Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...
CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation ...
Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...
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In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...
In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...
Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...
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I wrote this C++ project in 2012 with Visual Studio to have a ton of DVDs automatically copied to a network storage. I did some small updates in 2022 to make the old code compile with JetBrains CLion.