superkret@feddit.org to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 months agoI was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)feddit.orgexternal-linkmessage-square210fedilinkarrow-up1475arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1447arrow-down1external-linkI was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)feddit.orgsuperkret@feddit.org to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square210fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelattrommi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agojust in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named autorun.inf and add the following to it with a text editor: [autorun] open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe icon=icon.ico while i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there’s probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven’t used windows in years.
just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named
and add the following to it with a text editor:
[autorun] open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe icon=icon.ico
while i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there’s probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven’t used windows in years.