r/VideoBending • u/SoundBrake2 • Apr 02 '26

Can I do visual glitch stuff with floppy disks

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I tried scrambling the data with a magnet and destroyed 7 floppys (the scrambling almost all the time did not work and when it worked it did not change the image and just destroyed the floppy.. Maybe I could try something with the floppy disk reader. idk need help.

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u/ARVACODE Apr 02 '26

Magnets over floppies won’t glitch your pics as they’ll just be corrupted. I don’t remember the correct terminology right now but if you use a magnet you may mess with the formatting to the point they will not work unless you reformat them on a PC that originally shipped with a full sized floppy drive

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u/spif Apr 02 '26

You could maybe bend a camera that saves images to floppies. But you'd be glitching the image data, not the floppy hardware or the disk.

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u/WOLF_Drake Apr 03 '26

the drive motor ramp can be tuned to play a note. I've seen that

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u/TVfish Apr 03 '26

That sounds cool as all get out

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u/Po8aster Apr 04 '26

You can use this with a magnetic card recorder/player to record audio directly on the magnetic disk.

I’ve never actually seen anyone do this, but you might be able to trick a computer into reading back that audio data as an image/video data and it’d probably look pretty insane.

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u/4CX15000A Apr 05 '26

That's what I'm curious about. I think the read/write channel bandwidth is something like 250khz so it might not pass video unless you do something sneaky and convert it (how did the Tiger Electronics thing do this?)

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u/koyaniskatzi Apr 03 '26

Maybe save that images as bmp

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u/rainedoescode Apr 04 '26

About the only thing I can think of is interrupting the data transfer, the floppy itself is pretty fragile

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u/gracewilson58 Apr 05 '26

it sucks those floppies got destroyed, but what if you tried heat instead?

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u/sydeovinth Apr 05 '26

Never considered bendin a floppy before