I thought there was like one place making them, but maybe they’re only packaging and shipping old ones?
But yeah, man, it’s weird that we resurrected vinyl but those things are just lapsing despite retro tech fans having become a fairly large group. I suppose it’s easier to manufacture replacements out of new tech than it is to build the legacy stuff, so it’s all Goteks and memory card adaptors for a lot of that stuff.
Maybe it’s the matter of vinyl consumers being a larger group than floppy disk consumers?
I enjoy going to music concerts, and in the case of smaller scenes/bands i always buy a vinyl (and most of times a t-shirt) to support the band directly. I don’t even have a vinyl player at the moment - long story - but I have a collection of 300+ records.
If I recall correctly it is also very cheap to produce in terms of tools and machines needed, the pipeline being all analogue and mechanical?
I am also a retrocomputer nerd, but I guess the number of indie game developers that target floppy disks as the distribution medium for their next game are fewer by number compared to the musicians distributing on vinyl?
I thought there was like one place making them, but maybe they’re only packaging and shipping old ones?
But yeah, man, it’s weird that we resurrected vinyl but those things are just lapsing despite retro tech fans having become a fairly large group. I suppose it’s easier to manufacture replacements out of new tech than it is to build the legacy stuff, so it’s all Goteks and memory card adaptors for a lot of that stuff.
Maybe it’s the matter of vinyl consumers being a larger group than floppy disk consumers?
I enjoy going to music concerts, and in the case of smaller scenes/bands i always buy a vinyl (and most of times a t-shirt) to support the band directly. I don’t even have a vinyl player at the moment - long story - but I have a collection of 300+ records.
If I recall correctly it is also very cheap to produce in terms of tools and machines needed, the pipeline being all analogue and mechanical?
I am also a retrocomputer nerd, but I guess the number of indie game developers that target floppy disks as the distribution medium for their next game are fewer by number compared to the musicians distributing on vinyl?