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<p>is it gonna matter? not in the slightest (assuming there's no format-mismatching, which their shouldn't be: these are all the same density of disks, I think).</p><p>The PC doesn't check for a notch there, so it won't notice either.</p>
<p>here's why they shipped it on a double-notched disk anyway:<br />Broderbund was releasing games on a bunch of other systems that DID have single-sided drives. For simplicity they just bought Xty-thousand double-notched disks</p>
<p>The answer for "what's wrong with these floppies?" is that they're double-notched. That's needed for double-sided disks... on systems which have single-sided drives! <br />The PC has basically always been double-sided, so they only need one notch, on the top/a side.</p>
<p>I don't want to go through a million platforms but all the other ports of this game tweaked some art here and there or put in different location-photos, but all of them have the same basic tall-window-on-the-left, smaller-window-in-the-top-right, four-buttons-in-lower-right design</p>
<p>Secondly, the TurboGrafx-16 version didn't even THINK about using the same GUI!</p>
<p>I happened to look at mobygames, and noticed two interesting things.</p><p>First, the Mac version is very similar to the DOS version, other than the expected changes you'd get from it being on a monochrome system with a GUI. </p><p>But wow, that's a completely different font! Is that built into macs or something? (EDIT: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://talksmacky.com/@amr" class="u-url mention">@<span>amr</span></a></span> confirms it is)</p><p>(also, the dialogue box is top-aligned. DOS bottom-aligns them)</p>
<p>okay I finally found a boxed copy of the Enhanced 1990 DOS edition. (confusingly labeled the 1993 edition)</p><p>It comes on two 5.25" disks: presumably double-density, so that's 720kb in total.</p><p>Floppy Disk Pop Quiz: What's weird about these floppies, specifically given that this is MS-DOS version?</p>
<p>ARG, they mislabeled this.<br />Admittedly, this isn't really their fault, this is confusing shit.</p><p>This is the 1992 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe, not the 1990 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Enhanced.</p>
<p>The copy of this game I have is approximately 470kb! You could fit this on ONE disk!</p>