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Annoying Robot

07:26

My Panasonic CT-20S12S (20 inches, not 12 inches) has some pretty bad geometry in various parts of the screen. The edges of lines bow in or out, distorting shapes. How can I adjust the geometry on my CRT to fix this bowing?

crt-monitor

4 hours later…

Annoying Robot

11:03

Q: Magnetic exposure to floppy disk damages file system and requires complete reformat?

What I noticed is, that formatting a floppy disk takes three times as much time for the same data amount as writing a file to the disk normally. The accoustically perceivable jumps of the head between the eighty tracks are significantly slower on a full format than on a normal write of an 1.44 MB...

floppy-disk file-format

Annoying Robot

11:39

Q: How are floppy disks being used today?

Floppy disks are considerably obsolete. However, I enjoy using them, because **they are adventurous, rather than boring as an USB stick for transferring text documents. But how are they being used today around the world?

floppy-disk

Annoying Robot

12:28

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Q: Do DD floppy disks need regular full reformats?

http://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/5449?noredirect=1 Floppy Disks have tracks that can be destroyed by a magnet, which would cause it to need full reformats, as stated in the answer link above. Is it possible, that the exact same effect happens after frequent rewrites under normal treatm...

floppy-disk storage

Annoying Robot

13:20

Q: DD vs HD vs ED floppy disks: lifespan/writecycle difference? Other differences?

DD, HD and ED floppy disks have individual materials to match their densities. But is density their only difference? Are there any differences regarding: Maximum allowable rotation speed? Rewrite cycles? Sensitivity to external magnetic interference? Life span? Data preservation?

floppy-disk storage

3 hours later…

Retrocomputing Meta

15:59

Q: Feature suggestion: How many minutes from the 40m are left to wait?

For new users, these 40 minutes are the 40 minutes of death. That is an exaggerated nickname, but I adapted it from "BSOD". 40 minutes of hell could also be their name. It would be useful, if the 40-minute-error also indicated the number of remaining minutes. I hope my feature suggestion to be ...

feature-request

3 hours later…

JAL

18:53

@wizzwizz4 I'd love your input here: retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/543/621

wizzwizz4

@JAL :blush: Well, meta is the right place for that...

You got a head-start in research... I think I know the search terms.

JAL

Yeah, did not mean to call you out, I've just always done that on other networks as sort of a way to work around questions that have been answered by other people elsewhere, just to make sure they're "answered"

wizzwizz4

@JAL I didn't think that the protocol was to make them CW...

A: Copy and pasting answers from comments

If it is a pure copy-paste of someone else comment, I think one should usually do all three of the below (although I personally do not care much for it being made CW), and at the very least one of them: Make clear that it is a copy-paste from a comment (this often indirectly achieves 2). Nam...

But apparently I;m wrong.

JAL

I guess it's not necessarily "protocol" but more of an acceptable use of CW in the communities

we haven't established them yet here, so we can always disallow it

wizzwizz4

I think that this particular case was different to the usual cases, since it was posted very soon after Chenmunka had written the comment and it was a comment on the answer (as opposed to the question).

There are often instances where the real answer is in the comments of an answer, but imo this wasn't one of them.

@JAL You were right to "call me out" on that, by the way.

I'm not taking it personally; I did both volunteer for this job and make a mistake.

JAL

19:09

wizzwizz4

I'm providing a self-analysis as an answer, since I'm doing that anyway.

wizzwizz4

19:21

@JAL Done. :-D

JAL

Thanks, looks great!

1 hour later…

Annoying Robot

20:50

Q: NES/Famicom CPU address range allowable for cartridges

The postulated address range for CPU ROM (so-called "PRG-ROM") in cartridges is $8000..$FFFF, that is pre-decoded in NES/Famicom and the chipselect is fed to the cartridge. However, it is quite common for some games to have extra "PRG-RAM" range of $6000..$7FFF. While the chipselect only decodes...

nintendo nes famicom

2 hours later…

Retrocomputing Meta

22:49

Q: Community Wiki Usage

This is a response to the mod comments on this now-deleted answer: @JAL That's not what Community Wiki is for. Although... perhaps asking Chenmunka to add the clarifying information to the existing answer would have been better. I would argue the opposite. According to Question with no a...