Flexi Discs

[PaulJ]

Is there a list anywhere containing all flexi discs and contents from various (Spectrum or computing related) magazines?

I know the ZX81 Othello one from Your Computer.
I know the Thompson Twins one from C&VG.
I know the crap one from Big K (with circle fill)
and I think there was one from possibly What Micro or Which Micro that had a Spectrum type-in??

Are there anymore?

Also, is there a place to get the contents of these discs (apart from the Thompson Twins one)?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Microhobby magazine issue 37 (jul 85) had one, came with a demo of Hipersports and a (very cool) BASIC game:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... y_issue_37

I remember playing the flexidisc in an hi-fi system, with a tape saving it. Only the demo worked. It was not a successful MH experiment and they never issued any other

[+3code]

Microhobby magazine issue 37 (jul 85) had one, came with a demo of Hipersports and a (very cool) BASIC game:

http://trastero.speccy.org/cosas/Discof ... coflex.htm

Yeah, I have somewhere that issue.

[PeterJ]

Sadly no download available [mention]PaulJ[/mention], but this is the one from Which Micro: The same issue has an interesting article comparing the ZX81 to the IBM PC!

https://blipblop.net/release/free-progr ... ic-20-pet/

The Spectrum game was Froghop or Blobhop. It's in ZXDB here.

https://archive.org/details/whichmicro- ... ew=theater

[PeterJ]

[mention]Einar Saukas[/mention],

Would it be worth having a file type of Flexi-Disk Image (Image as in picture)? The ZX81 Othello listing has it categorised as 'Cassette Inlay'

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... 1/OTHELLO2

[ianace]

Sorry never heard of flexi disks, what were they?

[Evil Genius]

Sorry never heard of flexi disks, what were they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

Though I never had one with software on, but a couple of childrens books had them in with music on

[Nitrowing]

Sorry never heard of flexi disks, what were they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

Ah! I had a couple of those with music releases.

[PaulJ]

Thanks for the replies.
Seems C&VG had a Flexi disc too.

I have seen that Which Micro disc on eBay some years ago, but reading mag online doesn’t mention it. At least I couldn’t find it

[PeterJ]

reading mag online doesn’t mention it. At least I couldn’t find it

The only mention I could find [mention]PaulJ[/mention] is on page 59:

[Juan F. Ramirez]

As I said above, I still have the MH issue with the flexidisc, here's the pic in case anyone wants to know how it looks like:

[jdanddiet]

There was a great feature on these a few weeks ago on the Guardian by Will Freeman:-

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/ ... x-spectrum

[Juan F. Ramirez]

I know the ZX81 Othello one from Your Computer.

Just came across this tweet:

https://twitter.com/loudscotsbloke/stat ... 65603?s=19