Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️the best time to do win32 development is when microsoft's entire cloud has shit the bed
gotta pull out my visual studio 6 MSDN CD because the online stuff keeps timing out
and lets see if the internet archive has WinObj, because sysinternals is not responding
I'm just trying to read sectors off a floppy drive that's not mounted because it doesn't have a FAT12 filesystem!
surely this is an everyday occurrence in windows 11, why is this so hard?
ah-ha!
r"\\.\GLOBALROOT\Device\Floppy0"
I'm benchmarking how long it takes to read a floppy disk, for my video player. test one is calling read(512) 2880 times
305 seconds, that's five minutes.
My video is 252s/floppy, so that's sub-realtime. NOT GOOD
My video is 252s/floppy, so that's sub-realtime. NOT GOOD
½kb: 305s
1kb: 161s
2kb: 89s
4kb: 58s
8kb: 42s
16kb: 34s
32kb: 30s
64kb: 28s
128kb: 28s
256kb: 28s
512kb: 28s
1024kb: 28s
1440kb: 28s
1kb: 161s
2kb: 89s
4kb: 58s
8kb: 42s
16kb: 34s
32kb: 30s
64kb: 28s
128kb: 28s
256kb: 28s
512kb: 28s
1024kb: 28s
1440kb: 28s
That's speeds on a Teac FD-05PUW
a reasonable thing to do would be to adjust my video bitrate so that it stores something like 45-60s instead of 252s, since I can read one disk every 28s.
this'd get me MAXIMUM VIDEO QUALITY at the expense of increasing the video size from 12 floppies to 51-68
Greaseweazle + TEAC FD-235HF:
default settings: 97s
--revs 1: 66s
that makes sense. The USB Teac is a 2X drive, so it's running the disk at 600 RPM instead of the intended 300 RPM, and it gets roughly twice the speed.
there are 4x drives, but they're rare and I think they've mainly been used inside mavicas
Jhynjhiruu
@Jhynjhiruu have you seen the thumbnail for that video? and the icon in it?
@foone huhhhh???? (i reflexively posted a video i remember watching without thinking about it, so imma need some more hints to understand the issue)
@Jhynjhiruu the joke is that he's using my icon for the thumbnail.
(cause I know gravis. he asked)
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
@foone @Jhynjhiruu y'know, for the longest time i thought i saw that floppy disk icon from somewhere, but didn't know where
well that answers that lol
well that answers that lol
dmi 💽 @foone @Jhynjhiruu oh, I always wondered whether this was intended (and whether you two knew each other ^^)
very fast foone running at increedibly hihg speeds