protracker running, crt flicker warning https://computerfairi.es/media/SK6Vl3mLM4b3Dd1gLFA
@onf it keeps clicking when there's NO disk in the drive, constantly checking. it stops once a disk is in
@squirrel Heh, maybe they expected it to be switched off when not in use.
@rainwarrior that's up for the program you're running, for example if you run amos it makes the disk stop seeking
@rainwarrior but protracker doesn't do that
and you can get tools for that manually as well
@squirrel AMOS... is this like STOS??
@rainwarrior mhm! stos inspired amos
@squirrel That reminds me I should research those. I'm thinking about making an NES oriented BASIC envrionment and there might be good ideas in STOS.
@squirrel It always sounded really cool in the magazine reviews, and there were cool screenshots I guess but I never got to see what the STOS games were actually like back then.
@squirrel Though eventually I did play Grandad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfobDWejiMI
you can hear the floppy drive happily clicking away in the backround
(it clicks every second or so to check if there's a floppy in it if there isn't because it mounts it as soon as you put one in, and i guess that is the best way to detect whether or not a floppy was in the drive that commodore could come up with in 1992)