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Scorpidoo Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:31am
MS-DOS
Will the game run on MicroSoft Disk Operating System?
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Originally posted by Falaris:
THere's 57GB preload + 43GB day 1 patch, so 100 GB total, or 102400 MB, so 71111 disks. However, you'll need some additional room for combining the files over the disks, verifying checksums etc, so let's say 78222 floppy disks.

Reading a disk - if you include the time to swap disks but don't faff about, takes about a minute.

That means reading them will take a little over half a year (32 weeks) if you do it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no vacations.

Then add time because disks are faulty and need replacing. Then having to reinstall fifteen hundred times because the checksum failed because of a bad read.

I am really, really glad we have the internet.
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Lufex Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:40am 
358,125 single sided Floppys
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jrf773 Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:41am 
Originally posted by dustin1280:
Originally posted by Scorpidoo:
How many floppy disks will that be?
Roughly 49,770 standard 1.44MB 3.5" floppy disks
Oh crap that is right. I wasn't thinking MB, I was thinking each 3.5 was 1.4 G. Not Meg. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I am old.

Damn Whippersnappers, get the hell off my lawn.

*Gets the shotgun loaded with rocksalt and carpet tacks*
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Brymsd Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:42am 
Originally posted by Scorpidoo:
Will the game run on MicroSoft Disk Operating System?
yeah but it doesnt run on 3d cards you need to wait for the patch
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T'ot Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:43am 
Originally posted by Trip-:
You'll need the floppy disk version.
Oh, it's only 818 kilograms. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Edition)
Last edited by T'ot; Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:44am
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Scorpidoo Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:44am 
NEXT on Linus Tech Tips:
We just installed Cyberpunk 2077 with floppies just for the shíts and giggles.
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GlorFindel1983 Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:44am 
50k floppies; and what if 49999-th is corrupted!?
Last edited by GlorFindel1983; Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:45am
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T'ot Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:48am 
Originally posted by glorfindel1983:
50k floppies; and what if 49999-th is corrupted!?
FUUUUUUUU!!!!
CyberPrank 2077
Last edited by T'ot; Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:49am
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GlorFindel1983 Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:49am 
Originally posted by T'ot:
Originally posted by glorfindel1983:
50k floppies; and what if 49999-th is corrupted!?
FUUUUUUUU!!!!

Yes, I remember I had games on like 12 or 14 floppies only and I would pray for all of them to not be corrupted!
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Piderman Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:50am 
Originally posted by glorfindel1983:
50k floppies; and what if 49999-th is corrupted!?
Even better: get it as Listing for your C64 only to go insane when it doesnt run because you made one single Mistake in of these millions of Lines of code.
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T'ot Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:58am 
Originally posted by glorfindel1983:
Originally posted by T'ot:
FUUUUUUUU!!!!

Yes, I remember I had games on like 12 or 14 floppies only and I would pray for all of them to not be corrupted!
It's like when we had 56k modems we risked to download huge game installer file. After two days we saw "Download failed.Connection Error." on 95%....
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cyäegha Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:58am 
Originally posted by フラップズ (Flapples):
technically yes, if you loaded all the necessary drivers from Win10 and met the spec sheet

good luck trying to backport drivers contingent upon the NT kernel on a 16bit operating system
most modern CPU microcode won't even natively boot anything pre-NT, and struggles to do so through VM without a bit of elbow grease

it isn't even technically feasible, it's outright not possible to hackerman DOS to run cyberpunk no matter how funny you think it'd be to try
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lil shbiggie Dec 7, 2020 @ 9:59am 
Didn't laugh.
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Falaris Dec 7, 2020 @ 10:03am 
THere's 57GB preload + 43GB day 1 patch, so 100 GB total, or 102400 MB, so 71111 disks. However, you'll need some additional room for combining the files over the disks, verifying checksums etc, so let's say 78222 floppy disks.

Reading a disk - if you include the time to swap disks but don't faff about, takes about a minute.

That means reading them will take a little over half a year (32 weeks) if you do it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no vacations.

Then add time because disks are faulty and need replacing. Then having to reinstall fifteen hundred times because the checksum failed because of a bad read.

I am really, really glad we have the internet.
Last edited by Falaris; Dec 7, 2020 @ 10:04am
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Scorpidoo Dec 7, 2020 @ 10:09am 
Originally posted by Falaris:
THere's 57GB preload + 43GB day 1 patch, so 100 GB total, or 102400 MB, so 71111 disks. However, you'll need some additional room for combining the files over the disks, verifying checksums etc, so let's say 78222 floppy disks.

Reading a disk - if you include the time to swap disks but don't faff about, takes about a minute.

That means reading them will take a little over half a year (32 weeks) if you do it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no vacations.

Then add time because disks are faulty and need replacing. Then having to reinstall fifteen hundred times because the checksum failed because of a bad read.

I am really, really glad we have the internet.

If only we could give rewards in here, you'd have one for sure :P
Last edited by Scorpidoo; Dec 7, 2020 @ 10:09am
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Chronos Chi Dec 7, 2020 @ 10:11am 
Originally posted by Falaris:
THere's 57GB preload + 43GB day 1 patch, so 100 GB total, or 102400 MB, so 71111 disks. However, you'll need some additional room for combining the files over the disks, verifying checksums etc, so let's say 78222 floppy disks.

Reading a disk - if you include the time to swap disks but don't faff about, takes about a minute.

That means reading them will take a little over half a year (32 weeks) if you do it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no vacations.

Then add time because disks are faulty and need replacing. Then having to reinstall fifteen hundred times because the checksum failed because of a bad read.

I am really, really glad we have the internet.


This guy maths
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