Using a Floppy Disk Drive on a Smartphone

Using a 3.5" diskette drive on a phone is oddly straightforward (and enjoyable!) with the right components. Let's set up an Android device to play MS-DOS games from a floppy drive!

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[NerdyMeathead]

I love how old tech can merge with new tech via dongles. Its like magic

[Oocca_Truth]

This is the exact reason why I watch this channel--because of batshit crazy antics like hooking a floppy disk drive and an IBM Model M up to a phone for the specific purpose of playing Commander Keen. My life is made whole.

[GuppyCzar]

Are you kidding me? This is absolutely pointless and a complete waste of time. I LOVE IT!

[HeyImDaki]

This is probably the most needlessly complicated way of playing DOS games ever

I love it

[davidmcguire]

I thought you were just some random nerd until I watched further and realized that you're just some random mad genius.

[LonSeidman]

This was cool . Crazy we have more power in our pockets than we did in the 90's with those huge power hungry PCs.

[morphman]

This video is so 90's!
I mean, not just the game and the tech. I mean the method and the madness. "I've never really tried this before, but I mean, theoretically it should work. It has a slot for it, right?"

That was the mentality of computers in the 90's. If it looked like it could fit, you went out to the store and checked if they had something that could fit that slot. If not, you went through all your catalogs to try and find something, then ordered it, waited 3 months for it to arrive, tested it and hoped for the best. And sometimes it worked.

And 15-20 years later, one of the dudes that did all that made a phone in pretty much the same way, and now we're all watching another dude from that same era doing the same thing to that type of phone. Some even watching from that type of phone.

[marksmoothe]

This brought back so many memories. I remember in the 6th grade, I used to Cary around a floppy disk full of "rare" Dragonball Z pictures I would find on internet explorer whenever I had a chance to use the internet. That noise is so nostalgic.

[SarcasticDragonGaming]

This is like having a horse tow my car.

[pkscarr]

The most surprising thing in this entire video was that the USB hub wasn't woodgrain finish! ;)

[adolphgracius]

Man, 50 years from now there will be a dude loading a PlayStation 10 game from a quantum calculator and people will be like "it's not that impressive"

[baerthe]

"Clint just use the touchscreen of your phone"
"NO, I WANT A KEYBOARD AND A FLOPPY DISK DRIVE D:<!"
Keep up the good work.

[cyrfung]

Everything working as expected, in a configuration that was not expected when they were made.

How great are USB and the related standards.

[clementpoon]

Phone: hi my friend
Floppy: *I'm your friends grand father.*

[chrispotter]

‘Hug a Floppy Disk’ - With your affection, it may become a Hard Disk.

[YdenPL]

And now grab a bunch of friends with their phones, have them bring some old keyboards, install Doom on their phones with DOSBox using a floppy drive, have them plug in an Ethernet adapter and the keyboard into a hub, the hub then to OTG, and to the phones, connect up the Ethernet adapters to a local network, and play Doom on the phones, on old keyboards, installed from a floppy, over LAN! How cool would that be?

[DarkTapes]

love the clicky sound of the keyboard, I miss that.

[unfa]

Can we have a Doom LAN party using smartphones?

[antoineolivier]

This is absurd and insanely brilliant at the same time.

[trox]

I've been a fan of your channel for a while now, but this was probably one of the most delightfully unnecessary and manical cackle-inducing videos I've seen. Thank you for reminding me about the time I used to get my mom to buy shareware floppies at the local Revco.