic Mac OS all at once. I'd have them on separate screens and then drag the screens down to show 1/3rd of each all running applications concurrently.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: save on June 25, 2024, 02:55:37 AM
My first was a 5mb Harddrive for my Apple II plus.
Expensive as h*ll.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Eagler on June 25, 2024, 06:43:34 AM
Stacker made my 20mb a 40 mb hard drive before it made my data a locked up 20mb file lol

Eagler
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 25, 2024, 07:29:02 AM
Those were the days my friend....
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 26, 2024, 11:30:39 AM
Good ole QEMM let me use the full 1MB RAM in my 386/40MHz machine.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 26, 2024, 12:53:19 PM
DOS 5 came along with built-in memory management. That was big. I bet you younger guys never even heard of edlin.
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: Eagler on June 26, 2024, 01:06:55 PM
On Command PPV setup in resorts used DrDOS as the os back in the late 90's on tiny monochrome screens

Eagler
Title: Re: ssd hard drive
Post by: AKIron on June 26, 2024, 01:28:58 PM
The old days. When you had to read books to learn stuff and then remember it. I probably wouldn't trade having so much knowledge at our fingertips for the past but if the world goes dark I may wish we had.